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If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases, a new field of scientific research may offer hope, answers, and healing insights. Full link to this in-depth article by Donna Jackson Nakazawa.

A trio of socially conscious films, followed by discussion, are being screened at the Kent Recreation and Cultural Centre in Agassiz. They are geared toward youth and parents and seek to address the challenge of parenting in the digital era. The first film Screenagers Growing Up In The Digital Age was shown on Dec. 8, but will be featured again, due to extreme weather that accounted for a poor turnout at the original screening. “It’s really important to manage the screen time of youth, we’re...

Norway, like many European states, has public offerings many Americans would consider political fantasy. There is lengthy paid maternity leave , free university education, and long-term unemployment benefits. What is it about the Norwegian state—or about Scandinavian countries in general—that leads their populations to support redistribution policies in a way that Americans don’t? A group of Scandinavian researchers recently did an experiment trying to tease that out. Their goal: to find out...

You remember the photo: A little boy on a beach, his head turned a bit to the side, as if he had just fallen asleep. The boy had in fact drowned, a harrowing casualty of his family’s flight from war-torn Syria. Though the photo spurred the world to action, that momentum soon faded—a fact that, unfortunately, wasn’t much of a surprise . What’s more remarkable, according to a strongly-worded new study : By the time Aylan Kurdi drowned, hundreds of thousands had been killed in the war, and...

Charlie Oen’s battle with addiction started when he was 16 and his family moved to Lima, Ohio. It was the last stop in a string of moves his military family made — from Panama to North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas and Germany. “I went toward a bad group because those were the people that accepted me,” he says. Drugs became a substitute for real friendships. He started drinking, popping pills, cooking meth and shooting heroin. He was homeless for a while when his parents kicked him out of the...

In California, childcare for infants costs as much as tuition in the University of California (UC) system, according to new data from the Lucile Packard Foundation of Children’s Health. In 2014, parents of infants in California spent an average of more than $13,300 on childcare. That year, UC tuition and fees were just over $13,200. At the national level, all eyes are on college affordability. But the lack of affordable early childhood options has even more dire long-term consequences.

If there was one thing the community could do to reduce the rates of alcoholism, depression, cancer, heart attacks, teen pregnancy, child abuse and neighborhood violence, what can Rutherford County do to prevent it? That was the main question asked by Murfreesboro attorney Christy Sigler at Tuesday night’s League of Women Voters meeting. Her answer was to reduce the impact of adverse childhood experiences in all children, said Sigler, who works as an attorney in Rutherford County Juvenile...

Throughout this week, CityLab is running a series on borders —both real and imagined—and what draws so many of us to places on the edge. The U.S.-Mexico border has been long been portrayed as a source of threat and instability in political rhetoric. And that characterization has been particularly potent in this election, helping to pave Donald Trump’s path to victory. But not everyone sees it that way. [For more of this story, written by Tanvi Misra, go to ...

The toolkit is designed to aid faculty and teachers in a variety of disciplines, specifically social work, medicine, law, education, and counseling, to develop or integrate critical content on adverse childhood experiences and trauma informed care into new or existing curricula of graduate education programs. This toolkit provides an overview of colleges and universities that have courses in trauma-informed practice and ACEs science. Most of the toolkit comprises content for a course on...

Esther Henry can’t forget that horrible night in 2012. Something had happened downstairs in the hallway of her Bronx apartment building — something bad. “I received a knock on my door that my son — my only son — was shot,” she said. By the time Henry threw on some clothes and ran downstairs, paramedics had already taken away her son’s bullet-ravaged body. Norman Lodge, 32, was never involved in any illegal activities and was arrested only once in his teens for “drinking a beer outside with...

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Girls from poor U.S. families feel they're missing out on vital life lessons about the female body, researchers say. Girls repeatedly said they felt ill-informed about menstruation and other changes related to puberty, according to researchers who reviewed papers published from 2000 to 2014. "Puberty is the cornerstone of reproductive development," study co-author Marni Sommer, an associate professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New...