t was early August, exactly two months after the largest raid in New York City history at the Grant and Manhattanville housing projects, when 20 people, mostly older folks, crammed into the Community Board 9 office in a tiny storefront in...
With the longstanding debate over whether violent movies cause real world violence as a backstop, a study published today in PLOS One found that each person's reaction to violent images depends on that individual's brain circuitry, and on how...
Most adults can remember the battery of health services they endured as kids: hearing and vision tests, dental exams, regular checkups and vaccinations. Many American kids growing up now won't have those memories, because millions of infants...
The 10-year-old boy stands with his back to the camera and his hands in his pockets in a bare white cinderblock cell in the juvenile detention center. In text beneath the haunting image, the boy explains: “I’m waiting...
August 9, 2014, was one of the most memorable days of my life. On that day I entered a maximum-security prison in Lancaster, Calif. to witness an extraordinary event connecting the lives of some of its inmates with a pack of rescued shelter...
There's a lot of argument over how teenage marijuana use might affect people through life, but distressingly little data to help figure it out. That leaves parents, policymakers and young people pretty much in the dark when it comes to making...
Last October, Aireana and her boyfriend were driving through Oakland when a man on the street opened fire on their car. Her two children, ages 6 and 1, were in the backseat. Aireana, who asked to be identified only by her first...
A worthy desperation to shock policy-makers into action is clearly what motivates a mental health report published this week by the chief medical officer – and I seek to criticise neither the report’s recommendations nor its...
One of every five children in Kentucky, by the time they are 5 years old, has experienced two or more adverse childhood experiences such as child abuse, economic hardship, exposure to violence, living in a household with mental illness or substance...
The documentary offers a good launch pad for a larger conversation in the community about early learning – what’s already being done and what’s still needed, said Jill Johnson, coordinator of the Inland Northwest Early Learning...
Last spring, I had the opportunity to talk with a fellow health journalist, Jane Ellen Stevens, editor of ACEs Too High, a news site that reports on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and our society. ACEs refer to a study by the Centers for Disease...
From delivering babies to rescuing immigrants on the brink of death, Border Patrol agents do it all. The Rio Grande Valley Sector is now exceeding 250,000 apprehensions of undocumented immigrants. With record-breaking numbers mental health for agents...
Ferguson City Council plans changes this week that will reduce the importance of traffic fines and fees to the city’s budget, a communications firm representing the St. Louis suburb’s government announced on Monday. The role of...
The French have already criminalised “psychological violence”. British ministers – who are considering making “coercive control” within intimate relationships a crime should do the same. Coercive control is sometimes...
Today, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) announces the launch of its Social Impact Calculator , a first-of-its-kind tool that allows us to monetize—or put a dollar amount on—the social impact of our investments in low-income...