The winter holidays mean many things for many people. If your teenager struggles with a mental health or substance use disorder, then this year the winter holidays might mean something you never expected: a realistic window to get your teenager into treatment. Your teen may have fallen into negative behavior patterns this year at school, such as experimenting with alcohol or drug use. Or, they may have a mood disorder

Make the Holidays Work for Everyone Statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015 revealed that there were over 32 million remarried couples in the United States and that almost 22 million of those remarriages involved children. Unless there has been a dramatic shift in marriage dynamics over the last three years, this means that right now there are millions of Americans scratching their heads as they puzzle over

Over the past week, Californians have experienced a string of tragic and traumatic events. A mass shooting at a dance party in a club in Thousand Oaks, quickly followed by devastating and destructive wildfires in West Los Angeles and Northern California. Families torn apart, communities erased from the map, close to five hundred buildings destroyed, thousands of people displaced, over fifty dead, and more missing. Most Californians are in shock.

Over the past weeks, our communities have experienced an unprecedented amount of loss to violence and disaster. It seems we’re not given an opportunity to begin the grieving process for one before news that another shooting has struck our schools, places of worship, centers for healing, or venues for social events. The wildfires in California have been devastating. Lives lost and neighborhoods destroyed, all right on the heels of the

The latest statistics on maternal mental health indicate that at least one out of every five new mothers in the U.S. experiences some form of mental health challenge that makes it difficult for her to offer her children the full amount of care they need. Considering that almost four million children are born each year in the U.S., this means that there are over 750,000 mothers out there who need