Blog

Simon Sinek wrote: "The limbic brain comprises the middle two sections and is responsible for all our feelings, such as trust and loyalty. This area of the brain is responsible for all human behaviour and all our decision-making. It is where our emotional connection takes place, and it has no capacity for language." As a CEO responsible for health and behavioral health systems, I noticed early on that most patients and clients didn't improve during talk therapy. As I learned the nuance of...

If there’s one thing that stands out about Rachael Steidl and her work as the Executive Director of YouthWell - it’s a sense of collaboration. Since its founding seven years ago, YouthWell has focused on bringing communities together around addressing youth mental health and ending the stigma or shame surrounding mental health challenges. Their mission has since grown and now extends to adolescents, young adults and their families across all of Santa Barbara County. YouthWell has a key aim...

By Dr. Bob Sege, 10/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ HOPE National Resource Center Director, Bob Sege, went to Darwin Australia at the end of September. Here is part two of his time there. Access part one here . At the end of September, I was invited to Sydney Australia to celebrate the beginning of a formal partnership with Western Sydney University, which is now the Australasian HOPE network leader. TeEACH (Transforming early Childhood Education and Health) sponsored my...

NACoA is a proud recipient of the 2022 Alkermes Inspiration Grants program; funding the Children Deserve Recovery, Too! program. This is a unique, limited opportunity to bring children’s recovery to your community. Apply today for a chance to be one of 40 not-for-profit organizations to receive NACoA’s Children’s Program Kit and on-demand training for community-based, youth-serving nonprofit organizations who are serving communities historically under-resourced and underrepresented. Selected...

By Emily Flitter, Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Marketplace, October 25, 2022 In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, Wall Street’s biggest banks pledged billions of dollars to address the racial wealth gap. But what often went unrecognized was the role these financial institutions have played in perpetuating wealth disparities. That’s the subject of New York Times reporter Emily Flitter’s new book, “The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America.” In it, she...

By Upasna Gautam, Photo: Samuel Hall, CNN Health, October 26, 2022 Sahaj Kohli, whose family immigrated to the United Kingdom from India, struggled with an identity crisis familiar to many children of immigrants. As the first in her family to marry a non-Indian, the first to go to therapy and the first to start talking openly about mental health, she found herself needing an outlet to share her challenges. In 2019, she founded Brown Girl Therapy , an online mental health community for...

By Madison Hunt and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, October 17, 2022 Scholar Angela Davis, an iconic activist for the abolition of prisons, shared her decades of experience on Monday with leaders of the “Family Defense Movement” — a small-but-growing community of advocates opposed to the very foundations of the child welfare system. During a virtual live-streamed conference, Davis told New York City activist Joyce McMillan she sees parallels between the U.S. prison system and the system...

Getty Images In the opening arguments to Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in Los Angeles this week, the producer’s defense lawyer pointed to his moldering, overweight client and asked the rhetorical question, “ Do you think these beautiful women had sex with him because he’s hot?” The inference is that poor Harvey was not going to get laid unless in exchange for what he provided in career advancement to conniving “Hollywood wannabes.” That was not my experience as one of his victims. When I...

Hope is different than self-efficacy (i.e., self-confidence). It’s better. In continuing the theme of why hope is different from other positive traits, I want to talk about self-efficacy. I don’t often use or hear the word “self-efficacy” in daily conversation. However, I do hear the word “self-confidence” more regularly. The science behind self-efficacy is that people influence the course of their lives through their behaviors. Like hope it deals with goals and how we think about and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pccx_ZPS030&t=55s Michelle Dyson is a Consumer Advocate Network (CAN) Advocate and Director of Training and Outreach. Michelle brings over 40 years of personal and familial lived experience to her role as advocate. Her mission is to educate the community, friends, family members, and first responders in Mental Health Crisis Models and to promote person to person communication and relationships. With a background in customer service and office...

By The Statesman, October 22, 2022 As a result of strict parenting, the way the body perceives the children’s DNA might alter. Children who grow up with restrictions may have these modifications “hard-wired” into their DNA, increasing their biological risk of depression in adolescence and later in life. Presenting the work at the ECNP Congress in Vienna, Dr Evelien Van Assche said: “We discovered that perceived harsh parenting, with physical punishment and psychological manipulation, can...

By Nick Roll, Photo: Sue Ogrocki/AP/File, Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2022 1. United States Oklahoma has reduced its prison population by 21% over the last five years. Through a series of legislative reforms and voter initiatives, Oklahoma eliminated prison time for some low-level drug and property offenses, and reduced the length of sentences for other crimes. A community-led campaign called Project Commutation has helped people with long sentences have them commuted. And a...