"The gap between life expectancy in patients with a mental illness and the general population has widened since 1985 and efforts to reduce this gap should focus on improving physical health, suggest researchers in a paper published today on BMJ.......
"Researchers from Harvard Medical School found that half of all lifetime cases of mental disorders start by age 14 and three-fourths by 24 years of age . Because of the early onset of mental disorders, treatment and appropriate services...
"Research has conclusively demonstrated that court-involved children and adolescents present with extremely high rates of traumatic stress caused by their adverse life experiences. In the court setting, we may perceive these youth as inherently...
"As can probably be surmised, then, females involved in the criminal justice system often arrive after experiencing abuse. In a recent study, Sharp (forthcoming) looked at the frequency of adverse childhood experiences for women prisoners in Oklahoma....
"Staggering statistics from the United States Office on Violence against Women (OVW) claim a woman is assaulted or beaten every nine seconds. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women in the United States. Three women...
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"That is why I applaud President Obama's budget proposal, which calls for $235 million in new mental health initiatives, including $130 million for a program that would help train teachers and adults to recognize the first signs of mental illness in...
"Janet Heimlich is the author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment and President of the Child-Friendly Faith Project . The organization is "a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charity that...
"In an editorial published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics , Davis argues that saying “children are not small adults” disconnects child and adult health concerns and initiatives, when children’s...
"Currently one officer in each district around the county specializes in domestic cases. Soon that will change, and those detectives will come together in one unit at police headquarters. "What we’re doing now is centralizing all domestic...
"The purpose of the seminars is to give those working with children and young people the skills to identify neglect and abuse, to know what to do about it and feel confident doing it, to understand the implications of the Privacy Act in terms of...
"In observance of the positive impact of parenting education, Gov. John Kitzhaber signed a proclamation declaring the week of May 19-25 as Oregon Parenting Education Week.... "One of our exercises makes the point that parenting is a lifelong...
"The Redmond Medical Staff is donating $10,000 to Deschutes County Health Services’ Nurse Family Partnership, a program that introduces vulnerable first-time parents to caring maternal and child health nurses in Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook...
"A proposal to create a nursery for infants of women inmates at York Correctional Institution has gotten cautious endorsement from two legislative committees, but lawmakers want to know why the price tag is as much as $14 million over two years.......