This webinar, hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty, focused on how individual- and community-level deprivation and chronic, unmitigated stress affects health in different stages of the life course; the impact of perceived discrimination…

Recent studies have begun to show that inhibited brain development and functioning in children raised in poverty may be an important explanatory factor behind the relationship often seen between growing up in poverty and lower educational attainment…

This May 2016 presentation to Connecticut’s Two-Generational Interagency Workgroup, which supports legislative pilot projects across the state, was provided by Alice M. Forrester, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of the Clifford Beers Clinic in New…

Early childhood experiences form the foundation of brain architecture and can have lasting positive or negative impacts on learning, behavior, and health. Today’s best programs and practices can help support child development, but many children are…

This Treatment Improvement Protocol from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains how an organization can practice trauma-informed care. It discusses what trauma and trauma-informed care are and explains the…

In recent years, significant focus has been placed on the concept of toxic stress and the impact of adverse experiences in childhood on lifelong health and development. As scientific understanding continues to grow, community leaders are searching…

This year’s Brain Awareness Night, hosted in Memphis by the Urban Child Institute and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Neuroscience Institute, featured speakers Dr. Pat Levitt and Dr. Eraina Schauss. They presented on the topic of…

This report from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University focuses on “core capabilities,” including executive function, and how they can be impacted by toxic stress, leading to challenges with life skills such as parenting and…

This factsheet discusses the nature of trauma, abuse, and neglect, as well as the effects of trauma on children and youth. Additionally, it suggests ways to help a child who has experienced trauma. Parents or foster parents who do not understand the…

This study investigated how parents characterize trade-offs associated with food insecurity with regard to parents’ mental health and child well-being. The results, published in the Maternal and Child Health Journal, suggest that parents in food…