If college admissions brochures are to be believed, American universities are thriving havens of not only racial diversity but also of racial harmony. Diverse student groups study and socialize together in marketing photos where everyone...
Over the past two decades, there has been a meteoric rise in the number of children – now estimated to be 1 in 6 – diagnosed and treated for a range of psychological disturbances including ADHD, autism, mood disorders, and learning...
I recently attended a meeting of social entrepreneurs and other leaders from business, government, philanthropy, academia and the nonprofit sector at an event called the Gathering of Leaders, hosted by New Profit, a Boston-based national...
Where children grow up matters. The environment to which people are exposed in their childhood plays a significant role in their adult life, according to health leaders who presented at the 12th annual Children’s Summit of Merced County....
Memphis has always been a place for new ideas, of course music but so much more than that. Holiday Inn's were founded here. Bayer Aspirin, AutoZone, and FedEx grew up here and the list goes on and on. Next Monday, April 20, another new idea...
Every day a child somewhere will suffer from abuse and neglect, the result of growing up in a home with domestic violence, mental illness or addiction, or from the loss of a parent due to separation or imprisonment. Such trauma can inflict...
It's safe to assume that every Montanan is against child abuse. But tragically, it happens all the time, the incidents of child abuse are actually increasing, and the impacts of abuse on the most vulnerable of Montana's citizens — our...
Children who experience multiple traumatic events, from emotional and sexual abuse to neglect, have higher blood pressures as young adults than their peers, researchers report. The difference of 10 points in the systolic pressure – the...
Every once in a while I write something that has nothing to do with trauma. Not in an obvious way anyhow. But I can't help but be me so even poetry by Hafiz seems to be about attachment to me. Out of a great need we are holding...
Obesity researcher Mary Forhan has a vision of what the care of people with obesity should be like. Sadly, the reality is very different. "Often standard hospital equipment including beds, stretchers, wheelchairs and exercise equipment don't...
Traumas suffered at a young age can have a lasting influence well into adulthood, according to an influential study. Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs) can lead to chronic diseases that don't emerge until victims are fully grown, workplace...
Barry Goldstein, author of the book, The Quincy Solution, was the keynote speaker on Sunday at the 21st Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference. He argued that we can “save $500 billion every year by...
Barry Goldstein, author of the book “The Quincy Solution” was the keynote speaker on Sunday at the 21st Annual Northern California Child Sexual Abuse Awareness Conference. He argued that we can “save $500 billion every year by...
Nearly one in 10 full-time workers in the United States has had a recent substance abuse problem, a new government study reveals. Analysis of data gathered between 2008 and 2012 from more than 111,500 adults with full-time jobs revealed that 9.5...
A group of men in the vanguard of a new model of housing for chronically homeless people with mental illnesses sat around a small conference table eating pizza recently in Leavenworth. It was the monthly social gathering for residents of the...