Before her drinking spiraled out of control, Sylvia Dobrow “drank like a lady,” as she put it, matching her wine to her sandwiches: “Tuna and chardonnay, roast beef and rosé.” But soon she was “drinking...
Child poverty increased in 35 of the biggest U.S. cities in the past eight years, and millions of children now live in families barely scraping by, a new analysis shows. Among the 50 biggest cities, Detroit; Cleveland; Fresno, Calif.; Memphis,...
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted to set aside $20 million to fund mental health services, substance abuse treatment, job counseling, as well as supportive housing for mentally ill offenders as an alternative to incarceration. “We...
People who have had a very mild form of stroke called a transient ischemic attack, or TIA, are at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, with almost one-third of people later diagnosed with PTSD, a study finds. Earlier studies have shown that...
Dr. Charles Limb is an Associate Professor in the Johns Hopkins Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, as well as faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He combines his two passions to study the way the brain creates...
Recently we have begun having discussions with ACEs Connection community members as part of a national movement to prevent trauma and promote resiliency—the National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience (NCAR). In a series of blog posts, I...
Massachusetts Department of Education (DESE) proposed updates to the regulations on restraint and seclusion in schools. Public comment is only open until November 3 . This is the first change in 13 years so now is our chance to...
Sonia Vasquez raised her daughter, Tina, just outside New York City. And when money was tight, Sonia would take on multiple jobs to pay the bills. "I was a day care provider. I work at the gym in the deli. I take care of the elderly," Sonia,...
Principal Rachel Skerritt was in the middle of one of the busiest parts of the year, planning for students’ return to Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C. this fall. With her hands full juggling agendas, making sure teachers...
Brownsville, Texas, sits high in the rankings where cities want to come in low. It's the poorest city in America, with 36 percent of its residents living in poverty. (By contrast, the poverty level in the nation's richest city, San Jose,...
My therapist literally told me I am at the development level of a 15-year-old. Obviously, this creates problems in my life, because I have done plenty of adult things. However, in may ways my emotions are stuck at age 15. I began to...
What a great summer we had and an eventful year here at United Way. At the end of 2013, United Way, the Kitsap Community Foundation and the Suquamish Tribe became partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a program called Building...
If Congress passed a law requiring everyone in the United States to get a license to be considered for a job or rent an apartment, the nation would rise up in protest. The irony is that such a system already exists and its validity is rarely...
A couple of years ago, I got a call from the husband of Peg Bachelder, my daughter Hunter’s piano teacher. “Peg’s in the hospital,” Martin said. She’d been treated in 2010 for a rare pelvic cancer requiring...
Do you remember the summer when you first fell in love? The songs that were playing on the radio, butterflies in the stomach, the excitement of a stolen kiss? The tendency of our brains to especially hold onto memories from the teenage years is...