Point on the Path Professionals

More evidence of the impact of intergenerational trauma on individual development and potential disorders. This is the foundation of lots of important work in therapy treatments and hopefully policy. The care we give children lasts, not just for their lifetime but for their children and potentially beyond.

Early life experiences can shape brain development in subsequent generations Early life experiences can have an outsized effect on brain development and neurobiological health. New research is showing that those effects can be passed down to subsequent generations, reporting that the infant children of mothers who had experienced childhood emotional neglect displayed altered...

Interesting article- unbelievable. The damage of a system with too many moving parts and for-profit companies involved— huge cracks.

Federal judge ‘concerned’ over high rate of COVID-19 among Texas foster children Texas foster children have contracted the novel coronavirus at nearly double the rate of the state's general population, according to testimony Friday in a...

Teens are so often stereotyped and teens living out of parental care much more so. Some of my favourite hours in the day are talking to teens involved with CS. As a group they are tenacious, resilient and socially insightful.

Raising the expectations for professional practice in work with teens in the foster care system "We, as child welfare professionals, must stop dehumanizing foster children once they become teenagers."