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October 2022

Addressing Mental Health Challenges in Youth, with Rachael Steidl from YouthWell

If there’s one thing that stands out about Rachael Steidl and her work as the Executive Director of YouthWell - it’s a sense of collaboration. Since its founding seven years ago, YouthWell has focused on bringing communities together around addressing youth mental health and ending the stigma or shame surrounding mental health challenges. Their mission has since grown and now extends to adolescents, young adults and their families across all of Santa Barbara County. YouthWell has a key aim...

HOPE Launches a Partnership with Western Sydney University [positiveexperience.org/category/blog]

By Dr. Bob Sege, 10/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ HOPE National Resource Center Director, Bob Sege, went to Darwin Australia at the end of September. Here is part two of his time there. Access part one here . At the end of September, I was invited to Sydney Australia to celebrate the beginning of a formal partnership with Western Sydney University, which is now the Australasian HOPE network leader. TeEACH (Transforming early Childhood Education and Health) sponsored my...

CHILDREN DESERVE RECOVERY, TOO!

NACoA is a proud recipient of the 2022 Alkermes Inspiration Grants program; funding the Children Deserve Recovery, Too! program. This is a unique, limited opportunity to bring children’s recovery to your community. Apply today for a chance to be one of 40 not-for-profit organizations to receive NACoA’s Children’s Program Kit and on-demand training for community-based, youth-serving nonprofit organizations who are serving communities historically under-resourced and underrepresented. Selected...

Wall Street widened the racial wealth gap. Can big banks help bridge it? [marketplace.org]

By Emily Flitter, Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Marketplace, October 25, 2022 In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, Wall Street’s biggest banks pledged billions of dollars to address the racial wealth gap. But what often went unrecognized was the role these financial institutions have played in perpetuating wealth disparities. That’s the subject of New York Times reporter Emily Flitter’s new book, “The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America.” In it, she...

What children of immigrants can teach everyone about mental health [cnn.com]

By Upasna Gautam, Photo: Samuel Hall, CNN Health, October 26, 2022 Sahaj Kohli, whose family immigrated to the United Kingdom from India, struggled with an identity crisis familiar to many children of immigrants. As the first in her family to marry a non-Indian, the first to go to therapy and the first to start talking openly about mental health, she found herself needing an outlet to share her challenges. In 2019, she founded Brown Girl Therapy , an online mental health community for...

Angela Davis Inspires ‘Family Defense Movement’ Activists [imprintnews.org]

By Madison Hunt and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, October 17, 2022 Scholar Angela Davis, an iconic activist for the abolition of prisons, shared her decades of experience on Monday with leaders of the “Family Defense Movement” — a small-but-growing community of advocates opposed to the very foundations of the child welfare system. During a virtual live-streamed conference, Davis told New York City activist Joyce McMillan she sees parallels between the U.S. prison system and the system...

Message to Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer: His Victims Weren’t ‘Hollywood Wannabes’ Who’d Do Anything for a Break

Getty Images In the opening arguments to Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in Los Angeles this week, the producer’s defense lawyer pointed to his moldering, overweight client and asked the rhetorical question, “ Do you think these beautiful women had sex with him because he’s hot?” The inference is that poor Harvey was not going to get laid unless in exchange for what he provided in career advancement to conniving “Hollywood wannabes.” That was not my experience as one of his victims. When I...

How Hope is Different From Self-Confidence

Hope is different than self-efficacy (i.e., self-confidence). It’s better. In continuing the theme of why hope is different from other positive traits, I want to talk about self-efficacy. I don’t often use or hear the word “self-efficacy” in daily conversation. However, I do hear the word “self-confidence” more regularly. The science behind self-efficacy is that people influence the course of their lives through their behaviors. Like hope it deals with goals and how we think about and...

City Voices Interview with Michelle Dyson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pccx_ZPS030&t=55s Michelle Dyson is a Consumer Advocate Network (CAN) Advocate and Director of Training and Outreach. Michelle brings over 40 years of personal and familial lived experience to her role as advocate. Her mission is to educate the community, friends, family members, and first responders in Mental Health Crisis Models and to promote person to person communication and relationships. With a background in customer service and office...

Strict parenting can genetically lead children to depression: Study [thestatesman.com]

By The Statesman, October 22, 2022 As a result of strict parenting, the way the body perceives the children’s DNA might alter. Children who grow up with restrictions may have these modifications “hard-wired” into their DNA, increasing their biological risk of depression in adolescence and later in life. Presenting the work at the ECNP Congress in Vienna, Dr Evelien Van Assche said: “We discovered that perceived harsh parenting, with physical punishment and psychological manipulation, can...

Better laws, less punishment, more freedom – from Cuba to Oklahoma [csmonitor.com]

By Nick Roll, Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP/File, Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2022 1. United States Oklahoma has reduced its prison population by 21% over the last five years. Through a series of legislative reforms and voter initiatives, Oklahoma eliminated prison time for some low-level drug and property offenses, and reduced the length of sentences for other crimes. A community-led campaign called Project Commutation has helped people with long sentences have them commuted. And a...

Poet Ross Gay on his new book and finding joy in sorrow [cnn.com]

By Leah Asmelash, Photo: Natasha Komoda/Algonquin Books, CNN Style, October 25, 2022 I n the last two years, it seems like everyone has been searching for joy. From the success of shows like Apple TV+'s uber-positive " Ted Lasso " to dance albums like Beyoncé's " Renaissance ," to books like Aimee Nezhukumatathil's "World of Wonders" -- the call to look beyond sorrow is ubiquitous. Poet Ross Gay explores these questions -- What incites joy? And what does joy incite? -- in his new book,...

Former Foster Youth in California Colleges Will Receive Support After Age 26 [imprintnews.org]

By Jeremy Loudenback, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, October 25, 2022 Former foster youth Christina Torrez turned 26 in May. And although she was a first-generation college student pursuing an admirable future after overcoming homelessness, the mother of three hit a new barrier. Her eligibility for the program that had provided her with everything from the cost of books to bus passes while attending Bakersfield College came to an abrupt end. The state-funded NextUp program...

For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors [nytimes.com]

By Ben Casselman, Photo: Sarah Rice/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 25, 2022 The strong late-pandemic labor market is giving a lift to a group often left on the margins of the economy: workers with disabilities. Employers, desperate for workers, are reconsidering job requirements, overhauling hiring processes and working with nonprofit groups to recruit candidates they might once have overlooked. At the same time, companies’ newfound openness to remote work has led to...

Dr. Gentry’s Professional Forum

Are you struggling to implement Forward-Facing principles and skills into your therapy and/or coaching practice? Do you have clients with whom you know Forward-Facing would be helpful but cannot seem to get it delivered to them in a way that is palatable? Are you unsure when and how to introduce Forward-Facing to your clients? Would you like some support and assistance practicing and mastering Forward-Facing in your own professional and personal lives? Would you like to develop a support...

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