May 2022

By Heather Cox Richardson, Photo: Unsplash, Letters from an American, May 11, 2022 In the last year, the Republican Party has transformed. The modern Republican Party rose to power in 1980 promising to slash government intervention in the economy. But that was never a terribly popular stance, and in order to win elections, party leaders wedded themselves to the religious right. For decades, party leaders managed to deliver economic liberties to business leaders by tossing increasingly...

By Lyndia Grant, Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, The St. Louis American, May 8, 2022 April 4, 1968, the day Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, is a significant date to be remembered. On that date this year, Bishop William J. Barber II of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival held a press conference at the National Press Club to show how extreme disparities are and have been in poor communities nationwide. These communities consist of African-Americans,...

By Nacole Riccaboni, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 5, 2022 In Manhattan’s financial district, the average resident can expect to live until the age of 85. In East Harlem, life expectancy is only 76 years. Ten stops on the subway and a nine-year drop . That’s what Jasmine Travers , a nurse and New York University assistant professor, told me when we talked about the importance of digging out the root causes of health disparities. As Black women in the nursing profession, both of us...

By Daniel Heimpel, Photo: MattGush/iStock, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 12, 2022 Los Angeles’ Grand Avenue is home to an incredible display of the city’s capacity to build. On one side of the street stand two new gleaming towers replete with multi-million-dollar “residences,” a luxury hotel, trendy restaurants, and high-end shops. The architect, Frank Gehry. The cost, $1 billion. Across the street is Gehry’s signature $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall. A couple hundred yards...

CANCER PREVENTION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN Thursday, May 19 | 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET Hear the perspectives of two states about their state plans to address Adverse Childhood Experiences, implementation strategies and coalition building. Register Now

Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...

By Graham Lee Brewer, Cindy Yamanaka/The Riverside Press-Enterprise/Getty Images, NBC News, May 11, 2022 At least 500 Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government, a highly anticipated Interior Department report said Wednesday. The report identified over 400 schools and more than 50 gravesites and said more gravesites would likely be found. The report is the first time in U.S. history that the...

By Shira Ovide, Image: Mathieu Labrecque, The New York Times, May 11, 2022 I’ve written about the downsides of companies that bring groceries or prepared food to our doors, like Instacart and Uber Eats. App-based fresh food deliveries take a toll on our neighborhoods and impose punishing demands on workers. But today I want to focus on a positive aspect of delivery apps. Newly published research from the Brookings Institution found that app companies are making fresh food available to...

By Chad Luke, Photo: Unsplash, Wiley Online Library, May 10, 2022 Abstract Pandemic stress can be a dehumanizing experience, especially for children and adolescents, and can be described in terms of the research paradigm of chronic variable stress (CVS). Humanistic counseling speaks to this particular kind of stress. This article presents eight principles for humanistic responsiveness for working with children and adolescents. The early effects of COVID-19 on the physical, mental, social,...

By Hannah Natanson, Photo: Montinique Monroe/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 10, 2022 Republican lawmakers across the country are proposing legislation that would target online library databases and library management technology — tools built by a half-dozen large companies that catalogue millions of books, journals and articles that students peruse for assignments. These bills — already enacted in Utah and Tennessee , on the verge of becoming law in Oklahoma , and proposed in...

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) and supported through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of 5-year estimates from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) . State, regional, and national estimates for Title V Block Grant National Outcome (NOMs) and Performance Measures (NPMs) are...

SAVE THE DATE! Every year, Tulare County CAPC in California holds a conference focused on an area of child abuse prevention, presented by experts in the content area . The conference is open to anyone who wants to get a more in-depth education on the topic, as well as tools to respond. The conference is named after Cynthia Lockhart Mummery, LMFT, a long-time clinical director at Tulare Youth Service Bureau and CAPC member who was an advocate for abused and neglected children for 18 years.