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Exploring a Nonbinary Approach to Health [NICHQ.org]

By Heidi Brooks, Chief Operating Officer at NICHQ, June 29, 2021, in The N ational Institute for Children's Health Quality. Holding space for inclusive and expansive language in maternal and child health “Hi! My name is Natalia, and my pronouns are she/her/hers.” The first time I heard this introduction, I was confused. I mean, it was obvious to me that Natalia was a woman. Why were we spending time identifying the obvious? Then I remembered my friend’s child. Assigned female at birth, at...

Discriminatory Housing Practices and Food Environment Disparities [publichealthpost.org]

By Rick Sadler , July 15, 2022, the Public Health Post We know that structural racism has far-reaching and enduring impacts on the built environment of neighborhoods and on the health of the people who live there. Structural racism both contributes to and is compounded by neighborhood disadvantage , the overconcentration of alcohol outlets , the incidence of firearm violence , the unequal redevelopment of urban areas via gentrification , and rates of childhood obesity . And yet, most of the...

Getty opens access to 30,000 images of black diaspora in UK and US [theguardian.com]

By Aina J Khan, Image: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images, The Guardian, July 12, 2022 A collection of almost 30,000 rarely seen images of the black diaspora in the UK and the US, dating from the 19th century to the present, has been launched as part of an educational initiative to raise awareness of the history of black people in the UK. The Black History & Culture Collection includes more than 20 categories of images including politics, hair, education, female empowerment and...

The Psychologists Treating Rape Victims in Ukraine [newyorker.com]

By Joshua Yaffa, Illustration: Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker, The New Yorker, July 14, 2022 In the middle of March, a psychologist named Spartak Subbota was contacted by a group assisting Ukrainian refugees who had recently arrived in Poland. Among them was a young woman in her mid-twenties who had managed to flee a village outside of Chernhiv, in Ukraine’s north, near the border with Belarus—could he speak with her? Russian forces had entered the woman’s village in the early days of the...

We Know How to Prevent Gun Violence. Now We Need to Scale It. [ssir.org]

By Arne Duncan, Image: Chicago CRED, Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 14, 2022 The City of Chicago is the undisputed gun violence capital of America. Last year, the city saw nearly as many shootings and killings as New York and Los Angeles combined, despite having barely a fifth of their combined population. While several other cities have higher per-capita murder rates , the sheer number of shootings in Chicago—more than 4,400 in 2021, including 800 homicides—places my hometown at...

The Housing Shortage Isn’t Just a Coastal Crisis Anymore [nytimes.com]

By Emily Badger and Eve Washington, Map: Up for Growth analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data., The New York Times, July 14, 2022 San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington have long failed to build enough housing to keep up with everyone trying to live there. And for nearly as long, other parts of the country have mostly been able to shrug off the housing shortage as a condition particular to big coastal cities. But in the years...

Hawai'i has a new state Office of Wellness and Resilience

Hawai'i Gov. David Ige signed legislation to establish the state's first Office of Wellness & Resilience. Senate Bill 2482 (SD1 HD1 CD1, relating to wellness) was signed into law by Ige on July 12, 2022. It will now be known as Act 291 . The Senate version of the bill was introduced by state Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz and supported by the state Departments of Health and Human Services, as well as more than 30 Hawai‘i child and family-serving organizations who provided testimony around the...

CTIPP & Advocates Clear First Hurdle in Securing $1 Billion for Trauma-Informed Schools

In April 2022, the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) organized more than 170 advocates across 36 states to sign a coalition letter urging Congress to invest $1 billion in this year’s federal budget to increase trauma-informed resources and improve access to mental health professionals in America’s schools. This work has paid off. In June, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee released their draft Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) spending legislation, which included CTIPP’s...

HOPE Releases New Whiteboard Video

The HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) has been collaborating with Nemours Children’s Health and Curricula Concepts (Arkansas) on the Better Together project. Caliste Chong, Manager of Practice and Prevention at Nemours has worked closely with the HOPE NRC on this project and shares: This work inspired the HOPE team to create a whiteboard video sharing how healthy eating and physical activity can support access to the Four Building Blocks of HOPE. The video shows how the HOPE framework...

Trauma Informed Tapping Skills and Resources

This weekend, starting at 12 noon Eastern US on Sat July 16th and runs for 24 hours and is an absolutely free online event as part of the "24-Hour Tap-A-Thon" livestream put on by Gene Monterastelli and is a fundraiser for the Peaceful Heart Network, an organization that has taught approximately 100,000 people to tap in some of the harshest conditions in the world. They work with people in war-torn countries, as well as serving refugee communities all over the world. The tap-a-thon team have...

Gerrymander, U.S.A. [nytimes.com]

By Jesse Wegman, Image: Mr. Winter, The New York Times, July 12, 2022 The downtown of Denton, Texas, a city of about 150,000 people and two large universities just north of Dallas, exudes the energy of a fast-growing place with a sizable student population: There’s a vibrant independent music scene, museums and public art exhibits, beer gardens, a surfeit of upscale dining options, a weekly queer variety show. The city is also racially and ethnically diverse: More than 45 percent of...

How I Became a Pathological Liar [nytimes.com]

By Joshua Hunt, Illustration: Antoine Cossé, The New York Times, July 13, 2022 When I was 9, my family went on a long, strange road trip. Our destination was Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Fla., and the cost of admission was a lie. It was April of 1989, and my parents said the trip couldn’t wait until summer break. As the oldest of three children, I had the job of excusing our prolonged absence by telling our school we were headed to a family funeral. I remember being touched by my teachers’...

Capitol statue collection gets first Black American, replacing Confederate [washingtonpost.com]

By Gillian Brockell, Image: Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, July 13, 2022 A statue of Mary McLeod Bethune was unveiled Wednesday in the U.S. Capitol, making her the first Black American in the National Statuary Hall collection. Bethune was a civil rights activist, a presidential adviser and the founder of the Daytona Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, which became Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Her statue represents the state of...

The Indigenous cafe using native cuisine to help its chefs fight addiction [theguardian.com]

By Cecilia Nowell, Image: Ash Ponders, The Guardian, July 13, 2022 Driving along State Route 73 in eastern Arizona , it’s wide open skies and a red rock landscape, dotted with ponderosa pines, juniper bushes, yucca and prickly poppies. Just outside the White Mountain Apache town of Whiteriver, the blue roof of a gas station appears. Only, it’s not a gas station anymore. The sign that once listed gas prices now welcomes visitors to Café Gozhóó, a new restaurant celebrating Western Apache...

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