Glenn Close still remembers the day that her younger sister approached her with a terrifying secret: “I can’t stop thinking about killing myself,” Jessie Close confided to Glenn roughly 10 years ago. After doctors diagnosed...
A key factor in effective policymaking in juvenile justice is not grounded in what we see, but in what we don’t see. After introducing the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) model to my county, a judicial colleague came to...
On April 20, 2015, the body of a 27-year-old mother of two was laid to rest in a village in India. She had been admitted to the hospital ten days earlier, with bleeding in the head and a spinal injury that left her paralyzed. She told...
New research discovers post-traumatic stress disorder can occur after a stay in an intensive care unit. PTSD is often associated with warfare, major catastrophes and assault, not hospitalization. However, in a new study Johns Hopkins...
To ease the heartache of her first child’s stillbirth, Kelli Montgomery chose rigorous exercise, yoga and meditation over the antidepressants and sleeping pills that her physicians immediately suggested. “‘You need to be on...
" Depression is a recurrent disorder. Without ongoing treatment, as many as 4 out of 5 people with depression relapse at some point," says lead author Willem Kuyken, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oxford in the UK....
It was just a regular morning in my classroom in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. My third graders were heading back to their seats for math when John “accidentally” hit a classmate with a chair. John loudly and...
The brains of babies 'light up' in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering Oxford University brain scanning study has discovered. It suggests that babies experience pain much like adults. The study...
For women, the freedom to move around cities comes with caveats. Every time we go out, we make a set of complex calculations to avoid sexual harassment, assault, or worse. Here are just some of the questions women everywhere ask themselves...
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year the average American woman must work to earn what her male counterpart earned last year. The pay gap, for full-time, year-round workers, currently stands at 78 cents to the dollar and...
Recently, an item popped up on Yahoo!News about Candice Bergen. It was an item I’d read before — about how her Father, Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist to Charlie McCarthy — had left his daughter out of his will. Bergen, it seems,...
At the 33rd Annual National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) conference, I learned about a documentary being produced on the history of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Blood Memory Project has a trailer available for viewing: ...
By Andrea Blanch and David Shern In Kansas City, local leaders have created an innovative vision for a healthier community . Healthy KC is a partnership of the local Chamber of Commerce, KC Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and a number of...
The tragic murders last year of two Vermont toddlers, Dezirae Sheldon and Peighton Geraw, shocked and saddened all Vermonters. Several reviews of the circumstances of those deaths followed, offering important recommendations. Each review...
Some states routinely violate a 1974 federal law designed to protect youths accused of juvenile offenses because of U.S. Department of Justice lack of oversight and enforcement, Sen. Charles E. Grassley said today. “Last year, multiple...