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Children with mental illness in the border region are largely underserved.   Just under 11 percent of Texas high school students report that they have made a suicide attempt in the past 12 months. Each time I come across this statistic I find it...

  Results from NAMI's 2014 survey on Emergency Room (ER) visits for families and individuals who had a psychiatric emergency.   “The nurses and doctor I came into contact with were not sympathetic to my mental health crisis and did...

  The thing about marrying the boy you fell in love with at 18 is that it can be hard to see him as anything other than the lanky, nervous teenager you kissed by your locker after class when you thought no one was looking. Years later, as you...

  The brain’s foundation, frame, and walls are built in the womb. As an embryo grows into a fetus, some of its dividing cells turn into neurons, arranging themselves into layers and forming the first synapses, the organ’s electrical...

  Silicon Valley enjoys sky-high labor demand and soaring wages. Yet for such a significant global nexus of economic activity, the population density in San Jose and San Francisco is incredibly low. Incumbent homeowners don’t want to share...

  Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed....

During the fall of 2013, Rosemary Summers, a 16-year-old from San Diego County, Calif., committed suicide at a juvenile hall called the Girls Rehabilitation Facility. She ended up there for failing to tell her probation officer that she had attended a...

The Child Parent Project , a five-year, $3 million federally funded project in Philadelphia, is the first research study in the U.S. partnering with public health agencies and family courts to gauge the impact of child-parent psychotherapy (CPP) plus...

  Our little family rarely gets a chance for down time at home so when my son woke up on a summerlike Sunday morning with nothing on his agenda, he told me he wanted to go to the library. You’re thinking, “Wow,” right; the boy...

  Supporters of overhauling juvenile justice in Texas cheered the passage of two state bills even as some mourned the failure of a third that would have stopped the prosecution of 17-year-olds as adults. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to...

  A  person whom Teresa had never met showed up at her home one day with a remarkable offer. Teresa and her family would receive what amounted to a year's income, in cash. Nothing was owed in return. She did not have to repay the money, and...

  The roar of a car bomb has been the prelude to Karim Wasfi's performances of late. The renowned conductor of the  Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra  has been appearing at the sites of explosions across Baghdad. Just hours after...