If you close your eyes and picture Appalachia, what do you see? The images that often arose first in my mind were those from LIFE Magazine’s 1964 photo essay on the war on poverty. Photojournalist John Dominis gave the nation a face to...
On the morning of June 6, 2013, Davis Police Department squad cars rolled up to the group home at 2100 Fifth Street. More than a dozen officers in bulletproof vests made their way past the facility’s memorial planter bearing painted...
Danielle Hicks-Best's shocking story, "An 11-Year-Old Reported Being Raped Twice, Wound Up With a Conviction" reported in the Washington Post on March 13, puts a compelling face to our mistrust and misunderstanding of girls and our harmful over...
The National Council for Behavioral Health in partnership with and sponsored by Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit* is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for health centers to explore the degree to which the adoption of trauma...
Around 7.1 million children in the US have asthma , making it one of the most common chronic illnesses in childhood. Asthma is also the third leading cause of hospitalization among children aged 15 and under. While exposure to certain...
I have never posted here before so do not know the parameters of what is allowed and what is not. I would like to introduce myself most simply and directly by providing a link here to my own blog post of today on Stop the Storm (of transmission...
I struggled with food and weight for over fifty years because of my childhood. I finally found a way out...I'm writing a book on the subject, here is the introduction. Let me start by saying…no one consciously wants to be overweight. The...
When my two children were in pre-school we were introduced to a wonderful Canadian singer/song writer, Charlotte Diamond . One of Charlotte’s tunes that we all loved and often sang together was called: “Four Hugs a Day” –...
In late January, government officials announced a timeline for Medicare’s shift to paying clinicians based on quality of care rather than quantity of services. As Medicare goes, so go private insurers; this makes the agency’s move...
Ten years ago, the Lee family evacuated from New Orleans to a Houston neighborhood so rife with hostility for evacuees that the ice-cream truck refused to stop for them. At the corner store, the clerk threw their money back rather than serve...
Evanston, Illinois, doesn't really feel like a suburb of Chicago. It's kind of an extension of the city. I lived there during grad school because it was safer and quieter than many Chicago neighborhoods but retained a city vibe; it was lively,...
When Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg created the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding three years ago, they weren’t sure what would come of it. Others didn’t know what it was all about. Peacebuilding? What’s that? But in...
For most mothers, the first embrace and skin-on-skin contact with her newborn, moments after delivery, is one of the most precious and magical moments in the journey of parenthood. But sometimes, perhaps because of family breakdown, addiction...
Inconsistencies exist in the current literature regarding hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) regulation following exposure to repeated stressful events. These inconsistencies stem, in part, from the limitations imposed by measuring cortisol in...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) represent substantial threats to public health and affect about 58% of youth in the US. In addition to their acute effects such as injury and physical trauma, ACEs are associated with an increased risk of...