At the inner-city school-based health center (SBHC) where I interned in 2013-2014, we couldn’t always prevent tragedy in the lives of our students. Every week, some 250 students used our services, which ranged from medical services to...
New York City jails can be fixed. It will take time. It will take money. And the recent investments announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio and the changes requested of the city’s Board of Correction are only a beginning. In a series...
In January, New York City’s Board of Correction, which monitors conditions at Rikers Island, passed a new rule : prisoners under the age of 18 can no longer be sentenced to solitary confinement. Citing the detrimental impacts of...
I am researching Trauma Informed policies for our community and I wonder if anyone can help me locate sample trauma informed policies so we can get a jump start on creating them?
Friday, June 19 th is National Attachment Trauma Awareness Day (NATA Day) and this year advocates for abused and neglected children are hosting movie viewings all over the country in observation of this annual event. Local advocates Kristy and...
On first glance, it could pass for an ATM. Or the machine at the Wawa for ordering sandwiches. But the sleek, wireless kiosk tucked in a corner of Drexel University's rec center has a much more weighty purpose. "Get a CHECK-UP from the NECK...
Children with mental illness in the border region are largely underserved. Just under 11 percent of Texas high school students report that they have made a suicide attempt in the past 12 months. Each time I come across this statistic I find it...
Results from NAMI's 2014 survey on Emergency Room (ER) visits for families and individuals who had a psychiatric emergency. “The nurses and doctor I came into contact with were not sympathetic to my mental health crisis and did...
The thing about marrying the boy you fell in love with at 18 is that it can be hard to see him as anything other than the lanky, nervous teenager you kissed by your locker after class when you thought no one was looking. Years later, as you...
The brain’s foundation, frame, and walls are built in the womb. As an embryo grows into a fetus, some of its dividing cells turn into neurons, arranging themselves into layers and forming the first synapses, the organ’s electrical...
Silicon Valley enjoys sky-high labor demand and soaring wages. Yet for such a significant global nexus of economic activity, the population density in San Jose and San Francisco is incredibly low. Incumbent homeowners don’t want to share...
Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed....
During the fall of 2013, Rosemary Summers, a 16-year-old from San Diego County, Calif., committed suicide at a juvenile hall called the Girls Rehabilitation Facility. She ended up there for failing to tell her probation officer that she had attended a...
The Child Parent Project , a five-year, $3 million federally funded project in Philadelphia, is the first research study in the U.S. partnering with public health agencies and family courts to gauge the impact of child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) plus...
Our little family rarely gets a chance for down time at home so when my son woke up on a summerlike Sunday morning with nothing on his agenda, he told me he wanted to go to the library. You’re thinking, “Wow,” right; the boy...