As many as 4 million Europeans and 3•5 million Americans experience homelessness every year, and the numbers are rising. Homeless people "are the sickest in our society," but just treating ill health might not be enough to help...
At the West Valley Detention Center in San Bernardino County, gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) people are punished twice: first, for the crimes they allegedly committed and again, simply for being GBT. Unlike non-GBT inmates who are housed...
Page May had only one word for it: torture. That was how she and others with the new activist group We Charge Genocide are classifying police brutality in Chicago in a report compiled for the United Nations Committee Against Torture, the...
In a sobering decision, the Illinois Supreme Court recently upheld the automatic adult prosecution of a 15-year-old who was living in a state residential home due to long-standing neglect by his family. Unlike its earlier decisions upholding transfer...
Last month, Medical News Today investigated what the adult health consequences - both psychological and physical - of childhood bullying may be. Among the adverse effects linked with a history of being bullied, our feature briefly touched on some...
It's not uncommon, when Republicans score a major political victory, for American liberals to throw up their hands and say, "Screw this! I'm moving to Canada." More often than not, it's an empty threat—deterred either by the intricacies...
Into the rippling fountain water they go — all the burdens Marsha Phelps carries from another day in her sixth-grade classroom. Gone with a toss of her hand are the bouts of disrespect, the eye rolls of a defiant child, the fatigue in...
New research findings from a team of prevention scientists at Arizona State University demonstrates that a family-focused intervention program for middle-school Mexican American children leads to fewer drop-out rates and lower rates of alcohol and...
Howard Lutnick lost his mother to cancer when he was a high school junior. And one week into his freshman year at Haverford College, his father died, too - the result of a tragic medical mistake. That's when he got the phone call from Robert B....
Left to right, around the room, California's Maternal Child Adolescent Health Directors ended their three-day meeting in Sacramento, CA, yesterday by listening to me tell them about how schools, pediatric clinics, public health clinics, police...
Right now, all over rural India, this is happening: Two local volunteers with a few days’ training come into the village. They knock on randomly selected doors, asking to see all children ages 6 to 16 who live there. In the front yard of...
When hundreds of unaccompanied children — part of a recent surge of thousands of migrants stopped at the Southern border after fleeing violence and poverty in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — were sent by federal officials to...
Gov. Jay Nixon said Tuesday that he would name a commission next month to study socioeconomic problems in the St. Louis area that have been highlighted during protests after the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. The Ferguson Commission,...
In the weeks after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., protesters gathered daily at the site of a burned-out convenience store. About a block away, the empty lot of a boarded-up restaurant became the...
On Oct. 10th 2014 James Bell from the Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness & Equity gave a talk in Santa Cruz County CA on "Reducing Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice & Educational Systems." It was an engaging talk, and included a section that introducedg ACEs to an audience mostly unfamiliar with the topic. Below a youtube video of the entire event and an article on the event from the local newspaper. Attached are also his PowerPoint sides....