Sara Bennett has been a criminal defense lawyer in New York for 30 years. She has represented men and women who have committed terrible acts; many have spent decades in prison, some have died there. “The longer you’re an attorney...
Disrupting a child’s trajectory into the juvenile justice system holds great promise for increasing life opportunities for that youth and for creating safer communities. Growing concern over zero tolerance policies in schools across the country...
Minnesota has the potential to become a trauma-informed state if the hard work is done to raise awareness of ACEs and the impact of toxic stress on brain development, says third-term state representative Rena Moran (D-St. Paul). Moran led the effort...
Working with foster children in her private psychotherapy practice in the 1980s, Dr. Toni Heineman realized that the profound effects of trauma and loss experienced by foster children were often exacerbated by another loss: that of their...
When we grow up in care, we’re mandated to services. When we come back into the system as parents, it still feels like no one’s listening to what we think we need. Here, five foster care alum and parents—whose names have been...
"I've been through and seen depression and anxiety in action, and thought Sarah's story was so perfectly simple," he told me. "We all get sick physically and mentally, but we need to be open to talking (and laughing) about [it]." I couldn't agree more, and I think this comic will resonate with a lot of people. [For more go to http://www.upworthy.com/a-comi...-of-living-with-them ]
At a time when "deport the immigrants" is an increasingly popular position , it's clear that animosity toward perceived outsiders remains a powerful driver of political attitudes. If you step back and identify the underlying emotional...
When Americans talk about the failings of the country’s economy, the focus is usually on inequality—the uneven distribution of prosperity among the population. Poverty, on its own terms, receives less attention. That’s not the...
It's your mom, who started using painkillers after knee surgery and now can't do a day without them. It's your friend's boyfriend, the one who lost his license after the third DUI. It's your little cousin, who used to spend the night when his...
It seems that people will continue riding the “black-on-black crime” train, and the wheels may never fall off of it. But if we can’t get rid of the tortured phrase , the least we can do is bring some clarity to why...
In a room filled with architects, acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Boris D. Lushniak shook up the common definition of our profession by saying that “ if you are an architect, you are a public health worker. ” And many architects...
The Context of “Big Data” You may be tired of hearing about it, but the big data revolution is upon us. Forecasts of big data’s impact range from enthusiastic praise about its capacity for global transformation to...
“One-Way Ticket” I pick up my life And take it with me And I put it down in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Scranton, Any place that is North and East — And not Dixie. I pick up my life And take it on the train To Los Angeles,...
Around the U.S., a worsening heroin epidemic has more and more cities turning to the anti-overdose drug naloxone to reduce deaths from abuse. Also known as Narcan, the medication blocks the effects of opioids and reverses the respiratory...
Math can be as scary as spiders and snakes, at least in the brain of an 8-year-old child. And that early anxiety about dealing with numbers can put a child at a significant disadvantage , not only in school but in negotiating life and a...