Tear down more state youth prisons, and spend the money saved on community-based alternatives to incarceration. Doing so, juvenile justice advocates say, would reduce overall youth crime and recidivism, keep nonviolent offenders from being...
ayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school. Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in...
Three New York State mental health treatment facilities participating in a project to decrease the use of seclusion and restraint for children with severe emotional disorders demonstrated significant decreases in restraint and seclusion episodes per...
Only 6% of spend on mental health services is directed towards children and adolescents despite strong evidence that 50% of lifetime mental illnesses, excluding dementia, start by the age of 14. There has been a growing public and political...
When children and their parents first visit Northeast Treatment Centers (NET) Children’s Behavior Health Services in Philadelphia, they fill out a 10-question survey about their adverse childhood experiences so that therapists can tailor...
To survive growing up in a sexually abusive home, you had to deny what you witnessed, felt, and experienced. You had to numb and repress it. Like every child, you thought you could trust your family, the people who were supposed to love...
“GO ... go. Sonja — go!” I hear my name, and sprint out into the middle of the projects. I’m supposed to kick the man in front of me, as hard as I can. It’s a lot more difficult than I thought it would be. The...
In the wake of the Los Angeles riots more than 20 years ago, Congress created an anti-poverty experiment called Moving to Opportunity. It gave vouchers to help poor families move to better neighborhoods and awarded them on a random basis, so...
Philadelphia County is pretty bad for income mobility for children in poor families . It is better than about 26 percent of counties . Location matters – enormously. If you’re poor and live in the Philadelphia area ,...
Dr. Harris’s career as a pediatrician changed once she discovered research conducted by Dr. Vince Felitti and Dr. Bob Anda called the “Adverse Childhood Experience Study.” The research focused on ACEs, which are adverse...
Trenika Raiford never imagined herself as a group facilitator, but motivated to help her Liberty City community she decided to step up. Raiford, a single mom with three children who has lived all her life in the neighborhood, got a dose of...
Money problems got you down? You’re not alone. The Great Recession of 2008 was linked to a significant increase in major depression in U.S. adults, researchers at Loyola University in Chicago have found. This was the first study to look...
When children are exposed to violence at home, the aftershocks can ripple into classrooms. Often on edge and sometimes depressed, those students can struggle to concentrate and control their emotions, causing their grades and relationships to...
When Bruce Hodgins went to the doctor for a checkup in Sioux City, Iowa, he was asked to complete a lengthy survey to gauge his health risks. In return for filling it out, he saved a $10 monthly premium for his Medicaid coverage. In Las Cruces,...
Here is an article about another suicide of a university student, Ian Smith-Christmas/...