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Seventeen years as a school nurse in Camden, New Jersey has given me plenty of opportunities to meet families from many countries. There is one mother and son that stand out in my recent experience that speaks to the power of respecting our families’ cultural perspectives. There is a part of Guatemala where the commonly spoken language is Mam, a Mayan Indian dialect that is not commonly found in Camden. One of my parents and her preschool-age son found themselves resettled in Camden from...

People seek therapy to get help making an important personal change, by their choice or urged by loved ones. Maybe you are being proactive and preparing for a happy event such as a wedding or a new baby, and you want to get off to a strong start. Maybe you are struggling with a relationship, a diagnosis, alcohol or substance abuse. You may be experiencing thoughts and feelings that make it very difficult to get through each day. Regardless of the reason, you want an effective therapist to...

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Resilience and Paper Tigers have been screened more than 40,000 times all over the globe. From the United States to the United Kingdom and Ireland, to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and Colombia, communities are learning the biology of stress while championing the science of hope. This year, like every year, KPJR Films is grateful to be a part of a very important societal web and are so honored to serve those who are on the ground, working every day to help children combat the...

How can Trump Republicans—like Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to cite but two notable examples—justify the cruel and psychologically abusive separation of children from their parents at the US border, simply because those parents crossed into our country seeking asylum as undocumented (“illegal”) immigrants? It’s not principally a matter of their values. The content of morality is very important, of course. But of at least equal importance is an appreciation of to whom and for...

"Adverse experiences in infancy and toddlerhood: Relations to adaptive behavior and academic status in middle childhood", will be published in the August issue of the journal Child Abuse and Neglect . The study, conducted by University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences researchers Lorraine McKelvey, Nikki Edge, Glenn R. Mesman, and Leanne Whiteside-Mansell, along with Arizona State University researcher Robert H. Bradley, collected and analyzed interview data from a sample of low-income...

A Juneteenth celebration in Austin, Texas, in 1900. On June 19, 1865, nearly two hundred thousand enslaved people were emancipated in the state. Photograph by Grace Murray Stephenson / Austin History Center "...the separation of families has deep roots in the American past. It was not at all uncommon for children to be sold separately from their parents on the auction block. In fact, the sale of children was such a common feature of slavery that Daina Ramey Berry, a professor of history at...

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I recently came across a blog written by ACEs Connection member Elizabeth Prewitt titled, “ For first time, SAMHSA's annual children’s mental health event focuses on trauma .” In the article, Ms. Prewitt writes, “It is both remarkable and natural that the theme of the 2018 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s ( SAMHSA ) May 10 th Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day event was “Partnering for Health and Hope Following Trauma”. It was remarkable to hear “ACEs” and...

When kids don’t have ways of managing their emotions, any activity can be difficult and challenging. Art with Heart resources provide kids with tools to help.

Indian Country remembers. This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families. The Trump administration has initiated a zero-tolerance policy on the border. Zero tolerance means that people caught crossing the border are treated as criminals. On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31. “The act of ripping children away...

When politicians and pundits talk about creating better jobs, they typically cite two strategies. The first, emphasized by economic nationalists and populists like President Trump, is to use trade and other policies to bring high-paying manufacturing jobs back to American soil. The second, emphasized by progressives, is to use education to prepare less advantaged workers for higher-paying jobs. But even if we did both, we would not put a significant dent in the jobs problem. The reality is...