Johnson, S. B., & Pryce, J. M. (2013). Therapeutic of mentoring: Reducing the impact of trauma for foster care youth. Child Welfare, 92(3), 9-25. Summarized by Elyssa Weber, UMass Boston Clinical doctoral student Introduction: It is estimated that fifty to seventy-five percent of children coming into the foster care system have serious emotional or behavioral […]
Posted by Karen Peart-Yale on June 9, 2014 For the study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers estimated the cumulative prevalence of confirmed childhood maltreatment by age 18 using the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Child File, which includes information on all US children with a confirmed report of maltreatment. Analysis of data between […]
Thursday, July 17, 20141:00 PM – 2:15 PM EDT Register today! Youth aging out of foster care tend to experience homelessness, unemployment, incarceration, and early parenting at a higher rate than the average young adult of the same age. A caring mentor in the life of a foster care youth can assist with career exploration, […]
Michael Gentilucci (from Inside Philanthropy) Eariler this year, the Citi Foundation announced a $50 million, three-year initiative called Pathways to Progress, with the goal of providing entrepreneurship training, civic engagement opportunities, and summer employment to 100,000 low-income youth. The initial programs that the Citi Foundation decided to support as part of this initiative include ServiceWorks, which is focused […]
by Niobe Way, Washington Post Elliot Rodgers, 22, killed himself and six people near the campus of the University of California Santa Barbara last month because he wanted to take revenge on “humanity” for his “loneliness, rejection, and unfilled desire.” In the few weeks since that occurred, there have been additional violent acts in schools across the country. […]
By DAVID BORNSTEIN (NYTimes) Recently, I reported on the damaging effects that prolonged stress can have on young children who lack adequate protection from adults. Over the past 15 years, researchers have learned that highly stressful — and potentially traumatic — childhood experiences are more prevalent than previously understood. Now scientists are shedding light on the […]
Editor’s note: Nancy Rappaport, MD a colleague who has devoted her career to working with vulnerable youth in low-income school districts around Boston. In this post, which appeared today in the Washington Post, she discusses the problem of overmedication. by Nancy Rappaport In America, poverty is a disease that comes with a host of symptoms. If […]
The call for mentors is the first action from the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, the goal of which is to expand educational and economic opportunity for young men of color By Maya Rhoda @mrhodan, Time.com The call for mentors is a part of a series of initial recommendations being released by the My Brother’s Keeper […]
Walkley, M & Cox, L. (2013). Building Trauma-informed schools and communities. Children & Schools. Vol. 35(2), p123-126. In article, authors Meg Walkley, MSW and Tory L,. Cox, LCSW / PPS, discuss the effects of trauma on the development of children and adolescents, describing how “trauma-informed” care can help to improve outcomes. Children are exposed to […]
by Jack P. Shonkoff, Harvard University, From SpotlightonPoverty.org Achieving sustained prosperity in any society depends on building a strong foundation in all children in order to help them fulfill many roles: successful learners, healthy and productive workers, contributing members of their community, and effective parents of the next generation. Early childhood policies and programs contribute to […]
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