ESTONES TENKA/SHUTTERSTOCK More than 115,000 Americans will be shot and 40,000 will die from gun violence this year alone — just like...
While COVID-19 has consumed almost every part of the lives of most Americans for more than two months, the uncertainties, anxieties and...
A few years ago I attended a workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, an approach to community education based on the use...
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights the disproportionate impact of crises on our most vulnerable communities, particularly here in New Mexico. Reports across the...
In January, Sharral Dean, a therapist at the Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia, was seeing about 30 young clients a week....
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly believe in the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage...
In 2016, my colleagues and I wrote a paper that examined risk factors for repeat violent injury among black men in Baltimore...
As a college student, I experienced a devastating hurricane and most of my town was flooded. I remember this experience as being...
I’ve written about a study that found that poor mothers often avoid revealing their problems or accepting much-needed help because those asking...
New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...
Concentrated gun violence results in lost population and economic power, increases trauma throughout communities and depresses school outcomes among students exposed to...
As a young person who was in foster care as a teenager, I have come to realize that there are many misconceptions...
With some time to kill the day before the 2018 Thanksgiving break, William Soules, a math and social studies teacher at Oñate...
On a sunny afternoon in 2006, I was driving my four sons to a cookout in Newark, N.J., my hometown. We had...
From training to practicing to now teaching, one of the key factors in psychotherapy that continually surfaces is countertransference (sorry self-care), which...
It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...
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On an afternoon in October, kids in the Sunrise of Philadelphia after-school program made tissue-paper marigolds, assembled little altars and created masks....
As the effort to be trauma informed sweeps across youth-serving agencies, some who research and treat trauma are urging people to think...
The increase of mental health problems in kids is one of the reasons LA’s Best, an after-school provider serving 25,000 children in...