Bangor Daily News reporter Nok-Noi Ricker did a great job in this story about two young children who suffered from the effects of witnessing their mother being abused, and whose recovery is now "bittersweet". Now that some time has passed, Tracey...
Many of us, whether in trauma or just excess stress, unfortunately find the holidays to be the worst time of the year. But I am so grateful for how wonderful I feel in 2014! That’s why I wanted you to see some of my 2013 holiday...
This report is very compelling. If ACEs is the largest chronic public health disaster in the U.S., as Robert Anda says, and is the single most important health problem facing Americans, as Bessel van der Kolk says, then perhaps adverse childhood...
Across the U.S., 20 to 40 percent of child welfare case workers leave their job every year, according to City Limits reporter Rachel Blustain. Foster kids with one caseworker usually found a permanent home; those with six or seven caseworkers usually...
Stephanie Woodard did this story for Indian Country Today. She reports how a mother of disabled 16-year old twins is trapped between the laws of two states. People interviewed in the story say that child welfare services and the courts are using...
One of the most shared videos was a cartoon showing scenarios of how parents can educate their kids and how children should deal with harassment. Within 48 hours the hashtag had been tweeted more than 100,000 times and the video had...
From a post in MedicalXpress.com: "I don't think most Americans know that children with less education are destined to live sicker and die sooner," said Steven H. Woolf, M.D., director of the VCU Center on Society and Health. "It should concern...
From the RWJF event announcement site : Building on its original work from 2009—which helped advance a national movement to address non-medical factors that affect our health—the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America will release...
Good to have more attention on the problems of racial disparity in school discipline... but it is another patch on a system that is fundamentally broken in so many ways. The first paragraph: The Obama administration is issuing new...
This is a very interesting article by AZDailySun.com reporter Michelle McManimon about a domestic violence shelter that's seen a marked increase in demand even though calls to police have decreased. That's because the local police department has been...
George Timberlake, a retired family court judge from Southern Illinois, wrote this incredible op-ed for JJIE.org and Youth Today. In it, he describes a complex case involving three generations of an extended family, several of whose members ended up...
The Alberta Family Wellness Institute routinely scans academic journals for research articles related to its mission and vision. This literature search is designed to return scholarly academic articles in the topic areas of child and brain...
Add this list to resilience-building for individuals. The first two steps provided by Avril Carruthers, author of Freedom From Toxic Relationships, are: 1. Identify relationships that might be toxic Any relationship in which we feel drained or...