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Child Abuse Costs Nations Billions of Dollars a Year: Panel [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Child abuse costs nations worldwide billions of dollars a year, experts report. In high-income nations, the median cost of child abuse equals a loss of 1.2 percent of per capita income, or $150 billion a year in the United States. The estimated cost in China -- a middle-income country -- is $50 billion a year, the experts added. In East Asia and the Pacific, the cost of emotional child abuse alone is more than $48 billion a year, the researchers said. The findings, from an international...

Blueprints Conference Offers Lessons in Evidence-Based Programming [JJIE.org]

At a time when communities across the country are interested in evidence-based youth programming, an April conference will bring together leaders from the field to discuss whats possible. The Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development biennial conference will feature sessions on evidence-based programs that promote youth education, healthy behaviors, emotional and physical well-being and positive behaviors. Some of these programs are used in the juvenile justice field. [For more of this story,...

ABA Task Force Wants to Help Disrupt School-to-Prison Pipeline [JJIE.org]

This school-to-prison pipeline is one of our nations most pressing challenges, that all of us must help reverse. A students involvement in the justice system often results from a combination of factors such as low academic achievement; low academic expectations; poor relationships with other members of the school community; poor school climates; low engagement; incorrect referral or categorization in special education; and overly harsh and exclusionary discipline such as suspension,...

What’s Really Behind Why Women Earn Less Than Men? [TheAtlantic.com]

Though headway has been made in bringing womens wages more in line with mens in the past several decades, that convergence seems to have stalled in more recent years. To help determine why, Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, the authors of a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research parse data on wages and occupations from 1980 to 2010. They find that as more women attended and graduated college and headed into the working world, education and professional experience levels...

Dr. Mandel’s Revolution [FreePressOnline.com]

When Rockport-based physician Dr. Ira Mandel checks his voicemail box, he hears voices of desperation. I just need someone to help me treat my opiate addiction, a man from Belfast says. I got involved from an injury in my back. I just need help cleaning my life up. Im 51 years old and full-time employed and I was hoping that you could help me. Im really hoping that you might be willing to take me as a patient, a 46-year-old Rockland woman says in a trembling voice. I was doing so well on the...

Why solutions journalism can help news organisations improve their reporting [Journalism.co.uk]

Solutions journalism is an approach to reporting that highlights answers to problems, as opposed to stories that focus on the issues themselves. Also known as constructive journalism, this method benefits both news consumers and journalists, increasing their ability to engage audiences in their work and produce content that helps shape society's perception of the world. Samantha McCann , curator of the Solutions Journalism Network , believes that without solutions journalism, reporters are...

America’s Tent Cities for the Homeless [TheAtlantic.com]

Though the overall number of homeless people in the United States has been in a slow decline in recent years, homelessness has risen sharply in larger cities. More than 500,000 people were homeless in the United States at the end of last year, according to a report by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Many who find themselves living on the streets find a level of community and security in homeless encampmentswhether the tent cities are sanctioned or unofficial. Gathered here...

The Power of Thinking Like a Preschooler [TheAtlantic.com]

What is it like to be a 4-year-old human? Trying to remember this experience with any accuracy is difficult. Memories are hazy flashes of sensory experience and emotion that fail to coalesce into something coherent: the red piped icing on a birthday cake, the sticky static of plastic wrap on moms dry cleaning, overwhelming waves of sadness from a Disney-movie soundtrack. Its no wonder that at an individual level, trying to talk and relate to a small child can feel like grappling with a...

Q&A: Many kids in Chicago’s most violent areas live in 'survival mode' [America.AlJazeera.com]

In "Survival Mode," "Fault Lines" examines the psychological toll of gun violence on children growing up in Chicagos most dangerous and neglected communities. The film airs on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 9 p.m. Eastern time/6 p.m. Pacific on Al Jazeera America. | Click here to find Al Jazeera in your area. In 2015, an average of one person every three hours was shot in Chicago, more than than any other city in the U.S. Over the course of the calendar year, there were nearly 3,000 shooting victims in...

Playing Offense: Behavioral Health Interventions During Adolescence Is Our Best Shot [YouthToday.org]

In the behavioral health field, it is clear that the most high-stakes developmental period is adolescence, when mental illness and substance use problems often emerge. During adolescence, experimentation or risky use of substances can eventually progress into addiction, with 90 percent of individuals with substance use disorders reporting that they initiated use of substances before age 18. Adolescence is also a common developmental window for the onset of mental health problems, with half...

Visit to Juneau, Alaska, by Dr. Vincent Felitti

Dr. Vincent Felitti spent three days in Juneau, Alaska this week as a guest of the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) and its president, Dr. Rosita Worl . He was invited to speak about the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience Study and how it might benefit Alaska, specifically the Alaska Native community. Beginning with a radio appearance and a community reception with about 100 people in attendance, Dr. Felitti was well received. While in Juneau, he met with Alaska Native...

Snow Removal With Wheelchair Users in Mind [CityLab.com]

Cleaning up after a snowstorm is no small feat. While many U.S. cities see the threat of impending snow as routine, others are notoriously under-equipped to deal with snow emergencies. This lack of preparedness can strike particularly hard at wheelchair users, who already face difficulties navigating snow on their own. Although there is arguably a certain logic to which streets get attention from snowplows first, the priority in many cities seems to lie less with individual citizens and...

Unearthing San Quentin [TheAtlantic.com]

The pictures, for the most part, are prosaic, like outtakes from a yearbook photo shoot. One shows five members of an amateur rock band. Another depicts uniformed football players gathered for a team photo. In yet another, a man is shown carving an ice sculpture. Occasionally, though, the subject matter is much darker. [For more of this story, written by Pete Brook, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/real-san-quentin/462075/]

The Impact of Guns on Suicide [TheAtlantic.com]

Readers discuss and debate the issue. To join in, email hello@theatlantic.com. 9:35 AM Could Keeping Depressed People From Guns Do More Harm Than Good? A reader makes several great points along those lines: You asked about policy measures that could be implemented to help lower rates of gun suicides, in particular whether people with mental illness or a history of suicide should be banned from purchasing firearms. I think that’s an extremely problematic idea for a number of reasons.

The Conversation We’re All Not Having: Poor Students Need Our Help Outside the Classroom Too [The74Million.org]

Washington State Teacher of the Year Nate Gibbs-Bowling made waves in the education world recently with his essay, “The Conversation I’m Tired of Not Having.” Gibbs-Bowling bluntly called out the lack of political will and urgency around educational equity, writing up front, “I want to tell you a secret: America really doesn’t care what happens to poor people and most black people.” He’s right — but goes on to draw an incomplete conclusion. As...

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