We are in the middle of a mindfulness revolution. According to Time , The Huffington Post and a host of other media outlets, mindfulness and meditation are having their moment in the spotlight. From hospitals to corporate...
If this isn't an honest-to-goodness crystal ball, it's close. Neurobiologist Nina Kraus believes she and her team at Northwestern University have found a way — a half-hour test — to predict kids' literacy skill long...
Dear ACES Connection members: Time to alert you to yet another groundbreaking conference - this time a national forum on trauma-informed schools. In March of this year, Echo Parenting & Education gathered together the Titans of Trauma, including Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. On March 16 &17 of 2016, we will be deepening our knowledge of childhood trauma, building resilience through body-based therapies (such as dance, yoga, theatre, art), collecting stories and best...
I had lived thirty good years before enduring my first food poisoning — odds quite fortunate in the grand scheme of things, but miserably unfortunate in the immediate experience of it. I found myself completely incapacitated to erect the...
Life is a day-to-day proposition for Davida Gomez and her three children. They sleep at friends houses. The kids attend the Mustard Seed School at the Loaves & Fishes homeless services charity downtown. Gomez, 31, has been homeless for five months, ever since she left her former boyfriend. She would like to find a place to live and enroll the children in regular public school again. But first she needs official birth certificates that she can use with potential employers,...
The Navajo Nation covers 27,413 square miles. Serving that entire area, the territory has just 10 grocery stores. This means that, in order to get fresh, affordable produce, some Navajo Nation residents must drive at least 155 miles round-trip,...
From a cellblock at El Reno Federal Penitentiary in Oklahoma last Thursday, President Barack Obama, the first sitting president to visit a federal prison, spoke of his hope that his proposed criminal justice reforms will, among other...
It was meant to be ‘tough love,’ but a Michigan law kicking mothers off welfare when their kids miss school has gone horribly, horribly wrong. To say Lisa was sick doesn’t really begin to describe her troubles. The 12-year-old...
Hundreds of viewers tuned in across the country to watch Advancing a Community-Based Model for Violence Prevention , the 21st National Health Equity Research Webcast. The annual live-audience, interactive symposium explores the...
Waller County, Texas, has had a complicated racial history since the days when it was a part of Mexico. At one of its first settlements, Bernardo Plantation, about 100 slaves grew cotton on a large farm on the banks of the Brazos . Yet...
It may sound counterintuitive, but one of the best things a company can do to promote women at work is give men more benefits — particularly paternity leave. Not five days off in a row. That’s just extra vacation time. I’m talking...
The title of this blog post is a question raised by Dr. Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD while she was Research Director on Social Determinants of Health at the Centers for Disease Control. Last year, she gave a TedX talk (link pasted below) on how...
One in 28 children has a parent in jail, according to the most recent numbers from the Pew Charitable Trust. Parental incarceration hurts a child’s ability to perform in school, make healthy decisions and cope emotionally. Family Service...
Hospitalization for mental health problems is far more common among kids behind bars than among children and teens in the general population, a new study finds. Juvenile inmates also have longer hospital stays, which suggests they have more...
Three federal government ministers will sit down with Indigenous leaders and mental health advocates on Wednesday to tackle Indigenous mental health, which they say is the nation's "most confronting health challenge". Health...