Across the country in Seattle, a pilot program is attempting to bridge the trust gap between police and what is arguably the city's most vulnerable minority population—its refugee community. The Refugee Women's Institute has just wrapped...
November is National Adoption Month, when organizations across the country come together to celebrate adoption and raise awareness for the continued need for adoptive families for children in foster care. National Adoption Month is kicked off...
On his 12th birthday, the first Friday in June, D’Andre took the day off from school. It was out of character for the boy, an honor roll student at Newark’s Quitman Street Renew School who was the sixth grade’s student council...
The Fall/Winter 2014 edition of IMPACT , the quarterly newsletter of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), is out. This edition describes Oklahoma’s journey in creating a trauma-informed state. It also...
The Connecticut Women's Consortium has published the Winter 2015 issue of Trauma Matters. This newsletter keeps the behavioral health community, trauma survivors, and interested persons informed about current efforts to address trauma as a public...
In a vibrant democracy, journalism and media have the power and responsibility to both inform and inspire the public to political action. Achieving this requires a deep understanding of current social problems and how policy is formulated, alongside...
Over five million 14-to-24-year-olds in the U.S. are out of school and not working. In many cases, they face the additional challenges of being low-income, homeless, in foster care, or involved in the justice system. Today, in response, five federal...
As horrific and unimaginable as it sounds, child maltreatment is pervasive in the United States and ranks as one of the nation’s most pressing public health and social concerns. While many incidents no doubt go unreported, reliable survey...
"We won't have a successful education paradigm, or even accurately interpret academic success, while ignoring trauma's overwhelming presence." -- Daun Kauffman Daun Kauffman has been teaching in Philadelphia public schools for 14 years. He's...
From the SAMHSA GAINS Center web site: SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation, operated by Policy Research Associates, Inc. (PRA), known nationally for its work regarding people with behavioral health needs...
I sent this letter to the Governor’s Task Force earlier today (please share this widely) Dear Governor’s Task Force People, I’ve been a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem since 1996 and witnessed many terrible things...
Among industrialized nations, the U.S. has the highest number of homeless women and children . Research shows that approximately 92 percent of women in family homeless shelters have experienced severe physical or sexual abuse in their lifetime....
Since the spring of 2013, Roy Wade has seen the impact of trauma on urban youth and adults in low-income neighborhoods from three vantage points. One is from his Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia research office 13 floors above Market...
When she was twenty-two years old, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman was viciously raped at knifepoint. She narrowly escaped being murdered and her body disposed, perhaps never to be found. In her memoir, One Hour in Paris , ...
As a young girl, Alana Levinson struggled with the shame of her father’s substance abuse. But when she looked more deeply into the research on children of drug-addicted parents, she realized society’s “conspiracy of silence”...