The responsibility for preventing children from being abused can arguably rest with anyone who interacts with them. However, recognizing child abuse is not as simple as one might imagine. True, there are the obvious cases such as a child who always...
Photo source: WikiMedia Commons This study discusses some of the adverse health (and social) outcomes associated with schizophrenia. New research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, shows that rates of adverse outcomes,...
What do you do, and what does your organization do? Gwendolyn is the director of a new parenting i nitiative administered by Porter-Leath with the help of two great partners, Knowledge Quest, a local non-profit, and...
This article forces us to think long and hard about what it means to protect children. In August 2009, Mindi, a 25-year-old struggling new parent, experienced what doctors later concluded was a psychotic episode. She had been staying in a cousin's...
This research provide more evidence that parental detrimental coping behaviors can modify their children's genes (epigenetic). Even before conception, a son's vulnerability for alcohol use disorders could be shaped by a father who chronically drinks...
Hunger is one of the many consequences of neglect. This study demonstrates the long-term health impact that hunger can have. Nutrition therapy has saved the lives of millions of malnourished infants, but may not restore an imbalance in gut...
At the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative conference, attendees discuss how we can rely less on incarceration for juveniles (and consequently, be more trauma-informed). At the morning plenary of the...
Sexual Risk Avoidance programs (SRA) formally known as Abstinence Only Education, approach teen sexuality from a holistic perspective and further develop the concept of abstinence to empower youth to make the best choices to achieve optimal health....
DeKalb resident Laquanda Hernet is still learning how to be a better parent to her 4-year-old son, Coreon, after spending time in jail and struggling with alcoholism. Hernet has been free since Dec. 13 after being arrested on a charge of aggravated...
Due to malnourishment, some 200 million toddlers in poor countries have under-developed brains. A study in the journal Science suggests more play time with mom can dramatically reverse the damage. DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now we have a story...
Dear ACEs Colleagues, The ACE Study helped launch the movement for trauma-informed care. However, at this time, there are NO reliable and valid measures of trauma-informed care. We are working on an instrument to measure staff beliefs...
Abstract Each year within the US alone over 770,000 children are victimized by abuse and neglect (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010), and this figure is likely to underestimate the extent of the problem. Researchers have long recognized...
A new website is introducing powerful tools to help policy makers, advocates, researchers and the media to chart nationwide change in juvenile justice policy, practices, and statistics. The Juvenile Justice GPS (JJGPS - Geography, Policy, Practice...
Prior research has suggested that supportive connections and religious involvement promote positive outcomes in children and adolescents. Little is known, however, about whether these promotive factors exert an influence beyond adolescence into...
For the first time, more than half of the members of Congress are millionaires. Maybe the country would be better off if they had some first-hand encounters with need. There were a dozen eggs, three mangoes, and six black plums, and that was a...