A House panel Tuesday approved a proposal aimed at tightening the sweeping reforms that lawmakers placed into Florida's child-welfare system last year. The House Children, Families and Seniors Subcommittee unanimously approved a bill (PCB FCSS...
Texas, the second-most-populous state in the country, writes up more than twice the truancy cases in all other states combined. And unlike almost every other state, Texas handles the vast majority of its truancy cases as class C misdemeanors in...
Ever stared up at the sky on a clear night and felt suddenly small beneath the stars? Hiked up a mountain and marveled at the immensity of the vast beauty below? That inexplicable sense of wonder, it turns out, is actually good for you. A...
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. To recognize this important month, we are introducing ‘Connections,’ a special National Child Abuse Prevention Month series of short videos that will be released on each of the five...
Rates of all types of violence have dropped in the U.S., but are high compared with other developed countries—and the numbers of children and youth affected are high. In this brief, and the report it’s based on, we review risk and...
Paladin is a trauma informed care organization. It has taken us about three years to fully understand and implement a trauma informed care environment. And even after fully implementing this, we still have to work every single day...
The National Prevention Network conference will be held November 17-19, 2015 at the Sheraton Seattle. The conference is 2.5 days, complete with keynotes, breakouts, networking opportunities and a reception. The conference will...
From Beth Sarver at Truman Medical Center's Resilience Incubator for a summit June 8-12, 2015: TMC’s Resilience Incubator invites Schools from all over the KC Metro area to attend their Inaugural Resilient Schools Facilitator...
Just because Aitkin County doesn’t have a brick-and-mortar mental health center for children with mental health problems doesn’t mean the county does not have good children’s mental health support. That is the message Sue...
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced Tuesday the statewide expansion of a juvenile justice program that requires law enforcement officers to inform schools anytime a student is exposed to a traumatic event or act of...
Recent articles in The Times regarding child endangerment charges brought to the father in the tragic death of a 9-month-old baby girl ("Prosecutor: Father failed to give daughter medication," March 25) and parents of five children living in...
I have a psychotherapy practice in Madrid, but I often receive email requests for counseling from people in other parts of the world, since I also practice psychotherapy online, via Skype, in several languages: English, French, Italian and...
Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman's reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell, showed that women who are abused by their partner or...
A history of depression may put women at risk for developing diabetes during pregnancy, according to research published in the latest issue of theJournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursingby researchers from Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (MNSON). This study also pointed to how common depression is during pregnancy and the need for screening and education. "Women with a history of depression should be aware of their risk...
Patients advised to lose weight by their physicians dropped more pounds on average than those who didn't receive a recommendation, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in the journalEconomics & Human Biology. Using a national data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, study author Joshua Berning found that physician advice was associated with a reported 10-pound loss for women and a 12-pound loss for men...