Stress

Prioritizing Black Kinship Caregivers’ Health Means Reducing Their Stress

More than 3 million people have taken the unselfish act of caring for children who are related to them but not their own biological children. These individuals are called kinship caregivers (e.g., grandparents raising grandchildren) and they often experience high levels of … Read More

The Adolescent Brain, Stress And Systems That Support Young People

On the lat­est episode of Cas­ey­Cast, Foun­da­tion Pres­i­dent and CEO Lisa Law­son talks with UCLA psy­chol­o­gy pro­fes­sor Adri­ana Galván, whose pio­neer­ing research on the ado­les­cent brain has shaped how pol­i­cy­mak­ers, edu­ca­tors and youth-serv­ing sys­tems under­stand this crit­i­cal stage of development. Galván — dean of under­grad­u­ate … Read More