By David L. Shern, Ph.D. and Andrea K. Blanch, Ph.D. At the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research recently held in Washington, D.C., David Orszag, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget and the...
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her mother, Dorothy Rodham, at a hotel in New York in 1992. Credit Ron Frehm/Associated Press _____________________ In just over a minute of a long campaign launch event speech on Saturday, Hillary Rodham Clinton described...
Please note: Applications will be accepted through Mon June 15. OVERVIEW The ACEs Connection Network comprises ACEsTooHigh.com and ACEsConnection.com. The network is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the California...
People displaying mental health problems in public were held in police cells on more than 4,500 occasions in the last year, a fall of almost a third compared with the previous year, figures show. Police custody was used to accommodate...
OBJECTIVE: To report the prevalence of weapons involved in the victimization of youth with abstract particular emphasis on weapons with a “high lethality risk” and how such exposure fits into the broader victimization and life experiences...
Abstract We present new empirical data and meta-analytic evidence for the association of childhood maltreatment with reduced hippocampal volume. In Study 1, we examined the effects of maltreatment experiences reported during the Adult...
The office hallway could be in Anytown, America, with its gray walls, bad lighting and piles of photocopy paper. That is, except for this distinguishing feature: an unknown man, armed with a weapon, who popped into view. "Do I want to shoot...
My Neurofeedback Journey by Tina Marie Hahn -- as told to Kathy Brous at http://attachmentdisorderheali...s/tools/#comment-319 I am Dr. Tina Marie Hahn, MD, advocate for Trauma-Informed Care and Communities, and survivor of ten Adverse Childhood...
ACEs-to-PACEs (Positive and Abundant Childhood Experiences.) Like it? Hi. My name is Brian Rogers. It has taken me three years and a half years to get here, but I'm finally on my way to promoting T-IC, ACEs and PFA in South Africa. If it...
Kalief Browder began his three-year stay in New York's Rikers Island as a 16-year-old—which included nearly two years in solitary confinement—after being accused of stealing a backpack. He never received a...
What kind of physical and mental health problems top the list among Health Share’s 252,000 members? Analysis of 500 hours of analytical data from providers, hospitals and public health organizations is part of Health Share’s...
Prof. James S. Jackson says the overwhelming propensity among researchers to view data on health disparities among African Americans through the lens of race is highly misleading, and masks deeper truths about how blacks and others cope with...
Last month at the National Forum for Youth Violence Prevention summit on preventing violence, Baltimore presented its city-wide blueprint, “B’More for Youth! Building Baltimore’s Cradle to Career Pipeline.” As all eyes...
In 2013, New York City began an experiment in how to more safely and effectively deal with children with minor criminal records: house them in small group homes close to their own neighborhoods; provide 24-hour supervision; and create two...
The Black Lives Matter movement—which initially targeted the lack of indictments for the murderers of unarmed African American men and women, and has since contributed to a larger conversation about the impacts of racism—has...