Ed Finkel is a writer, editor and Web content manager with more than 20 years of professional experience. His areas of concentration include education/youth, health/medical, legal, retail business and urban community development.
Problem-solving courts began about a quarter-century ago and now number more than 3,000 across the United States, housed among the nation’s approximately 16,000 state courts but on separate dockets.
Decades of research showing how toxic stress caused by adversity inflicts long-term damage to children’s brains and bodies have inspired the creation of courts specifically focused on early childhood cases, some of which are known as Safe Babies Courts. The results have been impressive.
