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February 2019

More States Say Doctors Must Offer Overdose Reversal Drug Along With Opioids [khn.org]

In a growing number of states, patients who get opioids for serious pain may leave their doctors’ offices with a second prescription — for naloxone, a drug that can save their lives if they overdose on the powerful painkillers. New state laws and regulations in California , Virginia , Arizona , Ohio , Washington , Vermont and Rhode Island require physicians to “co-prescribe” or at least offer naloxone prescriptions when prescribing opioids to patients considered at high risk of overdosing.

Fix the criminal justice system to open up our economy [thehill.com]

A third of African American males are outright excluded from many job opportunities before even getting an interview. Tens of millions of Americans, from all places and heritages, experience the same built-in disadvantage in our workforce. They all have a felony conviction. And even more Americans face the same discrimination from a misdemeanor or less. According to a January 2018 report from Pew Charitable Trusts, the number of U.S. residents with a felony record increased significantly in...

Resource: What is epigenetics?

How does epigenetics relate to child development? New resource from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child explains. Science tells us that the interactions between genes and environment shape human development. “Epigenetics” is an emerging area of scientific research that shows how environmental influences—including the experiences we provide for children—actually affect the expression of their genes. This means that the old idea that genes are "set in stone" has been disproven. Nature...

Affirming Our Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, and Self-Worth

CRI hosted a training in Everett recently, focusing on the power of self-love and acceptance. As a branch of our Course Two material- CAREER, an acronym for Celebration, Affirmation, Regulation, Expectation, Education, and Education- we focused the day on Affirmation. Teri brought in arts and crafts, scrapbook paper, and our friends came to participate in making bookmarks. The day started with the song, "How Could Anyone" . How could anyone ever tell you You were anything less than beautiful...

2019 Aspen Forum on Children and Families (livestream) Feb. 26-27

As state and federal lawmakers prepare for the year ahead, there is tremendous momentum for bold ideas that move families toward opportunity. The second Aspen Forum on Children and Families , held this week on February 26-27, will bring together national leaders – policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and philanthropists – to surface big ideas for investing in the full potential of children and families, two generations at a time. While in-person registration for this convening is...

Claire’s Story: She didn’t want to be an abuser. Part 16.

By P. Berman, K. Hecht, & A. Hosack I am so tired of him saying no to me. I am his mom. He should do what I say. What is wrong with him? I could just scream! Claire doesn’t scream. She has been with the Carsons for almost two years and she knows they will come running if they hear she is in trouble. She trusts them more than she has ever trusted anyone else but...Nancy lost her baby when Ms. Alexandra did a home visit and found her high on heroin. This was not going to happen to her, Ms.

How to Take SEL to the Next Level at Your School [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

Last month, the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social Emotional, and Academic Development released a long-awaited report titled “ From a Nation at Risk to a Nation at Hope ,” offering recommendations for further integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) into schools to support the whole student. Written by key educational leaders, researchers, and policymakers, it represents a major milestone in SEL movement. “The promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning is not a...

Detroit must build its middle class to make its comeback [bridgemi.com]

Detroiter Kyra Sanders moved away when she graduated college in 2000. By 2004, she moved back to Detroit and bought a condo near downtown intent on becoming part of her hometown’s rebirth. Since then, she’s seen an ebb and flow in her quality of life: she pays astronomically high car insurance, saw a Whole Foods store open in her area to national celebration, and her property value tanked, but is now spiking. [For more on this story by Chastity Pratt Dawsey, go to...

Take it From Me: Addiction Doesn't Start at the Border [otherwords.org]

As the sister of a brother lost to an opioid overdose, Trump’s claim that we need a border wall in order to keep drugs out is offensive to me on multiple levels. Fact checkers also report that his claims are not true — a border wall would not keep drugs out of our country. After the death of my brother a decade ago, I went looking for answers about drugs and addiction. Gabor Mate, a medical doctor who treated addicts in Vancouver, found that his patients had all suffered severe trauma before...

New study illuminates our patients’ behavioral health and social needs [camdenhealth.org]

Through our signature care management program, the Camden Core Model , our care team serves people with complex health and social needs in the Camden area. Our patients often repeatedly cycle through multiple healthcare, social service, and other systems but do not see lasting benefit from those interactions. Patients enrolled in our intervention are served by an interdisciplinary care team of nurses, social workers, and community health workers. Between 2014 and 2017, patients who our care...

Outcomes of a Citywide Campaign to Reduce Medicaid Hospital Readmissions With Connection to Primary Care Within 7 Days of Hospital Discharge [jamanetwork.com]

Question Is connection to primary care within 7 days of hospital discharge associated with reduced readmissions? Findings In this cohort study of 1531 hospital discharges among adult Medicaid patients in Camden, New Jersey, patients attending a primary care follow-up appointment as part of the 7-Day Pledge program had fewer 30- and 90-day readmissions compared with patients with less timely primary care follow-up or none. Meaning The findings suggest that facilitated connection of patients...

ACEs mural project offers hope to victims of childhood trauma [anchoragepress.com]

“Art is a powerful venue through which to have hard conversations,” said Trevor Storrs, President and CEO of the Alaska Children’s Trust, as he was drawing the attention of the crowd at the Church of Love for the opening of Resilience After Trauma: An ACEs Mural Project last week. It was an accurate description for the nature of the project being unveiled. Steve Gordon, a renowned local artist, art instructor at UAA and creator of the project, explained that it had all started a year ago as...

What I learned reporting on housing and economic inequality after Hurricane Harvey [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

“Forgotten.” In the months after Hurricane Harvey slammed the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm, that was the word I heard repeatedly from renters, homeowners and disaster case managers in small towns and rural communities. The help that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and state leaders promised hadn’t arrived. They feared their communities would be left behind, overshadowed by larger cities like Houston. In some cases, their homes looked as if Harvey had just hit — not the year...

Why Kids With ACEs Shouldn't Get a Pass on Chores

Don't worry that chores are too stressful for kids with ACEs, says trauma researcher Bob Sege, MD. “You don’t want to coddle them,” Sege said, “because the message they will get is that they are damaged goods. They need to know that the adversity they suffered is only one part of them; it’s not all of them.”

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