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***Trigger Warning: This article will contain self-harm information and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** This series has focused on different types of self-harm, its causes, and a description of those who practice it. In this piece, we continue our open and honest look at self-harm by highlighting some of the mental health conditions most associated with it. First, a Short Recap of What Self-Harm Is Before we examine the various mental health disorders most associated with...

He is sprawled out on the sidewalk, motionless, flushed cheeks framed by high cheekbones. He’s slender, probably in his mid-20s, his straight, coal black hair pulled back, and his orange t-shirt twisted up over his stomach. “He’s OD’ing on fentanyl!” shouts a guy holding a skateboard.

Extended Respite vs Child-Centered models of care Stability of Placements, especially of these young children, should be valued and maintained. Placements should be disrupted only if there are strong reasons to believe that continuing the placement is likely to be harmful and that the new placement is likely to better meet the child’s emotional needs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422627/

As a survivor of interpersonal trauma, commitment and intimacy have never been easy, which is why I never did remarry after my first marriage fell apart. That is until last October, when my boyfriend who had been living at a comfortable distance (measured in thousands of miles) suggested I pack up my apartment and ride out the pandemic with him in Hawaii. Thus began an adventure that had me breathing into paper bags and him warranting a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. I get bent out of...

Please welcome these three new communities to the PACEsConnection.com network! Growing Resilience Movement in Wake County (NC) LSU Health Shreveport Institute for Childhood Resilience (LA) Mind Your Mind - Cobb County (GA) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Growing Resilience Movement in Wake County (NC) : The Growing Resilience Movement in Wake County, NC seeks to unify our...

After educators’ experience with the COVID-19 pandemic, a 2014 approach to school health has gained even greater urgency. Under this model, a student's physical health is considered to be inseparable from their mental and social health. Moreover, it assumes that school climate, family engagement, community involvement, and, importantly, the health of school staff are all integral to the health of students. Researchers with ChildTrends recently released a report using metrics based on this...

By Alexis Roberts, The Families and Workers Fund, October 5, 2021 Families and Workers Fund (FWF) today announced the launch of a five-year collaborative philanthropy dedicated to building a more equitable economy that uplifts all. Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic has created a once-in-a-generation opening to improve the lives of workers and their families, FWF will work to deploy funding and build partnerships to help repair and reimagine the systems that fuel economic security,...

By Ginny Graves, Prevention, October 12, 2021 Last year, Emma Alda, 38, of Fort Lauderdale, FL, saw a Facebook photo of her brother, Christopher, and some friends huddled, maskless, around a campfire. When Emma commented “Where is your mask?” Christopher unfriended her. “There was no discussing anything with him if your views differed from his,” she says, and his beliefs aligned with a widespread conspiracy theory: that the media and the medical community were exaggerating the danger of...

By Rebecca Nagle, Crooked, October 2021 About this Podcast The award-winning documentary podcast This Land is back for season 2. Host Rebecca Nagle reports on how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda. ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. The Brackeens’ case would...

Well-child visits help your child stay healthy and give parents a chance to ask questions and get connected with resources! Watch this conversations between Dr. Jeff Ribordy and Dr. Michael Mangahas about well-child visits.

By NJ.com, October 8, 2021 The Princeton Area Community Foundation has awarded a $275,000 grant to fund a program to teach school staff throughout Mercer County how to identify students exposed to stressful or traumatic experiences and how to engage all students in a way that promotes healing from the mental health effects of the pandemic. The Foundation for Educational Administration’s Healing Centered Engagement initiative will be funded with a $137,500 grant from the Community...

By Lauren Markham, Mother Jones, October 2021\ I drove to Oregon because I wanted to see the future. Our rapidly changing climate vexes me, keeps me up at night—perhaps you’ve felt this, too—and recently I’d become particularly preoccupied with trees. In California, where I live, climate change helped kill nearly 62 million trees in 2016 alone, and last year, 4.2 million acres of our state burned. I wanted to know what was in store for our forests and, because we humans rely on them for so...