The scene was tense: Two Los Angeles Police officers approach a man yelling and screaming at the end of a cul de sac. He looks angry and aggressive as he paces back and forth in the middle of the street. “I just got back two weeks...
At Partner for Healing we get a lot of questions about implementing trauma-informed care in child serving agencies. We want to help in the most powerful way we can. What are your questions? What do you wish you knew about trauma-informed care...
The students were perched around a table inside Millennium High School in Brooklyn, listening intently as their guest spoke of the maladies and pangs of adolescence. “It doesn’t matter what anybody else is dealing with,”...
The number of jobs in human services in Massachusetts grew by 48 percent between 2003 and 2011, according to a new report examining the economic impact of the human services industry. In 2011, there were 145,000 human service worker jobs in...
When This American Life dedicated two episodes to law enforcement in the United States, they titled them, "Cops See It Differently." Citing examples like the NYPD killing of Eric Garner, which gave rise to the "I...
In the past year, alleged assaults on passengers by Uber drivers in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and other cities have called into question whether Uber’s employment screening procedures are keeping their customers safe. As allegations...
In the winter, Siphiwe Baleka gets some strange looks as he bikes to work over the icy, snow-laden streets of Springfield, Missouri. He fishtails around corners and does his best to avoid cars—twice he’s been hit, and both times he’s...
She was just 5 months old the first time she and her siblings were taken from a mother struggling with addiction and placed in the care of the state. At times, she was separated from her brothers and sisters. She received neither the glasses...
Police departments around the county are under more and more pressure to diversify. In Oakland, Calif., officials say police-community relations also might be improved by increasing the number of cops who actually live in the city. Margaret...
Even before the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., or the Eric Garner incident in New York City last summer, Charles Ramsey, Philadelphia's police commissioner, called on the federal government to look into how the officers in his department...
This story, "As Arizona Struggles to Fix Foster System, Children Suffer the Consequences" [ http://nyti.ms/1GdjcA7 ], in the 3/24/15 issue of the New York Times, describes challenges in the Arizona foster care system that are not atypical of foster care systems around the nation. It was the subject of the following workshop at the recent Child Health, Education, and Care Summit put on by First 5 California in Sacramento: Understanding and Addressing Toxic Stress in a...
Apparently, Dr. Felitti was not the first to uncover the impact of ACES although his work did advance the field in this arena significantly. The initial groundbreaking discovery of ACES actually occurred in 1961, in the...
While reading the responses to a recent blog post ( Screening for ACES ), an uneasy feeling started to creep up from deep within me. I had sensed a similar reaction in me brewing up in other posts, and it is only by accident that this one served...
New York City first lady Chirlane McCray has unveiled a more modern take on the teen helpline. “NYC Teen Text, a pilot program launched Monday at 10 high schools, allows teens easy and confidential access to a counselor,” McCray...
One of our occasional conversations with thought leaders in education. When it comes to kids and exercise, schools need to step up and focus more on quality as well as quantity. And, says Dr. Gregory D. Myer, they need to promote activities...