February 2022

By Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis, Image: Ben Clarkson, The Atlantic, February 10, 2022 I f you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to start is with users such as John, Michelle, and Calvin. John, a caps-lock devotee from upstate New York, calls House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “PIGLOSI,” uses the term negro , and says that the right response to Democrats with whom they disagree is to “SHOOT all of them.” Michelle...

By Maxwell Adler, Photo: Bryan Banducci/Bloomberg, Bloomberg City Lab, February 10, 2022 A man in a Superman costume and a child on a tricked-out tricycle, affectionately nicknamed “trek-ceratops,” stood out among the pack of cyclists riding right down the middle of JFK Drive in San Francisco on their way to school. Two parents sped ahead to the intersection at the corner of 11th and Mission to block off traffic. No police escort was present. And music blasted from the speakers on...

By Jackie Spinner, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, February 10, 2022 For the first time in decades, the nation’s top pediatricians have changed the checklist of developmental milestones for infants and young children to make it easier to identify delays that could be a sign of autism or other social-communication disabilities. The updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made with the American Academy of Pediatrics, raised the percentage of children who typically meet...

Forward-Facing Face to Face: Professional Resilience An Evening with Friends Tuesday, March 1, 2022 5:00 PM (PST) Join Dr. Gentry as he welcomes General Kathleen Flarity, PhD, DNP and Jeffrey “Jim” Dietz, MD for a one-hour conversation about professional resilience in the 21 st Century. The presentation is entirely free of charge. Dr. Kathleen Flarity, DNP, PhD, CEN, CFRN, FAEN, FAAN is the Deputy Director of the CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT (COmbat Medicine and BATtlefield) Research.

We are excited to present the fourth action-packed workshop session this Friday and we hope you can make it! Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice A grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR/Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Violence will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who...

WHEN : Feb. 23, 2022, from 10 a.m.-11 a.m. PT / 1-2 p.m. ET Racial and ethnic minorities in America experience a lower quality of health services, and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than are white Americans, a seminal report led by Brian Smedley, Ph.D., concluded in 2003. Nearly two decades since that damning Institute of Medicine finding, the fundamental problems of systemic racism in the U.S. health care system remain unchanged, just one aspect of a much broader...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Help advance the field by sharing your unique experience. ZERO TO THREE’s Virtual Conference is the go-to event for professionals from across the early childhood field seeking to advance their knowledge and practice. The conference’s range of online learning experiences is designed to offer the very latest research, promising practices, and policy strategies. Proposals will be considered for presentations ranging from 10–75 minutes featuring content relevant to...

By Lenny Bernstein, Photo: Keith Srakocic/Associated Press, The Washington Post, February 10, 2022 The federal government on Thursday proposed new guidelines for prescribing opioids that would eliminate numerical dosage recommendations for treatment of chronic pain in favor of a more flexible approach by caregivers. The recommendations call for doctors and other prescribers to weigh the risks and benefits of starting, increasing and halting treatment with opioids. They leave out previous...

By Alleen Brown, Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images, The Intercept, February 12, 2022 DURING THE YEAR Justin Phillips spent in an unair-conditioned segregation cell at the Coffield Unit, a state prison near Palestine, Texas, the soaring temperatures took a toll. All but eight days of June 2018 saw the heat index rise above 110 degrees. The blood pressure medicine Phillips takes to treat a rare kidney condition made him ill in high heat, so he would skip doses. At times, he said,...

By Elly Scrine, Photo: Unsplash, Frontiers in Psychology, January 27, 2022 A broad sociocultural perspective defines trauma as the result of an event, a series of events, or a set of circumstances that is experienced as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening, with lasting impacts on an individual’s physical, social, emotional, or spiritual wellbeing. Contexts and practices that aim to be “trauma-informed” strive to attend to the complex impacts of trauma, integrating knowledge...

By George Bonanno and June Gruber, Photo: Getty Images Plus, Slate, February 9, 2022 As the new year approached, wildfires swept unexpectedly across suburban neighborhoods in Boulder County, Colorado. Nearly 1,000 homes were destroyed in a matter of hours. Climate change disasters are unsettlingly constant now, and as the Boulder fire demonstrated so poignantly, they can occur almost anywhere. By themselves, climate disasters are worrisome enough, but they occur now amid the ongoing...

By Emma Goldberg, Photo: Anthony Merriweather/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 12, 2022 Rhonda Broussard spent two decades performing with West African dance groups in her free time. She would wait around all year for gigs — until February when her calendar was jammed. “In Black History Month you get all the calls,” she said. Now Ms. Broussard runs a diversity, equity and inclusion organization, in New Orleans, called Beloved Community. Starting last year, she has insisted...