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Looking After the Welfare of Child Welfare Workers
Across the U.S., 20 to 40 percent of child welfare case workers leave their job every year, according to City Limits reporter Rachel Blustain. Foster kids with one caseworker usually found a permanent home; those with six or seven caseworkers usually...
Sioux Mother Rescues Abused Children, Faces Arrest
Stephanie Woodard did this story for Indian Country Today. She reports how a mother of disabled 16-year old twins is trapped between the laws of two states. People interviewed in the story say that child welfare services and the courts are using...
#DontTouchMe: Saudi Arabia child abuse
One of the most shared videos was a cartoon showing scenarios of how parents can educate their kids and how children should deal with harassment. Within 48 hours the hashtag had been tweeted more than 100,000 times and the video had...
Education: It Matters More to Health Than Ever Before
From a post in MedicalXpress.com: "I don't think most Americans know that children with less education are destined to live sicker and die sooner," said Steven H. Woolf, M.D., director of the VCU Center on Society and Health. "It should concern...
RWFJ Commission to Build a Healthier America to release recommendations on Monday
From the RWJF event announcement site : Building on its original work from 2009—which helped advance a national movement to address non-medical factors that affect our health—the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America will release...
Race and School Discipline
Good to have more attention on the problems of racial disparity in school discipline... but it is another patch on a system that is fundamentally broken in so many ways. The first paragraph: The Obama administration is issuing new...
Flagstaff domestic violence shelter full (AZ)
This is a very interesting article by AZDailySun.com reporter Michelle McManimon about a domestic violence shelter that's seen a marked increase in demand even though calls to police have decreased. That's because the local police department has been...
Op-Ed: Trauma and Triumph in Family Court
George Timberlake, a retired family court judge from Southern Illinois, wrote this incredible op-ed for JJIE.org and Youth Today. In it, he describes a complex case involving three generations of an extended family, several of whose members ended up...
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative's monthly research roundup: resilience, effects of early life stress, obesity
The Alberta Family Wellness Institute routinely scans academic journals for research articles related to its mission and vision. This literature search is designed to return scholarly academic articles in the topic areas of child and brain...
7 Steps to Freeing Yourself From Toxic Relationships in 2014
Add this list to resilience-building for individuals. The first two steps provided by Avril Carruthers, author of Freedom From Toxic Relationships, are: 1. Identify relationships that might be toxic Any relationship in which we feel drained or...
Adolescent Resilience: Promotive Factors That Inform Prevention
Resilience theory provides a framework for studying and understanding how some youths overcome risk exposure and guides the development of interventions for prevention using a strengths-based approach. In this article, we describe basic concepts of...
Global Perspectives on Resilience in Children and Youth
Ann Masten, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, wrote this article for the journal Child Development. It is based on the Presidential Address at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, in...
Confessions of an Emergency Department Kid Helper
As I was rounding the corner from the adult area of the emergency department to the pediatric area I heard a child screaming at the top of his lungs, “I DON’T WANT A SHOT”. I knew at that moment I was being summoned. I walked into...