The 4-minute video “Change the First Five Years and You Change Everything” just posted was done in 2009 but is excellent. It was shown as part of a webinar (Understanding Toxic Stress in Young Children) yesterday done by Health Child Care...
Source: WikiMedia University of York researchers are launching a new multi-disciplinary project to examine what works best for abused or neglected children – going into care or staying at home with support. The study, funded by the...
Source WikiMedia When the economy hits the skids, government stimulus checks to the poor sometimes follow. Stimulus programs -- such as those in 2001, 2008 and 2009 -- are designed to boost the economy quickly by getting cash into the hands of...
Research shows that wealth inequality creates barriers to community development, due to the widespread effects of poverty. A report by the United Nations Children's Fund shows that more than one in five children in the United States falls below the...
Source WikiMedia MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'd like to thank Celeste Headlee for sitting in for me while I was away. On the program today, we are focusing on some interesting health issues...
Neuroscientists have discovered a brain pathway that underlies the emotional behaviours critical for survival. New research by the University of Bristol, published in the Journal of Physiology , has identified a chain of neural connections which...
MEADVILLE — Audrey Smith and Henry Nelson are trying to turn Crawford County into a “trauma-informed community,” a community where “everyone is aware of trauma and its effects, and can recognize traumatized individuals and get...
Source: WikiMedia Researchers have found evidence of an interaction between prenatal smoking and genetic risk factors that increase aggressive behavior in children, especially in girls. "The interesting issue is that not all children exposed to...
Source WikiMedia (Medical Xpress)—In the new health-care climate of the federal Affordable Care Act and efforts to expand Medicaid to accommodate more individuals and children, the need to closely examine ways to best use government...
Perhaps due to a lack of or inconsistent insurance coverage, young adults age 18 to 25 tend to go to the doctor's office less often than children or adolescents, yet have higher rates of emergency room use, finds a study in the Journal of...
In commemoration of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention cosponsored a Web Forum discussion with Dr. David Corwin and Dr. James Henry on the...
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Pregnant women addicted to illegal narcotics or prescription pain pills could soon be jailed in Tennessee under a bill awaiting the governor's signature. The enjoys bipartisan support — despite objections from doctors. The medical term for what...
“Every girl should have an opportunity to change,” says Aggie Pappas, executive director of one of the 18 PACE centers currently in Florida. A Florida program created in 1985 for girls who had a brush with the law has now developed...
More than 40 years ago, a classic experiment established that we can learn a lot about the adults children will grow into using only a soft, sugary treat. The Stanford marshmallow experiment, first conducted in 1972, showed that a child’s...