While the CASEY Foundation ranks MN 5th in the nation for child well-being, there are serious flaws in our racial disparity and early childhood numbers. Almost half of MN’s African American children live in poverty. In 2001, half...
I had the good fortune of meeting Tom Daly who wrote a history of Shakopee women’s prison and he told me how women seldom returned to that prison because of the educational offerings and the ability to visit with their children while in prison...
As part of KARA’s TPT TV child well-being documentary project I interviewed Minneapolis City Councilman / Mayoral candidate Don Samuels recently. He described his experiences as a volunteer CASA guardian ad-Litem, North Side...
COVER PHOTO: PNAS May 2014 I'm listening to Van Der Kolk, MD (My Hero!!!!) tell us what he has to say about Stephen J. Suomi's talk: "Thanks Steve, I am really delighted that these presentations are being video taped...
I just got my CD of the 25th annual Boston Trauma Conference (BVK). I am listening to differential gene expression in peer reared versus mother reared rhesus monkey studies. I don't know if we can get a group ACEs subscription to this...
Children born into low-income families face barriers to success in each stage of life from birth to age 40. Using data on a representative group of American children and a life cycle model to track their progress from the earliest years through school...
I’m healthy as a horse, but a body part was bugging me, so at my annual check up I asked to see a specialist. I love my family doc, er I mean “primary care,” and I love this specialist. They’re the best there...
Federal investigators have faulted two Virginia schools for pinning down and isolating disabled students improperly, saying the schools used the practices routinely as a “one-size fits all” response to disruptive behavior despite evidence...
On Tuesday, 25-year-old Kajieme Powell was shot by St. Louis police responding to a call that he had stolen two canned energy drinks and a packet of pastries from a local convenience store. As a video of the incident reveals, Powell had been stalking...
About a decade ago, Kris Kalberer left her job as a retail manager to raise her kids and care for her elderly mother. For a while, the family did well on her husband's income. Then he lost his job. Their finances spiraled out of control. They lost...
My mother was a woman hollowed out like a tree struck by lightning. I wanted to know why. Ever since her first suicide attempt, in 1978, when I was 22, I had been trying to fill in gaps. She was gone much of the time in my early childhood, and when...
Since last fall, a Coordinated School Health team has been working with community partners at Growing Hope to rewrite the Ypsilanti Community Schools’ Wellness Policy. After almost a year in development, the policy is expected to be approved...
“We are trying to keep things as normal as we can,” she said. The children “know what is going on, but they don’t understand the severity of what happens when you are in a riot.” Amanda Bequette, a social psychologist at...
“Listen to me,” “Listen to me,” “Listen to me.” This plea—urgent in some cases, playful in others—bounces around the room in English, Arabic and Hebrew as groups of twelve-year-olds from around the world...
There’s reason to believe that a seven-day week with a two-day weekend is an inefficient technology: a growing body of research and corporate case studies suggests that a transition to a shorter workweek would lead to increased productivity,...