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By Laura Gallant, 10/26/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is excited to share a great example of promoting the relationship building block of HOPE from North Clackamas School District (NCSD) based in Milwaukie, Oregon. Under the guidance of superintendent, Dr. Shay James , NCSD recently released a new strategic plan with guiding core values . Each school in the district has been tasked with living these values of equity, relationships, integrity,...

By Susan Clayton, Christie Manning, Alison Nicole Hill, et al., Image: from article, ecoAmerica, October 11, 2023 Building on the success of Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Inequities, and Responses , ecoAmerica collaborated with the American Psychological Association to bring forth the next edition, Mental Health and our Changing Climate: Children and Youth Report . The Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Children and Youth report chronicles the effects of climate...

By Shannon Firth, Photo: from article, MedPageToday, October 24, 2023 Children of fathers with postpartum depression were significantly more likely to experience at least one adverse childhood experience (ACE) at age 5, according to data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study. Among 1,933 father and child pairs, 9% of fathers experienced depression within the year after their children were born and 70% of the children experienced at least one ACE at 5 years, reported Kristine...

From Center on the Developing Child, Photo: from article, Harvard University, October 2023 In June, we hosted a webinar about our latest Working Paper, Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development , which examines how a wide range of conditions in the places where children live, grow, play, and learn can shape how children develop. The paper examines the many ways in which the built and natural environment surrounding a child can affect their...

University of Nevada, Reno principal investigator, Kristen Clements-Nolle and University of Nevada, Las Vegas co-principal investigator, Amanda Haboush-Deloye By Brittany Flores, Nevada Today (University of Nevada, Reno), October 24, 2023 Researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Public Health and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Public Health teamed up to secure nearly $2.5 million dollars in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

By Jane Dutton and Monica Worline, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, October 24, 2023 Three years ago, we met a woman named Denise when we visited her organization to offer a workshop. Denise shared her passion for learning about organizational culture and culture change. We had a brief, energizing conversation about how she was transferring what she was learning about culture change at work to her volunteer role at her daughter’s school. Fast forward to earlier this month, when we...

The AAP invites pediatricians and other pediatric health professionals to participate in this brief survey to assess needs related to training on trauma-informed care. The survey will close November 10, 2023 . We all know the statistics: Almost half of American children, or 34 million younger than 18, have faced at least one potentially traumatic adverse childhood experience (ACE) and more than 1 in 7 adults report 4 or more ACEs during childhood. (Duffee et al., 2021) Exposure to traumatic...

By Bobby Bostic, Illustration: Douglas Lopes/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, October 20, 2023 R ecently, at one of the writing workshops that I teach at three juvenile lockups in and around my hometown of St. Louis, one of my students posed a provocative question: “Why should I write about changing the world when the world doesn’t care about me?” The tall, lanky 16-year-old asked his question in a slow, rebellious twang that reminded me of how I spoke as a child. “You should...

Physicians and public health experts have pointed to one culprit time and again when asked why Americans live shorter lives than peers in nations with similar resources, especially people felled by chronic diseases in the prime of life: stress. A cardiologist, endocrinologist, obesity specialist, health economist and social epidemiologists all said versions of the same thing: Striving to get ahead in an unequal society contributes to people in the United States aging quicker, becoming sicker...

Black children, on average, experience their first microaggression by age 6, according to an expert on race-based trauma. (Getty Images) By Margo Snipe, Capital B, October 16, 2023 Ignored complaints of students using racist slurs, Black children getting in trouble for reporting instances of discrimination, and white students mockingly reenacting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers are all outlined in a lawsuit that hit a Georgia school district earlier this year. The...

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images. By Victoria St. Martin, Inside Climate News, October 23, 2023 For over 2,000 years, the Indigenous people known as the Yupik have occupied St. Lawrence Island, a sliver of Alaska that rests in the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle and where, on a clear day, it’s said that one can see the coastline of Russia about 40...

By Anja Nielsen, Patricia Landínez, Rob Jenkins, Zeinab Hijazi, Photo: Unsplash, The European Sting, October 20, 2023 This morning, hundreds of millions of children around the world woke up to a crisis on their doorstep . More than 400 million children are living in areas under conflict; over 36 million children are displaced from their homes; and as many as 1 billion children are living in countries with extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. More than one in five of them...