June 2020

By SSIR Editors, Stanford Social Innovation Review, June 1, 2020 The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American scourge. Racism in the United States has been a longstanding crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic has cast into an even...

JUNE 3, 2020| LISA IRISH | ARIZONA EDUCATION NEWS SERVICE When COVID-19 hit the Navajo Nation, it limited students’ educational opportunities after schools closed, eliminated essential school services, exposed ongoing inequities, and made health and economic hardships families face worse. Navajo health officials said COVID-19 started spreading across the nation after a tribal member attended a basketball tournament in early March then went to a church revival the next day in Chilchinbeto, a...

Dr. Robert Sege, 6/4/20, positiveexperience.org Today’s blog is a brief addendum to our blog from Tuesday, June 2, “HOPE Stands with Black Lives Matter.” First of all, thank you very much for the kind words and comments we received by email and phone since the blog was posted. For your interest: this blog has been co-posted at both ACEs connection and the Center for Study of Social Policy websites. HOPE is not alone. We want to draw attention to related activities of our national...

By The TCR Staff, The Crime Report, June 2, 2020 Young people who are treated with respect and given a “voice” in their encounters with juvenile court are likely to avoid further entanglement in the justice system, according to a study published in the United Kingdom. “Giving young people voice and the opportunity to engage in proceedings can help them identify as active agents in the [justice] process,” said the study by the Centre for Justice Innovation. The Centre, housed at the Institute...

By Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, June 2, 2020 Three very different politicians made strikingly similar statements on Saturday, in response to protests erupting across the country in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, in Minneapolis. Jacob Frey, the Democratic mayor of Minneapolis, blamed the destruction in his city on people who are “not Minneapolis residents.” (He later walked the statement back.) New York’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, said that he had heard, from community leaders,...

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Health, June 2, 2020 As cities and social media explode with anger over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of the violence while simultaneously explaining the ravages of racism. It couldn't have come at a worse time. Sheltering at home for months to avoid the deadly coronavirus, many parents stressed by juggling work and child care from home had eased their...

In Toole County, Montana, deputy sheriffs call a school counselor, from their patrol cars, after responding to a traumatic incident—a domestic abuse call, an overdose, an arrest—that involves a child. “Handle with care,” they tell the counselor, and they give the child’s name. The counselor passes that information to teachers: a quiet heads-up that the student might be hungry or sleepy, tearful, angry or distracted by whatever happened at home. “My teachers love it,” says Mary Miller, chair...

Dr. Moira Szilagyi, a pediatrician and interim chief of General Pediatrics at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), has a couple of tried-and-true methods of breaking down communication barriers with teenage patients, and they’ve worked well during the COVID-19 pandemic. One way is prefacing any query about mental health by saying that many of her teen patients are having a tough time, so they don’t feel think they’re the only one. “That’s usually sufficient,” she said, but if it...

By Dara Winley Ph.D ., Take Care Black Women June 1, 2020 Today, I asked an African American client how she was doing in light of the ongoing hate crimes against Black people in this country, and she said: “It makes me feel disgusted… but mostly…unwanted.” The word “unwanted” rang like bells in my ears. I was stuck. What do I say next? This was a unique moment in the therapy process where I found myself confronting an unwanted emotion I too harbored inside. “ Yeah …” I said…” I have felt the...

There's a lot happening in the United States right now, and many of us are struggling to process everything in the news and taking place in our communities. Our children are taking in some of these things too! Just as we are struggling with current events, our children are trying to make sense of what they are hearing and the images they see. We need to help them in this process, or they will come up with their own narratives. I came across this great resource today, from Autism Little...

I’ve learned that anxiety and depression are these young parts of yourself showing up and taking over agency of your thinking and actions. Loving them through release of the pain is the best way to allow those child parts of you to heal so you can feel more at ease and create the life you want and deserve. You wouldn't let your 6-year-old self make choices that require adult decision-making skills. Yet, this is often what is happening.

By Melissa Mahtani for CNN.com, on June 2nd 2020, As anger and heartbreak have swept across America over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, CNN and "Sesame Street" are refocusing their second town hall to address racism. The 60-minute special "Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Kids and Families" will air on Saturday, June 6, at 10 a.m. ET. The show will talk to kids about racism, the recent nationwide protests, embracing...