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During a recent stay in Seattle, I lived in homeless shelters for two days, sleeping, eating, and searching for resources to make life comfortable. People who experience homelessness and live on the streets or in shelters experience the results...
This was posted at one of the Homeless Shelters I stayed at.
" Parenthood is the source of our citizens and the foundation of our economy. Parents who raise a productive citizen contribute $1.4 million to our economy. Parents who abuse and/or neglect a child who becomes a criminal or welfare...
"The bond between human and household pet is unconditional love and security. When that bond is broken, by either witnessing or participating in, animal abuse, that act desensitizes the person to violence and causes them to distance them self from...
Abstract We examine the effects of Head Start participation on parenting and child maltreatment in a large and diverse sample of low-income families in large U.S. cities (N = 2807), using rich data from the Fragile Families and Child...
"The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a citizens' blue ribbon commission to propose reforms in the county's troubled child welfare agency. The commission, with two members to be appointed by each of the five supervisors,...
"The assessment of risk in patients who go on to die by suicide or commit homicide is often poor, a new study has found. "A report by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry (NCI) into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental...
"The brains of children with autism show higher-than-normal connectivity along many neural networks, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found...."...
"Only 30 per cent of NSW's most serious child abuse cases are fully investigated with a visit by a case worker because of staff shortages, says the Public Service Association, which represents social workers. That means as many as 70 per...
"Then-president of the American Psychiatric Association, John Oldham, was chairing a session entitled Combat-Related PTSD: Injury or Disorder?... Who is PTSD For? As Samuel Shem reminds us in his novel, The House of God, “The...
"Others have different concerns. Webb, [5] writing from her experience in Wales, in the March 2013 issue of the British Medical Journal analyzed the possibility that poverty and maltreatment are major sources of the behaviors that lead to a diagnosis of ADHD. Webb cited evidence that ADHD runs in families, suggesting that ADHD has a genetic basis. However, poor, disorganized, and abusive families are rarely recruited for such genetic studies. Living in adverse environments leads to children...
"Former foster kids who can’t keep a job, who run into debt or find themselves out on the street may not have parents to turn to -- but the province hopes a new program unveiled Tuesday will get them the help they need to get back on their feet....
"GP's and health professionals need to do more to promote support groups for men suffering with depression and anxiety according to new research published in the journal Primary Health Care Research & Development. "The assumption that men are less vulnerable to depression and anxiety than women is increasingly being questioned. Previous research indicates that men are less likely to be diagnosed as they demonstrate greater reluctance to seek help due to social stigmas...."...