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Danny Glover on New Film “Sorry to Bother You” and the Myth of Postracial America [yesmagazine.org]

Boots Riley’s debut film, Sorry to Bother You, offers a renewed sense of urgency in how we respond to the racist and capitalist divides that impact us all. Satirical, dystopian, part sci-fi. Emotionally and intellectually, it’s everything we didn’t know we needed. Cassius “Cash” Green represents many unemployed young Black males looking for work and their subsequent climb to the top after they finally land a job. After getting a low-level telemarketing position, Cash learns the secret to how...

To close or evolve? As teen birth rates drop, school programs for teen parents face a new landscape [chalkbeat.org]

There was just one student in the Boulder Valley School District’s teen parent program last year. She graduated in May, and and the district spent the summer turning the program’s nursery into a child care center for staff . In the Englewood district just south of Denver there were no students in the teen parent program last year, and in the western Colorado city of Montrose, the long-standing charter school for pregnant and parenting teens was newly closed because of dwindling enrollment.

This Chef Serves Up a Future for Struggling Kids [nationswell.com]

When Carmen Rodriguez was two years old, his grandmother would put him in a makeshift baby carrier and take him into the fields as she picked produce. Growing up, he traveled from Chicago to Texas, North Dakota and California with his migrant farmworker family, picking melons, potatoes, strawberries, lettuce, and corn. The first meal he ever cooked was bean and cheese burritos, strapped to the radiator of the family car to keep them warm. His home base was a rough neighborhood in Chicago,...

Federal Scientists Are Worried About Policies That Harm America's Most Vulnerable Populations [psmag.com]

Some federal employees working in science-related jobs say they've seen policy shifts in the past year that harm America's most vulnerable populations, from the reorganization of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Justice to the reported focus on "all Americans" (rather than specific risk groups, a common practice in public-health research). These results come from a survey conducted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group that has opposed several...

It's okay when you're not okay: Study re-evaluates resilience in adults [medicalxpress.com]

Adversity is part of life: Loved ones die. Soldiers deploy to war. Patients receive terminal diagnoses. Research on how adults deal with adversity has been dominated by studies claiming the most common response is uninterrupted and stable psychological functioning. In other words, this research suggests that most adults are essentially unfazed by major life events such as spousal loss or divorce. These provocative findings have also received widespread attention in the popular press and...

The Homelessness Problem We Don’t Talk About [citylab.com]

The punishment for a crime doesn’t necessarily end when the person has been released from prison. Formerly incarcerated people face multiple barriers to securing housing ( including public housin g) and employment , which can lead to homelessness. And just by virtue of being homeless—by having to sleep on a bench or take shelter under a bridge—these people may then be targeted by the police. Thus starts an unrelenting cycle, through which people are tossed back and forth between jail and the...

Why the Arrest of a Racist Police Chief Gave Me Hope [yesmagazine.org]

Sixty miles south of my home is a small municipality in New Jersey called Bordentown Township. The population is 11,367, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Two very important things happened there in 2016. One alarmed me; the other gave me hope. The first was the arrest of the town’s former police chief, Frank Nucera Jr., who had just stepped down after years on the force. Nucera was charged by the FBI with committing a federal hate crime and violating a person’s civil rights while he was...

The First Five Years Matters: Quality of Early Relationships determines Lifelong Health

Quality of Early Relationships determines Lifelong Health The first relationship—usually this is between the mother and her infant—has an enduring impact on all later stages of human development. This relationship which occurs has been described by Bowlby’s attachment theory, which at its core, is about how the mother helps the infant regulate emotion. The mother-infant attachment communications are essential because they directly affect the development of the brain. Dr. Allan Schore, the...

The works of Alejandro Jodorowsky

I showed this film to several very traumatized people that are trying to recover. All of those who are no justifying their attachments to things that traumatized them and are ready to let go of them, usually relate to the story. Those who are not ready to let go usually find it as another unsettling horror movie.

COLUMN: Collaboration, grassroots engagement, FOCUS Pittsburgh model are a powerful combination [meadvilletribune.com]

In June, a group of Crawford County residents who are active participants in local work to create a trauma-informed community had the opportunity to attend a six-day workshop in Pittsburgh led by Rev. Paul Abernathy. Rev. Abernathy is the director of FOCUS Pittsburgh and is part of a coalition that is leading the way in trauma-informed community development (TICD). We were joined by other groups from across the country, including folks from Petersburg, Virginia, Kansas City, Missouri,...

Making the Case for Data Disaggregation to Advance a Culture of Health [policylink.org]

Racial and ethnic health disparities and inequities can only be eliminated if there is high-quality information by which to track immediate problems and underlying social determinants, as well as to guide the design and application of culturally specific medical and public health approaches. Often, health outcomes are disaggregated by broad racial categories such as "Black or African American," "Hispanic or Latino," "Asian and Pacific Islander," "White," or "Native American." However, the...

How Social Workers Improve Relationships Between Police and Communities

by MSW@USC Staff In 1955 , the Los Angeles Police Department adopted the motto “To Protect and Serve,” and over the last seven decades, many other American law enforcement departments followed suit. But in the Black Lives Matter era, those words may not resonate with some members of the communities police are tasked with protecting and serving. Community members may feel law enforcement officials exercise more authority than necessary. How can both sides work to create a more positive...

New Orleans City Council calls for increase in trauma services for children [nola.com]

The New Orleans City Council on Thursday (Aug. 9) unanimously approved a resolution calling for a comprehensive, citywide approach to the prevention, intervention and treatment of childhood trauma. The resolution asks the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board to present to the council -- no later than Aug. 1, 2019 -- recommendations to increase mental healthcare services for children, as well as the identification of new streams of revenue to pay for those services, and changes to...

With Scarce Access To Interpreters, Immigrants Struggle To Understand Doctors' Orders [npr.org]

Long before he began studying for a career in health care, Marlon Munoz performed one of the most sensitive roles in the field: delivering diagnoses to patients. As an informal interpreter between English-speaking doctors and his Spanish-speaking family and friends, Munoz knew well the burden that comes with the job. He still becomes emotional when he remembers having to tell his wife, Aibi Perez, she had breast cancer. A few days after Perez underwent a routine breast biopsy 17 years ago,...

Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017 [nytimes.com]

Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10 percent, according to new preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals from H.I.V., car crashes or gun deaths . Analysts pointed to two major reasons for the increase: A growing number of Americans are using opioids, and drugs are becoming more deadly. It is the second factor that most likely explains the bulk of...

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