As Dr. Nadine Burke Harris treated child after child, something told her she wasn’t getting the full picture. Most of her young patients at the Bayview Child Health Center were from the surrounding, predominantly African American...
Mindfulness Exercises Improve Kids’ Math Scores . In adults, mindfulness has been shown to have all kinds of amazing effects throughout the body: it can combat stress, protect your heart, shorten migraines and possibly even extend life. But a...
From TED Talks: Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse...
Childhood trauma has affected the majority of people in our community. Specific family problems as well as child abuse and neglect (summarized as Adverse Childhood Experience, or ACEs) have been shown to increase risks for serious mental and...
TRC is a multi-disciplinary group of professionals that includes therapists, child/adolescent psychiatrists, forensic specialists, pediatricians, educators, graduate students (social work and medical), academics, a nutritionist, a peer specialist, and...
Mindfulness meditation practices resulted in improved sleep quality for older adults with moderate sleep disturbance in a clinical trial comparing meditation to a more structured program focusing on changing poor sleep habits and establishing a...
In an abandoned building near Spain's Mediterranean coast, someone softly strums a guitar. Chord progressions echo through empty halls. It's an impromptu music lesson, offered among unemployed neighbors in Alfafar, a suburb south of Valencia....
This is the first part of a six-week series on Michael "Little B" Lewis. In January of 1997, as a 17-year-old high school senior, I submitted my application to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Eight months later I'd call Atlanta...
While efforts to address the school-to-prison pipeline tend to focus on boys and young men of color, girls and young women of color also face many of the same challenges, a report from the African American Policy Forum and the Center for...
Identifying the population of people with mental illness who have frequent contact with police could help law enforcement officials and community agencies allocate limited resources to those with the highest needs, new research from Oregon...
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission on Thursday released a draft report on the Dec. 14, 2012, school massacre that brought a state to its knees and spawned tougher gun laws, more police mass-response training, and exposed weaknesses in the state...
California officials will launch a new effort aimed at protecting children by combating student truancy, trauma, human trafficking and education discrimination. In a letter issued to county officials Thursday, state Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris...
The dramatic rise of incarceration and the precipitous fall in crime have shaped the landscape of American criminal justice over the last two decades. Both have been unprecedented. Many believe that the explosion in incarceration created the...
1. We are deep in one of the worst winters on record. When the winds pummel my house and the ocean flows through my basement what am I thinking is, “I’m so glad I have flood insurance.” What I am feeling is ...
The Homestretch follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers - Roque, Kasey and Anthony - will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink...