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A drug user holds her syringe as she prepares to use heroin at OnPoint NYC, a supervised drug injection site in New York City. Gabrielle Lurie, Staff / The Chronicle By William Andereck, David Smith, and Steve Heilig, San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2023 Sadly, they are called “frequent flyers” — severely ill patients with serious medical conditions who routinely cycle in and out of hospital emergency departments. On any given day, their affliction could be an overwhelming infection,...

Having an individual who is diagnosed with severe Alzheimer’s disease can cause extreme burden on caretakers. Alzheimer’s is the decrease in brain availability. Alzheimer’s disease is a stressor in itself, because the disease causes individuals to have difficulty with cognition, ultimately reducing memory and events. There are a number of concerns in the treatment process involving this disease. The question of involving medicine to improve the treatment process of an individual with...

July 13, 2023: Today we welcomed new members, reviewed the Resilient NC website, shared upcoming community events and stakeholder training opportunities, including details about the Tri-County Resiliency Summit, and encouraged continued input towards revising the Environmental Scan. Please use the passcode below to access the recording of today's meeting. Passcode : ROARJuly2023! 2023 COMMITMENTS TO ROAR EVERY stakeholder is encouraged and invited to COMPLETE the 2023 Commitments Document .

Talking about Street and working children in Pakistan. Practice based research in March 2023. The businessmen sometimes try to save labor costs by hiring underage workers. We found several meat shops, packing factories, plants nurseries etc have been cited for hiring workers as young as 14. Street children are extremely vulnerable to sexual exploitation and in some countries are intentionally disabled and put on the street to beg, since crippled children are more likely to get donations.

🚨📰 NEWS RELEASE: The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen Issues Four Calls-to-Action in Open Letter to College Presidents Demanding Lineage-Based Affirmative Action for Descendants of U.S. Slaves/Free Negroes Pamela Denise Long, National Coordinator for The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen stated, "Historians largely frame 1960's Affirmative Action as a response to Negroes' sustained resistance to the unconstitutional Jim Crow era that began after the sabotage of Reconstruction (via the...

By Courtney Wise, Photo: from article, MindSiteNews, July 27, 2023 Hello, MindSite News parenting newsletter readers! We had a pleasant surprise when we got back from our summer break – this newsletter, “Spotlight on Kids, Youth and Family,” had won a 2023 silver award in the National Health Information Awards competition. We’re honored to be in the company of other NHIA winners, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and Daniel Tiger. And today we take a look at how boys may be...

By Jasmine Mithani, Illustration: Jelena Živković/GETTY IMAGES, The 19th*, July 26, 2023 Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu began doing disability doula work long before they ever heard the term. From the time they were in middle school, they remember “being responsible for big, intense crisis situations” with their friends. Throughout high school, a close friend self-injured. Kaufman-Mthimkhulu would drive to her house and listen. They would also take care of their friend’s wounds, spend time...

Charles Johnson, 52, gulps down a third bottle of water on an extremely hot day in Blythe, Calif. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By Ruben Vives and Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2032 At a homeless encampment dubbed the Lost City, hidden behind a cluster of pine trees off Highway 95, Charles Johnson was sweltering. He was drenched in sweat, worsening the heat rash on his back and arms. His sunburned skin ached. He was hungry. He was desperate for water. And he yearned for ice —...

By Cris M. Sullivan, Cortney Simmons, Mayra Guerrero, et. al., Photo: iStock/Kobus Louw, Housing Matters, July 26, 2023 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of homelessness and can harm physical and mental health and financial outcomes. But little evidence exists on how to effectively help IPV survivors obtain housing stability and safety. To fill the gap, a group of researchers from Michigan State University, in collaboration with the Washington State Coalition Against...

By Steve Taylor, Image: Prachatai/from Flickr and Wikipedia, Psychology Today, July 26, 2023 After studying children brought up in orphanages and other institutions in the 1930s and 1940s, the British psychologist John Bowlby developed his maternal deprivation hypothesis . He suggested that if a young child’s attachment to a mother figure is broken, this is likely to severely damage their social, emotional, and intellectual development. A lack of attachment could result in what he called...

By Laura Gallant, 7/27/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ For many educators, the end of July is a time to start brainstorming about the set up of your classroom. When thinking about how to decorate your classroom and how to get to know your students, consider doing this in a HOPEful way. Below are 10 tips to add HOPE and the Four Building Blocks to your classroom before students even arrive. The environment building block is a large focus for these tips, but educators can practice...

Hi folks, Just wanted to compile a list of resources for those wanting to help men with their trauma. Documentary - The Work The Wisdom of Trauma The Mankind Project - retreat programs Please feel free to add more suggestions. Having worked in jails & rehab centres I gained a great deal of insight into how unprocessed trauma influences a life. It influenced me to create a men's retreat to help men work through trauma and heal.