Tagged With "POLICY"
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Federal Legislation would reduce poverty & fund caregiving
The Worker Relief and Credit Reform Act, WRCR HR5271, introduced by Reps Gwen Moore (WI) & Marcia Fudge (OH), would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to make it fully refundable and available to more people, including mothers and other unwaged primary caregivers, and get cash directly into mothers’ and families hands
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Build a plan for Covid-19 home testing on reason, not speculation or politics
When the government ignores rational health policy, and instead follows unsound ones, the effects can last longer than anyone expects.
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Seek to link with families and communities about toxic stress
By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize clinical activities, rewrite research agendas, and realign our collective advocacy.
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CTIPP WORKSHOP: Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience: Continues (still time to participate…Its FREE)
Building The Movement Through: 1] Transformative Justice And Faith-Based Institutions: 2] With Populations With High Prevalence Of Trauma: 3] With Foundations And The Private Sector: 4] Through Policy and Advocacy.
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Childhood Adversity, Social Inequality, and Public Policy
Adversity in childhood can be prevented by going upstream and creating social policies that support optimal familial environments in early childhood. Such policies could focus on parenting, parent mental health and substance use, and poverty reduction, among other targets.
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Re: Childhood Adversity, Social Inequality, and Public Policy
Exactly! Dr. McEwen, we so need to bring esteemed historian and patriot Heather Cox Richardson, PhD, into the conversation and exhortations on the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences. Were Dr. Richardson, author of the almost daily " Letters from an American " to frame our nation’s history through the lens of the traumas our peoples have endured, it would explain so much about our current collective trauma. Were she to link for her thousands of followers the science of how...
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Re: Childhood Adversity, Social Inequality, and Public Policy
Dr. McEwen, This is not something new It is yet another study that indicates the focus of PACES research should be on the causative social and cultural factors.