Homeless youth may not know it, but they face dozens of legal questions. Can police pick them up for running away? What public benefits, like food and health care assistance, do they qualify for? What college financial aid can they apply for? How can...
You could tell the police sergeants in blue from the lieutenants and chiefs in their white-shirted uniforms. But 11 were there, including Dean Esserman the New Haven Chief of Police, representing their respective precincts for the weekly meeting with...
Pediatricians often recommend some mental health counseling for children who have behavior problems like defiance and tantrums. But counseling can be hard to find. Children are much more likely to get help if the counselor is right there in the...
Created by Pat Davis-Salyer M.Ed. of the Education and Development Dept. at Oregon State Hospital “When you’re in crisis, you hope for a helper who is just as compassionate and concerned as someone would be who was helping you out of some...
Joel Ginsberg was a sophomore at a college in Dallas when the social anxiety he had felt throughout his life morphed into an all-consuming hopelessness. He struggled to get out of bed, and even the simplest tasks felt herculean. “The world lost...
There were so many nights when I, as a young boy, had to watch helplessly as my father verbally and physically abused my mother. I can still recall the smell of alcohol, see the fear in my mother's eyes and feel the hopeless despair that comes when we...
Many chronically ill Americans take less of their medicines than they should or skip them entirely so they can afford to eat, a new study reveals. Researchers looked at data from nearly 9,700 adults with chronic illness who took part in the U.S....
It has become clearer to the medical community over recent decades that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have a significant impact on child health and also adult physical, emotional, social and behavioral health. But what are adverse childhood...
Letter To the Editor: “ Bulwark in Revolutionary War, Town in Vermont Faces Heroin Scourge ” (news article, March 6) sensationalized a problem that all cities and towns are facing. Even before Gov. Peter Shumlin’s State of the State...
We live in a world where so many of us don’t understand the facts versus the myths about sexual abuse of children and the devastating emotional and financial effects it has on us and our country. Perhaps that is why it’s just easier to say...
The Great Recession, like financial disasters before it, took its toll on bodies and psyches as much as it did on bank accounts and lifestyles. Suicides, family violence, stress-related diseases, and mental disorders increased during the crisis. For...
With the help of the national organization, http://www.cwavusa.org/ , I am forming a march in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on April 5th. If you know anyone interested in participating please contact me. This is about protecting our greatest...
The school suspension gap starts young. In public preschools, black children make up 48 percent of students suspended more than once, but only 18 percent of total enrollment. By comparison, white students make up 26 percent of multiple suspensions but...
The weight-regulating hormones leptin and irisin were elevated while adiponectin was decreased in people who experienced higher levels or repeated incidents of physical, emotional or sexual abuse or neglect as children,...