Young fans caught their first glimpse of Demi Lovato when she was just a little girl on Barney and Friends. She later moved on to being a Disney darling, starring in movies such as Camp Rock and releasing music that showed that she had...
Traveling during the Jim Crow era was, as you can imagine, pretty difficult for African Americans. Segregation laws restricted access to restaurants, transit, hotels, businesses, and hospitals. In the South, “ black code” laws...
Humor writer Jenny Lawson has never dealt with her mental health issues the traditional way. As a small child, for example, she had a toy box. When she was feeling anxious, she would take all the toys out of the box and climb inside it. "I...
Last Thursday, on opposite sides of the country, two groundbreaking projects launched. In Philadelphia, 14 communities were awarded $100,000 to $300,000 for two years to expand their “innovative work in addressing childhood adversity”...
For the last year, Olive Grove has been highlighting the work of leading practitioners of Collective Impact through our on-going blog series Voices From the Field. Collective Impact is a participatory sport and there is really no way to understand...
Listening to music is a form of emotional self-care that many of us turn to every day, without much conscious thought. The streaming service Spotify, well aware of this, offers a collection of “Mood” playlists,...
Hundreds of Indigenous Australians with mental health and cognitive disabilities are being warehoused in jails rather than being supported in the community, according to a new study by the University of New South Wales. The research paints a...
The U.S. Navy's elite submarine force is stepping up stress-management services for its sailors, responding in part to elevated numbers of unexpected dropouts among younger service members. A psychiatrist at Naval Submarine Base New London,...
See the article below if you are a college or high school teacher who wants to help young and older adults become more aware of the importance of childhood experiences in their own adult lives and in the lives of children with whom they...
My heart is heavy far too often when local headlines include yet another loss of a young life to heroin overdose. My heart sinks even lower when I read through the unfiltered reader comments at the bottom of those articles. Many people will...
When Courtney Griffin was using heroin, she lied, disappeared, and stole from her parents to support her $400-a-day habit. Her family paid her debts, never filed a police report and kept her addiction secret — until she was found dead...
Two years into Obamacare, clear regional patterns are emerging about who has health insurance in America and who still doesn’t. The remaining uninsured are primarily in the South and the Southwest. They tend to be poor. They tend to live...
The violent arrest of a South Carolina student shines a spotlight on school resource officers The school resource officer whose violent arrest of a South Carolina student this week sparked a Justice Department investigation has drawn fresh...
I adopted Maya in June of 1997, when she was nine months old. Three days after she was born in a rural area of Jiangsu province, she was abandoned in one of the 14 farming villages are known collectively as Xiaxi Town, with some 40,000...
Two Wisconsin Native American tribes are being recognized for their efforts to improve health and wellness on their reservations by weaving traditional cultural practices into their schools and health clinics. The Menominee and Lac Du Flambeau...