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From Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Photo: from article, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, June 27, 2023 Mental health matters! Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, act, handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is just as important as physical health throughout our lives. Mental health issues are common – more than 1 in 5 US adults live with a mental illness. Mental health...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/teen-poultry-factory-child-worker-deaths_n_64b7ecbce4b0ad7b75f67af7 For the third time in five weeks, a 16-year-old boy has died after sustaining on-the-job injuries at an industrial site, as lawmakers in several states advocate loosening child labor laws that protect minors from hazardous work. The latest teen death was Friday night at the Mar-Jac Poultry plant in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, authorities said. It’s the third worker death at the plant since...

The Child Abuse Prevention Center is hiring for two program leadership positions, and we not only want to reach a candidate pool that reflects the diversity of our communities, but in particular, individuals whose professional experience and personal missions have been centered in racial and gender equity and the well-being of California’s most marginalized families and children. Both positions are hybrid based in Sacramento and can be found here: https://www.thecapcenter.org/careers/ .

The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP) , Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative has released and updated “California Child Wellbeing Coalition e-Guide (e-Guide).” The e-Guide was developed for all those who are serving Californians and interested in collaborating or connecting with local coalitions, boards, and other organized bodies who are working...

"Navigating life’s ups and downs, even as a child, can be stressful. Howling with Huskies lays a foundation of what to do when our feelings seem out of reach."

Voices for Virginia’s Children is hosting the Beyond Trauma: Youth Mental Health Policy and Practice Summit on October 11, 2023. With 12 invigorating workshops across three tracks (Individual, Interpersonal, and Institutional), attendees will walk away with tools to embark on their healing journey and ways to incorporate healing into youth policy and practice. Be sure to visit our Summit website for details and tickets!

By Cara Nixon, Photo: Julie Leopo/EdSource, EdSource, July 19, 2023 Every time former Superintendent Robin Jones walked into Kit Carson Elementary School, she remembered getting off the bus and walking down the hallway as a child. Jones, who attended Kit Carson K-8, said coming back as an administrator “just happened.” She recalls becoming superintendent there partially because she didn’t want anyone else to have the job. “I just felt like, well, no one’s going to treat it the way I would...

By Eleni Stephanides, Illustration: Shutterstock, LGBTQ Nation, July 19, 2023 Though it wasn’t explicitly marketed as LGBTQ+ literature, I consider Middlesex my first foray into a queer narrative. It played a pivotal role for my then 15-year-old self in the early 2000s, and I would return to it many times in the years that followed. The character of Calliope is intersex, but they live their first twenty years with a female gender expression. As a closeted teenager also grappling with...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Mayor Brandon Johnson unveiled a new enrollment center for migrant families to get children enrolled before the first day of school. Mila Koumpilova / Chalkbeat By Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat Chicago, July 17, 2023 Recently arrived migrant families on Chicago’s West Side will get help with enrolling in school, receiving free school supplies, signing up for public benefits, and getting vaccinated at a new “welcome center” run by Chicago Public...

Megan Dunn (right), hugs Stacey Fuller, her former peer adviser. Dunn has been arrested on charges related to illicit drug use. While in Walker County’s jail, she says, she was once placed in a holding cell known as the “drunk tank,” a concrete room that lacks water, a bed, or a toilet. (Renuka Rayasam / KFF Health News) By Renuka Rayasam, California Healthline, July 19, 2023 Megan Dunn, who has struggled with addiction since her teens, points to the moment her life went “deeply downhill.”...

Tim Pippert, right, with Augsburg University students Madelyne Yang, left, and Donovan Holmes. Pippert, director of Augsburg Family Scholars program, called new state grants that cover the cost of college for foster youth a “game changer,” though he suggested such efforts should also be paired with supportive services. Photo courtesy of Augsburg University. By Farrah Mina, The Imprint, July 11, 2023 During her senior year of high school, Madelyne Yang sat down with her counselor to...

By Jill Suttie, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, July 17, 2023 There is a long line of research showing that when we make contact with people who are socially different than us, we tend to feel less prejudice towards them. This is known as “the contact hypothesis,” and it has been proposed as a potential remedy for prejudice for decades. Contact seems to work best for reducing prejudice when the people involved have equal power in a situation or the contact is generally positive,...