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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care [HBR.org]

The U.S. Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Virtually everyone realizes that precision medicine, which aims to tailor care to the individual patient’s needs, is essential. Yet in attempts to bring patient-centered, outcomes-based approaches to health care in recent years, mental health has taken a back seat to other areas of...

Legislation to Help Calif. Children Suffering from Trauma and Toxic Stress introduced by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty [CaliforniaNewsWire.com]

Shortly after being sworn in to his second term in the California State Assembly, Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) this week introduced Assembly Bill 11 (AB 11), which will create a child care early intervention partnership to help California infants and young children suffering from toxic stress. Toxic stress most commonly impacts infants and young children in households where a relative is suffering from physical, emotional or sexual abuse, mental illness, substance abuse,...

How Adult Job Training Can Help Kids Learn [CityLab.com]

At 3 p.m. on a weekday, Briya Public Charter School on Georgia Avenue in Washington, D.C., is noisy with excitement. The school day has ended and pickup has begun. Toddlers bound out of classrooms as parents steer strollers down the narrow halls. Briya is not just a preschool—many of the parents collecting their children are students here as well. Some took classes in English or parenting earlier in the day. Others will return tonight to study for a credential. Briya’s two-generation...

Ikea’s Leave Policy Actually Includes Most of Its Workers [TheAtlantic.com]

On Tuesday, Ikea—the Swedish furniture company that has become eponymous with trendy, affordable furniture and relationship tension —announced a new parental-leave policy. The plan is notable not only because of its generosity—both in terms of time off and pay—compared to many American employers, but also because Ikea will become one of very few employers to make such leave policies available to both part-time and full-time employees. The new policy, which begins January 1, is based on the...

Substance Use, Mental Health & the Road to Recovery: ‘Like Juggling Explosives Blindfolded’ [JJIE.org]

When Corey Roberts came out of prison, he hit the ground running. In short order, he found a job at a chicken joint. He found a girlfriend. And at 21, after an 18-month stretch in Georgia correctional facilities, including nine months in a drug-rehabilitation program, he began the process of rebuilding a life within the legally constrained horizons of an ex-convict. But like a lot of people who struggle with drugs, depression and a criminal record, Roberts soon hit some setbacks. He went...

Fighting Opioid Abuse in Indian Country [PewTrusts.org]

When Misty Jones looks back on her drug-using years, she sees a pattern. Since she was 18, she’s been having babies, using drugs, losing custody of her babies, and trying to quit drugs so she can get them back. Now 36 and in recovery from heroin addiction for 15 months, Jones, a member of the Port Gamble S’Klallam tribe , said she realizes she needs to beat her drug habit before she can take care of her children. “This time it’s going to be all about Misty and getting clean and not about...

Signed Out Of Prison But Not Signed Up For Health Insurance [NPR.org]

Before he went to prison, Ernest killed his 2-year-old daughter in the grip of a psychotic delusion. When the Indiana Department of Correction released him in 2015, he was terrified something awful might happen again. He had to see a doctor. He had only a month's worth of pills to control his delusions and mania. He was desperate for insurance coverage. But the state failed to enroll him in Medicaid, although under the Affordable Care Act Indiana had expanded the health insurance program to...

BME Groups Struggling To Access Mental Health Services [Voice-Online.co.Uk]

A RECENT study by Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) has revealed that members of black and minority ethnic (BME) groups are facing barriers to mental health services because of a communication breakdown between healthcare users and providers, along with cultural factors, such as an inability to accept mental health problems and stigma. This study was led by Professor Anjum Memon, who said that mental health services are not meeting the needs of BME communities. "Our study has...

Justice-involved Youth Capable, Compassionate Enough to Help Peers Outside Their Walls [JJIE.org]

“Tell me about a time you made a mistake.” Every young person has been asked this question in a job interview. After all, what better way to assess someone’s work ethic, perseverance and self-reflection than hearing how they learn from failure or just life’s challenges? Ask any seasoned academic, entrepreneur or parent and they will tell you mistakes were invaluable to their personal development and ultimate success. Yet, despite our society’s theoretical value of resilience, when it comes...

California Wraparound Program Reduces Juvenile Recidivism by Focusing on Mental Health [JJIE.org]

Manuel Dircio, 20, a business administration student at Fullerton College boasts a 4.0 GPA. He is also a recovering alcoholic with a history of arrest and incarceration in juvenile detention — not quite what you’d expect from a seemingly model college student with a stellar grade point. Dircio credits the Youthful Offender Wraparound program (YOW), which he says “helped [him] grow successfully.” It’s what’s known as a full-service partnership (FSP) in Orange County, California, that uses a...

Helping Ex-Inmates Stay Out Of The ER Brings Multiple Benefits [NPR.org]

The Washington, D.C., jail has big metal doors that slam shut. It looks and feels like a jail. But down a hall in the medical wing, past an inmate muttering about suicide, there's a room that looks like an ordinary doctor's office. "OK, deep breaths in and out for me," Dr. Reggie Egins says to his patient, Sean Horn, an inmate in his 40s. They talk about how his weight has changed in his six weeks in jail, how his medications are working out and whether he's noticed anything different about...

It Is A Big Deal, And It Happened to Me [HuffintonPost.com]

The unusual topic of conversation seems to follow me. At business meetings, dinner parties, and coffee dates, people keep talking to me about their childhood abuse. It makes sense: my story of abuse motivates my work, and I don’t stop talking about my mission to end violence in every home ( TEDTalk ). Because I share my vulnerable story, people open up to me; some tell of severe cases, others of the occasional slap or scream. It must be human nature to diffuse pain and suffering because most...

Ashland High's 'stick-to-itiveness' [DailyTidings.com]

When Jay Preskenis watches the Ashland High School graduation ceremony each June from his fold-up chair at Lithia Park, he appreciates the walk, diploma handoff and traditional mortarboard toss-up in a way few in the audience — AHS staffers included — can. That’s because as a member of the school’s Student Services Team, Ashland High’s assistant principal knows exactly what some of those students had to overcome in order to arrive at that moment, and even now, only three months into the...

Corporal punishment laws may need revisited, some legislators say [ShreveportTimes.com]

Louisiana is one of a handful of states that still allows corporal punishment in schools— not without controversy. Earlier this month, The Times reported about the use of corporal punishment in Shreveport-Bossier schools, with more than 3,000 combined incidences since 2010, according to district data. That report sparked sharp reactions among both community members and parents. Despite a nationwide call by the Obama administration this month to end the use of corporal punishment as a...

CAREgivers Screening: Link to podcast Q&A

Thanks so much to everyone who was able to join us for the screening of the documentary film, Portraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion. Their Pain. earlier today. It was exciting to see so many of you interested in this very important topic. After the film, the co-producers hosted a Q&A discussion, which was recorded and is available for anyone to listen to. Link is below: ...

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