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You can measure Cheryl Camany’s success by how high the stacks of pink paper are piled around her office. Each slip of paper is a residency questionnaire parents fill out for their kids at the beginning of the school year, and each offers a clue to just how many homeless students there are in this Salinas school district. In the last four years, the number of homeless students in California has increased by more than 20 percent. As that rate rises, some school districts are doing a better...

In one Pittsburgh elementary school classroom, students started the day in a circle, explaining how they were feeling as others listened intently. Some were happy, but others were sleepy or sad. “Let’s remember those who said they’re tired or frustrated so we can help them out today,” the teacher said in closing. A similar ritual for a group of sixth-graders in another class didn’t go as well. Asked to share their week’s high and low points, students talked over each other. When the teacher...

Free webinar on using creative expression to empower elementary students to name and process their emotions, develop strategies for coping, and build resilience.

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Women traumatized following birth are more likely to become depressed and unhappy in their relationships Can changing how we talk about childhood toxic stress influence policy? 30 people can end ACEs in your county. Why aren't they? Researchers warn mental impact of incarceration and border separation on kids How housing affects children's outcomes Trauma in early childhood boosts the risk of teen obesity, study finds How does trauma affect sleep? Sleep and grief...

Opportunities for recreation and physical activity are essential for personal and community health. Yet many communities across the country do not have enough safe, affordable, high quality spaces for play, exercise, and recreation. Shared use agreements—also known as joint use agreements, memoranda of understanding, and contracts—allow public and private property owners to broaden access to their underutilized facilities for community use. Shared use agreements can be used in a wide range...

At page 32 of the Law Society Gazette published in October 2018, you will find my short piece which makes the case for a constitutional right to rehabilitation and reintegration in Ireland by invoking the "unenumerated rights" doctrine, applying the ACEs evidence to the criminal justice context. https://www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets/documents/gazette/gazette-pdfs/gazette-2018/october-2018-gazette.pdf For those who are interested in reading a longer, more in-depth exposition of these...

I am humbly honored to have been featured in “ Slandering the Unborn ” (“A Woman’s Rights” editorial series, nytimes.com, Dec. 28). As one of the mothers who suffered during the 1990s crack epidemic, I want to thank The New York Times for its apology for how it demonized mothers like me and for its brilliant journalism. The apology is welcomed, and it gives me hope. I want to apologize as well — to society, the media, my family and my children. My child welfare case happened because of my...

More states plan to count state prisoners as residents of their home communities, rather than residents of the places where they are incarcerated — a change that would shift political power away from conservative rural areas to more liberal cities during legislative redistricting. Many inmates hail from neighborhoods in or near cities, but most are incarcerated in small towns and rural areas. Counting prisoners as residents of their hometowns would, for the most part, boost the legislative...

News right now is dominated by rhetoric that casts immigrants as dangerous and is likely leaving Americans of many identities, including some of your students, feeling fearful and angry. Today, consider using these resources to teach your students about the long legacy of mistrust and discrimination immigrants from many countries have endured and how we can all use our voices to resist myths and misinformation. [For more on these resources, go to...

Nearly 25 years after the genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda took the lives of up to one million victims, the offspring of Tutsi survivors, who weren't even born at the time, are among those most affected by trauma, according to a new study published by researchers at Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with a Rwandan therapist and genocide survivor. The study assessed complex PTSD (CPTSD) among Tutsi genocide survivors and its impact on their offspring. The researchers found that the...

Reggie Moore has been held up at gunpoint in an alley. He’s been shot at. And he's seen a friend bleeding from a bullet wound on the sidewalk outside the public housing where he grew up in Milwaukee. He was 14 at the time. Today, at age 41, Moore runs the Office of Violence Prevention, an arm of Milwaukee's Health Department. An inveterate collaborator, Moore spends his days, evenings and weekends networking his agency into “an ecosystem of collective impact." He works with anyone who helps...

THE NUMBER OF POOR students enrolled in a particular school or living in a certain school district is one of the most important education data points that exists, and the stakes are high for getting the count right. The figures are used to direct billions of dollars in federal and state aid, and they're a pillar of K-12 accountability systems that ensure disadvantaged students are keeping up with their wealthier peers. But the method that's traditionally used to track them – how many...