“The Anonymous People” is a spunky profile of the burgeoning grassroots drug and alcohol recovery movement. The film was made by 30-year-old first time feature length filmmaker Greg Williams, who himself has been in recovery since he was...
Programs that aim to curb teen prescription drug abuse have vastly differing success rates, ranging from big drops in drug abuse to no measurable effect, says a new study. The best results came from pairing a school-based program with a home-based...
Despite the many great examples of community transformation highlighted in Investing in What Works for America’s Communities, deep poverty persists—20.4 million American’s live below half the poverty line—in neighborhoods...
The Affordable Care Act provides coverage to former foster youth in California until age 26, though few know they are eligible. ..... Last week, Children Now, a California-based youth advocacy organization, launched the Coveredtil26 statewide...
Great story. Especially love this (reporting the thoughts of UCLA researcher Nim Tottenham): "parenting, she says, is a bit like oxygen. It's easy to take for granted until you see someone who isn't getting enough." Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal...
One hundred four children were randomly assigned to receive neurofeedback, CT, or a control condition and were evaluated 6 months postintervention. A 3-point growth model assessed change over time across the conditions on the Conners...
Journalist Fiona Broom wrote this op-ed about refugee children who are sent to detention on an isolated island off Australia. Ten years after Australia's human rights commission found the country breached its international obligations towards children...
Many federal programs aimed at preventing psychological problems for military service members and their families have not been evaluated correctly to determine whether they are working or supported by science, says a new report commissioned by...
A new study suggests that obese women get just one hour of vigorous exercise a year, while obese men don't do much better at fewer than four hours. The findings startled the researchers, whose main focus was finding better ways to measure how much...
Doctors should test middle school-age children for high cholesterol and start screening for depression at age 11, according to updated guidelines from a leading group of U.S. pediatricians. Doctors should also test older teens for HIV, the...
Horizontal violence between nurses at the same level of authority is jeopardising patient outcomes, research has revealed. A study of the phenomenon in a perinatal department at a US hospital found that staff on labour and delivery wards experience...
NPR's Jon Hamilton takes a long look at the effects of neglect on children's developing brains: Parents do a lot more than make sure a child has food and shelter, researchers say. They play a critical role in brain development. More than a decade of...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), long associated in the popular imagination with controversial treatment of the mentally ill, can be used to erase memories, Dutch researchers have found - raising hopes of a new treatment for post-traumatic stress...
The longer the period of time a child is bullied, the more severe and lasting the impact is on a child's health, according to a new study. The study is the first to examine the compounding effects of bullying from elementary school to high school. The...
WALNUT CREEK -- Communities filled with children who have been abused, neglected or are victims of trauma can include high levels of crime and violence, poor student performance and mental health issues. Contra Costa County has joined about 30 other...