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The pandemic is far from over but crucial COVID-19 protections and benefits are gone. When the Supreme Court struck down the CDC eviction moratorium in August, nearly 6 million renters — roughly 14% — were behind on rent, about 1 million faced the imminent threat of losing their homes, and landlords across the country were still waiting for federal rental assistance promised last spring. Some local or state moratoriums and assistance programs offer renters protection — for now. But in many...

NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter September 24, 2021 Powered by Vital Village “There are words your ears need to hear for the liberation of your soul” - Dr. Ken Hardy Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the NOW Innovation Forum Newsletter . We are so excited to share and announce new opportunities, tools, and resources. In this edition of the newsletter you will find new resources that have just been added to the NOW Resource Library along with the full archive of all of the publicly...

It’s back-to-school time and I am so happy to see all the teachers and students back in their classrooms doing what they do best: teaching, learning, and choosing love! September kicked off the start of the school year and thankfully I’ve been able to travel, in person, to visit schools in seven states around the U.S. who are using the Choose Love For Schools program, and to also virtually check in with many more. It made my heart happy to see all those classrooms bustling with activity.

Please join the California School-Based Health Alliance for the release of the Student Health Index— the first comprehensive statewide analysis to show where strategic investments in school-based health centers (SBHC) will have the greatest impact on improving student health and education. Join our conversation on Wed., Oct. 6, 12 Pacific: https://bit.ly/ StudentHealthIndex100621 Learn more: https://www. schoolhealthcenters.org/ school-based-health/school- health-index/ The twin pandemics of...

A webinar offered by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) Thursday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:00 pm EDT Register today . Addressing the mental health needs of child care providers and children in care is vital in the face of the pandemic, a population-level traumatic event. CTIPP is offering a "plug and play" framework to ease the process of developing a continuum of training, reflective coaching, and consultation to build the capacity for supporting relational health...

By John Blake, CNN Politics, September 25, 2021 Critics often describe the wave of voter restriction laws sweeping the nation as a new version of Jim Crow, the 19th century minstrel figure whose stage name became the symbol of a brutal era of Black oppression. But if you want to understand how these new voter restriction laws also oppress White people, it's more useful to invoke another cultural figure: Wile E. Coyote . Wile E. Coyote is the Looney Tunes cartoon character whose obsessive...

By Kaila Yu, The New York Times, September 23, 2021 Tara Blair Ball, a relationship coach in Memphis, met her ex on Match.com. They instantly clicked. “He felt like my soulmate. It was the little things; we both talked about the differences in the old Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire and the comic book. A lot of people didn’t know about these details, and it just felt like this bonding experience.” On their first phone call, they talked for eight hours — so long that Ms. Ball came late to...

By Alayne Unterberger, The Good Men Project, September 24, 2021 I love this brave wild flower thriving against all odds. I never watered it nor do I care for it, yet it’s so beautiful and thrives in its environment. People, and relationships, are not like this wildflower. They need a lot of care, time and communication. In short, nurturing. A lot of relationships suffer from untreated childhood trauma suffered by one or both partners. I felt compelled to write this essay after reading too...

By Matthew Cantor, The Guardian, September 24, 2021 When I was seven years old, a classmate informed me that a girl who acted like a boy was known as a tomboy. But a boy who acted like a girl, my laughing friend said, was just a “sissy”. I was a kid who adored choir practice but wanted to melt when a fly ball was hit my way, and the comment stuck with me. It was clear there were codes of conduct that I was supposed to abide by, and everyone around me seemed to have an intuitive sense of what...

At the California Endowment, the focus on racial equity began long before the protests over the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others who died in the hands of police on the job. A decade ago, the organization tapped nonprofit leaders in 14 struggling communities across California to focus on health equity. Robert Ross, the endowment’s CEO said he and his colleagues had begun to realize that the philanthropy couldn’t achieve its mission of improving health for all unless...

Knee-jerk and wrong-headed proposals. Courageous young people giving voice to the issues at hand in the middle of a school board meeting . Bold leadership from our superintendent. And a puzzling mix of regressive and promising policy proposals from Metro Council leadership. Thus is the landscape of Louisville as we grieve the tragic murder of Tyree Smith . And as we reflect upon the Louisville landscape, it is a collective imperative that we take a hard-eyed look at solutions to honor Tyree...

The healthcare workforce is amid a unique epidemic, coping with the ravages of collective occupational trauma . Physicians and nurses have been heavily impacted, but also an endless list of behavioral health professionals (behavioral analysts, counselors, social workers, psychologists), case managers, community health workers, medical assistants, nutritionists, pharmacists, phlebotomists, public health workers, rehabilitation professionals, respiratory therapists, not to mention those...