May is both National Foster Care Month and National Mental Health Awareness Month. While they were created separately, Foster Care Month in 1988 and Mental Health month in 1949, there is a strong ...

Growing up in today’s complex world is challenging for any child, but being a foster child adds another layer of difficulty. As someone who has worked with foster youth for many years, I have ...

In the world of business, we often talk about disrupting industries and breaking cycles. Some nonprofit organizations are applying this mindset to one of society’s most pressing challenges: supporting ...

FARGO — As a troubled foster kid bouncing from doctor to doctor, Deborah Zaun worried about the long-term effects of being on so many mental health drugs. “Every doctor I went to diagnosed me with ...

In Washington state, thousands of children and youth are in foster care - each deserving the chance to thrive. Yet many carry the weight of trauma which can have a lasting impact on mental and ...

This is how we end the foster care crisis—not by waiting for sweeping policies, but by equipping everyday people to show up consistently for kids in care, and now it's accessible anywhere.” — Rebecca ...

In February 2021, at the beginning of the second year of the pandemic, The Body Keeps the Score shot up to the No. 1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The book, which was published in 2014, ...

The Rowan County Health Department has announced the recipients of the Early Intervention grant funding, aimed at early identification and prevention strategies for youth at risk of substance use or ...

The end of MaineGeneral's Pediatric Rapid Evaluation Program is a devastating blow. The recent closure of the Edmund N. Ervin Pediatric Center in Augusta (described in a May 13 op-ed by Dr. Stephen ...