"Using a state grant, Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit Juvenile Court Judge Philip B. Spivey is using the circuit’s new Family Dependency Treatment Court to give parents a chance to kick their addiction and have children return home faster. "Like other...
"A recent study revealed that adults in the City of St. Louis spend an average of 4.5 days a month in poor mental health, with St. Louis County not lagging far behind, at an average of 3 days a month. "It’s an issue tackled head-on in the...
"San Francisco State University (SFSU) will now provide housing for the entire year to students who are former foster youth, becoming the first public university in the county to offer such benefits to youth in the foster care system. "SFSU decided...
"The Children’s Resilience Initiative would like to commend the Walla Walla City Council for its recognition of the CRI through a proclamation. This action indicates an elevation of the importance of children and their physical and mental health...
Abstract This retrospective medical chart review examined the prevalence of overweight/obesity (≥85th percentile) and obesity (≥95th percentile) in Hispanic foster children aged 2-18 years in Los Angeles, California. Logistic regression was used...
"Most people, let alone most parents, are unaware of the hidden epidemic affecting over two-thirds of our community. Yes, I said two-thirds. In Arizona the ACE Consortium, a collaboration of over 100 individuals, state, county, and...
Introduction Of the 76 million children living in the United States, it is estimated that 46 million can expect to have their lives affected by violence, abuse, crime, and psychological trauma (U.S. Department of Justice, 2012). Approximately 15...
from Chapter 2 of "Don’t Try This at Home- The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder How I accidentally regressed myself back to infancy and healed it all" at AttachmentDisorderHealing.com/book/ In my last post, group therapy put me through...
Otay Elementary is a K-6, Title 1 Public School in the Chula Vista Elementary School District, with a population of approximately 610 students. We have received distinction as a California Distinguished School, National Blue Ribbon School, and were...
"If social intelligence were a random application of our general intelligence, we would expect to see the same brain regions associated with both kinds of intelligence. That would be a sensible story if it were true, but it isn’t. The brain...
Ever wonder why you, your relatives or friends can’t stop smoking, over-eating, drinking, doing meth or other drugs? Why you’re a workaholic, a rage-aholic or shopaholic? Why you’ve shed marriages like a snake sheds skins? Or why you...
Nearly 600 men participated in the screening that looked at the prevalence of trauma in male inmates. Researcher Nancy Wolff, who runs the Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research at Rutgers, found that the men had...
This article was written by AC member Brenda Yuen. " Is it any wonder our boys are in trouble? "Unaddressed trauma can cause both adults and children to try to escape their feelings about that trauma in destructive ways (think addictions, mental...
"The adult obesity rate in the United States remains as high as ever, with one in three Americans carrying unhealthy amounts of weight, according to a new federal report. "The obesity rate has remained essentially unchanged for a decade, despite...