April 2022

LIVE Legacy Interview Suzanne Zeedyk Tuesday 26 April 2022, 7-9pm UK, 2-4pm EST, 12-2pm MT, 11am-1pm PT A recording will made for all ticket holders The latest LIVE MINDinMIND Legacy Interview is with Suzanne Zeedyk, one of the leading science communicators of her generation who will be in conversation with Jane O'Rourke. Suzanne is driven by a desire to communicate to the widest possible audience the Science of Connection. Her talks about attachment, trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences...

Hey there, Have you been interested in Forward-Facing Professional Resilience? Or have you taken the course and want more? Dr. Gentry is offering a FREE Forward-Facing Professional Resilience Bonus Content Session and Q&A . Join him Sunday, April 24, 2022 from 4:30-6:00 (AZ Time). 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭:

By Bill Weir, Photo: Bill Weir, CNN Travel, April 22, 2022 Dear River, It's just over two years since you joined our Little Blue Marble ride through the Milky Way and now that you can say things like "Bill Weir I want banana smoothie," it's time to learn the difference between "Happy Birthday" and "Happy Earth Day." Both are in April, but one of them has cake and Hopalong Andy and the other, frustration with humanity. Both involve balloons, only on Earth Day we get pick their deflated shards...

By Dorothy Roberts, Photo: iStock, The Washington Post, April 15, 2022 The U.S. Children’s Bureau describes the child welfare system as “a group of services designed to promote the well-being of children by ensuring safety, achieving permanency, and strengthening families.” But developments like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent instructions to state agencies to investigate gender-affirming medical care as possible child abuse have helped to shatter the system’s benevolent veneer. Many people...

By Aditi Ranaswami, Photo: Joy Asico/AP, The Lever, April 21, 2022 Welcome to the Cheat Sheet, The Lever’s weekly feature exclusively for our supporting subscribers that quickly gets you up to speed on a pressing news matter. Each week, we will show you exactly what you need to know — including vital information corporate media is trying to cheat you out of learning. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Nothing is certain except death and taxes.” The founding father would have been wise to add...

By Katherine E Marçal and Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Photo: fizkes/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, April 20, 2022 Families of color and those with low incomes face high risk of experiencing housing cost burden, eviction, and housing instability. Housing instability can create challenges for adolescents, including higher levels of depression and psychological challenges, as well as behavioral issues. It can also cause increased interactions with other social systems, like the child welfare and...

By Abené Clayton, Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, The Guardian, April 19, 2022 In the first year of the pandemic, homicides throughout the US increased by 30%, the most dramatic one-year rise since the FBI began keeping crime data. The increase was driven by a significant rise in gun violence, with shootings ticking up in cities big and small, in states led by Republicans and Democrats alike. Since then, curbing the rise in shootings has become a central topic among candidates vying for...

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I am not much different from my students. I hate Saturday School when I have to get out of bed to be back in the building that exhausted me the week before, but I love it after I get there and have meaningful interactions with students in a more casual environment. Like this one: "Hey Ida B. Wells!" I greet a student. "I like it when you call me that!" she replies. "Do you remember why I started calling you that?" "Yea. Cuz you said I was outspoken and had a lot of strong opinions about...

By Amanda Winn, 4/21/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Over the summer, the HOPE National Resource Center started a Train the Facilitator program. The goal was to train staff from organizations to present the basics of HOPE to both members of their organizations and to their community partners. Members who go through all three sessions of the program become certified HOPE facilitators. By January, there was enough interest in the program for the HOPE National Resource Center...

By Andrew Joseph, Photo: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images, STAT, April 12, 2022 A fter staying flat for a decade, the overdose death rate among U.S. adolescents nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 — an alarming climb that continued into 2021, a study released Tuesday showed. The reasons do not include a surge of children in this group — ages 14 to 18 — using drugs, researchers said. If anything, survey data indicate that fewer teens experimented with drugs during the pandemic. Rather, a main factor...

By Simon Appolloni, Image: Pixabay, Phys Org, April 19, 2022 As they become more exposed to the grim realities of climate change, today's teens and people in their 20s— an entire generation —are experiencing increased anxiety, grief, fear or guilt about the planet's future as well as their own. For teachers of environmental studies, softening the scientific evidence about what lies ahead —in terms of sea-level rise and the increased intensity, duration and frequency of storms, droughts and...