Findng the resilience to overcome childhood adversity [HSCNewsUNM.edu]
Andrew Hsi, MD, has spent most of his medical career trying to help kids who grow up in challenging circumstances to survive – and even thrive. In the early 1990s, he founded the University of New Mexico’s FOCUS program, which supports young children who are at risk due to prematurity, low birth weight and prenatal exposure to drugs and alcohol. Some also face environmental factors like family substance abuse, mental illness, family violence or unsupported teen parenting. A professor in the...