The San Diego County Probation Department will head a new two-year pilot project to help improve the success rate of youth from abusive or neglectful homes who have entered the juvenile justice system. Such youth are at the highest risk for poor...
Often, talk of effective medical innovation means something high-tech and high price, but a report out today in the Journal of the American Medical Association highlights one that's anything but: The low-tech, low-price lay community...
Canada’s future prosperity could be at stake if policies related to young children fail to catch up to the scientific evidence. That was a key takeaway from a special symposium held in Toronto last week that brought together world experts in...
The National Family Justice Center Alliance has released the results of a national survey of domestic violence survivors – identifying major unmet needs and significant long-term health impacts from violence and abuse. The survey, conducted in...
Vermont has its first certified pediatrician trained in recognizing child abuse. Dr. Karyn Patno is a pediatrician at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. She has set up two ChildSafe clinics that provide specialty child abuse care...
Women are being wrongly warned during counselling sessions at allegedly "independent" clinics that an abortion could lead to serious health damage, including an increased risk of breast cancer and a propensity to sexually abuse children, The Telegraph...
Jenn Oxborrow — domestic violence program administrator for the Utah Department of Human Services — explained that the people working with survivors of domestic violence are accomplishing tremendous things with limited resources. Over the...
Poverty sucks. By almost any measure, people living in poor neighborhoods, especially children, get the short end of the stick. They’re exposed to more gun violence, less open space, more dysfunctional homes and schools, fewer neighborhood...
The governor's proposed budget provides $2 million in state aid for the first time to help Children's Advocacy Centers do their work, a key recommendation of a special task force that called for an overhaul of the child protection system following the...
Public knowledge and attitudes about addiction are largely inconsistent with scientific evidence. The gap between the facts and public and professional perceptions is due in part to the language used to describe the disease and those who have it. A...
Two new studies provided support for depression as a treatable cause of coronary heart disease. The first, which relied on repeat measures of depressive symptoms over 2 decades of follow-up, demonstrated dose-response relationships between depression...
U.S. drug policies are shifting. Slowly, and not enough, but there is progress. Mandatory minimums are being phased out . Treatment is increasingly available to those caught up in the criminal justice system. A s the Affordable Care Act ...
When you live with parental addiction, a little kindness, can go a long way. When you are sad, or lonely or feeling unwanted, the smallest gesture from someone who sees you can change the course of your day, it can strengthen you for the week, it can...
Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Anthony G. Brown is pledging to reduce the number of Maryland children in foster care by 1,000 if he is elected governor, using an “aggressive” public-service campaign and more visible profiles...
This op-ed was written by Deborah Merrifield, past commissioner of the Erie County Department of Social Services, who is now executive director of the Family Help Center and chairwoman of WECAN, Western New York Ending Child Abuse and Neglect....