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Is 'Reverse Racism' Among Police Real? [CityLab.com]

Criminologists have debated for decades whether police carry racial biases into their work—particularly the kind that leads them to kill African Americans at disproportionate rates. Much of the research in this arena suggests that yes, on balance, police officers of all races do tend to perceive African Americans as more threatening than whites. The much-revered University of California Berkeley criminology professor Paul Takagi wrote as early as 1974 that “the police have one trigger finger...

The Impressive Top-to-Bottom Makeover of the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice System [NationsWell.com]

The state asks what resources, opportunities, services or supports do teens need in order to be able to behave better? Teenagers make mistakes. They sneak out past curfew to drink at a house party, shoplift clothes, graffiti their names in bathroom stalls, talk back to authorities and throw punches in heated moments. Our juvenile justice system views some of these violations as youthful folly; others are deemed criminal offenses. Unjustly, skin color or socioeconomic status might determine...

Toxic Childhoods [Politico.com]

A toddler came into my examination room recently at Bayview Child Health Center in Bayview Hunters Point, an underserved, largely African-American neighborhood in San Francisco. Her mother was worried that she wasn’t growing properly, and she was right: At the age of 2½, her daughter ranked at the very bottom of the height and weight charts that pediatricians use to gauge whether kids are growing normally. My patient’s mom had tried everything she could to help her daughter eat right and...

Amazing Example of a Subconscious Block that can Stop you in your Tracks [Blogs.PsychCentral.com]

I never cease to be amazed at how a subconscious block – made of old ideas, beliefs, or impressions – can affect present day life. Moreover, it’s possible for a subconscious block to totally sabotage your goals while leaving no clue as to its source. In fact, you may be completely in the dark while said subconscious block has its way with you. That’s why I found hypnotherapist Lora Cheadle’s article about goals and subconscious blocks to be so interesting. I sent Lora a note to ask her some...

Hard Lessons From Chicago’s Public Housing Reform [CityLab.com]

My first trip to the Robert Taylor Homes—a high-rise housing project on Chicago’s South Side—was after a shooting. Dust blew everywhere because there was no grass to hold down the dirt. The elevator was covered with graffiti and stank of urine. There were police cars and an ambulance in front of the 16-story building, which was one of a complex of 28 concrete towers that comprised an enormous public housing development. At one point, more than 20,000 people lived there. That was nearly 30...

New program focuses on intervention for children exposed to violence [ManchesterInkLink.com]

A unique partnership aimed at the health and welfare of children exposed to trauma due to violence launched July 7, 2016. Adverse Childhood Experiences Response Team (ACERT), a response team that can be deployed to serve children who have been exposed to violence is the first initiative of its kind in the United States. The initiative was made possible by a three-year $150,000 grant from the HNH Foundation to Project LAUNCH (Linking Action for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health) at Manchester...

When Recovering From ACEs is Recovering From Secondhand Drinking & Visa Versa

In 2016, I celebrated 35 years recovery from the eating disorders I’d grappled with from the ages of 16–28. I was 63 years old. But as I shared in my last post, “ When ACEs are Rooted in Secondhand Drinking ,” I was into my 40s before I realized my anorexia and bulimia were the symptoms of, and soothers for, my deeper, unresolved issues. First recovery: learning to re-eat As always, my eating disorders recovery “celebration” last year consisted of quiet kudos to self on Thanksgiving Day. I...

The Number Of Hungry And Homeless Students Rises Along With College Costs [NPR.org]

There's no way to avoid it. As the cost of college grows, research shows that so does the number of hungry and homeless students at colleges and universities across the country. Still, many say the problem is invisible to the public. "It's invisible even to me and I'm looking," says Wick Sloan. He came to Bunker Hill Community College in Boston more than a decade ago to teach English full time. He says it felt like he quickly became a part-time social worker, too. "When I first got here, I...

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Trigger Same Good Feelings in Brain [Consumer.Healthday.com]

If you've ever turned on your favorite song to boost your mood when you're feeling down, the results of a new, small study probably won't surprise you. The research found that the pleasure you feel when you listen to music is triggered by the same brain chemical system that provides the good feelings associated with sex, recreational drugs and food. The study is the first to show that the brain's "opioid system" is directly involved in musical pleasure, according to the researchers at McGill...

Meet the ‘Monsters:’ Documentary Looks at California Juvenile Debate [JJIE.org]

One’s kicking himself over an unrequited lifelong crush. One dreams of being a Navy SEAL. Another leads you on a mocking tour of his new home. They’d seem like typical teenage boys — if they weren’t awaiting trial for violent crimes. Juan Gamez, Antonio Hernandez and Jarad Nava are the youthful offenders at the heart of “ They Call Us Monsters ,” a new documentary that follows their lives in a Los Angeles juvenile detention center. They’re held in a special wing of the lockup reserved for...

Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Gender, Sexual Minorities [GoodTherapy.org]

Last year, a study doubled previous estimates of the transgender population in the United States, putting the figure at 1.4 million, or about 0.6% of the population. A recent Gallup poll shows the percentage of LGBTQ+ adults in the U.S. increased from 3.5% in 2012 to 4.1% in 2016. In 2015, Fusion’s Massive Millennial Poll found half of 1,000 people ages 18-34 saw gender as a nonbinary spectrum. These increased numbers likely result from a general increase in acceptance of LGBTQ+ identities,...

School disciplinary methods change when children are seen as sad and not bad: Jarvis DeBerry [Nola.com]

Before Hurricane Katrina I knew a perpetually sad-faced third-grader at Lawrence D. Crocker Elementary School. There was no apparent neglect. His clothes were always clean. He was always perfectly groomed. And even if you gave him a book many years above his grade level, he could handle every word flawlessly. Some may have considered him the ideal student. But he never, ever smiled. His teacher wondered if the school's social worker might investigate why a child so young never expressed...

How an indoor farm in Midtown Anchorage could help at-risk youth [ADN.com]

To help disadvantaged teens and young adults land jobs, an Anchorage mental health provider is staking out ground in the high-tech farming fields of hydroponics and vertical gardening. Inside a warehouse off Arctic Boulevard last month, violet light bathed rows of tall white columns. Leafy greens poked out in vertical rows, marked with handwritten labels for romaine lettuce and parsley. Michael Sobocinski, the chief operating officer of Anchorage Community Mental Health Services, gestured to...

Teen Designs a Colorful Way to Track Her Mental Health [TheMighty.com]

If you are looking for a simple and colorful way to track your mental health, Keira Bailey has a suggestion. On January 8, the 16-year-old began tracking her days using a handmade chart that categorizes the daily state of her mental health by color. Her brother saw Bailey’s tracker and shared it on Twitter, where it took off with more than 7,ooo retweets and 14,000 favorites. The tracker, based off of a Pinterest “ Year in Pixels ” template, features eight different categories: “amazing,...

Saving Babies' Lives by Carrying Them Like Kangaroos [TheAtlantic.com]

Carmela Torres was 18 when she became pregnant for the first time. It was 1987 and she and her now-husband, Pablo Hernandez, were two idealistic young Colombians born in the coastal region of Montería who moved to the capital, Bogotá, in search of freedom and a better life. When Torres told her father she was expecting, so angered was he by the thought of his daughter having a child out of wedlock that they didn’t speak to each other for years. Torres remained undaunted. Her pregnancy was...

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