June 2023

Joseph Williams founded a nonprofit called Mr. Dad’s Father’s Club. Rita Oceguera for The Trace By Rita Oceguera, The Trace, June 22, 2023 Many Englewood residents call Joseph Williams “the Black Mr. Rogers.” Just like the friendly television neighbor who celebrated children’s individuality, Williams works with other fathers to build up the youth in his community. “These children are living adult lives,” Williams said. Many, he noted, are stuck between adults’ quarrels, burdened with...

Children spray each other with water and cool off by playing in a fountain in Domino Park, Brooklyn during a heat wave on July 24, 2022. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images By Jake Bolster, Inside Climate News, June 24, 2023 Between 1955 and 1970, the United States passed five laws to monitor and regulate the country’s air pollution. Each act built upon the last and, in 1970, Congress passed the Clean Air Act, which established guidelines for “safe” levels of ambient air pollution, some of...

Advocates on both sides of the abortion divide in the United States demonstrated after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade . Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty By Mariana Lenharo, nature, June 23, 2023 The US Supreme Court’s decision one year ago to revoke the right to an abortion has begun to take a toll on women’s health in the United States, say researchers who have been monitoring the effects of the ruling. Although it is too soon to measure the full impact,...

By Erkeda Derouen, Image: screenshot from article, KevinMD.com, June 25, 2023 The Little Mermaid remake was recently released, and I was excited to experience the film for a few reasons. First, it was my favorite animated Disney film of all time. It came out when I was three years old, and I watched the VHS tape until it didn’t work anymore. Yes, I’m dating myself. Second, there were updated lyrics and a Black Ariel. Although it was strangely controversial that Ariel would now be Black, I...

‘Cumulative poverty over many years is the fourth leading cause of death in this country.’ Photograph: Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/Shutterstock By Reverend William Barber and Gregg Gonsalves, The Guardian, June 22, 2023 Can you name the top 10 causes of death in America? Without too much trouble, most Americans could likely come up with some of them: cancer, heart disease, stroke, accidents. But it would come as a surprise to many to know that poverty is right up there with these other...

Newly published Editorial, American Journal of Preventive Medicine- FOCUS : Jeoffry B. Gordon MD, MPH , Vincent Felitti MD , The Importance of Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in all Medical Encounters., AJPM Focus (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.focus.2023.100131 The practical, insightful value of individual ACE screening in the clinic to preventive and clinical medicine is profound. There are over 600,000 substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect (CAN) each year in...

July is a time to celebrate all summer has to offer by building bridges and innovating with community to get to the heart of trauma-informed awareness and resilience building. This month, we’ve added new July dates to the summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum—but that’s only half of the good news. Last year, the CRC began as a pilot program. Now that it's evolved, what better time to bring accelerator participants together in a PACEs Connection CRC community than the summer? We are proud to announce...

About 3.3 million of Pakistani children are trapped in child labor , depriving them of their childhood, their health and education, and condemning them to a life of poverty and want. Children Lifeline Trust was established with the philosophy that every child deserves the chance to transform their lives through an education, regardless of their ability to afford it. 8-year-old Omar and 7 year old Hafeez wakes up diligently every morning and rush to start small jobs to earn some money and...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in the lives of children and adults.These events can include substance abuse, behavioral health disorders, physical and emotional abuse, and the lack of establishing meaningful relationships later in life. ACEs are linked to chronic illnesses, depression, change in brain chemistry, and the inability to properly utilize healthy responses to stressful encounters. The elimination of symptoms associated with ACEs can lower...

By Lindsay Smith Rogers, Image: from article, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, June 23, 2023 Workplace wellness goes beyond health insurance coverage, a fitness room, and a safe working environment. It’s an overarching workplace culture that sees each employee as a whole person. “Many employers don't realize that their actions, their policies, their statements, how they work, actually influence the mental health and well-being of their workers,” says Ron Goetzel, PhD, MA ,...

By Alyssa Khan, Inc., June 23, 2023 Shane Heath was well-acquainted with burnout when he founded his Venice, California-based coffee alternative brand Mud/Wtr in 2018--which is why he's gone above and beyond to keep his own employees feeling their best. Heath, who previously worked as a designer for multiple tech startups, says that he launched Mud/Wtr to push against the overly caffeinated culture of Silicon Valley. That aim has shaped his company's benefits. In January 2023, Mud/Wtr...

Businesses must do their part to support employees' mental and physical health. (GETTY STOCK) By Cesar Carvalho, U.S. News & World Report, June 23, 2023 The workforce is facing a well-being crisis. Absences due to illness have seen some all-time highs recently, due in part to continued health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic. But workers’ health and wellness were already suffering long before the pandemic. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that deaths...