"Approximately 1.6 million youth are homeless without their families in the U.S. each year. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) youth are significantly overrepresented among those who are homeless. In July 2013, the Technical Assistance...
"Several hundred Pennsylvania state prison inmates recently participated in a voluntary study by Rutgers University to determine the connection between post-traumatic stress and substance abuse disorders. “The number of offenders with...
"Effective Oct. 1, a new law pertaining to the reporting of substance-exposed newborns goes into effect in Maryland. The Department of Human Resources developed and proposed this legislation to reflect requirements in the federal Child Abuse...
"Facebook and Maryland's school systems will pilot an initiative next year that should help make it easier to have offensive or hurtful language on the social media site taken down. "The effort to combat cyber bullying was started by Maryland Attorney...
"Our young people face many challenges: absent fathers, poverty, racism, the absence of economic opportunity, the temptations of street life. Throughout his life, people were trying to save Elijah, but although his choices are his own, the system...
"University of Kansas researchers have won a $2.5 million grant to develop a system to help screen foster children for trauma, develop treatment plans and monitor their progress as they grow, according to a news release. "During the first phase of the...
"Part 1 – What Is A Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is an umbrella term describing the range of effects that can occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. These effects may...
"Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation allowing children to have more than two parents.... "Senate Bill 274 authorizes a court to recognize more than two parents if endorsing fewer would be “detrimental” to the child. The bill that Brown...
"Have you ever thought of trauma as anything other than the most horrific act? Before learning about Trauma Informed Care, I wouldn’t have believed that over 70% of society has experienced some form of trauma in their lives; and most...
"Stress causes today more cases of prolonged absence from work due to sickness.... "Black spots in front of your eyes. Palpitations. Shooting pain through your body. These are symptoms in people who go to work with the feeling that their lives are at...
"Iowa Department of Education Director Brad Buck today announced the 23 Iowans who will serve on a state task force to develop suicide prevention and trauma-informed care training requirements for Iowans who are licensed by the Iowa Board of...
A few years ago, Dr. Robert Anda at CDC, and co-Principal Investigator of the ACE Study, got the ACE Questionnaire added to the BRFSS or Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-by-state annual collection of standardized public health...
"The Army is expanding a $50-million-per-year program created in 2009 to help soldiers withstand mental illnesses such as post-traumatic stress disorder despite research by its own scientists showing it does nothing to reduce PTSD . "Study authors...
" Teaching our kids about sexual abuse isn't easy, but it's a lesson they're now learning in school thanks to a law named after an Illinois woman who was abused as a kid. Today Erin Merryn was in Rockford teaching how to recognize and report...
Abstract Exposure to traumatic events is common in children and adolescent. Post traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) is an emotional reaction to traumatic events, which is increasingly recognized to be a prevalent and disabling disorder. The aim of...