Tag: children health

  • Why the nation should screen all students for trauma like California does

    The effects of childhood trauma can be long-lasting. Pix from shutterstock.com/lightspring Sunny Shin, Virginia Commonwealth University As the first person to hold the new role of Surgeon General of California, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is pushing an unprecedented plan to implement universal screenings for childhood trauma for children in the state’s Medicaid program. Childhood trauma…