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Many black boys have been racially profiled, arrested or even killed in white neighborhoods because the residents were afraid of them. A new study suggests the boys are afraid, too. The study, which was released on Monday, found that “African-American boys experience a decreased sense of safety” when in neighborhoods with a larger white population than areas they normally frequent. Black boys “will expect increased scrutiny, surveillance and even direct targeting as they traverse whiter...

For the past few months, images of distressed migrant children have populated American newsfeeds and television screens. Many of the children are the victims of “family separation,” their parents deported from the U.S. without them ; while detained without their parents, some of them have been forbidden from being hugged . The Trump administration has defended family separation, then backtracked on the policy, then started to reunite families at the order of a federal judge .

When Marin Community Clinics (MCC) first considered screening their patients for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) they already had decided that if they were going to prevent children from acquiring ACEs, they had to take a radical approach.

This is a talk by Jane Mulcahy of the University College Cork, Ireland. This video was just published on YouTube today by the National Health Scotland today. Mulcahy talks about how and what to talk ACEs, in general, as well as specifically as relates to relating with offenders. Here are some quotes: Cissy's note: For those also new to her work (like), who want to learn more, here's a pdf of the same name with more details and references. #ACEs

How do transport modes influence people's health? A new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, has concluded that cycling is the mode of transport associated with the greatest health benefits: better self-perceived general health, better mental health and fewer feelings of loneliness. The study formed part of the EU funded PASTA project and was carried out in seven European cities: Antwerp, Barcelona,...

Attention all you happy high school graduates about to go off to college, as well as the many others returning for another year of higher education. Grandsons Stefan and Tomas, that includes you. Whatever you may think can get in the way of a successful college experience, chances are you won’t think of one of the most important factors: how long and how well you sleep. And not just on weekends, but every day, Monday through Sunday. Studies have shown that sleep quantity and sleep quality...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Bellis MA, Hughes K, Ford K, et. al. Adverse childhood experiences and sources of childhood resilience: a retrospective study of their combined relationships with...

It's about determination and courage and persistence. Even though at times I feel like I'm failing and disappointed in my progress.

Last month, President Donald Trump 's Council of Economic Advisors issued a 64-page report calling for both new and stronger work requirements for participants in non-cash welfare programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Medicaid . In the weeks since the report was issued, the Trump administration approved Medicaid work requirements in several states, and congressional allies in the House of Representatives passed a 2018 farm bill that would subject more SNAP...

Six middle- and high-school students sat around a table on a Monday afternoon, watching a psychologist write three letters on a whiteboard: O-C-D. “What does O.C.D. stand for?” the psychologist, Avital Falk, asked the group. [For more on this story by Andrea Petersen, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/health/ocd-concentrated-therapy-cbt.html ]

Young children who are regularly engaged in conversation by adults may have stronger connections between two developing brain regions critical for language, according to a study of healthy young children that confirms a hypothesis registered with the Open Science Framework. This finding, published in JNeurosci, was independent of parental income and education, suggesting that talking with children from an early age could promote their language skills regardless of their socioeconomic status.

Americans who grew up with the fiction that slavery was confined to the South — and that the North had always been “free” — learned differently in 1991, when construction workers stumbled upon the skeletal remains of more than 400 Africans at a site in New York City that has since been designated the African Burial Ground National Monument . The catalog of injuries etched into the bones of the men and women who labored to build, feed and protect Colonial-era New York includes muscles so...