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What's the State of Your State's Early Education Program? [PSMag.com]

Picture a nine-year-old boy—we’ll call him Brian—sitting down one day during the spring semester with his No. 2 pencil to take the National Assessment for Educational Progress, the test best known as the Nation’s Report Card. If he’s like two-thirds of students in the United States, he won’t fully understand what he is reading. He will have been so unprepared in literacy that he cannot hit the proficient mark on this fourth-grade material. This will not...

Mass. Nonprofit Helps Trauma Survivors Heal Through Sharing And Songwriting [WBur.org]

A Massachusetts nonprofit uses music to help survivors of trauma, and it’s led by a former rock star. Robin Lane came to fame with her Boston-based band Robin Lane and The Chartbusters. Their biggest hit, “ When Things Go Wrong ,” aired in the first hour on day one of MTV. A lot of the singer/songwriter’s life reads like an unlikely series of namechecks: her father played piano and wrote hits for Dean Martin; she hung out with Neil Young and sang on one of his albums;...

New Research Debunks One of the Biggest Arguments Against Raising the Minimum Wage [PSMag.com]

The United States is currently in the middle of a grand experiment in wages . On January 1, 14 states officially raised their minimum wages, 12 of which did so through legislative action as opposed to an automatic adjustment. With minimum wage advocates making major gains in state legislatures in 2015, the tweaks that went into effect on New Year's Day seem designed to answer the question: Will raising the minimum wage actually kill jobs? That's the argument among opponents of wage...

School leader paves a more promising path [DistrictAdministration.com]

Luvenia Jackson knows students can’t learn when they’re in jail. During 40 years in education, the Clayton County Public Schools superintendent has seen that academic performance cannot improve systemwide under zero-tolerance discipline . Instead of leading to safer buildings and higher achievement, the strict policies cause excessive suspensions, lost instruction time, and students to be needlessly traumatized by criminal charges—all over behavior that can be...

The Brain Science Behind Britain's New Parenting Classes [WashingtonPost.com]

B ritish Prime Minister David Cameron thinks parents need government-approved advice on raising kids. British parents aren't exactly thrilled with this recent proclamation. One of Cameron's new policy prescriptions, unveiled Monday with an announcement that England will pour £70 million over the next five years into “relationship support,” was state-backed parenting classes. Vouchers, he said, would help cover the enrollment of low-income families. Behind...

Dead Certainty [NewYorker.com]

Argosy began in 1882 as a magazine for children and ceased publication ninety-six years later as soft-core porn for men, but for ten years in between it was the home of a true-crime column by Erle Stanley Gardner, the man who gave the world Perry Mason. In eighty-two novels, six films, and nearly three hundred television episodes, Mason, a criminal-defense lawyer, took on seemingly guilty clients and proved their innocence. In the magazine, Gardner, who had practiced law before turning to...

Call for Applications: Community Reentry Peer Support Pilot Project Evaluation [Hogg.UTexas.edu]

The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is pleased to announce a call for applications  (CFA) for the evaluation of a new Community Reentry Pilot Project focusing on the role of peer support in improving outcomes for justice-involved individuals with mental health issues. Financial support for this evaluation project may range between $20,000 and $30,000 over a 12-to-18 month period. The Hogg Foundation has a long-standing interest in identifying the potential benefits and challenges of...

Williamson County mental health crisis team seeks to keep people safe [MyStatesman.com]

As she does most workdays, Christine Gray spent her time on a recent rainy, cold day driving to people’s homes in Williamson County to offer help with mental and physical health crises. The first door she knocked on during a three-hour span spent with a reporter was at a house where a man called 911 to say burglars were constantly breaking into his home and that he had even cooked waffles for them. The second call was a teenager withdrawing from taking 20 Xanax pills. The third call...

Mental Health Daily: Year in Policy [MHDaily.org]

The Texas Legislature meets every other year. For 140 calendar days. The state’s legislative agenda is so densely packed that keeping track of any policy area, mental health included, is a dizzying task. This summary tells you what you need to know about bills that were passed, commissions that were formed, and reforms that were pushed. Funding for Veterans Caring for our nation’s veterans is one issue that the entire legislature can support. This legislative session was no...

The police believe a lot of psychology myths related to their work [Digest.BPS.org.uk]

Despite recent improvements to their training, a new study in the journal of Police and Criminal Psychologysuggests the police are as susceptible as the general public to holding false beliefs about psychology that apply to their work. The research, conducted in the UK, also showed that police officers have more confidence than the public in their false beliefs. Chloe Chaplin, a programme facilitator at the London Probation Trust, and Julia Shaw, senior lecturer at South Bank university,...

Sexual violence isn’t just a college problem. It happens in K-12 schools, too.

By Emma Brown January 17  Her eighth-grade classmate kept asking her to have sex in the bathroom. Tired of the badgering, she asked a teacher’s aide for help, and the aide outlined a plan: Lure the boy. Meet him in the bathroom. Catch him in the act. The 14-year-old girl agreed, but the impromptu sting operation went horribly wrong. Inside a bathroom stall at their Alabama middle school, the boy forced himself on her before anyone showed up to stop him. When nurses treated her,...

Ready to Change the World for Good: MARC Leaders Jump-Start Learning Collaborative on ACEs and Resilience

   Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) is a learning collaborative of 14 communities committed to building resilience and addressing childhood trauma through an explicit application of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) science, language, and data. MARC is coordinated by the Health Federation of Philadelphia with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The California Endowment. You can read more about MARC  here.   They were curious,...

The Impact of ACEs

The Impact of ACEs Healthcare Here is where I need to use the word REVOLUTION. I believe the greatest possible impact for using the ACE Study to improve the lives of our entire world today lies in the Pediatric segment. There have been some breakthroughs in this arena…but to my way of thinking…not quick enough. And no, it’s not the ACE score of the children I am referencing, but the use of the ACE questionnaire with the parents…ALL parents! The only way to change...

Poverty Weakens Brain Connections, Raises Risk of Depression in Children [GenEngNews.com]

Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis analyzed the brain scans of 105 children ages 7 to 12 and found that key structures in the brain are connected differently in poor children than in kids raised in more affluent settings. In particular, the brain's hippocampus, associated with learning, memory, and the regulation of stress, and the amygdala, which is linked to stress and emotion, connect to other areas of the brain differently in poor children than in...

The damage done by childhood abuse — and new insights into recovery [ProvidenceJournal.com]

A landmark study of the lasting and destructive effects of childhood trauma provides guidance with the potential to significantly improve the well-being of untold millions of people who have been, or will be, abused, neglected or similarly harmed. And the financial savings could be dramatic. "The implications are revolutionary," says David S. Lauterbach, a trauma expert who is president and CEO of the Kent Center, in Warwick. "When you think about the long-term permutations, it boggles the...

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