Robert E. Lesoine's best friend Larry took his life by suicide on October 15, 2005. Although Lesoine knew Larry was struggling with feelings of disappointment, dejection, and loss, along with the return of debilitating pain associated with a past...
This is a great post about our very own Steve Brown and a recent presentation / training he co-led that focused on Promoting Sexual Health Among Youth. Read on!!! A few short weeks ago I was able to attend an incredible training on...
"Crowley’s establishment is famed in Petaluma for its intimate yet welcoming gathering spaces. More recently, Crowley has also been known to push the limits of socially “acceptable” meeting groups such as the recent Nonviolence and...
"What happens to education when students, from preschool to high school, are subjected to disciplinary policies that more closely resemble policing than teaching? Around the country, advocates are collecting data illustrating the devastating effects...
"But family members, friends or care providers who are aware of the abuse and fail to report it also could face time behind bars. “In the last year or two … we found out by talking to cops, law enforcement and teachers that a lot of...
"Scott argues that proponents of what became PTSD prevailed "because a core group of psychiatrists and veterans worked consciously and deliberately for years to put it there." They succeeded because they were better organized, were more politically...
"A program aimed at improving the lives of local fathers and their families got a big boost Friday by way of a $50,000 grant from the Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention.... "Shaw said that by being able to continue...
"While journalists have a responsibility to report the news and spur high ratings, as professionals we have a duty to defuse the hype and get the particulars about PTSD right for the public. "The public needs to understand that individuals who...
"We're born with this extraordinary moral sense. A sense of right and wrong just comes naturally to humans and shows up in the youngest babies we can study. But this morality is limited. I think tragically limited. So we are morally attuned to those...
Abstract Because of the complexity and depth of problems facing children and families today, child protection can be best accomplished through a community effort--not simply through the efforts of the traditional child welfare system and other child-...
"As student affairs professionals, we often have the joys of hearing the stories of our students. We strive to encourage an open atmosphere where students are comfortable sharing, processing, and making meaning from their experiences. We like to think...
"The environment in which a person drinks may play a role in instances of domestic violence, new research has indicated. Published in the journal Addiction, the study found that while male violence is often linked to alcohol consumption away from the...
"Today's new findings show that: The absence of serotonin receptors during early development leads to highly aggressive and impulsive behaviors in mice. Impulsivity, but not aggression, returns to normal levels by reintroducing the receptors...
"Women veterans are two to four times more likely to be homeless than non-veteran women. This fact sheet from the National Center on Family Homelessness, a practice area of AIR's Human and Social Development program, contains information on the...
"The National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), Legal Momentum and California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) have partnered together for a seven-part webinar series designed to support advocates in the U.S. who are working...