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CA's George Miller Publicly Calls for US Congress to Address CSA in K-12 Schools!
George Miller is the new CSA Prevention Hero of 2014! Here is his letter to the House Education and Workforce Committee, calling for February and March Hearings on the disparities across the country in reporting and preventing Child Sexual Abuse...
Wisconsin legislature recognizes that when stress becomes toxic, children suffer the most
Earlier this month, the state Assembly passed a resolution authored by state Sen. Julie Lassa, D-Stevens Point, that recognizes the profound importance of early brain development to a child’s future success. The state Senate had passed the same...
NYTimes editorial: Ireland and Child Abuse
For years, the government of Ireland has denied liability for child sexual abuse by teachers in state-financed schools managed by the Roman Catholic Church. The European Court of Human Rights punctured this denial Tuesday with a finding that the Irish...
Animal abuse often signals domestic violence; Canton rescue group fills need for fearful victims
Animal abuse is often the first visible sign a family is living with the threat of domestic violence. More than 70 percent of women who enter a shelter report their abuser has hurt, killed or threatened the family pet. When animal cruelty...
Can tax dollars buy love?
The money spent on relationship education is little more than a rounding error in TANF’s $17 billion budget, but why spend any of those precious resources on a program that appears to be failing miserably? That’s what Benjamin Karney...
Connect with people before electronics - Dan Siegel
Dr. Siegel is among the world's most compassionate experts on human attachment, and this goes for all human interaction. Please share if possible....
"Still Face" Experiment: How "Attunement" Creates Attachment
Thank you, Shelley Calissendorff for your "Smile at Your Baby" photo on this on Facebook! If you haven't seen this video yet, this is the Gold Standard to illustrate what Allan Schore calls "attunement." It shows how attunement creates...
Less than half of children treated for anxiety achieve long-term relief
Looking at this through a trauma-informed lens, if their parents were included in the therapy, would more children benefit? Results of the federally funded research, to be published online Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry ,...
Parents less likely to spank after reading briefly about its links to problems in children
"Parents spank with good intentions -- they believe it will promote good behavior, and they don't intend to harm the child. But research increasingly indicates that spanking is actually a harmful practice," said Holden, lead author on the study....
Saviors of Children
(Left to right, Jessica Letarte, Elsa Higareda, Diana Ayala, Glenda Linares, David Gomez, and Ben Wright) Here's a few of our conference team, hard at work. Behind them is our highly advanced workshop scheduling tool, otherwise known as a wall. We...
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner: "I believe ACE scores should become a vital sign, as important as height, weight, and blood pressure."
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, f ounder and executive director of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, and a 2013 MacArthur Foundation genius award winner, wrote this essay for The Field Clinic on Philly.com. For nearly 15 years we’ve...
A Court’s All-Hands Approach Aids Girls Most at Risk
Toni J., an effervescent 16-year-old who talks on speed-dial, lives with 11 family members in West Oakland, on a street buffeted by gang activity and poverty. Her mother died of an overdose, her father in a revenge shooting. In ninth grade, she was...
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