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As 2017 fades into the history books, the year will be remembered for many things: polarizing political debates over tax reform, immigration, education funding and health care; exciting economic opportunities across the state; and the opening of the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. One phenomenon that stands out, however, is the stranglehold the opioid epidemic has established in our beautiful state. My office sees this epidemic in every aspect of our work — from child protection...

If there is ever a competition for the title of Busiest Minister in America, the smart money will be on Yoan Mora, senior pastor of Primera Iglesia Cristiana, a small but vibrant Spanish-speaking congregation in San Antonio, Texas. The weeks are nuts: worship services, classes, and meetings on Sundays; a radio program on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; prayer service and Bible study on Tuesdays; house church meetings in the southern reaches of the city each Thursday; a job-training program...

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Survey: Two-thirds of LGBTQ people experience anxiety disorders Loneliness, mental health, separation: How homelessness affects children later in life Documentary reveals connection between childhood trauma and cancer Health system should recognize intergenerational trauma, expert says Opinion: Opioid crisis seen through the lens of adverse childhood experiences Brain and Biology Callous and unemotional traits show in brain structure of boys only, study finds Does...

Monday, May 14, 2018 Albert Einstein College of Medicine Michael F. Price Center 1300 Morris Park Center, 4th Floor Bronx, NY 10461 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Learn about our model of Integrated Pediatric Behavioral Health Services, including HealthySteps for children birth through age 5, and our evidence-informed, short-term, modularized treatment protocols for school age and adolescent: • Anxiety • ADHD • Trauma • Depression • Conduct Problems One full day of training, including electronic and...

“It is the intentions, the capacities for choice rather than the total configuration of traits which defines the person,” philosopher Amelie Rorty wrote in examining what makes a person through her taxonomy of the seven layers of identity . I have thought about Rorty often in watching the steamroller of our cultural moment level the beautiful, wild topography of personhood into variations on identity politics, demolishing context, dispossessing expression of intention, and flattening persons...

Something somewhat extraordinary happened last month at Billy Earl Dade Middle School in Dallas. The school — with a student population of nearly 900, about 90 percent from low-income families — planned to host its first “Breakfast with Dads,” according to the Dallas Morning News . About 150 male students, ages 11 to 13, signed up. But event organizers were concerned that some would attend without a male figure at their side, so they put out a call for volunteers who could serve as mentors.

When a kid acts out in New Britain, the first question teachers, administrators and mental health professionals are asking is no longer, “What’s wrong with you?” but, “What happened to you?” The reaction is no longer to punish, but to empathize. The shift is just the beginning of the city’s efforts to become “trauma-informed.” [For more on this story by JULIA WERTH, go to https://ctmirror.org/2017/08/28/to-be-a-trauma-informed-city-takes-a-cultural-shift-and-partnership/ ]

His fight may have been cut short before they were born, but he would have recognized the struggles they face: the children of janitors and gardeners, dishwashers and security guards, Mexican, Salvadoran, Korean, Filipino, their adolescent yearnings and hardships percolating through the most densely populated corner of Los Angeles. Shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, when Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered his final address, he was standing in their library—then the Embassy Ballroom of...

Aboriginal or indigenous midwifery is seeing a resurgence as conventional health-care policies in hospital and clinics perpetuate an environment in which most contemporary pregnant Native women are considered pathologically unhealthy. “The mainstream medical narratives surrounding Native women depict moms who don’t breastfeed and don’t have partners. According to this portrayal, Native women don’t exercise, eat poorly, and have diabetes. We are seen as hopeless,” said Marinah Farrell, an...

It would seem that, by definition, social services and community health programs help the neighborhoods where they operate. But talk to community leaders on the ground, like Adair Mosley, CEO of Pillsbury United Communities in Minneapolis, and it becomes clear that while intent isn’t lacking, designing services that really reflect community need is a challenge. “Typically, social service is prescriptive in nature, anchored in hubris,” says Mosley, whose group serves underestimated...

“Be more confident,” a friend once told me as we made the rounds at a swanky networking event where I felt terribly out of place. Faking confidence is easy: I pulled my shoulders back and spoke louder and with more assertiveness. Like many soft-spoken, mild-mannered people, I’ve spent a great deal of time trying to present myself this way. As it turns out, confidence may be overrated. “We like confidence because it feels good and gives us a sense of control. The alternative would be constant...

In case you missed Orpah's powerful, moving, and emotional speech or want to watch it fifty-nine more times.... here you go. The first clip, from a fast-moving YouTuber who got it online quickly, is about Oprah receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The second is from her acceptance speech. Celebrating Oprah Oprah's Acceptance Speech Here's more about Recy Taylor who Oprah talks about in her speech. Here's more about the #MeToo Movement founder , Tarana Burke. Here's @Jane Ellen Stevens essay...