Published in JAMA Pediatrics, this study links exposure to Childhood Adversity to Early Mortality; Nearly Half a Million Annual U.S. Deaths | Columbia Public Health https://www.publichealth.colum...crJuzhgBnLZ_8PbKtW4o
Self-harm is one of the most challenging subjects to talk about, but millions of people will continue to suffer in silence if we do not. This series on self-harm has been one of the most difficult I have ever written, and I know it has been challenging to read. This piece is dedicated to examining why people self-harm and the proposed remedies to end the pain. Why Do People Self-Harm? Trying to understand why someone would harm themselves with cutting or some other form is difficult at best.
By Katie Moran-McCabe and Scott Burris, The New England Journal of Medicine, October 14, 2021 S afe, affordable housing is a foundation of good health; it is essential to people’s ability to thrive in school and work and necessary for building strong families and communities. Housing markets and policies in the United States have failed to supply enough affordable, healthy housing, and they address housing shortages with perhaps the cruelest and most inequitable of legal practices: eviction.
By Michael Sainato, The Guardian, October 13, 2021 The gas in Diana Morgan Magda’s house was shut off in May. Now when she wants to take a bath she uses an electric kettle to heat the water. It takes an hour. Magda, who lives in Girard, Ohio, relies on social security disability benefits for her sole income. Like many Americans , she can’t pay all her bills, living expenses and medication with the benefits she receives, and through the pandemic she fell behind on utility bills. Millions more...
By Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2021 The city of Los Angeles was founded 240 years ago by a group of 44 settlers who had traveled overland from Mexico, or so the story goes. But like many origin myths of the American West, L.A.’s founding story is also one of erasure — a tale that conveniently elides what was already there for the fertile fiction of a blank slate. The pobladores called their settlement something like “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de...
By Patrick Smith, WBEZ Chicago, October 11, 2021 Chicago’s plan to bring down its staggeringly high levels of gun violence leans hard on an anti-violence strategy known as street outreach. The outreach workers, often former gang members, try to intervene in ongoing gang conflicts by convincing young men to put guns down, to forgo revenge. They have “lived experiences” that give them the perspective and reputation needed to gain entry into the groups driving the city’s gun violence. Judy...
Forward-Facing Freedom Healing the Past, Transforming the Present, A Future on Purpose The evidence is undeniable: toxic stress in our daily lives is wreaking havoc on our physical and mental health. Our relationships are suffering. Chronic illness has skyrocketed. Trauma is infiltrating our lives and being passed down within families and throughout generations. The research is clear—stress and anxiety are increasing exponentially for us. What would it mean for your life if you learned how...
Coping with the terror of our reality, recognizing all that is unknown and known, I hold to what defines me - attachment, goodness, & logic. Those three keep me focused, and are my guides, wherever they lead. And while not everyone may have attachment, goodness and logic are necessary - and the evidence shows this world neither understands nor focuses on them. If the world did, while there is no guarantee of the outcome, the world would at least be trying to be who we want to be and...
This is an online course offered over three 75-minute sessions. In addition, there are short videos that will be sent to registrants before each class. Thursdays, October 21, 28, & Nov 4, 5-6:15pm PDT. Reserve your spot now - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/180385115737 Reimagining Resilience 1: Using a Trauma Lens helps adults build positive relationships with children who have experienced trauma. We will explore the impact of adverse experiences and the effect they have on developing...
By Patrick Wall, Chalkbeat Newark, October 7, 2021 Last Friday, a chilling text message flashed on Vernon King’s phone. It was from his daughter’s high school, Newark Collegiate Academy: A student had brought a loaded gun into the building . The text message informed families the situation was under control. But with little other information, King and other parents still rushed to the scene. “My daughter, she’s not used to nothing like that,” he said. “So it was very frightening for her and...
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By Alyssa Lukpat, The New York Times, October 3, 2021 “Anyone recognize him?” the police in Winter Haven, Fla., asked on Facebook last month. Photos with the post showed a man walking out of a Walmart without paying for his items after several of his credit cards were declined, the police said. Among the items in his cart were boxes of diapers. “When your card is declined and you try another one with the same result, that is NOT license to just walk out with the items anyway,” read the...
From Office of Governor Gavin Newsom, October 4, 2021 Today, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 65, the California Momnibus Act , designed to improve maternal and infant outcomes – particularly for families of color. Authored by Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) with support from maternal health and racial justice groups across the state, the bill will improve research and data collection on racial and socio-economic factors that contribute to higher rates of maternal and infant mortality in...
Are we no longer a society of compassion or of mercy? Is our criminal justice system solely based on retribution?
Funding Up to $3,000,000 available for community collaboration and innovation microgrants over two (2) years. Each RAC shall receive up to $425,000 per year for community innovation microgrants There will be a Non-Mandatory Informational Bidders Conference for this RFP On October 19, 2021 at 12:00PM on Zoom. Questions are due by October 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM Bids are due: November 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM https://www.nj.gov/dcf/providers/notices/requests/2021_RFP-ACES.Innovation.Grant.10.8.21.pdf