Economists tend to agree that immigration is good for the economy : immigrants create jobs and make U.S-born workers more prosperous . Opponents of this idea often cite the work of Harvard labor...
The brain is the central organ involved in perceiving and adapting to social and physical stressors via multiple interacting mediators, from the cell surface to the cytoskeleton to epigenetic regulation and nongenomic mechanisms. A key result of...
Although we always hope that we're responsive to our members, "responsive" in this case means that ACEsConnection will work and look the same on cell phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers. Social Strata, the company that provides our...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth ages 11 to 18 in the United States. The strongest risk factors for suicide in youth are depression and substance abuse. Alarmingly, 80 percent of...
Today I was thinking about a conversation I had years ago when I was just learning to cover national politics. I had arranged to have lunch with a well-known Republican political operative, who had just come off a string of election victories;...
Recently a neighborhood in Brooklyn made national headlines for a fight over public schools. Lots of affluent, mainly white families have been moving into new condos in the waterfront area called DUMBO, and the local elementary school is...
I had the awesome experience of co-facilitating the Beyond Trauma: Building a Resilient Sacramento workshop with many of those championing the work in our community. The energy of the workshop planners -- Gail Kennedy and Donielle...
The Sacramento County Student Mental Health & Wellness Collaborative hosted a presentation by Dr Nancy Erbstein, UC Davis Department of Human Ecology and Sergio Cuellar, UC Davis Center for Regional Change on the uses of PUTTING YOUTH ON THE MAP online applications. ( http://interact.regionalchange...edu/youth/index.html Putting Youth on the Map (PYOM) is a powerful information resource for youth and adults working to ensure youth well-being in California. Who can use...
In a column for The New York Times this past January, Nicholas Kristof lamented what he called the country’s “empathy gap,” imploring his readers to grasp the complex circumstances that could plunge...
When the Places for People outreach team found Chandra Thirdkill, she was about 40 years old and had been homeless for two years. Her struggles, however, began as a teen. Everyone looked at her like she was ugly, she thought. No one liked her. She...
A study reveals that an astonishing number of fathers – 13% – experience depressive symptoms during their partner’s pregnancy . Astonishing because I had imagined it would be considerably higher. Very little research has...
Guillermo’s family home sat on a hill in San Salvador. The houses there stood crowded, stacked one upon another with rusted metal roofs, and some nights Guillermo could stand atop the hill and look across the valley of dark buildings to...
Early on a Wednesday morning, I heard an anguished cry—then silence. I rushed into the bedroom and watched my wife, Rachel, stumble from the bathroom, doubled over, hugging herself in pain. “Something’s wrong,” she...
"My name is Fernando M and I currently attend Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, California. Before coming here I was labeled a troubled young man. I came from a bad neighborhood in Los Angeles. I never had a stable household because my mom...
I grew up around the corner from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., which housed the small but remarkable National Museum of Health and Medicine. The musty place hosted a steady rotation of surreal exhibits—conjoined...