"On Monday, the CPS will introduce Hawk, a three-year-old Labrador Retriever, the service’s first trauma dog. "Hawk, and his mild manner, will provide comfort to those who have had witnessed a crime or experienced a traumatic incident....
"The Selby Library hosted the first “Read to Me” event on Saturday, where the children of parents serving sentences in the Sarasota County Jail could listen to a recording of their parent reading a children’s book. "Seventy-five...
"Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released a report on the most comprehensive data collected on suicide from 1999 through 2010. The study found that the number of suicides among veterans reached 22 a day - a suicide every 65...
"In the former group are many children whose behavior may be annoying or distracting to others, but is not, at its heart, worrisome. Reducing the number of suspensions resulting in lost learning time among those students requires one set of responses...
Abstract Purpose of review: This article addresses three areas in which new research demonstrates the potential to impact the health of children and adolescents: bullying, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and texting to promote behavior change....
It would be wonderful if every parent were offered excellent information and support. Unfortunately, that's not happening yet--but there are some very effective supports available to parents. One important thing to remember is that parents themselves...
To understand America's epidemic of over-incarceration, it helps to look to countries that don't having our problem. In Germany and the Netherlands, for example, incarceration rates per capita are nearly 90 percent lower than in the U.S.: 79 per...
"In April 2012, CCADV, in collaboration with Roger D. Fallot, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation with Community Connections in Washington, D.C., offered a two-day trauma kick-off event - . Eleven (11) member programs participated in the...
"Without intervention, jailed teens whose parents have a history of incarceration are doomed to struggle for the rest of their lives, a new study says. "Researchers examined the extent to which various risk factors experienced by youths in eight...
"Dart Center Ochberg Fellows Sally Sara, an award-winning journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who has reported from conflict zones around the world, and Mike Walter, a senior correspondent for USA Today Live who covered September...
"Bob Woodruff Foundation awarded a grant to Hope For The Warriors® to support the nonprofit’s continued work with wounded service members and military families. Bob Woodruff Foundation has supported Hope For The Warriors® since 2008....
Abstract Background In the empirical and clinical literature, complex posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and personality disorders (PDs) are suggested to be predictive of drop-out or reduced treatment effectiveness in trauma-focused PTSD treatment....
"Few students are “model” students and many have sustained some kind of toxic stress though they may not have been categorized as struggling. "Some who are labeled with various learning syndromes may have been traumatized. Other students...
"The long-term effects of trauma have been seen by a variety of professionals for years but it took one study to actually document the horrific effects. "The "Adverse Childhood Events Study" looked long term at individuals who had experienced trauma...
"This writer opines PTSD is “life” altering because as long as triggers exist (and they will) the Disorder itself will be an issue most returning soldiers and veterans deal with. I believe also, however, there are varying degrees of...