The ACEs Design Team through United Way is collaborating to develop a community change strategy to combat and prevent ACEs. ACEs Design Team Purpose Statement: " Working together as a community, we coordinate our efforts and leverage resources,...
An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be, and the...
Health is more than the sum of its parts. Sometimes in surprising ways, factors such as childhood experiences, housing conditions, poor diets and health care access drive who ends up sick — and who does not. As part of the series "What...
CHRIS Kids, a non-profit organization located in Atlanta, GA, is laser focused on improving our community by providing children, adults and families with high-quality, trauma-informed behavioral health services and support systems. Since 1981, the...
Her entrance caused a stir. A 15-year-old girl with appraising eyes and a gruff, resonant voice, she radiated bridled ambition in a room filled with children who were mostly slumped and lost. She was dressed as if heading to a party, the red of...
Can bigger food stamp benefits alleviate child hunger in rural Kentucky? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday that the Obama administration wants to find out. The Department of Agriculture will spend $27 million on five...
Every Saturday morning Scott Budnick leaves his 1920s Mediterranean villa on a Hollywood Hills cul-de-sac, with its pool and waterfall and wooded trails, and drives his Tesla north, across the San Fernando Valley, to where the 5 and 210...
More kids nationwide are taking medications designed to treat such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and pediatricians and psychiatrists at the University of Vermont want to know why. Led by David Rettew, M.D., associate...
Six-year-old Matthew Parker needed a new kidney. His elementary school teacher, Lindsey Painter, gave him one. According to KSAT-12, a local ABC affiliate in New Braunfels, Texas, doctors tested more than 70 people to see if their kidney was a...
\ Rejected by a person you like? Just "shake it off" and move on, as music star Taylor Swift says. But while that might work for many people, it may not be so easy for those with untreated depression, a new brain study finds. The pain of social...
Never mind the little girl’s name. What’s important is that she was about 10 years old and all the doctors she had seen month after month had failed to ease her pain. The girl’s stomach wrenched. Her chest tightened. Her skull...
As many of you know who are supported by foundations, many ask for a report on how things are going. I’m writing such a report now for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Just FYI, things are going very well! There’s...
In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti, now director of the California Institute of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, discovered something potentially revolutionary about the ripple effects of child sexual abuse. He discovered it while trying to solve a...
I just heard about another homeless man in Los Angeles who was shot and killed. Five cops were involved, and 3 are alleged to have shot the victim. Cop killings are all too common. Police come across a situation, attempt to use force to control it and...
In 2004, I put one of Dr. W. Edward Deming’s principles to work. He said: “Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company.” While a human is not a company, I consider the development of a human being as taking...