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In a recent New York Times article, the discussion over when and how to reopen schools is beginning to include emerging data from reopening strategies abroad. While this is a hotly contested issue, the debate over how to reopen schools or whether to reopen at all has been a topic of conversation since the first school closure. In all areas of our lives we have begun to ask the hard questions, “when will it be safe enough to resume our normal daily activities?” and “what precautions are...

Petia Kolibova is a women’s transformation coach who helps women who have been pushed down and been playing it small due to toxic relationships or unhealed childhood trauma to create a life that is true to them and their soul purpose.

By Monica Vaughan, Center for Health Journalism, July 2020 Sitting in a living room in a neighborhood with the worst air quality in this region of the California Central Coast, a woman told me her adult daughter had a constant cough since moving back home. She said she couldn’t keep the house clean, everything was always covered in dust inside and out. She had read my stories about the dust from the dunes in the local newspaper, The Tribune, and I asked if she thought her daughter’s...

Suspected overdoses nationally jumped 18 percent in March, 29 percent in April and 42 percent in May, data from ambulance teams, hospitals and police shows. By William Wan and Heather Long, July 1, 2020 The bodies have been arriving at Anahi Ortiz’s office in frantic spurts — as many as nine overdose deaths in 36 hours. “We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” said Ortiz, a coroner in Columbus, Ohio. In Roanoke County, Va., police have responded to twice as many fatal...

By Diana Pastora Carson, Cal Matters, July 8, 2020 Recently, my family had a scare. We had a fire threaten our property, our home in the mountains of Jamul, an unincorporated town in San Diego County. Contrary to most assumptions, potentially losing our houses on the property was not the actual scare. The scare was that my brother, Joaquin, who experiences severe autism and epilepsy, had no place to go. With people with disabilities moving out of institutions and Gov. Gavin Newsom...

As the summer ticks on, the confounding questions around meeting the needs of our workforce in these challenging times remain unresolved for many organizations. In conversations this week I heard the angst: “It’s time to get back to the office. We are following all the guidelines. We have worked to support staff and don’t know what else to do. How can we help staff come along?” As organizations adapt to their new normal, the challenge of choosing from a vast array of resources and...

This world-renowned game designer has the tools you need to regain confidence in times of chaos, visualize your future and create positive change. verizon.com, July 1, 2020 -- Climate change, a global pandemic, racial injustice … in the face of a society in turmoil, how can we as individuals take better control of our lives and the future? The answer might be found in video games. Jane McGonigal, Ph.D. and world-renowned game designer, knows the benefits of video games from personal...

By Jason Fagone, Megan Cassidy, and Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2020 Gov. Gavin Newsom will release approximately 8,000 people incarcerated inside California’s prison system by August, in a move that comes amid devastating coronavirus outbreaks at several facilities and pressure from lawmakers and advocates. The releases, which were announced just before noon Friday, will come on a rolling basis, and they’ll include both people who were scheduled to be freed soon as well...

https://www.change.org/properdiagnosismeanspropertreatment The DSM is a diagnostic manual controlled by the APA (American Psychological Association) that is made side by side with the ICD (also a diagnostic manual, controlled by WHO {World Health Organization}). Different parts of the world use different manuals, some use both. The ICD will begin it's 11th edition as of 2022 and will include C-PTSD as a diagnosis! C-PTSD has never been an official diagnosis before this. The DSM-5 has refused...

By Jamie Bussel, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 9, 2020 For tens of millions of children in the United States, school isn’t just a place to learn, but a place where they can depend on receiving healthy meals. In March 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), more than 31 million children participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and more than 17 million participated in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) ; the vast majority of children receiving these...

By Ed Yong, The Atlantic, July 7, 2020 S askia popescu’s phone buzzes throughout the night, waking her up. It had already buzzed 99 times before I interviewed her at 9:15 a.m. ET last Monday. It buzzed three times during the first 15 minutes of our call. Whenever a COVID-19 case is confirmed at her hospital system, Popescu gets an email, and her phone buzzes. She cannot silence it. An epidemiologist at the University of Arizona, Popescu works to prepare hospitals for outbreaks of emerging...

By David Sirota, Too Much Information, July 8, 2020 Sometimes if you look closely enough, you can see government officials not just making bad or negligent decisions -- but actually acting like comic-book villains. Three recent moves by Trump Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia make it seem as if the agency is intent on being Legion of Doom that funnels workers’ retirement savings to Wall Street billionaires and fossil fuel conglomerates. First came Scalia’s announcement about private equity. He...