February 2015

  Texas has more prisoners than any other state and one of the highest incarceration rates in the world — but when it comes to juvenile justice, the state has become an unlikely exemplar of meaningful reform. After examining a wide range of...

Social workers, law enforcement officers and two School Board members were among those who filled the room for the inaugural public meeting of Peace4Gainesville, a new initiative aimed at tackling childhood trauma and the many social problems that...

This is the third toddler shooting that I've written about recently.   A three year old Albuquerque NM boy  shot and wounded both his parents with his pregnant mothers loaded hand gun  last Saturday.  His two year old...

It started with a profound connection to the words of one wise Dutchman addressing a room full of therapists. The ah-ha moment when Bessel van der Kolk linked childhood trauma to attachment. Exciting, because at Echo Parenting & Education we train parents and professionals how to create the kind of safe, stable relationships that allow a child to flourish. Instinctively, we had always known that the lack of such attachment was traumatic to a child - after all, if your survival depends...

Last week, Dave Davies, sitting in for Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, interviewed journalist David  Morris who, while embedded with troops in Iraq, witnessed horrific violence, injury and death and was nearly killed when a vehicle he was riding...