New community website. "The City of Tarpon Springs is taking steps to become a "trauma informed community." Here to talk about what that means and how we can all be a part of this movement are Robin Saenger - Founding Director and former Vice...
Abstract Genetic, environmental, and epigenetic influences and their transactions were examined in a sample of 155 women from the Iowa adoptee sample who had been removed from their biological parents shortly after birth and assessed when participants...
"A proposal in the House would lift the statutes of limitations on civil and criminal actions in cases of child abuse and child sexual abuse. Missouri law has a 10-year statute of limitations on actions for damage or personal injury caused by child...
Abstract Objective To determine whether greater childhood adversity relates to younger menarcheal age; whether younger menarcheal age relates to increased CVD risk; and whether greater childhood adversity relates to increased CVD risk, directly or...
Mr. Chair and members of the Senate Committee on Early Learning, I am Cindy Meyer, member of the Board of Directors of Walla Walla Public Schools.I am here representing the Walla Walla Board of Directors and am submitting a letter from them. We...
February 6, 2013 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Dear Representative, The Walla Walla Public Schools Board of Directors would like to share our Mission Statement with you. “Walla Walla Public Schools, in partnership with the community, is committed to...
"Ahead of the Reclaiming Futures webinar with the National Compadres Network (NCN), I had the pleasure of chatting with Jerry Tello and Juan Gomez about trauma, young men of color and transformational healing. Jerry Tello is co-founder of the NCN...
"A U.N. committee has accused U.S. legal authorities of failing to fully pursue cases of child sex abuse in religious groups, an issue especially troubling the Roman Catholic Church. "The Committee on the Rights of the Child wrote this month that it...
"Study co-author Associate Professor Bob Hancox of the University's Department of Preventive and Social Medicine says he and colleagues found that the risk of having a criminal conviction by early adulthood increased by about 30% with every hour that...
SB 5477 Offers a Second Option to "Forced Dropout" On Friday, February 8, 2013, Senator Roach introduced SB 5477 to the state senate to provide an option for the 16,000 students in Washington State that have met all graduation requirements, have...
"The study involved nine clergy who had perpetrated child sexual abuse and were attending professional psychotherapy. The interview schedules with the offenders were taken from a thematic analysis of a random selection of 'life stories'...
"He was a respected teacher and father. He was a scout leader, and in 1958 he was the idol of most of the children in my middle school. He was relatively young and a powerful man who cared about children and quickly became a father figure for many of...
"One hallmark of growing up in a frightening home is for the children to think they are the only ones in such circumstances. Even when they reach adulthood and come to understand that many others have had dire childhoods, they might not reveal the...
Natasha Vargas-Cooper's amazing story for Buzzfeed is a heartbreaking account of another case of our system failing a child miserably. Here's a taste: At the beginning of the trial last October, Joseph's defense team argued that Joseph had been...
MacFarland, who's been clinical director of the substance-abuse treatment program for seniors 50 years and older for the last eight years, replaces Dr. William Rockwood, who co-founded Senior Hope Counseling with his wife, Adrienne, in 2002, in...