“No one should have to go hungry because they stepped up to care for a child,” says Jamarl Clark of . youthtoday.org/2023/02/grandf via
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Excellent, heartbreaking piece by about Maeve Boothby O'Neill, 27, who died from ME complications in 2021 — and about all the ways the medical system fails ME patients:
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I'd move to the south in heartbeat for chance to work at What an opportunity!
Hiring for Southern Correspondents, Kaiser Health News
Grandparents raising children (granfamilies) face high rates of food insecurity, says .
“No one should have to go hungry because they stepped up to care for a child”
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Noooooo poor mountain lions
"Vehicle strikes, rat poison, inbreeding, urban encroachment and wildfire are all contributing to a dire prognosis that scientists call an “extinction vortex.”
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Take a moment to relax with this article on calming rooms. It's the latest trend in schools and afterschool programs: providing a safe place for children to regulate emotions and recharge. #calmingroom #zendens #braverooms
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Anyway, more accountability journalism in the substance use treatment space is needed!
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Also, the allegation in the lawsuit from neighbors who say they could see residents masturbating in the windows is terribly uncomfortable. I have many questions: how could they see them? where are the windows? Ground floor? Higher up? Curtains? Is this NIMBY? Peeping toms? ???
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A must-read investigation from the today on San Francisco's Baker Places, a nonprofit drug treatment provider, alleging a "culture of carelessness" that led to fatal overdoses and clients "struggling to escape the cycle of addiction"
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Check out this article from by about how zen dens, peace rooms, chill-out spaces in schools and afterschool programs are giving kids space to reflect and regulate:
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At the Brooklyn school that saw the sharpest drop in math scores since 2019, classrooms are chronically overcrowded, 81% of students have experienced poverty and students recently had to pass through metal detectors before going to class.
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Don't miss 's Q&A with author about her book INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE POLITICS IN THE SCHOOLROOM! Read it now on :
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This quote from a climate change article in the NYT should be used in every article henceforth.
“We live in a terrible world, and we live in a wonderful world”
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*Can Peers Power the Mental Health Workforce of the Future? By
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My first news feature for MindSite explores efforts to build a robust workforce for mental health mobile crisis programs. A nationwide shortage of MH workers has some saying we need to focus less on licensed clinicians and hire more people with lived experiences.
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Can Peers Power the Mental Health Workforce of the Future? @BizRinker mindsitenews.org/2022/10/22/can
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Fall foliage in Seattle suburbs vs San Francisco.
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I spoke with Sixto Cancel, founder of Think of Us, in my latest Q&A for . Among other topics, we talked about the importance of lived experiences and the need to redesign the foster care system.
youthtoday.org/2022/08/qa-six
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An LA health system is using a Seattle-based startup's tech platform to incentive $$ unhoused people who rely on the ER to instead seek routine health care.
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10k in student debt relief? add another zero and you got yourself a deal!
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Ella & have gotten deeply involved in how 's DTLA hospital are now giving Samaritan Memberships to help Skid Row patients take steps towards stability.
journalist 's early findings here:
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Afterschool doubles down on mental health / SEL after an uptick in kids exhibiting behavioral issues
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Do online adoption “heart galleries” do more harm than good?
A very complex question. I explore the pros and cons.
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“We got a call from a young woman who...saw her face on a poster and was thoroughly upset, begging with us to please take it down. It immediately shifted my thinking about what are we doing here," 's told .
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woke up this morning at 5am to get to work and ended up spilling an entire cup of coffee on the couch. day was shot after that.
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goddamn
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Supreme Court my ass
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"The prophet of remote work says go ahead and do your household chores while nobody’s looking"
but i don't wanna do the dishes
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“We don’t trust them,” one Michigan (DHHS) supervisor wrote to her colleagues. “We are making BIG decisions, including having parents leave home or removal, and that’s scary to do when you don’t trust who you’re getting services from. Is there a different agency we can use?”
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"Averhealth’s former lab director ... testified during a family court case ... up to 30% of the company’s [drug] test results submitted to the state of Michigan were wrong."
A big problem for parents who depend on accurate tests to keep their children
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My wife just unlocked Siri on my phone with an Elizabeth Holmes impression.
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DEA investigates rampant drug use and overdoses in this SD rehab
Have heard plenty of similar stories in rehabs across the state.
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"Higher optimism was associated with longer lifespan and a greater likelihood of achieving exceptional longevity overall and across racial and ethnic groups"
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"More than 4 in 10 U.S. Adults Who Needed Substance Use and Mental Health Care Did Not Get Treatment"
shocking but not surprising
Breaking news: Mayor London Breed appoints Homelander as SF's new DA!!
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"California is diving into the prescription drug business, attempting to achieve what no other state has done: produce its own brand of generic insulin and sell it at below-market prices"
whoa. interesting.
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Yes! Known as FDCARES, this fascinating program -one of the only in the nation - hires nurses to work alongside firefighters to provide ongoing medical care to 911 callers. Pop quiz: What does "beanery" in FD speak mean?
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The #LeadingToHealth column in the May 2022 edition of @Health_Affairs, authored by @BizRinker, highlights a Washington State fire department that dispatches nurses and social workers to address the underlying health and social needs of repeat 911 callers. @RWJF
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If you agree that addiction is a disease, then safe injection sites make sense, right?
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