There were 2.3 million prisoners in the U.S. as of the 2010 Census. It's often been remarked that our national incarceration rate of 707 adults per every 100,000 residents is the highest in the world, by a huge margin. We tend to focus less on where...
Recess plays an important role in the elementary school day, contributing to physical activity among children, as well as improved student outcomes, including attendance and achievement. This study examines how implementation of a recess-based...
A culture of violence is the antithesis to a Culture of Health. As Risa Lavizzo-Mourey recently said in a speech to the American Public Health Association, “We will never be a healthy nation, if we continue to be a violent one.”...
The only good news in the tortured death of four-year-old Eric Dean is that Minnesota Governor Dayton's "colossal failure" comment about child protection in the state led to the creation of a task force recommending big changes to how our state...
Watch and share this two-minute video and help us build Kids At Risk Action to speak for abused and neglected children. Help KARA give voice to the thousands of abused and neglected (invisible) children in our communities with our public...
You’re feeling down, and your doctor or therapist has confirmed it: You have depression. Now what? Until recently, many experts thought that your clinician could literally pick any antidepressant or type of psychotherapy at random...
America is the richest country in all of history. We have the largest economy and the largest number of millionaires and billionaires. At the same time, however, we lead the developed world in economic inequality. In 1965, CEOs received $20 for...
Robin Petering first encountered the “juggalos” – tattooed and street-named young fans of the non-mainstream band, Insane Clown Posse – about seven years ago, when she worked in Oregon drop-in centers for youth experiencing...
Brain scans may soon be able to help predict a person's future — some aspects of it, anyway. Information from these scans increasingly is able to suggest whether a child will have trouble with math, say, or whether someone with mental...
For people with depressed mood, memory and concentration difficulties are often a day-to-day reality, greatly affecting job performance and personal relationships. While those with the disorder report that these cognitive problems are some of...
Fear meets Sarah Wolff in the elevator. It’s standing beside her as she rides to her third-floor apartment. Taunting her. Tapping her shoulder and whispering in her ear. “When I get off the elevator up here, I panic,” she...
A recent study published in the January 2015 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry underscores the important public health significance of depression among U.S. adolescents. Mental disorders are the...
At age 17, Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison for the 1994 fatal shooting of her pimp George Howard. Upon her release in late 2013, CBS News wrote: “Kruzan's case became a high-profile example used by state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San...
Every weekday around 3:15 p.m., a big, yellow school bus stops on Pelican Drive outside Norcross Extended Stay, near the intersection with Best Friend Drive. Dozens of children file out, carrying their heavy backpacks away from the...
The profound challenges of coming to terms with the underlying issues of race raised by the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown were on full display at a Berkeley Unified School District forum I attended just before the winter holidays....