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All children need a secure, safe, and stable environment as they grow up. Young kids must have the care and support they need to aid in their development. But children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are especially prone to struggling as they age if they don’t have stability. While stability and support can come from a child’s housing situation and those who raise them, they also need quality care from the doctors in their lives. A lack of secure, safe, and stable healthcare for...

By Amanda Seitz, Associated Press (AP), May 2, 2023 Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an 81-page report from his office. “We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people experience.

Community paramedic Jason Frye takes Sandra Lane's blood pressure during a visit to her home in Gillette, Wyoming. Frye promised to help Lane sign up for physical therapy and offered to find an anti-slip grab bar for her shower. (ARIELLE ZIONTS / KFF HEALTH NEWS) By Arielle Zionts, Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health News, May 2, 2023 Sandra Lane said she has been to the emergency room about eight times this year. The 62-year-old has had multiple falls, struggled with balance and tremors,...

By Ambar Castillo, Photo: Claudio Santana/AFP/Getty Images, STAT, May 2, 2023 The research question that pursued Jessica Valdez, an OB-GYN resident physician at the University of California, San Francisco, stemmed from her mother’s womb: How important is it to a birthing woman’s experience to be seen by health care providers who share her primary language? Valdez’s mother was 17 when she immigrated to California from Mexico in the 1970s. She didn’t speak English “and had no idea what normal...

By Matt Richtel, Photo: Tim Gruber/The New York Times, The New York Times, May 1, 2023 The News Mental health-related visits to emergency rooms by children, teenagers and young adults soared from 2011 to 2020, according to a report published on Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The sharpest increase was for suicide-related visits, which rose fivefold. The findings indicated an “urgent” need for expanded crisis services, according to the team of researchers and...

A Books Not Bars demonstration pushes for closing the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, among the last three youth prisons to close in California. Photo provided by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. By Nell Bernstein, The Imprint, April 25, 2023 Long before the “school-to-prison pipeline” was a well-worn phrase and even law-and-order Republicans had traded “tough on crime” for “smart on crime,” a tireless group of parents trekked, over and over, to the California state...

Social policies can reduce income disparities in brain structure. In those states providing more generous cash benefits for low-income families, income disparities in hippocampal volume were reduced as were patterns for internalizing psychopathology.

We are excited to announce the First Annual #WeHealUS Trauma-Informed & Mental Health Justice Summit in conjunction with #WeHealUS May Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Campaign . The Justice Summit will feature local, state, national and international organizations and governments that are creating change in the justice system and restoring hope and healing for a better tomorrow. The Summit is free, offers In-Person and Virtual participation and is offering CEUs. Learn more and...

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We must implement suicide prevention programs that increase connectedness at the family, school and community levels.

Please join our hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell for an encore of "What if Self-Care isn't the Answer". This episode is a conversation with Candice Valenzuela , which occurred in July 2022. Candice provides insight about the need for collective care to heal communities, especially communities struggling with systemic racism and historical trauma. Candice has worked at the crossroads of education, justice and community healing for the past 16 years. She has extensive experience in...

Learn from a beloved international expert and understand why this in-person experience is not to be missed.