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If you live your life without mental health issues, science says you’re the weird one [BGR.com]

Everyone gets the flu, chicken pox, and a broken bone or two by the time they hit 40, and if you don’t you’re in a very small minority that somehow lucked out. Scientists now believe the same is true when it comes to mental health disorders, and that if you happen to make it even half your lifetime without experiencing some type of temporary or chronic mental ailment, you’re actually pretty darn weird. In a study of 988 individuals, just 171 (roughly 17%) of them claimed to have never...

"I Always Want Them to Feel Safe and Be Safe." [Buzzfeed.com]

Tai Hooper, 34, and Hendriel Anderson, 40, roll into the parking lot of a Northwest Milwaukee housing complex and jump from their car. They’re running late. Both know the basics of the situation: A week earlier, Alexis Varnado, 17, had been playing Grand Theft Auto at her aunt’s house with her younger cousin when two young men came to rob the apartment. The burglars wore sweatshirts with the hoods pulled tight so that their faces were barely visible. They pushed the two into the younger...

Using Machine Learning to Target Behavioral Health Interventions [HealthITAnalytics.com]

Behavioral healthcare has been getting a great deal of attention lately from health IT experts, and not just because of a growing recognition that good mental health is key to improving overall patients outcomes. Behavioral health is one of the most complex, highly individualized, and notoriously underfunded components of the care continuum, which makes it a perfect test bed for deploying advanced machine learning tools that aim to tighten up care processes, improve access to resources, and...

Losing A Generation [AnchoragePress.com]

“There’s an old saying in the medical community,” Dr. Jay Butler says, “statistics are people without the tears attached.” He’d know. He’s Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Division of Public Health at the Alaska Department of Health and Human Services and Chairman of the Alaska Opioid Policy Task Force. In the case of that second job description, sad stories are what drive his work. [For more of this story, written by Aurora Ford, go to ...

The Veteran Urgent Access to Mental Healthcare Act [Coffman.House.gov]

Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman (R-CO) and Derek Kilmer (D-WA) led the bipartisan reintroduction of the Veteran Urgent Access to Mental HealthCare Act (H.R. 918). This legislation would allow the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide initial mental health assessments and urgent mental healthcare services to veterans at risk of suicide or harming others, even if they have another than honorable discharge. A service member receives a less than honorable discharge, or “bad...

The Imperfect Power of I Am Not Your Negro [TheAtlantic.com]

A novelist, essayist, playwright, and poet, James Baldwin was a writer with an arsenal of artistic talent and moral imagination. His signature style was his prose—startling in its intricate design and depth of perception, and fierce in its determination to dismantle the racial assumptions of the American republic and the English language. Baldwin lent his words and energies also to the civil-rights movement and would write one of the defining books of that era, The Fire Next Time, his 1963...

One Harvard Lab, Six Iranian Scientists, and Some Tea [TheAtlantic.com]

Last September, on a warm Wednesday evening, I walked through Cambridge with an Iranian-born geneticist named Pardis Sabeti. A few days before, the UN had convened a large summit “to address large movements of refugees and migrants.” Republican nominee Donald Trump was on the campaign trail, describing refugees as Trojan horses and making stark promises about curtailing immigration. His son had just tweeted an infamous image comparing Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles . For Sabeti, the...

Perspective of an adopted Son!

There is a national challenge to understand child and adult welfare. I have spent my whole life...42 years being trained to advocate and teach healthy dynamics, and for me it was life and death because my ACE score was either going to be a crutch or a gift. My training began in my mother's womb. I started my development out being fed stress chemicals, and fear chemicals, because my mother was surrounded by toxic stress, poor choice behaviors, and a family who did not support her. She is one...

Arizona legislation would create “Adverse Childhood Experiences Study Committee”

Dr. Veenod L. Chulani ___________________________ The Arizona House of Representatives Committee on Health heard presentations on Feb. 9 on “Overcoming Adverse Childhood Experiences: Creating Hope for a Healthier Arizona.” During the meeting, House Health Chair Heather Carter noted that the hearing was the first step in an ongoing discussion about the importance of addressing childhood trauma. Rep. Carter H.B. 2198 , sponsor ed by Rep. Heather Carter and co-sponsor ed by Rep. Regina Cobb who...

The Abecedarian Approach: Providing Evidence-Based Care and Education in Early Childhood Settings (Levels I and II) [PDC.FPG.UNC.edu]

For the first time in the United States, training is available for using the Abecedarian Approach with fidelity. Developed by Dr. Joseph Sparling (right) in the 1970s and significantly updated since then, the Abecedarian Approach has produced far-reaching and significant outcomes for children that have lasted for decades, as documented by the most famous study in early childhood care and education, FPG’s Abecedarian Project. Ongoing research has demonstrated the long-term educational,...

'Nevertheless, She Persisted' and the Age of the Weaponized Meme [TheAtlantic.com]

There are many ways that American culture tells women to be quiet—many ways they are reminded that they would really be so much more pleasing if they would just smile a little more, or talk a little less, or work a little harder to be pliant and agreeable. Women are, in general, extremely attuned to these messages; we have, after all, heard them all our lives. And so: When presiding Senate chair Steve Daines, of Montana, interrupted his colleague , Elizabeth Warren, as she was reading the...

Healing Justice Is How We Can Sustain Black Lives [HuffingtonPost.com]

Right now, those of us most vulnerable and least protected are under attack and whole communities―Black, Muslim, disabled, queer, trans, and women-identified folks are being targeted in the streets and in legislative halls. The threats are real and calculated. And the attempts to shore up the institutional correlation between the right to live and able-bodied, white, monied maleness is dangerous and deadly for the rest of us. We can’t overstate the impact that the outright plunder of...

Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys [PreventionInstitute.org]

Making Connections for Mental Health and Wellbeing Among Men and Boys is a national initiative to transform community conditions that influence mental wellbeing, especially for men and boys of color, veterans, and their families. Sixteen communities across the U.S. are developing and activating strategies to enhance their sociocultural, physical/built, and economic and educational environments. The Movember Foundation is funding the work; Prevention Institute is providing coordination,...

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