When Jeannie Parent and her volunteer group, KWESI, visit immigrants held in a California detention center, she’s inspired by the sense of connection and community she can foster in spite of the ...

For children who are hospitalized, the experience can feel especially scary, filled with unknowns in an unfamiliar place. Thankfully, children’s hospitals have teams dedicated to making the experience ...

Pain, in its many guises, is a mandatory feature of the human experience. Often, we feel alone in our pain. Yet, belonging to our highly social species offers an invaluable resource for coping with it ...

Coming of age in the pandemic has been rough on a generation of teens. Many forces converged with normal developmental processes to create a perfect psychological storm: pre-existing mental health ...

Women and girls living in crisis are at particular risk of discrimination and violence. They face a lack of equal opportunities that threaten their lives and rob them of their potential. At the ...

New research rolls out weekly, describing the impact of the pandemic on the educational and emotional lives of children. First, the World Health Organization predicted a wave of mental health concerns ...

For most high school seniors, May is a time of celebration — graduation parties, caps tossed into the air and exciting plans for the future. But for youth in foster care, this moment often comes with ...