Connect with music
There are very many people who love music and count it as an important part of their lives. It brings them considerable joy. However, there are far more people who never seem to ‘connect’ with music – it plays little …
How Horses are Helping Cancer Patients
Throughout my life, I’ve always felt that animals are out there to help us. Whenever my daughter has a bad day at school with bullies, our cat “Mittens”, always goes over to see her as if to cheer her up. …
Kin and Faith: The Right Ways to Grow a Foster Home Supply
May is Foster Care Month, and it is a great time to sing the praises of the many wonderful foster parents who are changing children’s lives every day. As a social worker in Washington, D.C.’s child welfare system until a …
We Must Decriminalize Trauma for Girls with Histories of Abuse or Neglect
Girls’ involvement in the juvenile justice system is growing disproportionately at a time when arrest rates for boys are declining. And yet, girls’ behavior has not changed; rather, our response to their behavior has changed. This is especially true for …
American Health Care Act Could Jeopardize High Needs Children, Families Living in Poverty
After struggling to try to have a baby and coping with the disappointment of a miscarriage, military veteran Samuel Hibben and his wife, Jessica, welcomed their son on Valentine’s Day in 2016. Rafe’s arrival felt close to a miracle, but …
3 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Effectively Raise Social Awareness
Of course, the internet can be your friend but so can contacts you make on a local level.
7 Family Tactics to Invalidate Trauma
The past few years have been very different from the life I used to live. This may come as no surprise based on the amount of inner work I have done. It has a tendency to change the external in …
Increase in NC School Suspension Rates Negatively Impacts Students
Report Shows over One Million Days of Classroom Instruction Lost in North Carolina Due to Suspensions DURHAM, N.C. – A report released today from the Youth Justice Project finds that North Carolina public schools are increasingly using suspension as a …
After Gault, Ideas About How to Protect Children’s Right to Counsel
15-year-old Arizona boy Gerald Francis Gault was taken into custody for allegedly making an obscene prank phone call to a neighbor in June 1964. His parents were not notified of his arrest. In a subsequent hearing, the complaining witness did …
Battling meth: A rural Montana county starts drug court to reverse surge of kids in foster care
By Daniel Heimpel When James Manley came to rural Lake County, Montana, as a district judge in 2013, he knew the meth problem was bad, but he didn’t know how much worse it would get. Judge James Manley Three-and-a-half years …
