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By Catherine E. Shoichet, Image: Disney, CNN Health, January 18, 2022 Kadesha Adelakun bought toys from "Encanto" before she even had a chance to see the movie. She knew characters from a multiracial Afro-Latino family would be an important addition to her office in Kennesaw, Georgia, where she holds play therapy sessions and makes a point of finding toys that reflect the diversity of her young patients' lives. When she finally watched the movie on Disney+, Adelakun realized the figurines...

By Chris Kjoljede, Photo: Getty Images, Public Health Post, January 19, 2022 Madison and her mother recently moved into a community with a school-based health center. Madison has had a difficult time fitting in to the middle school; she is quiet and has few friends. At her annual health check-up, she scores high on a depression scale prompting the nurse practitioner to probe further. Madison has lost weight and is cutting. After speaking to her mother, who also registers concern, the nurse...

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Forward-Facing Face to Face: Mission Statement, Vision and Code of Honor Join Dr. Gentry and Jenny Brackman for a opportunity to declare your Mission Statement, Vision and Code of Honor before witnesses in a supportive community. Over the holiday season we finalized our Documents of Intention and are excited to share them, as well as support anyone who would like to share theirs. Open to anyone! Join us Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 5:00pm Arizona Time for Forward-Facing Face to Face: Mission...

On February 24, 2021, Dr. Warren Larkin of the UK and Becky Haas of the US launched the first meeting of the Global Resiliency Accelerator. During 2021, over 60 people from 14 countries joined the event as it met quarterly. Among these in attendance were professionals from Lithuania, Australia, Ukraine, Scotland, France, Canada, New Zealand, the US, Dublin, and Wales. The Participants' enthusiasm and passion was so great, that several of them made a commitment to be up in the middle of the...

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a set of trauma-informed skills that can help people monitor their bodily sensations and ground themselves towards their Resilient Zone. CRM is supporting individuals towards resilience in Georgia and across the nation. To read more about the basis of CRM and how it's being used today, check out our newest blog post here .

By Carl Romer and Andre Perry, Photo: David McNew/Getty Images, Bloomberg Opinion, January 18, 2022 When people debate whether to forgive some or all of the $1.75 trillion in student debt weighing on millions of American families, opponents often argue that it would be wasteful and unfair: Too many relatively well-off, well-educated people would benefit at the expense of all taxpayers, many of whom never had the desire or opportunity to attend college. Reasonable as this might sound, it’s...

By Christie Aschwanden, Photo: Keith E. Morrison, The New York Times, January 19, 2022 I was so tempted to skip the run. It was a Thursday afternoon in early December, and by the time my five Zoom meetings were done, it was getting dark and the sky was spitting sleet. Still, I headed out the door, because my last call of the day had been with a couple of professional runners, each with multiple national championship titles in distance running under their belt. Physician Megan Roche and her...

By Angela Roberts, Image: Frederickcountymd.gov, The Frederick News-Post, January 19, 2022 Close to 150 policy makers, health care providers, nonprofit leaders, advocates and other community members in Frederick County met Wednesday afternoon to learn about local public health concerns and discuss potential interventions. The forum, which took place over Zoom, represented the latest step in the current iteration of Frederick County’s health improvement process — a triennial project led by...

By Kia Darling-Hammond, Image: Amir Khadar/amirkhadar.com, Non Profit Quarterly, January 20, 2022 In order for me to thrive as a person I need to be doing something that I love and be surrounded by people that I love and have a community that I can call my own. —Lara Thriving means having your identity supported, your identity affirmed . . . being in a situation where you can learn, fail, make mistakes, and still understand yourself as someone who will be capable of greatness and is worth...

Alcohol use disorder, which includes alcoholism, is a pattern of behavior where the person cannot control their drinking and is preoccupied with drinking even when it causes them problems. For many alcoholics, what starts as having a few drinks for reasons that are not fully understood balloons into an out-of-control compellation to drink more and more to get the same effect. This article will focus on alcoholism , its causes, including genetic links that cause a person to be more...

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