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In Canada, 1/6 youth are exposed to a parent's addiction, and stigma prevents many parents from recovery. This stigma has detrimental consequences on the health and well-being of impacted youth. As such, we are excited to introduce Starlings Community Youth Advisory Committee . Vision: It is the vision of the Starlings Community Youth council to represent the voices of youth who have been impacted by the stigma of a parent’s substance use within the provincial and federal supports and...

By Julie Wertheimer and Tracy Velázquez, Photo: Getty Images, The Pew Charitable Trusts, January 12, 2022 With many jurisdictions nationwide facing large backlogs of court cases because of COVID-related shutdowns, counties are taking a fresh look at ways to manage jail populations. Although much of the focus in recent years has been on reducing admissions, the average amount of time that people spend in jail has been steadily increasing over the past decade. Just-released national data for...

By Alex Daniels, Photo: Elias Williams, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 20, 2022 Before Joe Scantlebury became chief executive of Living Cities in September, he knew had a daunting task ahead. An unnamed group of employees who had fled the nonprofit made it clear that they thought the organization needed a radical overhaul focused on removing racial bias from its operations. In essays posted on the internet, the former employees excoriated Ben Hecht, the organization’s longtime CEO,...

By Sabrina Imbler, Photo: Liz Sanders/The New York Times, The New York Times, January 18, 2022 For years, Zara Banks had been looking forward to her 14th birthday — the moment, last June, when her life would no longer be on pause. Ever since Zara, a transgender girl, was 8, she has been certain she wanted to grow up to be a woman. After conversations with her parents and sessions with a therapist, she began transitioning socially: changing her name to Zara and pronouns to she/her. When she...

By Eren Orbey, Photo: Eli Durst/The New Yorker, The New Yorker, January 17, 2022 K atie Kitchen had always felt some sadness about the fate of the man convicted of murdering her father. On a summer night in 1991, Robert Hans Kaim, a seventy-seven-year-old white real-estate developer, had just pulled into his garage in Houston’s upscale Tanglewood neighborhood when an assailant robbed him at gunpoint, shot him in the chest, and then drove off with his wallet. Nine days later, police arrested...

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PACEs Connection is one of the more than 400 partners of the Listen First Project . Here's how Listen First describes itself: Listen First Project enhances the impact, visibility and voice of the interpersonal bridge building field. We aggregate, align, and amplify the efforts of 400+ #ListenFirst Coalition partners into large scale, collective campaigns and strategies. Listen First aggregated these resources under the heading, Best Things We've Seen. I think you might find some of them...

At Resilient Georgia, we're always looking for ways to equip our communities with upstream approaches to mental and behavioral health. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an accessible program designed to help people be gentler with themselves in the midst of hardship. For the full introduction to the program, a description of its evidence-based benefits, as well as a wealth of resources and trainings for MSC, check out this post from the Resilient Georgia website .

Children growing up in an alcoholic or other dysfunctional homes struggle to find their identity in adulthood. They have most likely formed complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and live with an inner turmoil that matches the instability they are experiencing from parents who are occupied with their own problems. This article will focus on the formation of CPTSD in alcoholic (dysfunctional) homes and how it affects children and the adults they become. Complex Trauma Complex trauma...

By Jill Suttie, Greater Good Magazine, January 18, 2022 Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on people’s mental health and well-being. Restricted movement, loss, and isolation have led to increases in depression, anxiety disorders, stress, sleep disorders, and more. The effects have been even harsher for teens. How can we help protect our well-being during this particularly difficult time? Though a public health response is definitely called for, one way we might try...

By David Tow, EdSource, January 17, 2021 D uring a recent class, my freshmen and I were discussing the best ways to engage with the complex world of high school. We talked about how to juggle multiple deadlines, contact their busy and unavailable teachers and balance appealing extracurricular activities with coursework and the omnipresent complication of Covid-19. This discussion was part of an ongoing conversation about effective study skills and traits. Most of my 13- and 14-year-old...

By Karen Frances Eng, Image: Anson Chan, IDEAS.TED.COM, November 11, 2021 When approaching diseases, scientists usually look for two things — ways to cure them and ways to prevent them. But with mental illnesses, we have neither. For example, SSRIs are the most popular antidepressant medications, but they only suppress symptoms. Yet pharmaceutical research has focused almost entirely on fine-tuning these drugs rather than looking for ways to prevent mental disorders from occurring in the...