Laws that make it a crime for homeless people to sleep in public places even when there isn't enough room for them at a shelter unconstitutionally punish the homeless, lawyers for the Obama administration said in a court filing on...
Michael Brown was shot and killed one year ago by Police Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. His death ignited riots, set off protests around the country and inspired the Black Lives...
From Stanley Keleman, Myth & the Body: A Colloquy With Joseph Campbell : Everyone is a hero. This is a given. We have a call to adventure. We refuse. A crisis ensues. We cannot turn backand we answer the call. We collect helpers, teachers, guides. And we cross a threshold into the unknown. We lose our identity and enter an abyss, a nadir, the belly of the whale. We emerge. We begin traveling back home to what we have...
k The blockbuster Advers e Childhood Experien ces (ACEs) Study has become the fulcrum of a powerful and diverse consortium of interests bent o n preventing and addressing childhood trauma. Groups ranging from...
Flanked by fig groves and vineyards and surrounded by electrified fences and thick coils of barbed wire, the Central California Women’s Facility is the largest women-only prison in the state. Inside the low-slung cinderblock...
For three months this year, I spent time with some of the sickest and most expensive patients in America — the people who pinball around the health care system, racking up costs that we all indirectly pay through federal and state taxes that go...
The survey on the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in Russia was conducted in a sample of young adult students (N=1580) in higher education institutions and colleges (640 men and 940 women). The average age of men was 20.75 ±...
Minneapolis was selected by the National League of Cities (NLC) to participate in the City Leadership for Building an Early Learning Nation technical assistance initiative. Mayor Betsy Hodges' Cradle to K initiative will use the assistance to...
A favorite pastime of media outlets and their audiences alike is dragging out vintage advertisements from decades or years past and remarking on how profoundly sexist they are. These 25 are outrageous! The 45 here are...
Last year, Portlander Jessica Coshatt was asked to speak at the National Health Care for the Homeless Conference in New Orleans. “So I agreed to do it,” said the 28-year-old peer wellness specialist for homeless youth. “Then I...
More than a third of women and more than a quarter of men in the United States have been raped, physically assaulted, or stalked by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, one strategy for reducing those numbers,...
Violent crime rates have decreased dramatically over the past three decades, largely due to crime prevention efforts that focus on the root causes of violence, researchers say. Murders in the United States have dropped by more than half, from a...
Hi Everyone: If you had posted.commented or say you are interested and want to join the private group, on Facebook, please send me an email. I promise I don't use it or keep it for anything. It's simply to send an invite to you via email...
As I have written before, my advocacy for increased recognition of ACE's is tempered by a scientific process. When I look at outcomes, I focus not only on "negative" outcomes, but have expanded the impact of unresolved childhood trauma to include...
I have shamed myself. Not deliberately, but nevertheless actively. I never dreamed that one day I would research and write about healing psychological trauma. Or the perils of the mental health field. Or its pearls. It was really a matter...