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Jenny Kane/AP By Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR.org Starting July 16, people in mental health crisis will have a new way to reach out for help. Instead of dialing the current 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline , they can simply call or text the numbers 9-8-8. Modeled after 911, the new 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is designed to be a memorable and quick number that connects people who are suicidal or in any other mental health crisis to a trained mental health professional. "If you...

Earlier this month, the Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Project completed its first 9-month quality-improvement ECHO program. Cohort 1 of the TASIE Project included 17 pediatric primary care practices consisting of 89 providers and 114 total team members, across eight states. These practices have successfully incorporated ACEs screening into their workflow and will use what they've learned through this program to spread awareness of ACEs and toxic stress...

Updates from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) on White House, Agency, and Congressional action on trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). First Draft of Federal Funding Bills Have Been Revealed - Big Wins! In late June, the House Appropriations Committee marked up its Fiscal Year 23 (FY23) spending bills. In exciting news, a number of the funding requests that CTIPP and members of the National Trauma Campaign have championed to advance the trauma-informed...

By Heidi Brooks, Chief Operating Officer at NICHQ, June 29, 2021, in The N ational Institute for Children's Health Quality. Holding space for inclusive and expansive language in maternal and child health “Hi! My name is Natalia, and my pronouns are she/her/hers.” The first time I heard this introduction, I was confused. I mean, it was obvious to me that Natalia was a woman. Why were we spending time identifying the obvious? Then I remembered my friend’s child. Assigned female at birth, at...

By Rick Sadler , July 15, 2022, the Public Health Post We know that structural racism has far-reaching and enduring impacts on the built environment of neighborhoods and on the health of the people who live there. Structural racism both contributes to and is compounded by neighborhood disadvantage , the overconcentration of alcohol outlets , the incidence of firearm violence , the unequal redevelopment of urban areas via gentrification , and rates of childhood obesity . And yet, most of the...

By Aina J Khan, Image: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images, The Guardian, July 12, 2022 A collection of almost 30,000 rarely seen images of the black diaspora in the UK and the US, dating from the 19th century to the present, has been launched as part of an educational initiative to raise awareness of the history of black people in the UK. The Black History & Culture Collection includes more than 20 categories of images including politics, hair, education, female empowerment and...

By Joshua Yaffa, Illustration: Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker, The New Yorker, July 14, 2022 In the middle of March, a psychologist named Spartak Subbota was contacted by a group assisting Ukrainian refugees who had recently arrived in Poland. Among them was a young woman in her mid-twenties who had managed to flee a village outside of Chernhiv, in Ukraine’s north, near the border with Belarus—could he speak with her? Russian forces had entered the woman’s village in the early days of the...

By Arne Duncan, Image: Chicago CRED, Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 14, 2022 The City of Chicago is the undisputed gun violence capital of America. Last year, the city saw nearly as many shootings and killings as New York and Los Angeles combined, despite having barely a fifth of their combined population. While several other cities have higher per-capita murder rates , the sheer number of shootings in Chicago—more than 4,400 in 2021, including 800 homicides—places my hometown at...

By Emily Badger and Eve Washington, Map: Up for Growth analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development data., The New York Times, July 14, 2022 San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington have long failed to build enough housing to keep up with everyone trying to live there. And for nearly as long, other parts of the country have mostly been able to shrug off the housing shortage as a condition particular to big coastal cities. But in the years...

Hawai'i Gov. David Ige signed legislation to establish the state's first Office of Wellness & Resilience. Senate Bill 2482 (SD1 HD1 CD1, relating to wellness) was signed into law by Ige on July 12, 2022. It will now be known as Act 291 . The Senate version of the bill was introduced by state Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz and supported by the state Departments of Health and Human Services, as well as more than 30 Hawai‘i child and family-serving organizations who provided testimony around the...