New research findings from a team of prevention scientists at Arizona State University demonstrates that a family-focused intervention program for middle-school Mexican American children leads to fewer drop-out rates and lower rates of alcohol and...
Howard Lutnick lost his mother to cancer when he was a high school junior. And one week into his freshman year at Haverford College, his father died, too - the result of a tragic medical mistake. That's when he got the phone call from Robert B....
Left to right, around the room, California's Maternal Child Adolescent Health Directors ended their three-day meeting in Sacramento, CA, yesterday by listening to me tell them about how schools, pediatric clinics, public health clinics, police...
Right now, all over rural India, this is happening: Two local volunteers with a few days’ training come into the village. They knock on randomly selected doors, asking to see all children ages 6 to 16 who live there. In the front yard of...
When hundreds of unaccompanied children — part of a recent surge of thousands of migrants stopped at the Southern border after fleeing violence and poverty in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — were sent by federal officials to...
Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that he would name a commission next month to study socioeconomic problems in the St. Louis area that have been highlighted during protests after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. The Ferguson Commission,...
In the weeks after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., protesters gathered daily at the site of a burned-out convenience store. About a block away, the empty lot of a boarded-up restaurant became the...
On Oct. 10th 2014 James Bell from the Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness & Equity gave a talk in Santa Cruz County CA on "Reducing Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice & Educational Systems." It was an engaging talk, and included a section that introducedg ACEs to an audience mostly unfamiliar with the topic. Below a youtube video of the entire event and an article on the event from the local newspaper. Attached are also his PowerPoint sides....
Court. Jail. Homelessness. Repeat. That cycle so familiar to many Californians with mental illnesses may soon be interrupted thanks to the new Third District Diversion and Alternative Sentencing Program in Los Angeles County. Designed for adults who...
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Nonprofit groups specializing in children’s learning and attention issues will on Thursday introduce a new website and a public service advertising campaign that was created with the Advertising Council. The website, Understood.org,...
I have a hard time making friends. Getting to trust people well enough to call them a friend takes a lot of work. It’s especially hard when you are living with schizophrenia and think everyone is making fun of you. Schizophrenia is the...
Most adults do not remember anything before the age of 3 or 4, a gap that researchers had chalked up to the vagaries of the still-developing infant brain. By some accounts, the infant brain was just not equipped to remember much. Textbooks referred to...
If you don't have a place to live, getting enough to eat clearly may be a struggle. And since homelessness in the U.S. isn't going away and is even rising in some cities, more charitable groups and individuals have been stepping up the past few...
When a group of prisoners attacked two guards at California's High Desert State Prison in 2006, the warden declared a full lockdown that confined African Americans in one wing of the prison to their cells, and kept them there for 14 months....