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All posts tagged "trauma"
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4.3KGuest Opinion EssayOur Lives Are At Stake
I won’t let you fill me up anymore. Your hatred is toxic and time consuming You taught me to run away and...
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2.7KGuest Opinion EssayMentoring Programs Need to Experiment With What Works Best for Foster Youth
If you work with youth in foster care, you know that every child is unique with specific needs, strengths and opportunities. It...
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6.7KFrom the BureausLos Angeles School District Fighting Trauma With Wellness Centers
It is the second-largest school district in the nation with more than 640,000 students enrolled. It spans more than 720 square miles,...
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4.9KGuest Opinion EssayHelp Crime Victims By Committing to Restorative Justice
From the federal level to state legislatures across the country, criminal justice reform measures are a hot topic of conversation and proposed...
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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3.5KFrom the BureausConey Island Teens Take First Steps Into Anti-violence Movement
Instead of hanging out, 35 Coney Island teenagers spent their midwinter vacation last week learning to cope with everyday trauma and avoid...
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssayWe Must Stop the Rampant Criminalization of Youth with Disabilities
Minority youth are more likely to become incarcerated than white youth. This fact is so prevalent that even people outside the juvenile...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow to Teach the Most Challenging Youth to Problem Solve & Reduce Staff Injuries
Restrictive therapeutic facilities — inpatient psychiatry units, residential facilities, group homes and juvenile detention facilities — serve the most challenging youth in...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayHow Incarceration and Placements Affect Youths’ Mental Health
There’s been a lot of news about women abused by men in power lately, and I've been thinking about the girls I...
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2.0KNewsMindfulness, SEL: ‘Something Uniquely Human About That Ability to Connect and to Care’
Rick Alleva is a field specialist at the University of New Hampshire and co-author of a curriculum called “Courage to Care,” which...
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9.4KGuest Opinion EssayFight Burnout and Compassion Fatigue With Lots of Self-care Ideas
For years I have sought out with fierce determination conversations, books and articles such as this. Articles with titles like “5 Steps...
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5.9KGuest Opinion EssayChildren Suffer When a Parent Is Deported, Whether the Children Stay or Go
Between 2003 and 2013, an estimated 740,000 to 920,000 parents of children who are U.S. citizens were deported from the United States....
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3.6KGuest Opinion EssaySleep Deprivation May Hurt Low-income Youth of Color More, With Myriad Effects
Today we know that short sleep durations and sleepless nights have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease...
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2.8KNewsArts Seen As Crucial to Healing Youth, Changing the Juvenile Justice System
For Jordan, growing up in Jamaica, Queens in New York City left much to be desired. One of the few places he...
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6.3KGuest Opinion EssayDefeat Vicarious Trauma With These 4 Crucial Tips for Self-care for CAC Staff
If you regularly work with traumatized children and youth, you will experience vicarious trauma. Full stop.
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssayPennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations
It is child welfare’s equivalent of stop-and-frisk. It happens over and over again, it’s traumatic, it’s usually baseless...
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3.3KGuest Opinion EssayA Thousand Cries For Help That Go Unanswered
My life seemed like something right out of a horror flick — and my mother — well, she could have won an...
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1.9KFrom the BureausPoetry Helps Young Angeleno Cope With Deportation of Family Member
Eleven-year-old Violeta Esquivel feels uncomfortable in President Donald Trump's America, especially after he announced the phasing out of the DACA (Deferred Action...
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2.7KNewsNearly 5 Million Latino Kids Risk Seeing Parents Deported, Report Says
Nearly 5 million Latino children run the risk of seeing their parents deported, a new study says.
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayWhy Neuroscience, Positive Feedback Are Transformative in Youth Work
I am a long-time advocate for how the power of neuroscience can transform the youth-serving profession. When...
