The suicide of Sandra Bland in the Waller County Jail last month has focused much-needed attention on the mental health needs of those who end up incarcerated. Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in Texas jails, but the state requires...
School is still out for the summer, but at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., students are hard at work — outdoors. In a garden filled with flowers and beds bursting with vegetables and herbs, nearly a dozen teenagers are...
Developers of a new video game for your brain say theirs is more than just another get-smarter-quick scheme. Akili , a Northern California startup, insists on taking the game through a full battery of clinical trials so it can get approval from...
It happened again… another family told me their story of working through the ramifications of a kinship adoption, bringing a troubled child of a troubled relative into their home and their lives, including their faith community. But, when this...
I've only found this post today on 10th August 2015. I note this conversation was beginning in July 2015 I took the ACE test and my ACE is 8. Where would I find the same test for Resilience so I may do a comparative study on...
Local educators and school staff members have a better idea of how to identify and help traumatized students as the school season quickly approaches. "Before we used to look at them and think they were acting up because you know, they're bad...
“First of all, let’s get one thing straight: crack is cheap,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer, defiantly, in a now-infamous 2002 interview . “I make too much money to ever smoke crack.... Crack is whack.”...
It's no big surprise that young children first learn language by listening to adults talk to them. Nor is it a surprise that reading aloud to kids is important to their success , both in school and work. What might be a bit more...
It seems that America’s biggest nurseries are failing at their job. Those “nursuries”—the states with the largest-growing youth populations—tend to produce the worst outcomes for kids, judged by such measures as...
Less gray matter in key areas of the brain could account for as much as 20 percent of the achievement gap between children living in poverty and those who are not, according to a new study . The results of brain scans of 389 typically...
Facebook Answers to the Question: What do you wish your parents had said to you? Anything much. I dont remember being talked to at all. You have a right to your feelings, & the right to be heard & have them considered. We believe in you. How do you feel? What do you want? I will help you figure life out. I love you. You are enough. I am proud of you. There is nothing wrong with who you are. Are you okay? Do you want to talk about it? You look upset.
Traditional face-to-face support groups are better than increasingly popular online support groups at helping people with substance abuse problems stay sober, a new study finds. Researchers surveyed 141 women and 55 men, aged 18 to over 60, who...
As superintendent of Benicia Unified School District, Janice Adams found herself face to face with a first when a mother asked what Adams could do to support her kindergarten child, who was born a boy but identified as a girl. “If your...
-A non-scientifically based (i.e personal) conclusion I’ve reached. This is somewhat tongue in cheek but I think it makes some sense… After communicating to someone about malignant narcissists (I’m afraid they do exist...
There is a growing national consensus, reflected in the positions and priorities of lawmakers at all levels of government, that the U.S. criminal justice system must be reformed with the goal of ending mass incarceration. That consensus extends to...