Last month, Bethel experienced a rash of suicides. This month, Hooper Bay has, too. Since 2008, I have believed we need to change our approach to suicide prevention. The ACE Study found that .9% of the population studied had 7+ ACE's. That...
Patrick Sidmore, who compiles state of Alaska gathered data on ACE's, prepared a report on the economic impact of failure to intervene early when children are experiencing traumatizing events. Here is a link to that study on the State of Alaska...
The following is a script from "Patrick Kennedy" which aired on October 4, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Rich Bonin, producer. The youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, Patrick Kennedy was supposed to be the heir apparent to a...
If your company hasn't launched a wellness program, this might be the year. As benefits enrollment for 2016 approaches, more employers than ever are expected to nudge workers toward plans that screen them for risks, monitor their activity and...
As health insurance open season heats up for businesses, many employees will discover that participating in their company's wellness program includes rolling up their sleeves for blood tests. Across the country, half of large employers...
U.S. migration patterns changed plenty from 1850 to 2013. A nifty interactive map , created by the Pew Research Center, visualizes these shifts by showing the origin of the dominant immigrant group in each state for every decade during this...
Before 54-year-old Mario passed away, he had one special goodbye he needed to say ... to his favorite giraffe . Mario had worked as a maintenance man at the Rotterdam zoo in the Netherlands for over 25 years. After his shifts, he loved to...
Like many parents, I suspect, my first reaction to the news of the shootings at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon, on Thursday was to think of the families of the victims, and my second reaction was to turn away and mutter some obscenities....
ow bad would things have to get, for you to spend all of your money so your family could cram into a small, flimsy, rubber boat with 40 other people? Imagine you can’t swim, and nor can anyone else in your family. It’s night, you...
There’s something macabre about hosting a photo-op inside of a prison. Waiting for the pope to arrive at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia on Sunday, inside walls topped with barbed wire, cameramen milled about...
At Cincinnati's Oyler School, I watched as a third-grader received a free eye exam and then pored over the selection of eyeglasses, trying on several pairs, eventually settling on a pair of funky blue frames. He shared that he was looking...
San Francisco has tech billionaires and Google buses, famous landmarks and crowds of European tourists. It also has an income disparity comparable to that of Rwanda. And while many low- and middle-income people have been pushed...
When the next shooting happens at a school, an office building, or a movie theater, the question will again be asked: "What made him snap ?" But mass murder is not an impulsive crime. Virtually every one of these attacks, forensic...
CBS interview. Patrick Kennedy's book "A Common Struggle" should give ACEs a chance to be heard. http://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/patrick-kennedy-on-his-family-in-new-memoir/ Worth the watch.
Part I: The Implications of Trauma & Student Misbehavior In this three part series we will explore the issues of complex trauma, the effect on emotional and cognitive development of young people, and interventions at the classroom and system level that can mitigate negative outcomes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...olsan_b_8234038.html