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By Hannah Natanson, Photo: Montinique Monroe/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 10, 2022 Republican lawmakers across the country are proposing legislation that would target online library databases and library management technology — tools built by a half-dozen large companies that catalogue millions of books, journals and articles that students peruse for assignments. These bills — already enacted in Utah and Tennessee , on the verge of becoming law in Oklahoma , and proposed in...

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) and supported through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of 5-year estimates from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) . State, regional, and national estimates for Title V Block Grant National Outcome (NOMs) and Performance Measures (NPMs) are...

SAVE THE DATE! Every year, Tulare County CAPC in California holds a conference focused on an area of child abuse prevention, presented by experts in the content area . The conference is open to anyone who wants to get a more in-depth education on the topic, as well as tools to respond. The conference is named after Cynthia Lockhart Mummery, LMFT, a long-time clinical director at Tulare Youth Service Bureau and CAPC member who was an advocate for abused and neglected children for 18 years.

By Dina Burstein We are thrilled to share that Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) has just awarded the HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) a 2022 Innovations in Education Intramural Grant ! Beginning in 2004, this grant program supports TUSM faculty in developing new programs to enhance their curriculum and advance the TUSM mission . Adding HOPE to medical education will help students master skills that they will need as doctors. The research-informed framework of HOPE (Healthy...

By Lindsay Owens, Photo: Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times, The New York Times, May 5, 2022 Last fall, as container ships piled up outside the Port of Los Angeles, it looked as if inflation was going to be with us for longer than many had predicted. Curious how C.E.O.s were justifying higher prices, my team and I started listening in on hundreds of earnings calls, where, by law, companies have to tell the truth. While official statistics on inflation such as the Consumer Price...

By Asher Lehrer-Small, Photo: YPIE College Zone, The 74, May 9, 2022 A decade ago, Samuel Wallis was teaching in a small city in the Mississippi Delta when students’ phones started going off. News of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut stopped his class in its tracks. “It was the middle of the school day … and we just had a crying session together,” recalled Wallis. “I was teaching social studies … like, I’m not going to [keep] teaching them the causes of World...

By Jill Elaine Hasday, Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Washington Post, May 9, 2022 In his recently leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade , Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. presents what he sees as his most convincing arguments for permitting legislatures to ban abortion. So what is the best Alito can do? One of his prominent strategies is to repeatedly quote and discuss someone he describes as a “great” and “eminent” legal authority, Sir Matthew Hale. [ Please...

By Robert Reich, Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images, The Guardian, May 9, 2022 I keep running into people who feel overwhelmed by so many seemingly unrelated but terrifying things occurring all at once. “How can all this be happening?” they ask. But these things are connected. They are reinforcing each other. As such, they pose a clear challenge to a decent society. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump refuses to concede and promotes his big lie. Rightwing politicians in America and Europe...

By Gabriel Winant and Theresa Brown, Illustration: Jimmy Simpson, The New York Times, May 9, 2022 America was in a health care crisis before Covid, and the stresses of the pandemic have made it worse. Since the pandemic began, the health care work force — the country’s largest industry by employment — has shrunk by nearly 2 percent . That may seem like a small amount, but historically, the health care work force doesn’t shrink; it only grows . Now, with astronomical turnover and rising...

Calling all companies, businesses, and organizations! Hi! We wanted to personally invite you to our upcoming webinar, Method to The Madness: Mental Health Awareness Made Manageable, May 26, 2022 @ 10 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EST. We are passionate about helping organizations manage the emotional and mental health needs of employees in the workforce. We know businesses are struggling to mitigate the effects of mental health and social and civil justice issues we are facing. As mental health...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Jane Stevens] Child Abuse Gaylord NM, Bland T, Munoz L, Ross R, Olson C. Prevalence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences in an Interdisciplinary, School-Based...