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Has the pandemic stressed you out? Want to learn the self-soothing skills of Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience directly from the author, Dr. Carolyn Curtis? Good news! The Dibble Institute has received generous funding for scholarships to the online, full 12-lesson series, Mind Matters Now . The course helps teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and others manage their stress by building resilience skills and practices for mental well-being. (CEUs are...

By Natalie Hanson, February 5, 2020, Chico Enterprise Record CHICO — In the Chapman neighborhood, traveling to and from school looks a bit different. Children often walk or bike on their own to Chapman Elementary, located one block away from East 20th Street. They must leave their backpacks and belongings hanging on hooks outside classrooms in the open air, now that the lockers that once lined the hallways have been removed. “We’re short on space here,” Dave Tehan, of custodian services,...

By Natalie Hanson, December 23, 2019 Chico Enterprise Record CHICO — In 2019, treating mental health is still one of Butte County’s biggest concerns, along with higher rates of drug-induced deaths and adverse childhood experiences, than in many other areas in California. The Butty County Public Health Department’s report for 2019 has been released as a result collaboration with Enloe Medical Center, Feather River Hospital and Orchard Hospital beginning in 2018. The Camp Fire led to an...