"With the goal of creating a trauma sensitive environment for students, families and staff, ANDRUS, a leading provider of children and family resources, and the Mount Vernon City School District began this week a one-year project, "Creating Sanctuary...
"At a time when governments are increasingly driven by fiscal restraint, it is important that public spending decisions around complex issues such as child protection consider not just the short-term effects but also the longer-term ...
"Public Health England has drawn up heath profiles for each authority and for Crawley. Although child poverty and deprivation are better than the national average, there are still 4,165 out of 21,359 children and young people aged under 16 living in...
Significance Early adversity has profound and lasting effects on neurodevelopment and emotional behavior. Under typical environmental conditions, prefrontal cortex connections with the amygdala are immature during childhood and become adult-like...
"School officials tried to head off the disagreement between two eighth-graders that eventually led to the arrest on Oct. 1 of one of them on charges of bullying , according to Domus, a Stamford-based group that runs an alternative school.... “...
"Industry-funded charity Internet Watch Foundation is raising the fees paid by members, but have met resistance from the social media giant... "As Twitter prepares for an estimated $1.1 billion flotation on the stock market, the company is dragging...
[Highly-recommend. Compelling. Many questions about how we as a society should change due to the advances in brain science/technology.] "We've all felt it, that irresistible urge to point the finger. But new technologies are complicating age-old moral conundrums about accountability. This hour, we ask what blame does for us -- why do we need it, when isn't it enough, and what happens when we try to push past it with forgiveness and mercy?" http://www.radiolab.org/story/317421-blame/ Some...
In a recent New York Times opinion piece Lifelines for Poor Children , James J. Heckman, Nobel Laureate and professor of economics at the University of Chicago, makes a compelling case for quality early childhood programs for disadvantaged children...
[Full text now available] The Journal of Adolescent Health released a special supplement investigating the role of safe, stable, nurturing relationships (SSNRs) and social contexts in the cycle of child maltreatment across generations. Efforts focused on enhancing SSNRs between parents and children, as well as between parents and other adults, may be a helpful prevention strategy for breaking the cycle of child maltreatment and promoting life-long health. The...
"The scale measures different personality factors that are known to be correlated strongly with behavioural issues: for example, a person with high level of impulsivity is more than five times likely to develop severe conduct problems within the next...
"In America, 15 million children are exposed to domestic violence every year. In Alaska, more than six percent of mothers of children under the age of three say their child has seen, firsthand, violence or physical abuse. Exposure to violence has an...
"The researchers used a standard approach to explore a phenomenon known as "sense of agency," which refers to the feeling that one's voluntary actions produce some external sensory event. For instance, Haggard explains, if you flip a light switch and...
"Welcome to the fifth installment of our Fall 2013 blog series: Trauma and Kids…A Primer for Pastors, Church Staff and Parents . Today, we’ll begin to look at the long term effects of trauma and abuse occurring during childhood upon...
"Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed 10 bills that his office said will help protect “the most vulnerable Californians – homeless children and adults and foster youth.” "The measures include one that establishes "runaway and...