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There has been has been a major focus on incorrectly diagnosing African Americans with Schizophrenia. This has caused several negative reactions such as, becoming dependent on the incorrect medicines that have been prescribed, unresolved mental health diagnoses, and negative well-being of the individual. This article goes on to suggest that clinicians often are from different cultures and ethnicities, and tend to develop a prejudice when seeing these African American clients. It is very well...

By Jessica Gresko, Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, Associated Press, June 30, 2023 The Supreme Court just finished issuing its biggest decisions of the term, killing President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts, ending affirmative action in higher education and issuing a major decision that impacts gay rights . The decisions over the past week cap off a term that began in October in which the justices also considered big issues involving voting...

Lorie Smith, a Colorado web designer, is at the center of the case, which involves whether she can refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Credit... Michael A. McCoy for The New York Times By The New York Times, The New York Times, June 30, 2023 The 6-3 decision, which turned on the court’s interpretation of the First Amendment, appeared to suggest that the rights of L.G.B.T.Q. people are on more vulnerable legal footing, particularly when they are at odds with claims of religious...

A legal-affairs journalist explains the implications. Montage illustration by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine; photographs of sky and gavel by Unsplash By Lincoln Caplan, Harvard Magazine, June 30, 2023 FOR ALMOST HALF A CENTURY , race-conscious admissions have been of central importance to Harvard and other selective colleges and universities. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., LL.M. ’32, in his controlling opinion in the landmark case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978),...

Demonstrators outside the Supreme Court on Friday. The court ruled against the Biden administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness, saying officials went outside the bounds of their authority in creating it. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) By Robert Barnes and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Washington Post, June 30, 2023 President Biden does not have authority to implement his roughly $400 billion program to forgive student loan debt, the Supreme Court ruled Friday, issuing another...

Join Pathways to Resilience on Wednesday, July 19 to learn how counties in California and Ohio are developing and sustaining trauma-responsive Networks of Care to prevent and address the impacts of trauma and adversity in their communities. Pathways to Resilience defines trauma-responsive Networks of Care as cross-sector collaborations that provide services and supports to help children and families prevent, address, and heal from trauma and toxic stress. They may include government...

Photo Credit: Walt Stoneburner, Flickr Creative Commons By Michelle Crouch, The Charlotte Ledger, July 5, 2023 -- With foster homes in short supply, more than 55 children over the past year have spent at least one night sleeping on an air mattress in a Mecklenburg government conference room; “It’s as bad as it’s ever been.” Dozens of children have been forced to sleep on the floor of Mecklenburg County offices over the past year because of a severe shortage of foster homes and crisis beds,...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz holds up a just-signed gun reform bill on May 19, 2023, at the state Capitol in St. Paul. Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP By Chip Brownlee, The Trace, July 5, 2023 About a year ago, as Minnesota was getting ready to receive an influx of federal dollars from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, I called up state Representative Kelly Moller to get a sense of how the funding might change the conversation around gun laws in St. Paul. At the time, in September...

Sonoma State police chief Nader Oweis. Credit: Rosie Padilla/EdSource By Rosie Padilla, EdSource, July 6, 2023 Sonoma State University’s police department is looking to improve accountability by leveraging technology to solicit feedback from those who interact with police officers. A new application called Guardian Score aims to offer the campus community a convenient way to leave feedback about their interactions with law enforcement. The two came together this past year, and now the...

By Adewale A. Maye, Image: from article, Economic Policy Institute, June 29, 2023 After extensive deliberation, the Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling that effectively prohibits the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions. Race-blind admissions processes will further exacerbate existing inequalities and undermine the recognition of the unique challenges that Black, Hispanic, and Native American students encounter throughout the admissions process. By...

Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, left, presents Assemblyman David Chi a sign after Chiu’s measure to let California cities create their own public banks was approved by the Assembly in 2019. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) By Charlotte Kramon, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2023 Los Angeles is taking another step toward opening a city-owned public bank that would support projects driven by public interest. The City Council voted last week to fund a feasibility study for the bank after...

By Greg Toppo, Image: Meghan Gallagher/The74, The74, July 6, 2023 On a tiny triangular lot in the city’s Belmont neighborhood, kids waiting with their parents for the No. 40 bus can also work on their executive functioning skills, playing a hopscotch variation designed to train their brains. In Chicago, a wooden game mounted on the wall of a laundromat teaches children, in two languages, how to find color patterns in a lineup of detergent bottle tops. And in Santa Ana, Calif., a basketball...