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EMTs help a patient in Austin, Texas, this week. The man had passed out near the state capitol and was dehydrated. Cities with few trees and areas of shade are hotter during heat waves. Brandon Bell/Getty Images By Yuki Noguchi, National Public Radio (NPR), August 10, 2023 Within the past five years, Dr. Sameed Khatana says, many of his patients in Philadelphia have realized how climate change hurts them, as they fared poorly with each wave of record heat. "Like most public health issues in...

Ten years after its inception, the Navy's deployed resiliency counselor program continues to evolve, with more counselors embedding within the crews of aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. Sailors with the carrier George H.W. Bush are shown here in April returning to Naval Station Norfolk, Va.,, following a deployment. (Navy ) By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Military Times, August 8, 2023 Among the many takeaways that Andrew Mauldin has gleaned in his years working as one of the Navy’s...

By Hoda Emam, Illustration: Richard Mia, Harvard Public Health, August 9, 2023 On a rainy Saturday morning in San Diego, California, Viridiana Montero joined a small crowd at the Logan Temple AME Zion Church. They weren’t looking for God; they were looking for diapers. Montero is a regular at the church’s weekly diaper distribution. She needed two packs of size 3 diapers to get through the week, but volunteer diaper distributors had already run out of size 3s. She took the next size up...

Two pregnant girls walk through the center of the capital of El Salvador, a country with one of the highest rates of pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 14, and where, as in the rest of Central America, what prevails are conservative views opposed to the teaching of sex education in schools, which is essential to reducing the phenomenon. CREDIT: Francisco Campos / IPS By Edgardo Ayala, International Press Service News Agency, August 3, 2023 Pregnancies among girls and adolescents continue...

By Kira M. Newman, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, August 7, 2023 Last month, around 1,000 people from over 56 countries gathered at the International Positive Psychology Association’s 8th World Congress (IPPA) in Vancouver, Canada, to share cutting-edge insights on the science of well-being. This year more than ever, there was an acknowledgement that the ways we think about happiness—and the studies that have been conducted—are mainly based on Western ideas and Western...

Little thoughtful gestures can make someone’s day. alashi/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images By Margaret Echelbarger, The Converstion, July 12, 2023 The big idea From expressing gratitude to surprising someone with a mug of hot chocolate on a cold day, adults tend to underestimate how positively others will respond to their random acts of kindness . I’m a behavioral scientist who teamed up with my research partner Nicholas Epley on research that showed how children and teens share this...

By Wendy Ruan, 8/10/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ This summer, nearly 500,000 school children and their families have access to free meals because the federal government approved an extension of the Pandemic-Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) benefits in Massachusetts. The extension can help parents provide food security for their families, reduce financial stress, and promote overall well-being. Balanced nutrition is key to child development, and P-EBT promotes positive...

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is delighted to welcome Nikita Gupta, our guest speaker for the September Resilience Speaker Series, presenting “Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Others: Minimizing Burnout and Replenishing Empathy.” The presentation will offer a space for participants to reflect on burnout and compassion fatigue, and how they are experienced in our body and nervous system. Participants will explore and practice body-based strategies for restoration and the...

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is pleased to announce that Wallace E. Dixon, Ph.D., Founding Director, has been selected, along with Jane Childers, Trinity University, to edit the special P/ACEs issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Please see the website here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-experimental-child-psychology/about/call-for-papers Dr. Dixon is looking for some action editors and reviewers. If you are interested, have questions or...

Based on the epidemiological data, we can see that the United States has the highest number of COVID-19 in the world, with 13,386,255 cases. Furthermore, there were 8613,630 cases and 204,873 during the pandemic, while there were a total of 1529,691 cases and 29,313 deaths in rural areas (Diego et al., 2021). If left untreated, the number of cases and death will continue to rise, especially in rural communities since they have the lowest healthcare resources. For this intervention, I...

For PHC6541, this Multi-Level Public Health Resilience-Building Intervention targets undergraduate students attending the University of Florida during hurricane season, as research indicates this population is particularly vulnerable at that time, such as lacking reliable transportation and living several hours or more away from home (Simms et al., 2013). The proposed Instagram account, @ufdisasterpreparedness, seeks to build resilience by strengthening and connecting undergraduate students...

It’s hard to escape the fact the employers of all kinds are struggling to engage and retain staff. Pre-pandemic, top-down strategies aren’t working to address these issues, and leaders need to think and act differently—to practice empathy, inclusivity, mindfulness, and gratitude—but it is difficult to know where to begin. In Social Current's upcoming webinars on building a resilient workforce , we will delve into core strategies and provide concrete action steps for supporting staff. Join us...