This is a guest opinion by Rush Russell is executive director of Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey and ACEsConnection member. The piece is part of a focus on children during April as Child Abuse Prevention Month . Have you ever heard of the...
Check out the new Spring Issue of Trauma Matters newsletter, a publication of the Connecticut Women’s Consortium and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The newsletter, produced as part of the CT Trauma...
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. That doesn't have to be the case. ……. According to an article this month in the American Journal of...
New Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner (New York City) Gladys Carrión met with City Limits in late March to discuss her vision for the agency and the legacy she inherited. In a spacious Financial District office decorated...
Minneapolis, Minn. (MMD Newswire) April 7, 2014 –- Debra Pauli fulfills her life's purpose speaking for the voiceless millions of Americans, abused and neglected as children, who today suffer in agonizing silence. She understands first hand...
Jane Stevens, founder and editor of ACEsTooHigh and ACEsConnections, testified at this hearing. She is quoted in the following story in Neon Tommy , a digital news site of USC Annenberg. Assembly Member and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee...
Rarely is there so much tension — or so much at stake — around giving someone hope for a family reunion as in the case of Dominic Pantoni. Every month, Dominic intently waits at the door of his group home for his mother to arrive, and he...
Despite the slowest prison population growth in more than three decades, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is seeking a record budget appropriation of just more than $2 billion for 2014-15. The prison population rose by 191 inmates from...
The Louisiana Legislature has at times strayed from considering legislation that would improve conditions in the state and ventured into things that seem a bit bizarre. But sometimes lawmakers get it right when they venture off the path and take time...
When I heard that my 21-year-old son, a student at Harvard, had been stopped by New York City police on more than one occasion during the brief summer he spent as a Wall Street intern, I was angry. On one occasion, while wearing his best business...
About six years ago, Bobby Folden’s nephew hanged himself. The boy was 10 years old, and in the note he left behind, he described feeling picked on and bullied by kids at his school. Folden’s family in Knox County was close, he said. But...
Maryland lawmakers approved legislation Friday that would require state health officials to conduct a study on the sleep needs of students and the experiences of school systems that have shifted the hours of their school days. The bill requires that...
The struggle between compassion and retribution is a familiar one. Many find it difficult to abandon the Old Testament adage about “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Getting even or making someone pay for real or imagined...
Children See Domestic Violence that Often Goes Unreported, Research Finds Young witnesses suffer fear, anxiety while perpetrators rarely face jail time, according to study WASHINGTON — A nationwide study of children who have witnessed domestic...