Tagged With "National Council for Behavioral Health"
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Call to Action & Toolkit: Urge Congress to Support Trauma-Informed Legislation
It’s time to take action and make our voices heard to build healthy, resilient communities! The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is organizing trauma-informed advocates, activists, and stakeholders to urge their U.S. Senators and Representatives to support two bipartisan, bicameral bills that would significantly help prevent, address, and mitigate the negative impacts of trauma through community-based/led initiatives.
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ABA addressing bias in medical mandated reporting of Black and Indigenous families in Michigan (americanbar.org)
To read more of the American Bar Association's article, please click here. The American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law is piloting a new community-based initiative in Michigan to address overreporting by medical professionals of Black, Indigenous and Latino/a children to the child welfare system. Nationally, injuries in Black children are 9 times more likely than those in White children to be reported as abuse despite evidence that child abuse and neglect occur at equal rates...