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In the first two parts of this series, we talk about the implications of trauma and student behavior and how to create a trauma informed school. The success of creating a trauma informed school weighs heavily on the school and community embracing the holistic approach. At Los Angeles Education Partnership, we achieve this through our Community School model. As former teachers, we are aware that the more we pile on our teachers, the less effective the approach becomes. We’re not trying to...

Universities are under increasing pressure to make the racial climate of their campuses a focus, a fact college presidents are beginning to recognize and act upon. “I know from talking to them that they’re struggling with this,” said Lorelle Espinosa, the assistant vice president for the American Council on Education's Center for Policy Research and Strategy, which surveyed 567 college and university presidents. “But they’re actually acting,” she added, pointing to the fact that about a...

The reality is that kids who are misbehaving in school need more attention, not less. When students don’t get that extra attention and are instead removed from class, this contributes to an expanding achievement gap that increases the likelihood of dropping out. California has made great strides in its efforts to reform punitive student discipline practices. Thanks in large part to the implementation of research-based strategies like restorative justice and Positive Behavioral Interventions...

With a dearth of child psychiatrists in the state, Wisconsin must expand a program that prepares primary care doctors to treat the kids they already see who show signs of mental illness. That was one of the solutions suggested by experts to USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin. As part of our reporting on Kids in Crisis, we've been on a journey, exploring all the twists and turns involving children’s mental health in the states. We also asked parents, advocates and providers in the field to offer...

A federal investigation will examine whether discriminatory school disciplinary policies are disproportionately affecting black students in DeSoto County, Mississippi. Local and national advocates cheered a decision by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to investigate the disproportionate suspension of black students in the county. [For more of this story, written by Sarah Barr, go to http://jjie.org/advocates-cheer-probe-of-racial-bias-in-mississippi-school-discipline/208690/]

A federal commission wants the states to examine all child abuse and neglect fatalities from the past five years as part of a national strategy to end such deaths. The commission also said all reports of neglect or abuse of children under age 3 should receive responses, rather than some being screened out, with the fastest response times required for children under age 1. These recommendations are several of the most urgent identified by the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect...

OBJECTIVE : This study tests the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multidimensional well-being in early adulthood for a low-income, urban cohort, and whether a preschool preventive intervention moderates this association. METHODS : Follow-up data were analyzed for 1202 low-income, minority participants in the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective investigation of the impact of early experiences on life-course well-being. Born between 1979 and 1980 in...

Lisa Kogan-Praska is president of Catalpa Health, a collaboration formed of three health organizations to serve Fox Cities' youth mental health needs. These are her wishes for youth mental health in the state: Funding for school-based mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse programs and services. Funding to cover the cost of delivering mental health care, especially for patients with medical assistance health care coverage. Additional reimbursement to provide case management...

Racial housing segregation is worst in the northeast and Great Lakes regions, according to a new report, and it’s making people sick. This year’s edition of County Health Rankings , an annual rating of the health of all the nation’s counties, added the segregation measure because it has “been linked to poor health outcomes, including greater infant and adult mortality, and a wide variety of reproductive, infectious, and chronic diseases,” the report authors write. [For more of this story,...

Clinicians use a common tool to assess the extent of toxic stress a child has experienced during his or her childhood. It’s called the Adverse Childhood Experience test, or ACE for short. It's a simple tool made up of just 10 yes or no questions. The lower the score, the better. In a meta study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, researchers tracked the health outcomes of adults based on the extent of the adverse experiences they dealt with...

From Tugg.com, March 17, 2016 Tugg Edu is proud to present the highly anticipated ACEs documentary PAPER TIGERS to the educational marketplace. Directed by James Redford ( THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA, RESILIENCE ), PAPER TIGERS follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families. With over 450...

Most of us don’t have interactions with the police. For those of us who are minorities, we have reason to be fearful. While my oldest son was going to school in Arizona, he was stopped twice for what we teasing tell him was “Driving While Indian (DWI).” There was no reason to stop him other than his brown face. And as a young paperboy who reported someone climbing into a window in the early morning, then waited for the police to arrive, I had my first negative experience. As I sat in the...