For the last year, Marketplace has been following a grand experiment in education as it unfolds at Oyler School in Lower Price Hill, a lower-income neighborhood in Cincinnati. The effort hinges on a central question: can a school transform a community...
Virginia Commonwealth University has received a five-year, $3 million grant to study how adverse experiences such as severe illnesses, neglect and maltreatment during childhood leave molecular marks in DNA that predict health risks later in life. The...
Earlier this year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced our new focus on building a Culture of Health, working to create a society where getting healthy and staying healthy is a fundamental and guiding social value that helps define American...
An expert on childhood trauma urged members of the Florida Children and Youth Cabinet on Thursday to promote a “baby court” model in which judges, lawyers and caseworkers put the needs of traumatized infants and toddlers before any other...
About 13,000 disabled Pennsylvanians are earning an average of $2.40 an hour in a legal use of subminimum wages. The majority work almost solely with other disabled people, in a world tucked away from the mainstream labor market. They’re...
“I like the people in health care. People in health care, they don’t stare at my son like he’s some kind of freak, you know? They see him for who he is.” She took a deep breath and continued. “It’s different when...
Dr. Metzl’s specialty is treating injuries without surgery. His favorite medicine, he says, is exercise: It is one he takes often and prescribes to all of his patients. He’s completed over 40 marathons and Ironman competitions, and...
The recent reports of moms getting arrested for leaving their kids unattended while they work or go to a job interview shows the reality of “work-life balance” when you’re living paycheck to paycheck. The burden for many low-wage...
Patti Neighmond's July 16, 2014, program for NPR's Stressed Out series, titled: " Want More Stress in Your Life? Try Parenting a Teenage r," shared a lot of what it's like for parents when their child enters the teen years. Ms. Neighmond...
Every year, thousands of children in the U.S. are expelled from school before they reach kindergarten. PBS News Hour special correspondent Molly Knight Raskin reports on the Head Start-Trauma Smart program in Kansas City, Missouri, that’s trying...
As we move towards working with state legislatures, or thinking about this, I believe it is important to devise the best screening scale. This should take into account rural vs urban ACEs. I believe we should seriously consider this because we...
July 25, 2014 Federal Legislative Update In this update: Senate Committee and...
Dan Siegel’s webinar “How Mindfulness Can Change the Wiring of Our Brains” which I found by accident in March 2011, says we can heal from emotional childhood damage. And in his own office, Siegel actually used "neuroplasticity" to...
Fifteen years ago I didn’t think about resilience at all. I was fresh out of graduate school and looking for a job. I was hired as a disabilities and mental health coordinator for a Head Start program that, at the time, was located in the 501 st...
Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets from H2O PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo . We’re proud to share “Toxic Stress, Toxic Streets,” a music video from the brilliant and talented students of Leadership High School in collaboration with H20 Productions...