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Feed Your Dog, Feed Your Soul [Opinionator.Blogs.NYTimes.com]

Of all the patients I have seen in my 40 years as a psychoanalyst, Daniel was the strangest. He was the most inaccessible, inwardly tormented and infuriating man I have ever known, and yet he stayed in therapy with me for over a decade, calling faithfully every week — he insisted that his work schedule precluded coming in person — even though he spent many of those sessions in silence or addressed me as if I were inanimate. He drove me crazy, he haunted me and he moved me, sometimes all in...

Boston's Heroin Users Will Soon Get A Safer Place To Be High [NPR.org]

A Boston nonprofit plans to soon test a new way of addressing the city's heroin epidemic. The idea is simple. Along a stretch of road that has come to be called Boston's "Methadone Mile," the program will open a room in March with a nurse, some soft chairs and basic life-saving equipment — a place where heroin users can ride out their high, under medical supervision. Dr. Jessie Gaeta , chief medical officer at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program , which initiated the project,...

Turnaround for Children releases new paper and announces hiring for key positions

Michael Lamb, Executive Director, Washington D.C., Turnaround for Children sent the following message about a new paper, Building Blocks for Learning, just released by Turnaround and three new positions it is seeking to fill. Take a look: "Hi friends and colleagues, it’s an exciting time for Turnaround in Washington, D.C. as we work towards our vision that one day all children in the US attend schools that prepare them for the lives they choose. In addition to our exciting work in schools,...

Important communal garden in Los Angeles faces a rocky future [Grist.org]

Try to find a patch of green in the Eastside Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights and you might get lost amid the gray pavement. With the 5, the 10, the 60, and the 101 freeways weaving through the area, it’s easy to find a paved road, much harder to find a green space. Keep looking and you might stumble upon an oasis, Proyecto Jardín, a communal garden and local treasure in Boyle Heights. It’s where I recently found Antonio Garcia carefully tending his crops. Young gardeners turn to...

In Philippines, ‘Comfort Women’ Have a Special Demand [WomensENews.org]

Inside the Malacanang Palace that morning, President Benigno Aquino welcomed visiting Japanese Emperor Akihito. Outside, Narcisa Claveria, 85, dressed in a fuchsia pink traditional Filipina dress, stood on the frontline of a small group of protesters. She had walked about a quarter mile under the scorching Manila heat in the late morning to get there. It was tiring for an 85-year-old woman like her, but she was determined. "My message to the emperor is for Japan to recognize us. They already...

‘Range’ of opportunity: Home on the Range looks to deepen its care for troubled youth [TheDickinsonPress.com]

When clinical psychologist Dr. Mel Rose first came to Home on the Range therapeutic ranch for an interview for its open executive director position, she said she was impressed by the longevity of the program’s staff. Rose said this spoke of the dedication to the ranch, as well as showed a “continuity of care” toward children that’s different from other programs with high rates of staff turnover. Plus, Rose said, everyone has been very welcoming since she began at the job in August. “I...

Judge Rob Philyaw Opens Up About Juvenile Court, Court Appointed Special Advocates, Adverse Childhood Experiences [Chattanoogan.com]

Judge Rob Philyaw says most of what he does happens behind closed doors. The Hamilton County Juvenile Court judge addressed members of the Rotary Club Thursday at the Convention Center to give an overview of Juvenile Court and how it serves the community. He began by educating about the group called CASA (court appointed special advocates). Started in 1977 in Seattle, CASA made its way to Chattanooga about 30 years ago. The group works to obtain better information on the children Juvenile...

The Original Six: The Story of Hollywood's Forgotten Feminist Crusaders [PSMag.com]

Nell Cox lives on the Upper West Side in one of those kooky apartments you see only in Nora Ephron movies—quaint with a certain country flair (her living room furniture includes a daybed topped with a vintage quilt), filled with precarious stacks of books and papers and knicknacks and the odd glass trophy commemorating a long creative life, the kind of perfectly charming mess that indicates an artist is in residence. When I arrive, on a freezing afternoon in early February, her radiator is...

The Recovery's Geographic Disparities [TheAtlantic.com]

The U.S. economy right now is a pretty mixed bag: On Tuesday, the White House released a reassuring economic report that says the overall U.S. economy has rebounded strongly since the Great Recession, and that it’s still on the rise. But the report also acknowledged that rising wealth and income disparities urgently need to be addressed. A new report by the Economic Innovation Group , a nonprofit focused on researching and advocating on America’s economic challenges, confirms this duality.

Why Non-Academic Needs Matter, Too [TheAtlantic.com]

Around 4 p.m. on a recent Friday, Fiorella Guevara got around to eating her lunch. Then she leaned back in the student-sized chair where she was sitting in an empty classroom and let out a long sigh. “Oh man, I’m tired,” said Guevara, the new community-school director at M.S. 50 in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. “This is why I never sit down for too long.” Instead, she bounds from room to room, checking on the classes she oversees, meeting with the principal or calling up parents,...

Experiencing the world through an ACEs-informed lens requires patience

A few years ago, I would have looked at this headline — Los Angeles County Jail moms can provide breast milk for their kids in lactation pilot program — and thought: “Awww. How nice of the jail staff to implement this program.” Now, after years of being steeped in research about childhood adversity and how babies need that vital attachment to their moms to have a healthy start to life, my immediate reaction is: “What the hell are they thinking?” The story explains how a woman gave birth to a...

Where are the Men?

Alaska conducted a Victimization Survey for 2015 and released what it characterized as positive improvements. With a sample of 3,027 women, the results claimed a substantial reduction in intimate partner violence (IPV) from 2010 to 2015. The claim is that IPV dropped by 33% and sexual violence dropped by 32%. This is a typical representation about the rate of drop. If you look at the percentages, IPV went from 9.4% to 6.4%. Sexual violence went from 4.3% to 2.9%. I have two issues with the...

Paid Family Leave Tied to Decline in Child Abuse [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Paid family leave might lead to reduced risk of abuse-related head injuries in young children, according to a new study. Researchers compared data from 1995 through 2011 in California -- which introduced paid family leave in 2004 -- with seven states without such a policy: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. After California introduced paid family leave, there was a decline in rates of hospital admissions for abuse-related head injuries in children...

Choosing the Positive Narrative for Black Children in America [JJIE.org]

An African-American, 12-year-old boy is arrested and taken into custody for carrying a weapon in Washington, D.C., while waiting for the bus. The weapon, an empty glass beer bottle, would allegedly have been used to hurt city residents, but police are able to search his bag and find the weapon before a crime is committed. Had the offender been just a few years older, he would be eligible to be tried in adult court. Yeah, it's a scenario. Actually, as Bryan Stevenson , executive director of...

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