A report released this week by The Council of State Governments Justice Center calls on school districts across the nation to hold themselves accountable for a positive school climate as well as test scores. “Research and data on school...
When she was a child, 22-year-old Ifetayo Harvey's father was sentenced to prison for cocaine trafficking. "My dad went to prison when I was 4 years old, and he was released when I was 12," Harvey says. Harvey is one of millions of young people who...
NPR host Arun Rath talked with Alan Rabinowitz, a renowned zoologist and conservationist responsible for the world's first jaguar sanctuary, the Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Preserve in the mountains of Belize. Rabinowitz, the author of books about...
[Daniel St. Hubert in custody. Photo: Victor J. Blue for NYTimes] During much of his five years of incarceration for choking his mother with an electrical cord, Daniel St. Hubert was prone to aggressive outbursts and violence , assaulting inmates and correctional workers. It took three years before he was even deemed psychologically fit to stand trial. After years of mandatory therapy designed to stabilize him, he began to show signs of improvement: In the last six months, he had...
A new white paper , released by the Center for Youth Wellness, highlights the significant health and development challenges faced by children exposed to chronic early adversity, and outlines recommended steps to address this public health problem....
Credit: Education Images/Getty The law prohibits you from spanking your boss, your employee, your spouse, your best friend, or a stranger you walk past on the street. But in the United States, it's still perfectly legal to spank your own...
Image credit: University of California, San Diego Computer scientists at Microsoft Research and the University of California, San Diego have developed a system that combines a mobile application and sensor to detect stress in parents and...
Vincent Schiraldi, senior adviser in the New York Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Credit: Gwen McClure / JJIE At a workshop this week, advocates and experts discussed, among other things, how trauma affects the brain and why this...
The image shows two levels of the brain, with areas that were more active in healthy controls than in schizophrenia patients shown in orange, during an fMRI study of working memory. Credit: Kim J, Matthews NL, Park S./PLoS One. St. Jude Children's...
This study highlights how factors like depression, low levels of education, physical inactivity and high blood pressure may decrease cognitive functioning, even amongst the young. It's not hard to see how an ACE history would lead to the...
Mark, a California minister, says the day he was first shut out of all treatment discussions regarding his mentally ill teenage son "was the first time we really started to feel hopeless." Credit: Jenny Gold/Kaiser Health News This story raises...
Yoga instructor Maggie Cohen. Credit: Huffington Post This is an interview with Maggie Cohen, a 500-hour advanced vinyasa yoga instructor and proud member of The Breathe Network, an international network of sliding scale, holistic practitioners who...
Gustavo Sagredo is the school counselor at Manual Arts Senior High School. Manual Arts Senior High School is located on South Vermont Avenue in South Central Los Angeles. This neighborhood is located in an area that has a high rate of homicides...
In high-poverty Los Angeles public schools, school-based therapy has been suggested for dealing with toxic stress and trauma-- but there isn't enough money for the counseling services needed. At Benjamin Franklin High School in Highland Park,...
This study provides insight into the health consequences divorce can have on children. It is speculated that this link could be explained by poverty or emotional disruptions. Researchers in Norway have discovered a possible link between...