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Fight Childhood Obesity with Government-Funded School Meal Programs
Christina Moffat
School meal programs that provide every child with a lunch may be an appropriate long-term strategy to tackle the rising rate of childhood obesity. These government-funded programs do this by addressing household food insecurity and promoting food...
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Shifting the Burden: Childhoods, Resilience, Subjecthood
Marshall Beier
When the dominant view that children are weak and need protection is combined with resilience thinking (a view that children can autonomously adapt to their circumstances and overcome adversity), even the most well conceived social interventions to...
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The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Adult Chronic Homelessness
Stephanie Baker Collins
Adverse childhood events significantly contribute to the state of being of chronically homeless adults. Society's response to homelessness among youth and adults must address the impact of trauma inflicted by those negative childhood events.