“ Engaging Homeless Youth in Community-Based Participatory Research: A Case Study From Skid Row, Los Angeles ” (abstract). Analilia P. Garcia, Meredith Minkler, Zelenne Cardenas, Cheryl Grills, and Charles Porter. Health Promotion...
Amid the media coverage of two reports last week about women and the criminal justice system, links between domestic violence and the causes of crimes by female offenders were largely overlooked. The Prison Reform Trust's...
I just posted a trailer in the video section of ACEsConnection for a film brought to my attention by member Laura Boyd who heads the Oklahoma Therapeutic Foster Care Association and the Foster Family-based Treatment Association. The film...
I can tell I have settled into the role of Chaplain here at Intermountain when the following diagnoses no longer startle me: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Reactive Attachment Disorder of early childhood or infancy Attention...
As recovering spring breakers are regretting binge drinking escapades, it may be hard for them to appreciate that there is a positive side to the nausea, sleepiness, and stumbling. University of Utah neuroscientists report that when a region of the...
Mindfulness meditation produces personal experiences that are not readily interpretable by scientists who want to study its psychiatric benefits in the brain. At a conference near Boston April 5, 2014, Brown University researchers will describe how...
Men who started smoking regularly before the age of 11 had sons who, on average, had 5-10kg more body fat than their peers by the time they were in their teens, according to new research from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol....
Child neglect cases can present professional challenges greater than those in other forms of ill treatment and abuse. Though there is growing evidence that the impact of neglect on a child's development and wellbeing can be as profound and sometimes...
It's been a tough couple of weeks for Withrow University High School students. The freshman class, about 380 kids, is not only dealing with the shooting death of a 14-year-old classmate but accusations against another 14-year-old for shooting and...
GRAND FORKS – American Indian and Hispanic children in North Dakota and Minnesota continue to lag behind their white peers, and by some measures they are worse off than their peers of the same race around the nation, according to a report from...
Perfectly Positioned to Minister to Those Suffering from Adverse Childhood Experiences- Part 1 The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study of 1997 removed the veil of secrecy from the extent and effects of abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction....
For African-American children seeking a better future, no state looks worse than Wisconsin. A new national report shows that children of color face enormous barriers to educational and financial achievement — with Wisconsin ranking...
Removing pressure from medical school while teaching students skills to manage stress and bounce back from adversity improves their mental health and boosts their academic achievement, Saint Louis University research finds. Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd,...
Most in the conventional and alternative health communities accept that chronic, underlying inflammation is a root cause of degenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s/dementia, various forms of arthritis and even heart disease...
Two UCLA professors who conducted the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying have found that K-12 schools' efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing. The study revealed that schools are trying many different approaches...