Last week, the Senate voted unanimously to appoint Michael P. Botticelli as Director of The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). This is a significant step toward advancing sustainable systems change, as Boticelli has a focus on substance...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences has appointed FPG director Samuel L. Odom (left) to the Committee on Supporting the Parents of Young Children. According to the IOM, the committee will conduct research to...
Federal health officials need to do a better job coordinating help for people with serious mental illness, according to a new report by a government watchdog agency. At least 112 federal programs run by eight government agencies --...
The stigma and the social and economic exclusion which often accompany the challenge of living with mental illness is borne out by official figures, which show that 2.3 million people with a mental health condition are out of work....
Abstract: Science and practice focused on child resilience and family resilience have deep and intertwined roots, yet there have been surprisingly few efforts to systematically integrate the theory, findings, and implications of these two traditions...
Media in the Central American country of El Salvador reported recently that dozens of families in the rural community of El Llano abandoned their homes after gang members (locally known as maras) threatened that they were going to “wipe...
Afghanistan, Burma, Kosovo, Somalia, Sudan. These are just a few of the war-ravaged countries the students at the Fugees Academy, the nation's only school dedicated to child refugee education, once called home. Today, the Fugees (short for...
When the news hit that Occidental, the small liberal arts college in Eagle Rock, was the subject of two federal complaints over the way it handled sexual assault cases involving students, it set the campus reeling. Three years later the school...
Parents' lifestyles, rather than their genes, are primarily responsible for their children being overweight according to research by the Centre for Economic Performance, based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Researchers...
I have broken my wrists, fingers, a tibia, a fibula, chipped a handful of teeth, cracked a vertebra and snapped a collarbone. I have concussed myself in Tallahassee, Fla., and Portland, Ore. I’ve skittered across the sooty hoods of New...
Our "Tools of the Trade" series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives. For an upcoming piece, I'm reporting on how young children learn through that most basic of preschool education...
Prenatal exposure to tobacco is associated with shorter fetal telomere length, according to research published in the February issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Hamisu M. Salihu, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of South Florida in Tampa, and colleagues administered a self-report questionnaire and salivary cotinine test to confirm tobacco exposure in pregnant women admitted to the hospital for delivery. Genomic DNA from neonatal umbilical cord blood was analyzed to...
After numerous studies, it appears that scientists are beginning to unravel some of the secrets of aging. Genes certainly play a role in longevity, but it's been determined that only 35 percent of those living well into their 90's and 100's...
By many accounts, America’s workers are both overworked and overwhelmed: Work days bleed into personal time, and some complain about the inability to control, or even plan for their constantly changing schedules. So it’s no surprise...
In this interview published February 5, Senator Heitkamp (D-ND) specifically addressed trauma in the Native American community—both historical and individual—and says that the proposed Commission on Native Children must develop...