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By Adrianna Rodriguez, Image: from article, USA TODAY, December 24, 2023 America has a new epidemic. It can’t be treated using traditional therapies even though it has debilitating and even deadly consequences. The problem seeping in at the corners of our communities is loneliness and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy is hoping to generate awareness and offer remedies before it claims more lives. “Most of us probably think of loneliness as just a bad feeling,” he told USA TODAY. “It...

Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty. By Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, December 8, 2023 For most of american history , when parents separated, their kids almost always ended up living with just one of them. But recent studies have confirmed a new era: Joint physical custody, in which a child resides with each parent a significant portion of the time, has become dramatically more common in the U.S. The trend was first documented in Wisconsin, where...

[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!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Ragavan MI, Murray A. Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors and Their Children in Pediatric Healthcare...

I never knew how much there was to know about how to be with emotions in the body that mitigates anxiety and depression.

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" Hope is a bridge that keeps healing alive. You are healing every moment, even if you can't see the progress. Hope gives your body the encouragement it needs to heal. It's the storms that bring the rain to help us to grow and heal." - Unknown "If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment." - Carlos Santana “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust

Here is a look back at the top shared resources in 2023 from the Center on the Developing Child News from the Center on the Developing Child: December 2023 (campaign-archive.com)

By Laura Gallant, 12/21/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ At the HOPE National Resource Center, we create resources all year round. Many of our resources are created in collaboration with HOPE Facilitators, HOPE Champions , and others who are implementing the HOPE framework in their organization or community. Below are many of the new resources we created in 2023. Each resource is a guide, not an instruction manual, that shares ways of practicing or implementing the HOPE framework...

From Axios, December 20, 2023 Stanford researchers have discovered over 1,000 child sexual abuse images in an AI dataset used to train popular image generation tools such as Stable Diffusion. Why it matters: Illegal child sexual abuse material (CSAM) represents an extreme example of the wider problem of AI developers not having or sharing clear records of what material is used to train their models. It may take only a small selection of CSAM images create many more new and realistic...

We know how challenging it can be to support a youth who is impacted by the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use, and we also know that your care can be one of the greatest sources of well-being a youth can have. 1 in 5 Canadian youth grow up with the stress and stigma of a parent's substance use, and youth have said the family could be one of the greatest sources of shame AND/OR hope and healing. This space is for Canadian caregivers (Parents, aunts, uncles, Elders, grandparents)...

Families are essential in supporting student mental health. Learn seven family engagement strategies that ParentPowered recommends educators employ for student well-being

Benchmarks’ Center for Quality Integration (CQi) prioritizes continuous learning of new skills and enhancing current staff skills to keep its staff at the forefront of the human services workforce. We take this acquired knowledge and skills and integrate them into the day-to-day work we do in our own agency as well as outside of it. We have learned and applied many lessons from Brene Brown’s " Dare to Lead", including the lesson that everyone is a leader, no matter their position in an...