A recent article highlights the strides forward we are making with our new knowledge of brain development and trauma. In this case, the criminal justice system is recognising that children should not be sentenced to life without parole when their...
Rider for Change James Encinas arrived by mountain bike at Cherokee Point Elementary in San Diego's City Heights Friday May 2 at 2:30 pm to the delight of about a hundred students who stayed after school with parents and a half-dozen visitors from...
I expected the luncheon keynoter at the American Bar Association–American Psychological Association “Confronting Family and Community Violence” meeting in Washington, D.C., to be informative, even impressive, but not necessarily...
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Minnesota has the nation's best-performing healthcare system, according to a Commonwealth Fund ranking released this week, and Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire are tied for second. Mississippi ranks last, just as it did on the previous...
Photo credit: DucDigital, Flickr Death is inevitable, but premature death can be prevented, say health officials. In its first report calculating the number of these deaths in the U.S. that can be avoided, researchers at the Centers for Disease...
Sunny Shin, Ph.D., (pictured right) an associate professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Social Work, has led a number of studies exploring the relationship between child maltreatment and adolescent substance abuse. Shin, who joined...
Photo credit: Neighborhood Centers Inc, Flickr Ruth Kimble has been waiting a long time for early childhood education to have its moment, and now, she thinks, it has arrived. Across the country, voters and politicians alike are making...
ACEs Connection member John Jeanetta is the president and CEO of Heartland Family Service , a social work agency based in Omaha, Nebraska. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Q: When did you learn about ACEs, and how did...
Studies show music helps shape an infant’s brain in the womb, and keeps babies alive after birth. So surely children’s choirs can heal child trauma. What if Bruce Perry or Bessel van der Kolk had been a Vienna Choir Boy? They’d be...
In one disadvantaged Richmond community, educational opportunities are a lifeline for community residents to better health, yet the relationship between education and health is often complex. See how the Engaging Richmond partnership, a group of...
Photo credit: David Mason, Flickr From the doorway, my patient looked pregnant — but his protuberant belly was actually a sign of serious liver disease that had quickly worsened. Given the fluid pressing on his abdomen, he was no doubt in...
Nobody can say for sure how many schools and youth-serving institutions are introducing sexual violence prevention programming in the wake of recent high-profile cases, but we know the number is growing. David Lee, of the nonprofit PreventConnect,...
Photo credit: Paul Burnett, Flickr The adolescent brain is also known to be extra-sensitive to dopamine, meaning that the reward systems associated with drug addictions are in overdrive. These changes cause teenagers to minimize negative effects...