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By EndCAN, Illustration: EndCAN, The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect, March 6, 2023 April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Sadly, the likelihood that you or someone you know has been affected by child abuse or neglect is very high. This is a pandemic that affects individuals long into adulthood and has been proven to be directly linked to diseases, disorders, and cancers. The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN) works tirelessly to move the...

By From Child Welfare Information Gateway, Accessed: April 6, 2023 National Child Abuse Prevention Month recognizes the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse and neglect. Prevention services and supports developed by this collaboration can help to protect children and strengthen families. [ Please click here to view resources .]

By Abby Boshard, Photo: photoBeard/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, April 5, 2023 Deanna Creighton Cook and Serge Martinez had a problem. They knew that rental assistance and legal services could prevent eviction for families in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but their initial efforts weren’t identifying families early enough in the quick eviction process for assistance to make a difference. So they used their backgrounds in tenant legal assistance and community school services and pivoted to a new...

From The Mirage, April 4, 2023 A new approach to trauma-informed care developed by domestic violence survivor advocates and researchers at The Ohio State University has been found in a new study to improve support organizations’ care for survivors by better recognizing brain injury and addressing its often long-lasting repercussions. The study appears in the Journal of Head Trauma and Rehabilitation . CARE is the first trauma-informed approach that considers brain injury in the complex set...

By Elise Gould and Katherine deCourcy, Economic Policy Institute, March 29, 2023 Last week, we released the latest State of Working America Wages Report , which highlighted historically fast real wage growth for low-wage workers between 2019 and 2022. Even after taking into account higher inflation, the 10th percentile hourly wage grew 9.0% over that three-year period, significantly faster than at an equivalent point from any other business cycle peak in recent history. This tremendous wage...

By Beverley Barnett-Jones, Photo: Janine Wiedel Photolibrary/Alamy/Guardian Design, The Guardian, April 3, 2023 D uring pregnancy and then from birth to five years old, the critical foundations for our adult lives are built. Early childhood is the period when we are learning to understand that we have our own thoughts and feelings, and that others do too. This stage in life helps us to build the scaffolding for our future adult wellbeing. To grow well and to be able to cope with the...

Please join us on May 3, 2023 as we welcome Dr. Patti van Eys, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Consultant for van Eys Mental Health, who will be presenting Thriving or Surviving? Building Everyday Resilience. This webinar is free to the public; however, registration is required. Please see our attached flyer for additional information. We hope you will join us! Registration link: tinyurl.com/may-2-23

When studying suicide in children, unfortunately most epidemiology looks at the factors immediately surrounding the tragic event. Nonetheless there is strong evidence (Association of Childhood Maltreatment With Suicide Behaviors Among Young People A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Ioannis Angelakis, Jennifer L. Austin, Patricia Gooding, JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(8):e2012563. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12563) that children who have experienced abuse and neglect trauma are up to 4X...

A reunification area for parents to meet their children was established at a nearby church after a shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday. Credit...Desiree Rios/The New York Times By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times, April 4, 2023 The first 911 calls started coming in just before 10:13 a.m. Teachers and staff members, hiding in rooms, bathrooms and closets across the Covenant School and its church, whispered prayers and pleas for help on the line, children’s voices and...

By Betty Márquez Rosales, Photo: Alison Yin/EdSource, EdSource, March 31, 2023 E ach morning begins the same way for Hattie Tate: She reviews a list of Oakland students at the local juvenile facility who have been booked, released or scheduled for a court appearance. For over a decade, her job as an educator and administrator has been to secure the quickest possible re-enrollment of students into their local schools once they are released from the juvenile facility. But the re-enrollment...

An American flag flies over the historic buildings of King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Photograph: Hal Bergman/Getty Images By Susan Crawford, The Guardian, April 4, 2023 P redictions about how much water is coming vary greatly. Some scientists say we should be planning on three feet of rise by 2050, six feet by 2070 and 10 feet by 2100. Someday, not too long from now, the stories of many current coastal and riverside cities across the US will include sudden plot twists as well as...

Children play tag on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) By Trevor Storrs, Anchorage Daily News, April 2, 2023 Take a moment and remember a time when you felt safe and allowed to be your true self as a kid. For me, it was a regular day of name-calling and bullying. It was so typical I almost became immune to it. But one day, it got past my fictional armor, causing a feeling of darkness. My ninth-grade teacher must have seen it on my face,...