A national policy dialogue on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) was held in Belgrade, Serbia on 14 July 2015, hosted by the City Institute of Public Health of Belgrade, the Ministry of Health and WHO. Around 40 participants attended,...
School integration has shrunk steadily for nearly three decades: Ever since 1988, the number of black students and white students who attend school together has decreased. And the achievement gap between black and white...
Trauma may cause distinct and long-lasting effects even in people who do not develop PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), according to research by scientists working at the University of Oxford's Department of Psychiatry. It is already known...
Abstract: This article examines how people of color can biologically inherit the deleterious effects of white racism. Drawing primarily on the field of epigenetics, I demonstrate how transgenerational racial disparities are in fact racist...
It’s a familiar scene near highway junctions. The cardboard signs, the dirty, sun-stained faces, and the religious sentiment, “God bless.” Familiar, yet uncomfortable. It is easier to ignore the person standing near the...
The U.S. Congress may soon be following California’s lead in requiring states to provide data on the academic progress of all homeless and foster youth and provide additional resources to those students. A bill amending...
By all rights, 96th Street Elementary School in Watts shouldn't be busy on a summer morning. School doesn't start until Aug. 18, and the front door is hemmed in by construction fencing to boot. But parents keep popping by the plain brick...
Under the deafening highway noise of the Pontchartrain Expressway in central city New Orleans, Ronald Engberson, 54, beds down for the night. Engberson got out of the Marines in 1979, plagued even back then by problems with drugs and alcohol....
In this paper, we highlight the evidence in support of investments in both parents and children during the paired sensitive period of early life and the transition to parenting. A sensitive period is a specific and limited time when the...
Bipartisan legislation (S. 1893) will be considered in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee on Thursday. The bill aims to improve programs to increase awareness, prevention, and early identification of mental health...
The following comes from US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell. Colleagues, I write today to share the news that after nearly 6 years of service, Pam Hyde will be stepping down as the Administrator at the Substance Abuse and Mental...
One evening last week, a restaurant owner in Washington Heights and two customers stood chatting on the sidewalk about the changes in the area over the last 25 years. The restaurateur, Peter Walsh, was telling the people, who were coming from a...
Chilo Ketlhoafetse struts around an eighth-grade classroom like the coolest guy in Botswana, warming the students up to talk about an awkward subject. He calls out "Nomhlaba!" and they respond "Auwe!" — nonsense words from a local...
From the moment I heard Michael’s voice on my answering machine, I felt intrigued and intimidated. “Hey, Doc,” he said, though I am neither a doctor nor a character in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. “Word on the street is that...
You're probably at least a little bit racist and sexist and homophobic. Most of us are. Before you get all indignant, try taking one of the popular implicit-association tests . Created by sociologists at Harvard, the University of...