An expert on childhood trauma urged members of the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet on Thursday to promote a “baby court” model in which judges, lawyers and caseworkers put the needs of traumatized infants and toddlers before any other...
About 13,000 disabled Pennsylvanians are earning an average of $2.40 an hour in a legal use of subminimum wages. The majority work almost solely with other disabled people, in a world tucked away from the mainstream labor market. They’re...
“I like the people in health care. People in health care, they don’t stare at my son like he’s some kind of freak, you know? They see him for who he is.” She took a deep breath and continued. “It’s different when...
Dr. Metzl’s specialty is treating injuries without surgery. His favorite medicine, he says, is exercise: It is one he takes often and prescribes to all of his patients. He’s completed over 40 marathons and Ironman competitions, and...
The recent reports of moms getting arrested for leaving their kids unattended while they work or go to a job interview shows the reality of “work-life balance” when you’re living paycheck to paycheck. The burden for many low-wage...
Patti Neighmond's July 16, 2014, program for NPR's Stressed Out series, titled: " Want More Stress in Your Life? Try Parenting a Teenage r," shared a lot of what it's like for parents when their child enters the teen years. Ms. Neighmond...
Every year, thousands of children in the U.S. are expelled from school before they reach kindergarten. PBS News Hour special correspondent Molly Knight Raskin reports on the Head Start-Trauma Smart program in Kansas City, Missouri, that’s trying...
As we move towards working with state legislatures, or thinking about this, I believe it is important to devise the best screening scale. This should take into account rural vs urban ACEs. I believe we should seriously consider this because we...
July 25, 2014 Federal Legislative Update In this update: Senate Committee and...
Dan Siegel’s webinar “How Mindfulness Can Change the Wiring of Our Brains” which I found by accident in March 2011, says we can heal from emotional childhood damage. And in his own office, Siegel actually used "neuroplasticity" to...
Fifteen years ago I didn’t think about resilience at all. I was fresh out of graduate school and looking for a job. I was hired as a disabilities and mental health coordinator for a Head Start program that, at the time, was located in the 501 st...
Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets from H2O PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo . We’re proud to share “Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets,” a music video from the brilliant and talented students of Leadership High School in collaboration with H20 Productions...
[Mina De La O via Getty Images] Duke University professor emeritus Allen Frances, who chaired the DSM-IV task force wrote this for Huffington Post: I am a great supporter of mental-health research but worry that it has lost its sense of proportion and is chasing the wrong priorities. The really glamorous stuff consumes almost all of the enormous NIMH budget and now has behind it the huge addition of a $650-million private donation aimed at solving the genetics of mental illness. Neuroscience...
[Photo: AP] The nation's largest prison system has spent more than $36.5 million on psychotropic drugs to treat thousands of offenders in the past four years, according to federal Bureau of Prisons data supplied to USA TODAY. Nearly 10% of the 216,000 inmates are receiving medications designed to treat an array of illnesses, from depression and bipolar disorder to acute schizophrenia. The BOP's disclosure comes as government officials have raised questions about the costs of confining such...
If you’re a rich mom, addiction is a health issue. If you’re poor, rural, or a person of color, addiction is a crime. Women at the lower rungs of the economic ladder can have their children taken away if they are found to be using drugs or...