PTSD

A personal essay on the ways women in the nomadic van life community are learning to heal complex trauma.

I didn’t realize the impact that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) had on my daily life, writes Ryn Alicia.

People assume that I am completely self-sufficient after leaving foster care. The truth is that I still struggle, writes Sarai Embaye.

The last calendar year of the ‘10s has come and gone, and the fields of child welfare and juvenile justice move on to a new decade. For the past two weeks, The Imprint has counted down some of our top storylines from 2019.

Since August, America’s shores have been pummeled by Hurricanes Maria, Irma and Harvey. Each has displaced thousands and wreaked havoc on some of the country’s largest metropolitan areas. Among those impacted are some of the most vulnerable citizens of this country — kids in foster care.

Millions of people fail to reach their full potential. They feel “stuck” in unhappy relationships or struggle on the job and financially. Some have experienced so much adversity that they’ve lost hope of improving their situations.

As director of the School Mental Health unit at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Pia Escudero supervises more than 300 psychiatric social workers, clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals.

The people who are doing most of the pioneering work to integrate trauma-informed, resilience-building practices based on ACEs research (writ large) are doing so in cities and counties across the U.S.

A brief from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network aims to give policymakers updated information and perspectives about the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (CSEC). Based on a recent journal article, the brief looks at current findings and offers suggestions that could improve screening and treatment protocols for exploited youth.