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District attorneys can play a major role in reducing (or amplifying) race-based incarceration in America’s largest cities. Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King announced in February that he is launching a political action committee to help elect reform-minded DA candidates and draw national attention to the issue. “No position in America, no single individual has a bigger impact on the criminal justice system—including police brutality, but the whole crisis of mass incarceration in...

Leaders with the Potts Family Foundation hope Oklahoma can increase its collaborative focus on preventing and healing early childhood trauma. A crowd of more than 500 this week at a summit on the topic indicates growing interest. "We need to help people see that they are not alone, they are more than the shame they feel, and they can create new patterns," said Doctor Robert Anda, speaking at Wednesday's Raising Resilient Oklahomans! Summit in Edmond, which was hosted by the Potts Family...

A conference this week aims to bring people together across generations. The Association for Education of Young Children (AEYC) and the Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition are joining forces to set up their Resiliency Symposium, which runs from Thursday, March 15 to Saturday, March 17 at Centennial Hall. The conference is called “ARRR!” which stands for Attachment, Responsive Relationships, Resilience. The aim of the conference is to educate people young and old about how to become closer as...

“We were in special measures. We had low staff morale, parents not happy with the school, results were poor and nobody wanted to come here, we had budget issues. It’s a downward spiral when you’re there.” This is what Feversham headteacher, Naveed Idrees, told The Guardian . He continued: “We could have gone down the route where we said we need to get results up, we’re going to do more English, more maths, more booster classes, but we didn’t. You might hit the results but your staff morale...

Watch Oprah's report on 60 Minutes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oprah-winfrey-treating-childhood-trauma/

Lehigh Valley performance premiere “The Body Keeps the Score: Dancing with Trauma and Recovery” promotes social awareness and healing Choreography by Sarah Carlson Original Music by Vernon Mobley March 23 & 24 Allentown, PA. (March 2, 2018) — The IceHouse Tonight presents “The Body Keeps the Score: Dancing with Trauma and Recovery”, a choreographer/composer collaboration at the Bethlehem Ice House on Friday, March 23 at 8pm, and Saturday, March 24 at 3pm and 8pm. Sarah Carlson, the...

In June it was reported that Heroin is now the leading cause of death in Americans under 50 years old. The article reported that 144 people will die from accidental overdose today. When you add that to the statistics regarding suicide: 121 suicides are completed a day, including 22 of our veterans, and also the fact that, for every one suicide completed, 25 are attempted, which equates to 3,025 / day = 3,146 suicides completed or attempted EVERY day in the US. For perspective, there are...

At age 6, Sarah McBride used building blocks to create a make-believe version of the place she dreamed to visit one day: the White House. McBride’s early dreams came true. She interned at the White House in 2012, during her senior year at American University — where she came out publicly as transgender at the end of her term as student body president. And at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she made history, becoming the first transgender person to speak at a national convention.

When Consuela's grandmother died in December, 2015, the then 23-year-old medical secretary was understandably bereft. But her grief was compounded when, several months after her loved one passed, the owners of the Staten Island, New York, apartment complex where the pair had lived sent Consuela an eviction notice. "My grandmother had spent more than 26 years in that unit and had never had any problems," Consuela told Truthout. "She was never late with the rent and never caused any trouble.

Are women and men receiving equally good care from their physicians? Not according to feminist writer Maya Dusenbery, author of the new book Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick . Instead, she argues, the medical field is rife with gender disparities, leading to poorer outcomes for women. Throughout history, women’s experiences have been overlooked or discounted in doctor’s offices—and in medical and scientific research,...

There’s no doubt that we are currently experiencing a watershed moment, ushered in, whether one wants to acknowledge it or not, the #MeToo movement. More and more women are speaking up, sharing their experiences, signaling not just their frustration with the rape culture that continues to insinuate itself into social, sexual, and professional interactions between men and women, but also their refusal to pander to that culture any longer. A woman speaking up is a powerful thing. And because...

NAME ANY SOCIAL ILL, and it likely has its most devastating impact on people of color. That’s why the results of a new study on one of this nation’s most persistent problems are shocking, but not at all surprising: People of color are far more likely than white people to be homeless . The Center for Social Innovation , based in Needham, analyzed six communities, including Atlanta, Dallas, and San Francisco. It found more than 78 percent of those experiencing homelessness are people of color.