There’s no helpline for pedophiles who want treatment before they act. So a teen with a terrible secret had to find his own way to save himself and others like him. [For more of this story, written by Luke Malone, go to https://medium.com/matter/your...-do-now-e11ce4b88bdb ]
News of Robin Williams’s death due to apparent suicide, said to be a result of suffering severe depression, is terribly sad. But to say taking your own life because of such an illness is a ‘selfish’ act does nothing but insult the...
Developing your mental toughness can help you be more emotionally resilient, push you to go further and harder, and build armor to persevere against the bullets that life fires your way. It's not as easy to just "be tougher," though. Here are some...
Trauma-informed care approaches are important but limited, according to Susan McKenzie-Mohr, primary author of “Responding to the Needs of Youth Who are Homeless: Calling for Politicized Trauma-Informed Intervention.” The article is a...
Researchers Danielle N. Atkins and Vicky M. Wilkins wanted to know whether the presence of minority and female teachers in high schools lowers teen pregnancy rates among African-American youth. To test their hypothesis, Atkins and Wilkins surveyed...
Following a New York Times investigation on the abuse of juvenile offenders at New York’s Rikers Island jail, the Justice Department released its own report detailing the conditions. New York’s leaders have a lot to do to improve these...
Kathryn Clancy, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and three colleagues used email and social media to invite scientists to fill out an online questionnaire about their experiences with harassment and assault at field...
Getting Early Learning on the Table in an Election Year: A Toolkit for Nonprofit Organizations. http://www.nwlc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/final_nwlc_electionstrongstart_toolkit.pdf
WASHINGTON — Researchers are increasingly looking at how much time babies and toddlers spend in front of TV, laptops or iPads, but now some are saying the debate needs to shift to what's on the screen. "It's never so simple as it's bad or...
In a recent letter to the United States Sentencing Commission, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized the growing trend of evidence-based sentencing, in which courts use data-driven predictions of defendants’ future crime risk to...
One delusion common among America’s successful people is that they triumphed just because of hard work and intelligence. In fact, their big break came when they were conceived in middle-class American families who loved them, read them stories,...
Of patients addicted to heroin who are able to quit their habit, 40 to 60 percent relapse within the first year — often within the first weeks of finishing a treatment program, studies show. Coaches in the Gosnold program get much more involved...
In March, Rina Palta reported for Code Switch on a study that found private prisons were disproportionately filled with inmates of color. A broader recent study of federal data from 2005 has revealed something similar: The proportion of white inmates...
Although not on par with an ebola outbreak, stress is nonetheless as contagious as a virus, and, surprisingly, recent findings compare it to secondhand smoke in terms of the harmful impacts regular exposure can have on physiological reactions —...
As another summer slowly comes to an end, one thing remains, the amount of lives lost due to the violence has plagued city leaders and community members. When we talk about how to shift this violent paradigm, some wonder if the answer starts at...