La razón principal por la cual las adopciones de niños en custodia temporal en Colorado fracasan es por un “problema con el comportamiento del niño”. ¿Cómo tratamos el trastorno de apego reactivo o la pérdida relacionada con la adopción?
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Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: We won’t end youth violence until we deal with the traumas that precede it
We need public policies that prioritize trauma recognition and resolution – before it explodes into a crime or implodes into suicide.
Posted inOutdoors
A Denver woman rebuilt her world after the Boston Marathon bombing. On the 10th anniversary, she’ll put back the final piece.
Veteran marathon runner Diane Wozniak was there in 2013 when a terrorist attack rocked the annual race in Boston. Ten years later, the Colorado attorney returns to ensure it won’t be her last.
Posted inSun Investigation
Colorado’s mental health system ill-equipped to handle adopted children with severe trauma
The primary reason adoptions of foster kids in Colorado fail is “child’s behavior problem.” How do you fix reactive attachment disorder or adoption-related loss?
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
SunLit Interview: Jim Davidson’s harrowing experience led to tools for scaling “The Next Everest”
Jim Davidson is a climber and professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure. During his 40 years of mountaineering, he has ascended high mountains on six continents. He is a New York Times best-selling author who wrote “The Next Everest,” which is being published in five languages. Jim coauthored “The Ledge” with Kevin Vaughan which was […]
Posted inNews
Tragedy often begets more tragedy. Denver’s coroner wants to break the cycle by offering families help.
The body on the table was that of a 28-year-old man. Inside an autopsy bay, professionals from the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner were trying to figure out what killed him. To the doctors and forensic pathologists who perform the valuable service of cataloging Denver’s dead, this was just another day at the office. […]
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
SunLit interview: As an animal lover traumatized by burglars, R.L. Maizes knew she had the makings of a novel
R.L. Maizes’s novel, “Other People’s Pets” (Celadon Books, Macmillan) was a Library Journal Best Debut of Summer/Fall 2020. Maizes is the author of the short story collection “We Love Anderson Cooper” (Celadon Books). Her stories have aired on National Public Radio, and can be found in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and in The Best Small Fictions […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, News, Politics and Government
For Indigenous rights activists in Colorado, coronavirus brought momentum and pushback
Tziavii Stevens was born in Denver, and grew up mostly on a reservation in Nevada. She was the only girl on the reservation with a Paiute name. Tziavii means “the wild rose.” Stevens didn’t grow up particularly politically engaged, but that changed when she went to her first protest in Pueblo at the age of […]
Posted inColoradans, COVID, Crime and Courts, Culture, Health
Namaste Noir: A Colorado yoga co-op seeks to diversify, heal racialized trauma
Beverly Grant spent years juggling many roles before yoga helped her restore her balance. When not doting over her three children, she hosted a public affairs radio talk show, attended community meetings or handed out cups of juice at her roving Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace farmers market, which has brought local, fresh foods and produce […]
Posted inOpinion, Write On, Colorado
Here’s what I’ve realized about remote learning: It’s not remotely the same as the classroom
I stopped teaching after five years – in 1981—thinking there might be something else I could do. I asked a veteran teacher at that time, who seemed happy in his job, why he kept at it. He answered: “In what other job can you have two good laughs a day?” Wise words. And perhaps one […]