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By Precious Adesina, Image: Lubaina Himid/Private collection, BBC, November 22, 2021 P ainter Lubaina Himid says her work is not about making something pretty. "I don't expect you to attend a show of mine and go: 'It's very beautiful'. That's not what it is," she tells BBC Culture over a video call. Instead, her paintings are designed to make people think about their relationship to history, and what gets left out of textbooks. Himid is among the most influential black British artists alive...

By Laura Bliss, Photo: Jane Tyska/ Getty Images, Bloomberg City Lab, November 29, 2021 A federal grant program that had become a honeypot for rural highway-building in the Trump years has pivoted in favor of projects for sidewalks, bikes and public transit. In the new tranche of almost $1 billion in RAISE grant selections from the U.S. Department of Transportation announced earlier this month, roads were the losers. RAISE — which stands for Rebuilding American Infrastructure with...

By Amanda Willis and Gaynor Parkin, Photo: Peopleimages/Getty Images, The Guardian, November 29, 2021 C onsider a construction worker who hasn’t slept more than four hours a night for the past week, a software engineer who is battling a persistent cold but keeps working from their home office, and a schoolteacher who worries about their students so shows up each day despite feeling emotionally burned out. What do they have in common? Presenteeism, otherwise known as the act of working while...

Once you understand your Journey to a certain point, you can begin to live each day with a sense of “cohesion” and understand what you do and why you do it. Your choices become more intentional and meaningful.

By Guest Author, 11/30/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Join us on December 6 th at 3 p.m. EST / 12 pm PST as we discuss what HOPE looks like in communities! Register for HOPE in Communities , the second session in our HOPEful Conversations Workshop series. This session will be an open discussion about using the HOPE Framework and promoting Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) in community settings. Aimee Zeitz from San Diego’s YMCA and Tammie Doebler from Lake of the Woods Prevention...

Thinking about root causes, how do we successfully engage one of these groups; future parents, parents, caregivers in PREVENTING ACEs in the first place, in a cost-effective way? There will be up to 5 prizes for highly promising ideas.

Uplift Press is excited to announce… Our free new ebook for parents can put a sweet spin on the holidays. Self-Esteem: The Best Gift for Your Children...and Yourself is an excerpt from The Winning Family by Caven and thought leader Dr. Louise Hart. A new edition of bestseller The Winning Family is coming out in 2022. More positive parenting resources can be found at www.upliftpress.com . Self-Esteem: The Best Gift (for your children AND yourself!) A free ebook for parents Excerpt from The...

Featured Speaker & Special Discounts Fathers and Families Coalition of America is honored to announce one of our featured speakers, Nekeshia Hammond, PsyD. We have hosted thousands of faculty members over the past 20+ years. Join us in 2022 as we are thrilled to have Dr. Nekeshia Hammond, PsyD, an expert helping parents navigate wellness for their children and healthy families. Participants will go through a journey together on how we can improve the wellness of children and young...

As 2021 comes to a close, we want to take a few moments to reflect on this busy and fruitful year as we ask you to remember PACEs Connection in your Giving Tuesday and year-end giving. Despite this physically and emotionally challenging time, we have so very much for which to be grateful, and we would love to share our gratitude list with you. When we practice gratitude, we’re actually practicing a very PACEs-Connection thing to do: helping our brains. Brain imaging studies, says Dr. Daniel...

Upon seeing a mental health specialist, we are often unclear about what brought us there, our purpose for seeing them, and our goals for the future. One method mental health professionals use to help both you and they guide your healing journey is to form a treatment plan. But what is a treatment plan? This article will explore this question and provide information on treatment plans and some of the people involved in your healing. After reading this article, you will see just how vital a...

By Stephanie O'Neill, Photo: Stephanie O'Neill/KHN, California Healthline, November 29, 2021 It was supper time in the Whittier, California, home of Air Force veteran Danyelle Clark-Gutierrez, and eagerly awaiting a bowl of kibble and canned dog food was Lisa, a 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. Her nails clicking on the kitchen floor as she danced about, Lisa looked more like an exuberant puppy than the highly trained service animal that helps Clark-Gutierrez manage the symptoms of...

By Bob Mercer, Keloland, November 22, 2021 A closer relationship that’s developed between South Dakota’s courts and mental-health services during recent years seems to be gradually paying off. That’s according to the draft of a new annual report from a state monitoring panel. The South Dakota Oversight Council for Improving Criminal Justices Responses for Persons with Mental Illness put the finishing touches on the report Monday. [ Please click here to read more .]