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Toxic Stress

Going Beyond Guns: More Questions About Newtown, CT, Massacre

Jane Ellen Stevens | Posted 03.11.2013 | Impact
Read More: Toxic Stress, Nancy Lanza, Child Abuse, ACE Study, Adam Lanza, Newtown Shooting, Newtown School Shooting, Newtown Elementary School Shooting, Child Trauma, Newtown, Impact News
Jane Ellen Stevens

To get at the turning points in the years-long chain of events that led a young, isolated, desperate man to kill his mother, 20 six- and seven-year-old children, six adults and then himself, we need to ask more questions.

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Growing Up With Toxic Stress or Addiction and Its Long-Term Impact

Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 01.19.2013 | Parents
Read More: Addiction, Recovery, Parenting, Trauma, Codependency, Parenting Advice, Center on the Developing Child, Stress, Toxic Stress, Harvard University, Parents News
Dr. Tian Dayton

How we experience the circumstances of our lives often determines whether or not we find them traumatizing. The presence of caring adults who help children to decode the ever-unfolding situations of their worlds is a great protective buffer for the child.

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"When Young People Are Able to Process Their Emotions They Have More Time for Learning" - Principal Sporleder

Michael Jascz | Posted 07.10.2012 | New York
Read More: Social and Emotional Learning, Public Schools, School Reform, Toxic Stress, Child Abandonment, Emotional Health in School, Child Abuse, Empowering Children, School Counselors, Children's Emotional Health, New York News
Michael Jascz

This is a story of empowerment. This is a story of how kids in even the worst of situations can still turn their lives around, if we as the adults can make emotional safety a part of a school's culture.

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Saki Knafo

The New Hotel Homeless

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.22.2012 | Business
Read More: Orlando, Homeless Bill, Homeless Children, Hotel Homeless, Homeless Families, Family Homelessness, Hotel Homelessness, Poor Children, Homeless Children and Youth, Kissimee, Breakdown, Toxic Stress, Child Poverty, Homeless Bill Congress, Homeless Youth, Homelessness, Hr-32, Disney World, Business News

Melissa was always on the move, wandering in and out of people's rooms, going from pool to basketball court and back to pool, climbing up the big tree...

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Saki Knafo

Children's Advocates To Bloomberg: Don't Cut Funding For Kids!

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.29.2012 | New York
Read More: After School, Coalition for Children, Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Toxic Stress, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Children's Aid Society, Child Care, Mayor Bloomberg, Budget Cuts, Michael Bloomberg, Gregory Bender, Bloomberg Budget, Stephanie Gendell, Nancy Maxwell, New York Kids, New York Education, New York News

A coalition of more than 150 New York organizations, ranging from the Police Athletic League to the Children's Aid Society, have signed a letter urgin...

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Congress Warned 'Toxic Stress' Dooms Homeless Children To Lifelong Poverty

Posted 02.17.2012 | Politics
Read More: Congress, Homeless Families, Yolanda Aponte, Long Island Homeless, Ellen Bassuk, Barack Obama, 2013 Budget, Jack Schonkoff, Toxic Stress, Homeless Kids, Child Poverty, Video, Homelessness, Children and Poverty, Homeless, Ellen L. Bassuk, Nicholas Kristof, Politics News

After the Apontes lost their Long Island home and moved into a motel, Yolanda and her husband began worrying about their youngest son, who had turned ...

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