For parents with multiple kids under one roof, being poor has a compounding effect. That’s why in America, children make up 23 percent of the population but 33 percent of all people in poverty . If that isn’t staggering...
I n August, Partner for Healing explored treatment. We focused on several common treatment dilemmas and shared ideas for healing. In the first post we examined Is the Push for Change Making Your Treatment Less Effective ? As treaters we...
Register now for the September 29-30 "Building a Trauma-Informed Nation" event in Washington, DC, or at "Amplifier Sites" around the country. The information contained on this site provides details on how this innovative format will work with people...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-trauma-training-20150827-story.html
The State of Alaska publishes an annual dashboard of information about abuse and sexual assault . The information is pretty good, but I always wonder about underestimation of the problem because of the criminal nature of the acts published. There is...
In the late 1990’s, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) set out to provide the most extensive review ever conducted of the effectiveness of ADHD medications in children. It was known as the Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study...
A number of years ago, I asked Fran Ulmer, Chair of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC), to facilitate a conversation among Chugachmiut (the organization I was leading), with the University of Alaska and the Alaska Native Tribal Health...
About 13,000 people on public assistance tumble into homelessness every month in Los Angeles County, according to a new study that experts say provides the clearest picture yet of extreme poverty in the region. Although many quickly find work...
The San Antonio Express-News ( http://bit.ly/1Eixf8Q ) reports her introduction to the challenges — and sorrow — of mental health problems started when she was young, the daughter of a minister who also was a counselor. She...
Question: Though the city is out of the schools business, city government has a role in the lives of its younger citizens. What would you do to enhance the lives of young people? Leo Awgowhat: Teach children to Just say “no”...
In the early 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felliti began noticing that many of his patients who were having extreme illnesses in their adult years had adverse childhood experiences. Much of his research is outlined in “ Childhood Disrupted: How Your...
When Alaska Health and Social Services Commissioner Valerie Davidson parked her car in downtown Anchorage Monday and walked to the swanky Hotel Captain Cook for a meeting with prominent policymakers, she did what she always...
Libraries are increasingly a sanctuary for people who are homeless or mentally ill. We wondered how libraries function on the front lines of social service provision. Prevalence of homelessness in the United States On any given night in 2014,...
Jamaica High School, in Queens, was once the largest high school in the United States. For most of its history, it occupied a majestic Georgian Revival building on Gothic Drive, designed in the nineteen-twenties by William H. Gompert, who had...
It's obvious that jail isn’t good for the jailed. It may be particularly bad for people accused of minor crimes, who are confined not because they are likely to be dangerous but because, under our cash-bail system, they can’t afford...