This is a review from the Like Minds Like Mine newsletter: Mt. Maunganui (New Zealand) psychologist Janet Peters, who has been involved with the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation's Like Minds Like Mine programme for over...
Residents of poorer Chicago neighborhoods are more likely to suffer terrible life events—and their health suffers as a result, according to a new Duke University study. The misfortunes they face can come in many forms—from mugging to job...
Report, which conflicts with recent CDC review, finds growing number of kids likely to suffer serious health problems MONDAY, April 7, 2014 (He althDay News) -- Contrary to a recent report with encouraging figures on childhood obesity in the...
A high-resolution map of the human brain in utero is providing hints about the origins of brain disorders including schizophrenia and autism . The map shows where genes are turned on and off throughout the entire brain at about the midpoint of...
Mayor Bill de Blasio and his new correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, have inherited a city jail system in which nearly 40 percent of the 12,000 inmates have mental illnesses — up from about a quarter just seven years ago. Yet despite the...
This is a guest opinion by Rush Russell is executive director of Prevent Child Abuse New Jersey and ACEsConnection member. The piece is part of a focus on children during April as Child Abuse Prevention Month . Have you ever heard of the...
Check out the new Spring Issue of Trauma Matters newsletter, a publication of the Connecticut Women’s Consortium and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. The newsletter, produced as part of the CT Trauma...
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. That doesn't have to be the case. ……. According to an article this month in the American Journal of...
New Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner (New York City) Gladys Carrión met with City Limits in late March to discuss her vision for the agency and the legacy she inherited. In a spacious Financial District office decorated...
Minneapolis, Minn. (MMD Newswire) April 7, 2014 –- Debra Pauli fulfills her life's purpose speaking for the voiceless millions of Americans, abused and neglected as children, who today suffer in agonizing silence. She understands first hand...
Jane Stevens, founder and editor of ACEsTooHigh and ACEsConnections, testified at this hearing. She is quoted in the following story in Neon Tommy , a digital news site of USC Annenberg. Assembly Member and Chair of the Assembly Select Committee...
Rarely is there so much tension — or so much at stake — around giving someone hope for a family reunion as in the case of Dominic Pantoni. Every month, Dominic intently waits at the door of his group home for his mother to arrive, and he...
Despite the slowest prison population growth in more than three decades, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is seeking a record budget appropriation of just more than $2 billion for 2014-15. The prison population rose by 191 inmates from...
The Louisiana Legislature has at times strayed from considering legislation that would improve conditions in the state and ventured into things that seem a bit bizarre. But sometimes lawmakers get it right when they venture off the path and take time...
When I heard that my 21-year-old son, a student at Harvard, had been stopped by New York City police on more than one occasion during the brief summer he spent as a Wall Street intern, I was angry. On one occasion, while wearing his best business...