What do you see when you watch the video? I see an obviously ill man whose illness precludes him from having a rational interaction with the police. And I see officers who clearly lose whatever patience they may have had toward this ill man at the...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Commission to Build a Healthier America released three major recommendations yesterday. They are: Make investing in America’s youngest children a high priority. This will require a significant shift in...
Alice Driver completed this documentary to produce a journalistic version of her PhD research. In a Q-and-A in Vela, where she's a staff writer, she said this about the project that looks at the interface between violence and photography in Ciudad...
Anthony W. Orlando, lecturer in the College of Business and Economics at California State University, Los Angeles, and managing partner of the Orlando Investment Group, wrote this wonderful tongue-in-cheek post, pointing out that if everyone did...
In response to a string of child-abuse related deaths in the State of Florida, Governor Rick Scott wants to hire more than 400 additional investigators in the coming year—an effort that will cost millions. On Tuesday, Scott will outline a...
I learned that this event (or, at least the first phase of it) took place in Atlanta on Friday (Jan. 10, 2014). Which other states have done something similar, and which states have something similar in the works? ...
Adele Peters wrote this story for FastCompany.com. It's a great example of resilience-building in a community and individuals. On a hot summer afternoon in a rough neighborhood in South Chicago, a group of local teenage girls picked up power...
MARIANNA, Fla. -- The Florida School for Boys housed kids for six decades before Michael Tucker was sent there. An “incorrigible youth,” Tucker arrived at the facility, nestled deep in the woodlands of the Florida panhandle, in 1960. He...
San Francisco pediatrician and Center for Youth Wellness CEO Nadine Burke Harris wrote a chapter for "A Woman's Nation Pushes Back from the Brink" , a study by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress that was released over the...
Under investigation by the inquiry are residential homes run by the North’s local authorities, juvenile justice institutions, secular residential centres in the voluntary sector, and other voluntary homes run by the Catholic Church . The...
At best, [Daniel Romer, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center in Philadelphia] said, the policies might convince kids to lay off the drug their school is testing for—which is most commonly marijuana. But even if that's true, Romer added, students in school sports and clubs are actually not the ones at greatest risk of developing drug problems. "So as a prevention effort," Romer said, "school drug testing is kind of wrong-headed." So what does...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy "devoted exclusively to health and health care". It created the Commission to Build a Healthier America in 2008 to identify ways "beyond health care— to improve the...
http://medicaid.gov/Federal-Policy-Guidance/Downloads/SMD-13-07-11.pdf
When I think of Vermont, what comes to my mind are Ben & Jerrys ice cream , the von Trapp family, cheese, and now heroin. Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin devoted his entire 2014 State of the State address to a drug addiction crisis in this state, saying We have lost the war on drugs. The notion that we can arrest our way out of this problem is yesterdays theory. He said deaths from heroin overdose doubled in 2013 from the year...