Black families pondering a move to the Midwest might want to read this, especially if they have young children. According to a national report, Wisconsin has been ranked the worst state in the country when it comes to racial disparities...
It's easy to forget that the deck is stacked against millions of children in distressed communities across this country. Living with everyday violence, poor nutrition, inadequate housing and income instability (to name just a few) can affect a child's...
Although solitary confinement for extended periods is considered one of the most psychologically damaging forms of punishment – particularly for teenagers – no one knows how many juveniles are held alone in cells in California. Neither the...
Colorado has created a website that provides the public with child-protection and child-abuse data for each county, making the state one of four in the nation to make such information accessible to the public. The creation of the website is one ...
ALTON — A WellSpring Resources director responded to a study indicating people who were abused as children are more likely to drink alcohol saying there is hope for those at risk via therapy. According to a study published earlier this year in...
A new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry finds what others had hinted at but not quite arrived at: That the effects of childhood bullying can last not only through adolescence and young adulthood, but also through...
More than four out of 10 elementary students in Greenville County Schools come from families whose income qualifies them for free lunches, according to district figures. For a family of three, that’s an annual income of $25,389 or less. Add in...
Tamisha Macklin's therapists always wanted to talk about her behavior: Did she smoke pot this week? Did she ditch school? Her therapy, she says, barely scratched the surface of her pain. They didn't ask much about the night she was taken from her...
You are invited to register for all five live webcasts broadcast from the 19th National Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect . There is no fee to watch the live webcasts . Separate registration is required for each webcast session. Select the registration button offered below each session title to register for each session. Learn more about each of these sessions by clicking on the title. If you can't watch the live broadcast, an archive of each webcast will be available after...
Repeated deployments into harm's way can accumulate unresolved tensions and stress, resulting in post-traumatic stress. On the other hand, Soldiers can learn adaptive techniques that inoculate them against it. That's what Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanley...
Seven-year-old Sarah suddenly seemed withdrawn and tired. She started to wake up with bad dreams and was wetting the bed for the first time in years. A letter from school expressed concern about her progress in class. Sarah's parents were...
In 2012 in the United States, 23,439 children in foster care turned 18 and were "emancipated" or "aged out." In simple terms, most of them were put out into the world on their own without housing, financial assistance or emotional support. Because we...
Photo credit: Geoff Stearns, Flickr With all the talk about ending the school-to-prison pipeline, many people may be surprised to learn that California still, in the year 2014, allows kids to be locked up for not going to school. On its face,...
A new study points to a conceptually novel therapeutic strategy for treating depression. Instead of dampening neuron firing found with stress-induced depression, researchers demonstrated for the first time that further activating these neurons opens a...