In May 2018, health insurer Cigna published the results of a survey conducted with 20,000 U.S. adults aged 18 or older. It found that nearly half of all Americans report sometimes or always feeling alone. Forty-seven percent report feeling left...
Read More »A newly created BrainWise lesson uses the human hand to represent the physical parts of the brain we teach in Wise Way #1. The hand brain parallels the brain drawing in the curriculum and depicts the relay center/thalamus (blue), the...
Read More »Denver Kids, Inc. is a premier prevention program with a 73-year history of success helping high-risk children in grades 3-12 in Denver Public Schools (DPS) graduate from high school. Today, Denver Kids serves more than 900 students in 160 schools....
Read More »April 20, 2019 is the anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. Twenty years ago, the reaction was a firm "Never again!" Today, the response is an anguished "Another shooting?" The consequences of these increased acts of violence have led...
Read More »In 2018, Sage Open published research on BrainWise which had been taught to homeless men living in a transitional housing facility provided by an urban nonprofit organization. Marilyn Welsh, Ph.D. and her research team found that men who received BrainWise...
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