Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson saw Friday morning just how far apart Faris Elementary School is from Plum Creek Elementary School. On the map, Buhler USD 313’s Plum Creek is about 3.2 miles from Hutchinson USD 308’s...
On October 20, 2015, Dr. Vincent Felitti spoke to delegates attending the Annual Convention of the National Congress of American Indians in San Diego, CA. His address was the culmination of four years of effort to secure this opportunity, and I...
There are some people on this site in agony, suffering with post-traumatic stress and all the anxiety, numbness, depression and "stuff" that goes with it. And so, because that's true here for people on this page and for those many on this page work...
This month at Partner for Healing we shared a series of musings about various areas of treatment. This series actually started at the end of September, with a review of how our thinking about behavior management has evolved over the years . ...
Philadelphia ACE Task Force member Dr. Roy Wade was recognized as significant contributor to The Adverse Childhood Experience (ACES) Survey Toolkit For Providers . NEWS RELEASE ...
The video of a school resource officer violently slamming an African-American teenage girl to the floor and then dragging her across the classroom when she refused to get out of her seat spread across social media on Monday, and was soon picked up by...
Seven organizations will have a chance to further their efforts to help girls in the justice system thanks to more than $650,000 in funding from the National Girls Initiative . The nonprofit alliances and organizations from across the country...
The federal government's top mental health researcher told lawmakers Thursday that the country needs to do much more to apply research to improve treatments, as a Senate committee heard testimony to address comprehensive mental health...
Raychelle Black had been living in Atlantic City for just two weeks in October 2012 when she and her sister found themselves waist-deep in water one night. “They were talking about a storm coming, and people who lived there in the years...
On August 14, 1872, The New York Times ran an obituary for the Mexican president Benito Juarez, who had “succumbed to the consequences of a violent attack of neurosis.” It was one of the first times that the...
In a discussion about mental health with former Massachusetts Attorney General Martha M. Coakley on Wednesday, College students called on Harvard and student groups to address institutional problems and stigma surrounding mental health on...
More than five million children under the age of 18 — approximately 7 percent of all children in the United States — have at least one parent who has been incarcerated, a report from Child Trends finds. ...
Month after month, Natalia Pedroza showed up at the doctor's office with uncontrolled diabetes and high blood pressure. Her medications never seemed to work, and she kept returning to the emergency room in crisis. Walfred Lopez , a Los Angeles...
I married into dog ownership. Years before she even knew I existed, my wife Laura found our dog Liebchen (“Liebs” for short) in the middle of a country road. Alone, scared, and not even a month old. In rural Ohio, where Laura is from, it...
Starting Friday and over the next few days, the federal Bureau of Prisons is set to release an estimated 6,112 people from custody as part of an effort that reduced their sentences for drug crimes. It is the largest one-time release of federal...