Beating a drug habit is usually a long process that includes talk therapy and, sometimes, medicine. Checking into a rehab facility can help many people, too. But it can be hard to persuade someone to commit to that long-term treatment. So public...
The first time Jeremy Clark met his 18-year-old client, the teenager was sitting in his vice principal’s office, the drawstrings of his black hoodie pulled tight. Jacob had recently disclosed to his friends on Facebook that he was hearing...
SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has released Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 57 “Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services.” The document (342 pages) is downloadable along with the 279-page...
This report from the Juvenile Law Center makes it clear that, in addition to providing services that are "trauma-informed," we need to be mindful of how we use our knowledge of a child's trauma to help and not to hurt. For example, we should not allow...
ADHD seems to be the buzzword of the decade when it comes to children who can't sit still, have a hard time concentrating on one task at a time, or act impulsively. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is certainly no laughing matter -- it can be...
In 2008, 15-year-old Wilmer Villalobos Ortiz fled his native Honduras. The previous year, the 18th Street Gang that controlled his neighborhood tried to recruit him and threatened him with death if he refused. Ortiz’s journey to the United...
How can the juvenile justice system — and other agencies that serve children — build post-traumatic resilience among youth? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation’s largest foundation dedicated to improving the health...
Karma Rescue volunteers bring the dogs into the prison yard On June 1, five dogs checked in to California State Prison, L.A. County, in Lancaster. Passing under looping concertina wire, through electronic gates, and past towers where men with...
The humanitarian crisis on the border could easily transition into a tragedy for all foster-care children — foreign and American — forced to live in a seriously broken system further burdened by the surge. As it is, many of the...
http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/06/trauma-abuse-brain-matters
Hi, My program Community Links is trying to host a Crazy Cool Festival! From Stigma to Celebration! on Oct 11 in Prospect Park (NYC). It will be a time to celebrate the uniqueness, beauty, and power of our community! We'll have presentations,...
Unlike its neighbors, Nicaragua has a relatively low crime rate. Compared to Honduras, a country that's widely considered the most violent in the world, the homicide rate in Nicaragua is eight times lower: 11.3 murders per 100,000 people rather than...
An estimated 80 percent of children who have been sexually abused never tell anyone about it, the chairman of a new South Dakota task force said Tuesday at the panel’s first meeting. “We absolutely don’t know what to do and because...
He says the analysis painting Wisconsin as the only state with a growing gap between blacks and whites is yet another illustration of the challenges many black people here face, such as “poverty, unemployment, chronic stress and low educational...
It's all part of an effort to clear overcrowded prisons of non-violent drug offenders who would have received shorter sentences if they had been convicted today. [Listen to the story at http://www.npr.org/2014/08/07/...ug-offenders-pardons ]