January 2022

By Jason DeParle, Photo: Olga Koric/Alamy, The New York Times, January 24, 2022 A study that provided poor mothers with cash stipends for the first year of their children’s lives appears to have changed the babies’ brain activity in ways associated with stronger cognitive development, a finding with potential implications for safety net policy. The differences were modest — researchers likened them in statistical magnitude to moving to the 75th position in a line of 100 from the 81st — and...

By Laura Bliss, Photo: Amanda Lucier/Bloomberg, Bloomberg CityLab, January 22, 2022 Every other Wednesday, 15-year-old Adah Crandall catches the bus from her high school in Northeast Portland to spend the early evening with a group of friends outside the Oregon Department of Transportation’s downtown headquarters. It’s an after-school activity that Crandall, whose wavy blonde hair runs close to her elbows, wishes the world didn’t require. Since April 2021, she and her crew have been...

By Heather Tirado Gilligan, California Health Care Foundation, January 24, 2022 Governor Gavin Newsom wants to make California the first state to remove immigration status as a barrier to eligibility for Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California), making health insurance accessible to all undocumented residents with low incomes. In his proposed state budget released on January 10, Newsom included Medi-Cal coverage for an estimated 700,000 undocumented, uninsured adults (PDF) with low incomes...

Apply for FACT's 35th Anniversary Community Resilience Awards Awards of $350 are available to help support local community resilience activities led by TICNs throughout VA. Applications have been made simple and straightforward. Visit the FACT website for full details and to apply by January 31 ! Funds may be used during Resilience Week! General Assembly Updates from Voices for Virginia's Children Read about Voices' Youth Advocacy Day , efforts to increase language access and equity in...

By Russell Viner, Simon Russell, Rosella Saulle, et al., Photo: Unsplash, JAMA Pediatrics, January 18, 2022 Key Points Question Is there an association between school closure during broader social lockdown measures during the COVID-19 pandemic and mental health symptoms, health behaviors, and well-being of children and adolescents, aged 0 to 19 years? Findings In this systematic review of 36 studies from 11 countries, school closures and social lockdown during the first COVID-19 wave were...

Registration and more info on these and other Sound Discipline workshops here. Reimagining Resilience 1: Using a Trauma Lens online, Feb 8 & 15 Reimagining Resilience 2: Developing Firmness Tools online, March 3 & 10 We are all continuing to navigate the stress and impacts of the COVID pandemic. Our school systems and staff are maxed out. Just making it though the day is a lot! Youth-serving organizations and community partners are exhausted from meeting the needs of young people and...

Many patients develop food addictions to cope with the challenging feelings of depression and anxiety, and certain medications work to balance the chemicals in the brain responsible for those ACE-related struggles. Curious to learn more? Join our upcoming FREE webinar!

Hello, I now have 3 training videos to share, as well as a new workbook. The first video is the Ethical Self-Care https://youtu.be/ktkBwFjh5HA The second is Connect All Foundations https://youtu.be/mUUNajxyrJg And the third, after you go through either of the previous is an application workshop, for the self-care framework "Five Through the Filter" https://youtu.be/teL6HmK0VYY The workbook for the application workshop in on the website https://www.connectall.online/ under the 'Materials'...

By Melinda Wenner Moyer, Photo: robbie jack/Corbis/Getty, The Atlantic, January 20, 2022 Last Thursday, a group of 20 mothers in Boston met up outside a local high school. Their goal wasn’t to socialize, drink wine, or even share COVID-related tips. They were there for one reason and one reason only: to stand in a circle—socially distanced, of course—and scream. “I knew that we all needed to come together and support each other in our rage, resistance and disappointment,” Sarah Harmon, the...

From Creating a Family, Image: Join us as Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families. Dr. Bruce Perry, is a child psychiatrist and neuroscientist, the principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author the numerous books including co-author along with Oprah Winfrey of What Happened to You?:...

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Image: Disney, CNN Health, January 18, 2022 Kadesha Adelakun bought toys from "Encanto" before she even had a chance to see the movie. She knew characters from a multiracial Afro-Latino family would be an important addition to her office in Kennesaw, Georgia, where she holds play therapy sessions and makes a point of finding toys that reflect the diversity of her young patients' lives. When she finally watched the movie on Disney+, Adelakun realized the figurines...

By Chris Kjoljede, Photo: Getty Images, Public Health Post, January 19, 2022 Madison and her mother recently moved into a community with a school-based health center. Madison has had a difficult time fitting in to the middle school; she is quiet and has few friends. At her annual health check-up, she scores high on a depression scale prompting the nurse practitioner to probe further. Madison has lost weight and is cutting. After speaking to her mother, who also registers concern, the nurse...