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There’s no such thing as a bad kid in these Spokane, WA, trauma-informed elementary schools 21 Aug 2013 | 11:21 am
What’s a trauma-informed school? It’s a place where this happens: There’s this third-grade kid. Let’s call him Sam. He’s got ODD (oppositional defiant disorder…a misnomer for normal behavior a child ...
Q-and-A with Suzanne Savall, principal of trauma-informed elementary school in Spokane, WA 21 Aug 2013 | 11:19 am
Suzanne Savall, principal of Otis Orchards Elementary. __________________ Suzanne Savall, principal of Otis Orchards Elementary School in Spokane’s East Valley School District, says she didn’t reall...
Did Steve Jobs have an attachment disorder? 20 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
I was reading a review this morning of the new movie “Jobs,” an account of Steve Jobs’ career. Now I’m a Mac guy and a big fan of Jobs, but even his biggest fans would acknowledge that he was a genius...
Reduce ACEs by dismantling the “prison industrial complex” 19 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
When I was a child growing up in Kentucky, my father made regular visits − usually at night − to the local jail to provide medical care to inmates. In one way or another, substances were the root caus...
First Focus’ Children’s Budget 2013 shows less than 8 percent of U.S. budget invested in children 16 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
First Focus‘ recently published report, Children’s Budget 2013, shows a decline in total federal spending on children for three consecutive years and reports that less than 8 percent of the federal bu...
Ariel Castro case a wake-up call to notice violence in homes around us 16 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
Ariel Castro’s house was demolished last week. This house has shocked the world: three women imprisoned, two since they were themselves children, and subjected to physical and psychological torture. T...
A tale of two orphans — Casey and “Joseph” — results in very different paths 15 Aug 2013 | 11:12 pm
Flickr.com/Javier Kohen Our first image of Casey in April 1991 came through another American couple who were in the process of adopting a two-year old boy named Joseph (not his real name). He lived i...
Models to curb domestic violence emerge from tragic murder in Massachusetts in 2002 9 Aug 2013 | 01:23 am
The July 22 issue of the New Yorker contains a riveting account (“A Raised Hand: Can a new approach curb domestic homicide?” by Rachel Louise Snyder) of how the tragic 2002 murder of Dorothy Giunta-Co...
Terrifying children into a life of asthma 8 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
Credit: Cellular Image/Flickr Sometimes the clearest indicator of a family’s dysfunction is, unfortunately, illness in its children. Like the proverbial canaries in the coal mine, it’s the children w...
The early, heartbreaking rages of a baby with attachment disorder 2 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
From the very beginning to the very end of our lives together, Casey suffered from violent and debilitating rages and temper tantrums. The slightest thing would seem to set her off. She wouldn’t accep...
