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July 2017

Some Teens Don't See School as a Kind Place. Here's Why That Matters. [Blogs.EdWeek.org]

While mental health is a priority for many high school students , they don't always see their schools as supportive places where they can seek help and talk through problems, a survey released Thursday finds. And that matters because teens often turn to informal support from peers to get through personal difficulties and stress, the report's authors said. Fifty-four percent of high school students responding to the online survey said mental health was a very important priority, and 34...

Research aims to shape more precise treatments for depression in women [MedicalXpress.com]

Among women in the United States, depression is at epidemic levels: Approximately 12 million women in the U.S. experience clinical depression each year, and more than 12 percent of women can expect to experience depression in their lifetime. Moreover, many experts believe the numbers are likely higher, given the degree of under-reporting about the condition, the fact that depression in women is often misdiagnosed and the fact that fewer than half of women who experience clinical depression...

How to Build Resilience in Midlife [NYTimes.com]

Much of the scientific research on resilience — our ability to bounce back from adversity — has focused on how to build resilience in children. But what about the grown-ups? While resilience is an essential skill for healthy childhood development, science shows that adults also can take steps to boost resilience in middle age, which is often the time we need it most. Midlife can bring all kinds of stressors, including divorce, the death of a parent, career setbacks and retirement worries,...

The key to a longer life might be in your body’s telomeres [Scouting.com]

Sorry, Peter Pan. You can’t be Boy Scout-age forever. Your telomeres won’t have it. These caps on the ends of your DNA shrink as you get older and have been linked to the chronic diseases associated with aging. The growing science of epigenetics — or how lifestyle and environment affect our genes — is providing new insight into the aging process and might hold the keys to slowing down the inevitable or even reversing it. At the center of this research? Telomeres. Like the plastic caps on...

Am I love and cared for? Why every child should be able to answer ‘yes’ [Mother.ly]

The greatest gift we have to offer a child is an invitation to rest in our care. This isn’t the type of rest that comes from sleeping, but from an enduring invitation for contact and closeness, a sense of significance and mattering, as well as sense of belonging and being known by the people a child is most attached to. To invite a child to rest is about inspiring them to depend on us to meet their relational needs. As creatures of attachment we crave connection and should seek relationships...

Mothers Who Leave Their Children [LitHub.com]

This morning I heard two different stories of a mother who left with a man. Amanda Kristine Hawkins was the first; she left her two-year-old and one-year-old daughters in her car for fifteen hours. They died. It’s San Antonio in June. The temperature ranges from 94 degrees at its hottest to 74 at its coolest. People around those parts spend their days at Flat Rock Lake, jumping in and out of the water. [For more of this story, written by Melissa Chadburn, go to ...

Wisconsin Dept of Health Services - Trauma-Informed Care News & Notes (July 24, 2017)

ACEs, Adversity's Impact How babies' environments lead to poor health later Drinking alcohol while pregnant could have transgenerational effects Socioeconomic status in childhood linked with cardiac structure and function in adulthood When bad things happen to young people Higher use of general health care services throughout adult life linked with traumatic childhoods Income directly affects children's outcomes, says new report Trauma in childhood will impact health later One in four...

ACEs Connection is looking for a network manager

Hi, Everyone: Here's what we've posted on the jobs section of our fiscal sponsor, TSNE.org: Position Available: ACEs Connection Network Manager Position Summary The ACEs Connection Network Manager is a full time, benefited position with ACEs Connection Network. The person in this position will work under the direct supervision of the CEO to support the organization by providing membership and systems support to ACEs Connection staff and the wider community membership. Essential Job Functions...

Walker signs opioid addiction prevention bill [AlaskaPublic.org]

The law puts new limits on opioids like capping new prescriptions at seven days-worth of pills, and requires training about abuse for medical practitioners. In February, Walker issued a disaster declaration for Alaska’s ongoing opioid epidemic. On Tuesday, the governor was at a homeless youth center in Wasilla for the bill signing. He said the the multi-pronged legislation is a good first step. “The most important step is the next step, whatever that is. This is something that, to get on top...

Cities Fear Obamacare Repeal, Warm to Single-Payer [Politico.com]

The endless saga to repeal and replace Obamacare now playing out in Congress is causing deep anxiety among an overwhelming majority of America’s mayors, 86 percent of whom say they are “greatly concerned” that doing away with the insurance program would leave their citizens more vulnerable to health crises like opioid addiction and obesity. And a majority doubt that President Trump, who made dismantling the signature policy of the previous administration one of his top campaign promises, has...

Through Restorative Community Meetings, Juveniles Repair Harm And Avoid Lockup [WitnessLA.com]

In a new report , the non-profit Impact Justice explored the effects of a program in Alameda County that employs restorative justice techniques to keep juveniles out of lockup. Community Works West’s Restorative Community Conferencing (RCC) program diverts more than 100 young people away from the juvenile justice system each year, according to the report. The program brings the youth—supported by their family and community—face to face with their crime victims to engage in a dialogue to...

Youth Of Merced Use The Power Of Writing To Illuminate The Human Cost Of Incarceration…& Other Urgent Issues [WitnessLA.com]

Earlier this month, an innovative youth program called We’Ced Youth Media, located in Merced, California, co-hosted an event called #SchoolsnotPrisons Merced. The event’s stated purpose was “to educate the Merced community about the impact of the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration.” A portion of the event included poetry that expressed the pain of incarceration, both for the one who is locked-up, and for those who lose a family member to jail or prison. What is particularly...

The Life of a South Central Statistic [NewYorker.com]

What sets the course of a life? Three years before my beloved cousin’s murder—before the weeping, before the raging, before the heated self-recriminations and icy reckonings—I awoke with the most glorious sense of anticipation I’ve ever felt. It was June 29, 2006, the day that Michael was going to be freed. Outside my vacation condo in Hollywood, I climbed into the old white BMW I’d bought from my mother and headed to my aunt’s small stucco home, in South Central. On the corner, a fortified...

Children: The unseen victims of addiction [Fosters.com]

Children of addicted parents are unseen victims of a situation they do not understand and are not equipped to handle. They are often angry, embarrassed and fearful and they need help and support. “One of four kids in the United States are affected,” said Jerry Moe, national director of children’s programs at the Betty Ford Center. “The numbers are huge and while we say this is a family disease, it is a parent or parents who are addicted. But, the whole family is affected. The biggest myth is...

Kamala Harris Went to Prison So Others Won’t Have To [MotherJones.com]

Democratic up-and-comer Kamala Harris visited just about every corner of California during her successful 2016 campaign to take over Barbara Boxer’s seat in the US Senate, and she’s kept it up somewhat since taking office. But on a recent, sweltering July afternoon, I accompanied Harris to a place where no senator has set foot for at least a decade. The Central California Women’s Facility, which houses nearly 3,000 inmates, is tucked amid the farmlands of Chowchilla, about three hours from...

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