I was moved today when Dee Wilson (from Knowledge Management) delivered the Casey Foundations 8 month report and recommendations for Hennepin County child protection at the County Commissioners briefing at the courthouse (listen to it...
With temperatures hovering around 85 degrees at midday last Friday, young people worked outside at national park sites in the nation’s capital, pulling invasive weeds in Rock Creek Park and staking trees on Daingerfield Island. Gracie...
I work with children who have parents in prison and with parents who are serving time. Much of my work focuses on effective parenting and child abuse prevention. When we reduce the occurrences of child abuse, we also help prevent violence by...
Data is the lifeblood of state government. It's the crucial commodity that's necessary to manage projects, avoid fraud, assess program performance, keep the books in balance and deliver services efficiently. But even as the trend toward greater...
A little over a week ago, a 23-year-old construction worker in the Bronx named Jeff Rivera got in an argument with his wife, from whom he is separated. During the argument, he struck her door, pushing in the screen. Rivera was arrested and...
When I started dating a blue-eyed boy last summer I felt it only fair to warn him: “It’s all trauma, all the time with me.” He laughed. “I’m serious though,” I said. “I’m a grown-ass...
By Michael Alison Chandler June 24 at 6:16 PM Children in the District are disproportionately exposed to traumatic experiences, including poverty, homelessness and gun violence, that affect their ability to learn, a new report...
I am speaking to a room of five hundred people recently and ask this question: "How many of you struggle with self-regulation?" I re-phrase it. "How many of you struggle with emotional self-control, impulses, and feeling calm in your bodies?"...
A man who spent nearly 43 years in solitary confinement in a U.S. prison could soon be set free. But questions remain about whether longtime inmate Albert Woodfox (now 68 years old) will ever escape the effects of spending so much time locked...
Authoritarian parenting can lead to depression and somatization in young Mexican American and Dominican American children, according to new research from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social Work. The study, led by social...
A new review of social media studies suggests children and adolescents who reported being bullied online are at an increased risk for depression. Currently, the median percentage of children and adolescents who reported being bullied online is...
To hear Clevelanders talk, Public Square is a place you pass through to reach somewhere else. When Moses Cleaveland laid out the town in 1796, he imagined the open area at its center as a New England-style commons: a gathering space for...
Juan Ramirez grew up in poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, in a neighborhood infested with drug-and gang-related violence. By the age of 10 he’d started smoking marijuana and using inhalants. Within a couple of years he’d moved on to...
Over the course of his career, Dr. Seth Berkowitz has met with patients much like one of his first – a 300-pound farmer in rural North Carolina with diabetes and heart trouble. “His own diet was highly processed food, and he knew...
John was 7 when I met him, and dealing with more than any child could be expected to endure. For the first years of his life, he had been witness to his father’s alcoholic binges, which often involved shouting, breaking objects and hitting John...