August 2018

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School is about to begin and for the first time in my 18 years as a school nurse, I am fearful to welcome another September. I work in an urban district where community gun violence is sadly commonplace, but that is not my fear. I travel throughout the city from school to school where drug dealing is an open-air exercise, but that is not my fear. Emergencies are often solitary experiences because school nurses work independently, but that is not my fear. Families facing deportation from...

In their work covering crime in New Orleans, Richard Webster and Jonathan Bullington often saw neighborhood kids who’d been witnesses, lost family members and were present at crime scenes. And they wondered — what does that do to kids? The two NOLA.com | Times-Picayune reporters spent one school year finding out. Their series, “ The Children of Central City ,” tells the story of a group of kids, their families and schools, but also the science behind trauma and what it means for all of them.

I WAS RAISED IN THE SOUTH BRONX in the late 1980s and ’90s. I came of age and into my consciousness while a generation of men of color were herded into the criminal justice system under the rigid, unyielding habitual offender laws — three-strikes laws — for nonviolent drug-related offenses. As shown in decades of analyses , the legacy of that policy that swept neighborhoods and entire cities clean of young men has been families broken apart, household incomes systematically gutted and swaths...

Americans have long worried that their countrymen are lonely, but recently, mild concern has given way to outright panic. In 2017, the former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned that loneliness in the U.S. had reached epidemic proportions. And it’s not just Americans who are anxious—in January, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the country’s first “minister for loneliness.” While apprehensiveness about elders is particularly intense—the aging grandparent who lives alone and hasn’t...

Many people assume that implementing evidence-based practices requires buying a costly treatment program. Though that’s one option, there are lots of ways a community can do this. An evidence-based program and practice (EBPP) is any process, decision or treatment based on research findings. The process we have developed in Colorado relies on aggregated data and systematic analysis to better understand the target populations’ needs and what works in intervening, treating or improving their...

On the fifth floor of slack’s new building , overlooking the fancy Salesforce Park, a standing-room-only crowd of employees had gathered. Almost universally young and San Francisco casual, but not universally white and male , they were there to see John Legend, and to celebrate Next Chapter, a new partnership the chat start-up has entered into with The Last Mile, a technology-training program for incarcerated people, and $800,000 from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation . Next Chapter will train...

On the first day of the 2016–17 school year, the San Francisco Unified School District was short 38 teachers. That meant about 6 percent of the district's classroom vacancies had gone unfilled, forcing the district to rely on substitutes. Since then, SFUSD has turbo-charged its recruitment and retainment efforts, working to attract existing teachers and launching a number of new programs to establish a robust, predictable pipeline of qualified teachers. "This was our deliberate response to...

When fire leapt up the walls of Mendocino houses, a team of prisoners from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation fended it off. When a blizzard turned Boston into a blanket of impenetrable snow in 2015, a squad of prisoners from the Suffolk County jail shoveled it. When a historic African-American cemetery in Baltimore fell into disrepair, it was inmates nearing release from the Maryland state prison system that rescued it. In cities across the country, it’s the...

School is about to begin and for the first time in my 18 years as a school nurse, I am fearful to welcome another September. I work in an urban district where community gun violence is sadly commonplace, but that is not my fear. I travel throughout the city from school to school where drug dealing is an open-air exercise, but that is not my fear. Emergencies are often solitary experiences because school nurses work independently, but that is not my fear. Families facing deportation from...

Adolescence awakens new emotions, social experiences and physical energy for many people. It’s often a time when young people try new things, make new friends, depend less on parents, and live more passionately. But as an adult, your role is still important. You can have a positive impact on helping your loved ones avoid the dangers of teen substance use. Adolescence is also a time when some explore alcohol or drugs (such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and prescription medicine, among other...

Every spring and fall the ITRC offers a series of free 1-hr webinars on different aspects of building Transformational Resilience for climate change. The list of free September 2018 webinars, dates, and times is below. For more details about each of the webinars click here . Introduction to Transformational Resilience for Climate Change When : Thursday September 6 , from 12 noon--1 pm Pacific Time A major ecological--turned mental health--turned social--turned humanitarian crisis is underway...