"Governor Steve Beshear announced this week nearly $1.2 million in funding for 58 Community Early Childhood Councils (CECCs) in 91 Kentucky counties to promote school readiness for children. Henderson County received $20,000 in this funding cycle as...
" Start with finding the cause, but parents need to deal with their own problems first.... "Lupien said there are four ingredients which are like a recipe for stress: the newness or novelty of a situation, the unpredictable nature of a situation, a...
"She is one of some 170 former foster youth signed on to the Camellia Network , connecting with folks who want to provide them not just with gifts, but also moral and professional support as they enter the “real world.”... "This simulated...
"Every day, people donate to charities, volunteer to clean up city parks, or scale back their driving to curb air pollution. But some take these public goods for granted and ride free on the efforts of others. They watch public television but never...
Abstract This article reviews the relationship between factors associated with resilience, and aspects of the individual’s social ecology (environment) that promote and protect against the negative impact of exposure to traumatic events. It is...
"Veterans participating in extended outdoor group recreation show signs of improved mental health, suggesting a link between the activities and long-term psychological well-being, according to results of a new University of Michigan study. "Veterans...
Abstract Psychopathy is a personality disorder associated with a profound lack of empathy. Neuroscientists have associated empathy and its interindividual variation with how strongly participants activate brain regions involved in their own...
"CHILD health experts in Australia have called for the smacking of kids and other physical punishments to be completely outlawed. "The medicos from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) want ...
"The end of the Canada Health Transfer and the Canada Social Transfer agreements next year raises red flags for those concerned about poverty as these are essential financial tools that help provinces and territories provide health care services, and...
"Japan's child consultation centers dealt with 66,807 child abuse cases in fiscal 2012 through March of this year, exceeding 60,000 for the first time since the tally started in fiscal 1990, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Thursday. "With...
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Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood More great news: The City of Raleigh has awarded $35,000 to our SecurePath program, one of the only child mental health programs that offers FREE services, in both English and Spanish, in the child's home or...
"On January 16, 2013, President Barack Obama directed Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Secretary Arne Duncan of the U.S. Department of Education to launch a national conversation on mental health to...
"Positive results from three new studies on human-animal interaction (HAI) are being presented today at the triennial conference of the International Association of Human-Animal Interaction Organizations (IAHAIO) in Chicago, IL.... "We are seeing a...
"Stories of inmates with no plan for the future have turned into freedom and hope due to the Women's Re-entry Achievement Program (WRAP) in Solano County.... "WRAP is designed to help women while they are in jail and after they are released to deal...