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The social media accounts linked to from CMHNetwork are: • Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • X Besides social media accounts, optimisticadvocate has populated their site with: • Visit Our Website! • Join Our Mailing List! • Listen to The Optimistic Advocate Podcast • Friday Update 7-21-23 • Why Trauma Screening in Schools Make Sense • Friday Update 3-31-23 • Friday Update 3-17-23 • Friday Update 3-3-23 • Friday Update 2-17-23 • Lessons From a Historic Decline in Child Poverty • The Economic Burden of Mental Health Inequities in the United States Report • Friday Update 2-3-23 • Friday Update 1-21-23 • Fully Online: Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling and Disability Sciences • 3 Tips to make Check-ins for Teachers and Principals More Meaningful • How Climate Change Affects Children's Health • Latinx Families’ Strengths and Resilience Contribute to Their Well-being • The Behavioral Health Reforms of The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act • Did You Know • Tips for Raising Generous Children • Friday Update 12-9-22 • Youth Mental Health is in Crisis. Do You Think Schools Doing Enough? • 10 Tips to Ease the Transition to College when Mental Health is a Concern • HHS Invests Nearly $27 Million to Expand Support for Pediatric Mental Health Care • Why Playing Outside Important For Kids • Creativity • 84% of Family Members • Building The Machine To Make Sure Its Get Done • Policy Recommendation to Prevent Child Welfare Involvement • Friday Update 11-25-22 • STAY: Tuned • LGBTQ Youth Suicide Facts • Community violence • Here's How Parents Can Help Spark Their Kids’ Creativity. • Mass Shooting Fact • CMHNetwork Friday Update 11-11-22 • Do you talk to your children about stress? • What are the Social Determinants of Health • Teaching Kids About Emergency Preparedness • Did You Know? • Tips for Raising Mentally Tough Kids • Back To School Toolkit • What is Measurement-Based Care (MBC)? • Position Announcement • How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Stress • Garden Can Improve Mental Heath • Fireside Chat with Dr. Tom Insel • See Us, Support Us • 4 in 10 children in the United States live in homes with criminal justice involvement • Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness • 7 Dimensions of Wellness • The Klingenstein Third Generation Fellowship Program • What Individuals, Families, and Communities Can Do TO HELP ADDRESS HEALTH MISINFORMATION • Gardening can improve mental health • How to Help Kids Grieve • How to support your LGBTQ child's mental health • How Making Art Helps Improve Mental Health • The Great Reset • Gun Violence Fact • Pain in the Nation 2022: • Study Furthers Understanding of Disparities in School Discipline • 5 False Assumptions Schools Need to Avoid • MQ Science Festival • JEAP Initiative Forum Series • Policy Strategies to Support Children's Development, Health, and Wellbeing • 14 innovations that tackle youth mental health challenges • 5 Focus Areas to Advance Health Equity Through Payment and Delivery System Reform • Friday Update 9-16-22 • More States are Allowing Students to Take Mental Health Days Off • Everyday Mental Health Practices • Important lessons learned from Coparenting and Healthy Relationship and Marriage Education for Dads (CHaRMED) • Bridging the Mental Health Care Gap for Black Children Requires a Focus on Racial Equity and Access • Facts About Young Parenting Students • Service and Advocacy Organization Leaders Share Insights for an Applied Research Agenda on Black Children and Families • 5 Tips for Mental Health Providers to Provide Culturally Competent Care for LGBTQIA+ Youth & Young Adults • Who are at Increased Risk for Negative Health Impacts Due to Climate and Climate Change? • How Do We Promote Mental Health for All Children in Schools? • LATINO STUDENT SUCCESS: Advancing U.S. Educational Progress for All • JEAP Initiative Forum • Gun Safety and Children • Myth or Fact • Screening for Trauma in Pediatric Primary Care • Families Can’t Wait • LGBTQ+ Members on Mental Health and Employment • Friday Update 8-19-22 • Racism, Violence, COVID-19, and Public Health • The Value of Mental Health to People: • 6 Recommendations to Embed Equity into 988 • Modernized Anti-Racist Data Ecosystems (MADE) for Health Justice • Seeking Wraparound Success Stories for the NWI Spotlight! • State of Babies Yearbook: 2022 • What is Youth Mobile Response? • 24th Annual Advocacy Summit • Friday Update 8-5-22 • Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: A Practitioner’s Guide • Is It Possible to Reduce School Shootings – Without Gun Control? • Is 988 the Answer? • How Does Climate Change Affect Our Health and Health Systems? • 25th NIMH Conference on Mental Health Services Research (MHSR) • Want to activate hope in your City? • Be a stake owner at SuperBetter! • Understanding Parity: A Guide to Resources for Families and Caregivers • It's time to screen all kids for anxiety, physicians' task force recommends • Friday Update 7-22-22 • 3 research-informed practices for high school students with emotional behavioral disturbance (EBD): • Disruptions to School and Home Life Among High School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic • 4 Ways Environmental Noise Can Affect Children • 6 things you need to know About Music and Health • Helpful Resources to Address the Mass Shooting in Uvalde, Texas • Racial disparity in the juvenile justice system • What is the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008? • Uplift by Youth Era • PAX Good Behavior Game • HHS Awards Nearly $25 Million to Expand Access to School-Based Health Services • Secondary Traumatic Stress • High rates of burnout among college mental health counselors noted in a survey • Is Your Child a Perfectionist • Friday Update • The Upswing Fund: 2021 Impact Summary • The Impact of COVID-19 on Black and Latino Communities • Guide for Parents: Caring for Kids with Mental Illness • How Right Now • The Robert Raben Health Equity Innovation Award Competition 2022 • National Survey of Family Experiences When Using Crisis Services for their Child, Youth or Young Adult • How to support children before, during and after they experience an emergency • How do we keep youth engaged in school? • "The development of sound measures of structural racism is an urgent public health issue." • Friday Update 6-10-22 • ALINA LIAO: ZENIT JOURNALS – A RADICAL WELLNESS COMPANY • Is your child a perfectionist? Here’s how to help • Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Campaign Toolkit • The College Faculty Guide to Academic Supports for College Students with Serious Mental Health Conditions Video Series • Online Trauma screening course • Fact about children • Share of Mental health and substance use outpatient visits by telehealth • Friday Update 5-27-22 • Youth Incarceration in the United States • Mentally healthy children function well in the home, school, and community. • Race Matters — Arriving at More Equitable Health Policy • Signs to look out for • What to say? • Take action for your mental health • How are you feeling today? • Mental Health Action Day • Friday Update 5-13-22 • Conceptual Model of the Black Family Research Agenda • Are you a high school student with an urge to make the world a better place? • Young Men of Color's Research Findings on Mental Health • How to Talk With Your Child About the War in Ukraine • The distribution of children living in poverty • Tips to alleviate kids' fear of the dark • Epidemic Rates of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Disorders • Going Digital: Behavioral Health Tech 2022 • The Latest Issue of Friday Update! • Say Something • Facts About Gun Violence And School Shootings • Warning Signs of Violence • Ways to Help Prevent Violence • National Youth Violence Prevention Week • Scholarship program for students with mental health challenges • MHA's Annual Conference: Forward Together: Recovery, Healing, Hope • Request for information Stories and Research on Health Misinformation • The Pandemic Has Created a ‘Zoom Boom’ in Remote Psychotherapy • Survey on Telehealth for Wraparound • State Actions to Prevent and Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) • Are You a Foster Parent With a Child in School? • AMERICA'S SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH REPORT CARD • Pathways to Self-Sufficiency: Career and Technical Education for Youth with Emotional Disturbances • Happy 1oth Birthday The daily mile • 'Kids very rarely do better than their parents are doing.' Here's what to do • Youth Era Featured in Study Published by the Journal of European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry • Do you agree with giving college students mental health days in schools? • A Journey Together: Redefining Our Approach to a System of Care • Online learning, racial tensions and ‘the talk’: Black parents raising children amid multiple crises • Online Survey: Appropriate Care and Treatment Study • Behavioral Health Data Added to Health Equity Tracker • National survey on student rights, discrimination and accommodations in higher education. • Study Outlines Ways to Help Children Learn Forgiveness • Nominations open for 2022: James Jackson Memorial Award • The Allegory of the Orchard – The Political Determinants of Health by Daniel E. Dawes • An Applied Research Agenda on Black Children and Families to Advance Practices and Policies That Promote Their Well-being • Grab and Go tools • Friday Update 3-18-22 • Help Identify Existing Supported Education Programs Survey • What do you think are the short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on children? • Broader Array of Programs and Services Needed for Tribal Communities and Communities of Color • Supporting Families’ Access to Child Care and Early Education: A Descriptive Profile of States’ Consumer Education Websites • Evidence-Based Treatments are Effective for Children in the Child Welfare System: Connecticut’s Family First Prevention Services Plan Can Expand Access to Effective Care • White House Fact Sheet on Youth Mental Health • Unstuck and On Target Parent Support Videos • The kids are not all right: The urgent need to expand effective behavioral health services for children and youth • Want People to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine? Confront Racism in Health Care • ACHIEVING RACIAL EQUITY IN MASSACHUSETTS: THE DYNAMIC DUO IS ON A MISSION! • Benefits of staying positive according to researchers • Kids Say Their Mental Health Is Fine. Experts Disagree • The College Faculty Guide to Academic Supports for College Students with Serious Mental Health Conditions Short Video Series • Online Survey: How is School Affecting Children’s and Families’ Mental Health During COVID-19 – A Year Later • CBITS For American Indian Youth • New Course on Building Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships to Demonstrate Program Outcomes • For Anxious Teachers, Omicron ‘Feels Like Walking Into a Trap • PPAL Family Driven Research Coping During COVID: How Parents Rated Family Peer Support • Impact of COVID-19 on OCD Symptoms and Parenting • LLOYD GARRISON: POETIC TRUTH • Featuring: Thula Sibanda & Audrey Smolkin ACHIEVING RACIAL EQUITY IN MASSACHUSETTS: THE DYNAMIC DUO IS ON A MISSION! • Behavioral Health Equity and Incarceration Virtual Roundtable • Featuring: JULIE RADLAUER-DOERFLER & RYON COOTE CONVERSATIONS ON RACE: DO YOU SEE COLOR? • Mental Health and Our Changing Climate—Impacts, Inequities, Responses • Promoting the Wellbeing of LGBTQ+ Youth and Their Families • Be the first to know! • What are the Impacts of Increased Immigrant Enforcement on Child Welfare? • Ways to help children who have lost loved ones to COVID-19 or who were sick with COVID • A case-control study provides information that may help guide youth suicide prevention activities related to online risk factors. • New Data Further Highlights Suicide Risk Disparity Among Queer Youth • Do Racial Disparities in COVID-19 and Vaccinations Impacts Children? • America Does The Daily Mile • Hiring Alert! • Anti-Racist Policymaking to Protect, Promote, and Preserve Black Families and Babies • Tips for Taking Care of Yourself • Understanding the Landscape: Mental Health Access for African American and LatinX Children and Youth in the State of Georgia • Supporting Student Wellness and Success: Use of ESSER Funds for Building a Comprehensive and Equitable School Mental Health System • Achieving Progress Toward Health Equity Using Race and Ethnicity Data: State Strategies and Lessons Learned • A Toolkit for Child Welfare Agencies to Help Young People Heal and Thrive During and After Natural Disasters • Whether in Person or Virtual, Schools Can Focus on Mental Health • Are You Suffering from Parental Compassion Fatigue? You're Not Alone But Here's What to Do • Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance • For parents and teachers, how do you handle temper tantrums in kids? • Suspensions and expulsions can negatively affect children’s development, especially students of color. • NIMH’s Small Business Research Program • Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence • National Council for Mental Wellbeing: • A Toolkit for Juvenile Justice Agencies to Help Young People Heal and Thrive During and After Natural Disasters • Using Photos to Capture Young Adults’ Experiences with Positive Youth Development • A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors • Re:MIX Shows Promising Short-Term Impacts on Pregnancy Prevention for Latinx Youth • Youth Thrive Blueprint: Coaching Tool • True or False: http://Parents experience burnout • 3 policies to combat the educational and emotional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic • Are your kids scared of COVID-19 shots? • Wraparound Care Coordination Has a Positive Impact on Youth and Caregivers Across Racial-Ethnic Groups • How Do We SEE and SUPPORT Children of Incarcerated Parents? • Transgender, Gender Nonbinary, Genderfluid, Two-Spirit, Gender Non-Conforming, & Genderqueer People • Modernizing Race and Ethnicity Data in Our Federal Health Programs • Insights Into Health Equity After COVID-19 • For parents and teachers, how do you cope with chronic stress linked to the COVID-19 crisis? • National Council for Mental Wellbeing Releases a New Web-Based Guide: Connecting Communities for Youth Mental Wellbeing • Promoting Social Skills in Toddlers with Autism • 2022 The State of Mental Health in America • Findings from the Mobile Crisis Annual Report – FY 2021 • Does unfairly harsh discipline for black students lead to lower grades? • http://What does your experience say on providing or receiving telehealth services/supports? • Friday Update's latest issue is now out! • Promoting Health Equity and Community Resilience to Combat Health Disparities in the COVID-19 Response • The Daily Mile Promotes Social Emotional Learning • Are you ready? Back to School sy: 2021 - 2022 • Parent Peer Support Community of Practice (PPSCoP) - Cohort 2 • What are the effects of parental involvement in a child’s education? • Journal Article Recommends Policies to Mitigate Effects of Pandemic on Children’s Behavioral Health • Hopeful Mindsets on the College Campus • Mentally Healthy Back to School Support Package • Federation of Families Conference Right Around the Corner! • Innovative Service Delivery During COVID-19: Strategies to Meet the Needs of Children and Families During the Pandemic and Beyond • Myth or Fact: Suspensions improve student behavior • An Empirical Examination of the Effects of Suspension and Suspension Severity on Behavioral and Academic Outcomes • National Federation of Families Annual Conference (Virtual) 2021 • The Optimistic Advocate is now on Amazon Music • AVNI GODSE: ADVOCATE FOR INCLUSION • ONLINE SURVEY: Understanding the Experience of Parents of Children with Diagnosed Mental Health Disorders • Rebuilding after covid: A new professional development program from High 5 Adventure Learning Center • Transitioning Back to School: Tips for Parents • Findings from Interviews with Florida and Massachusetts Youth Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Stakeholders • Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health in Adolescents: A Systematic Review • Scientific Healing of Historic Disparities: Creating Equity in Educational and Economic Outcomes • Stress Management and Coping Virtual Field Trips – Gratitude • Study Finds Overrepresentation of LGBTQ+ Youth in Midwest Foster Care System • Conversations with Health Law Leaders: Political Determinants of Health – Daniel Dawes • Structural Racism Booklet: Research and Policy Analyses • Parents Help Kids with Language • State of Florida Best Practices Response Protocol for Schools to Use Mobile Response Teams • join the Free Online Family Therapy or CBT Training • Young Adult Peer Mentoring Organizational Self-Assessment & Capacity Building Toolkit. • Partnering with Young Adult Peer Mentors Online Training — Children’s Behavioral Health Knowledge Center. • Yoga: What You Need To Know • A call for justice: confronting racial and ethnic disparities • YOUTH MOVE NATIONAL Rave Rockstar Awards 2021 • KITS: Giving Kids a Leg Up in Learning! • Anti-LGBTQ Policy Proposals Can Harm Youth Mental Health • Pediatric Mental Health Minute Series: Supporting the Grieving Child and Family • Trauma & the School Responder Model: Tip Sheets for Educators • WE CAN PREVENT CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY • SOLOME TIBEBU – UPDATE ON THE UPSWING FUND • TESSIE CASTILLO: ADVOCATE FOR HUMANITY ON DEATH ROW • Suicide Continues to Get Sad Before It Gets Sadder • MH LIT: Student Mental Health in Action • Confronting a Legacy of Scarcity: A Plan for America’s Reinvestment in Public Health • A New Tracker Highlights Racial Disparities and Missing Data in America’s COVID-19 Outbreaks • Using Trauma-Informed Restorative Justice With Youth • Friday Update 7-10-21 • Dr. George Patrin Response to MedPage Today Article on the Need for Novel Research to Combat Suicide • How a Digital Detox Could Improve Your Child’s Behavior Problems • Examining the ‘Service Cliff’ for Youth With Autism and Their Family Caregivers • Nearly Half of LGBTQ+ Youth Report Suicidal Thoughts During the Pandemic, Study Says • Oregon School Districts, Nonprofits Work to Re-Engage, Empower Youth Who Are Homeless • Parenting Interventions to Promote Early Child Development in the First Three Years of Life: A Global Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis • Enough Already! Stop Raising Awareness and Do Something • Understanding How Client Problematic Gaming Behaviors Affect Perspectives, Attitudes, and Clinical Practice of Behavioral Health Clinicians • New Analysis Examines How Racism Drives Disparities in Maternal and Child Health • TEACHING HOPE TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION • Friday Update 6-26-21 • Mental Health and Substance Use Considerations Among Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic • The Neurobiology of Compassionate Leadership • HEALTH EQUITY TRACKERS TO STUDY HEALTH INEQUITIES • The Evolution of System Care Approach • Thought-Changing – Virtual Field Trip for Junior Students • The Daily Mile: Interview With Bill Russell • New Analysis Highlights How Systemic Racism and the Pandemic Have Impacted Young Children’s Well-Being • Closing the Gap with Social Determinants of Health Accelerator Plans • Advancing Equity in Behavioral Health Through Telemedicine • Teens with ADHD: More ZZZ’s, More A’s? • Why Children of Immigrants Experience Guilt — and Strategies to Cope • The Impact of Chronic Underfunding on America’s Public Health System: Trends, Risks, and Recommendations, 2021 • BE A BETTER PARENT: INTERVIEW WITH DR. BOB FRANKS • FRIDAY UPDATE 6-4-21 • Fighting Racism To Advance Child Health Equity • CONVERSATIONS ON RACE: DO YOU SEE COLOR? • New Report Offers Guidance for Pediatricians on How to Prevent Abuse of Children With Disabilities • FRIDAY UPDATE 5-29-21 • Measuring Young Men’s Attitudes Around Gender Norms • Influences of Inner and Outer Settings on Wraparound Implementation Outcomes • COVID-19 Has Disrupted College Plans for Students in Households with Children • The Impact on Compassion for the Family Caregiver of a Person with a Mental Health Disorder • CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE: UNDERSTANDING PRIVILEGE • Invitation for Submission of Articles on Youth and Family Support to the Journal Healthcare • A Note About the Significance of CMS’s “Connecting Kids to Coverage” National Campaign • Virtual school can be damaging to children's mental health, CDC study says • Today is Mental Health Action Day • Supporting Parents Who Have Experienced Trauma • Study Links Structural Brain Changes to Behavioral Problems in Children Who Snore • How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of ‘Crisis And Uncertainty’ • New Report Series Explores Medicaid’s Role in the National Recovery • Supporting Child, Caregiver and Family Well-Being in Times of Crisis: Strategies to Promote Effective Virtual and Phone Engagement • Reaching Youth: At Risk for Substance Use and Misuse • COVID-19 is Making Kids Anxious: What Can Parents Do? • Mr. President, Science Matters: Build Back NREPP NOW (the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices) • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Effectiveness of Wraparound Care Coordination for Children and Adolescents • Youth Mobile Response Services: An Investment to Decriminalize Mental Health • Data Reveals Significant Racial Disparities in School Reopening • Seattle Children’s Mental Health Unit Filled Past Capacity Amid Pandemic • Expanding Access to Evidence-Based Children’s Behavioral Health Treatments: Role of a Train-The-TrainerApproach • The Demand for Rehabilitation Counselors is on the Rise. • CDC Announces $2.25 Billion to Address COVID-19 Health Disparities in Communities that are at High-Risk and Underserved • WE CAN TALK: HONEST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE • HE MOST DYNAMIC ADVOCATE - BARBARA HUFF • Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, Department of Health and Human Services • friday update 4-25-21 • HONEST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACISM AND MENTAL HEALTH, FEATURING A PROVIDER, A MOTHER AND A YOUNG ADULT • Community Health Leadership Forum • Remote Learning Has Taken a Toll on the Mental and Physical Health of Both Parents and Children During the Pandemic • Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report • Promoting Children’s Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral (MEB) Health in All Public Systems, Post-COVID-19 • Migrant teens and children have challenged three administrations, but Biden faces rush with no precedent • Proposal to Give Connecticut K-12 Students 4 Mental Health Days Each School Year Moves Forward • San Diego’s Homeless Youth Need Help Healing From Childhood Trauma. Here’s How One Organization is Helping • Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health (MACMH) 25th Annual Child & Adolescent Mental Health Conference! • Finding Calm – Forest Visualization • Children’s Mental Health Crisis Could Be a Next ‘Wave’ in the Pandemic • Interested in becoming an NIH-funded researcher? Interested in recovery support services for people with substance use disorder? Apply for the JEAP Initiative Training Institute! • Apply to the AMA-SHLI Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship • Johnson County’s Youth Suicide Rate Fell 33% During the Pandemic Last Year — What Could Be Behind That?Us • FREDLA Celebrates Family Leaders in Honor of Black History Month • Practical Resources to Support Student Mental Health During COVID-19 • Creating Good Trouble: Starting Action Circles to Help Title I School Kids Make More Money in Their Lives • Child Psychiatrists Warn That The Pandemic May Be Driving Up Kids’ Suicide Risk • Friday Update 3-28-21 • Food, Hygiene Products, Art Supplies Delivered to Salem youth in Need Amid COVID-19 • Washington State Young Adults Often End Up Homeless After Leaving Treatment • KEITH WAKEMAN – SUPERBETTER! • Re-Imagining Child Welfare Through Technology and Innovation • Behavioral Health and Service Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Emerging Adults Currently or Recently Experiencing Homelessness • Friday Update 3-21-21 • Improving Student and Staff Well-Being During COVID-19 and Beyond: Connecting Social Emotional Learning with Anti-Racism and Equity • The United States Is Falling Behind in Bilingual Education, Why Does It Matter? • USDA Invests $42 Million in Distance Learning and Telemedicine Infrastructure to Improve Education and Health Outcomes • Migrant Families Seek Mental Health Help for Trauma • New WHO Expert Group to Identify Gaps and Solutions to the Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 • More US Schools Teach in English and Spanish, but Not Enough to Help Latino Kids • Long-Haul Symptoms Should Be a ‘Wake-up Call’ for Young People When It Comes to Avoiding COVID • I’ve Tried Everything: Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis • Biden’s Executive Orders on Immigration Set Stage at Future Action • Exploring Children’s Social and Emotional Representations of the COVID-19 Pandemic • Parenting-Related Exhaustion During the Italian COVID-19 Lockdown • Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist • Friday Update 3-05-21 • CMHACY 41st Annual Conference – NON-NEGOTIABLE: Demanding Social Justice and Racial Equity in Our Systems of Care • Pandemic Takes Toll on Children’s Mental Health • Dennis Embry Recognized as Top 100 Champion for Children by the Child Welfare League of America • Fewer Black Teens Seek Treatment for Depression, Mental Health Issues Than White Counterparts • Young Adults Aging Out of Foster Care Face Unique Challenges During COVID-19 • INTEGRATED CARE BEGINS WITH SELF-CARE • NIMH Launches the Early Psychosis Intervention Network (EPINET): A National Learning Health Care System • U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policy and Its Impact on Teaching and Learning in the Nation’s Schools • Girls, Homelessness, and COVID-19 • Making a National Case for “Good Trouble” to Heal Mental Health Disparities, Based on Good Science • Friday Update 2-26-21 • Promoting a Healthy Weight from Birth: Strategies to Improve Early Childhood Feeding Practices and Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obesity • Immigration Reform Proposed by Biden Could Alleviate Anxiety, Fear for Thousands of California Children • Addressing the Adverse Impacts of COVID-19 on Children with Serious Emotional Disorders • Strong Relationships, Social and Emotional Skills can Support Academic Success • The Game That Can Give You Ten Years of Your Life • Take a Moment to Enjoy the Accomplishments of One of Our Favorite Partners! • Death Rates Due to Suicide and Homicide Among Persons Aged 10–24: United States, 2000–2017 • A Hidden Crisis • Helpful Resiliency Related Tip Sheets for Young Adults • Trauma-Sensitive Tools For Back-to-School • High Fidelity Wraparound Participation Significantly Reduces Residential Treatment Facility Spending • A Missing Ingredient in COVID Oversight: Equity • Putiputi & Puddy Learn About the Coronavirus • Bedtime Routines That Work! • Children From Immigrant Families Are Increasingly the Face of Higher Education • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – GETTING WOKE ON THE NUMBER LINE • Mobile Crisis Plays Critical Role in Responding to Families • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – IT’S NOT THAT GOOD • The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents with Behavioral and Mental Health Challenges • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – IS IT YOU OR IS IT ME? • How I Use Light To Manage My Mental Health and Brighten My Mood • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – WHEN THE IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – AH, THE WONDER OF IT ALL • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – COMMUNICATING IN STEREO • Mental Health Care Was Severely Inequitable, Then Came the Coronavirus Crisis • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – EXPECTATIONS • A Magical Mantra for Nurturing a Blissful Life • KUNDALINI CHRONICLES – THE LAST PODCAST – SHARING MY AWAKENING STORY • The Training Institutes are Back and are Going LIVE! • The Hope Matrix • INNOVATIVE ADVOCATE SOLOMÉ TIBEBU LEADS NEW MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVE • Advancing Integrated Care in the COVID-19 Era • Data Tool Offers Unique Perspective on AI/AN Communities and Youth • People of Color Face Significant Barriers to Mental Health Services • Connecting Kids to Coverage National Campaign “Think Teeth” • Talking to Kids About Race Improves Their Mental Health • Some Child Care Centers Have Become More Than Places That Provide Care • Michigan Sets Coronavirus Requirements for Residential Care Facilities • Implementing the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics in Tennessee: Parent and Clinician Perspectives • COVID-19: Caring For Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs • Scott Bryant-Comstock Receives the Tessie Brunini Schweitzer Accountability Award • Celebrating the Life of Randy Feltman • Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation – Nominations for Fellowship Program Now Open! • UNMASK YOUR FEELINGS • Unsafe School Facilities Reinforce Educational Inequities • How Schools Partnering With Local Communities Can Overcome Digital Inequalities During COVID-19 • Suicide Prevention Strategic Plan • Families Doubling Up During COVID • We Can Help Shape How Our Children Remember the Pandemic — and Foster Their Future Happiness • friday update 10-16-20 • Tessie Brunini Schweitzer • CDC: One Quarter of Young Adults Contemplated Suicide During Pandemic • REFLECTIONS ON THE JOKER’S POPULARITY AND WHAT AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM GOTHAM CITY’S MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM: AN INTERVIEW WITH MICAH HOWE • Time to Talk, Play, and Create: Supporting Children’s Learning at Home • Advocacy was just natural, you come through such a difficult journey, and finally start to get some breakthroughs. • A Nation Burned Out: The Neurobiology of Finding Grace Under Pressure • 2020 Grads and Grief in a Pandemic • What Should Telemedicine Look Like After the Pandemic? • How Mental Health Care Should Change as a Consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic • Rural Infants and Toddlers Are Less Likely to Have Access to Key Health Care Resources • MELANIE FUNCHESS – A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH ADVOCACY • Homeschooling Children with Learning Disabilities • The Happy Classroom: Insights From a Study of Schools in Delhi, India • HOW TO BE KINDER TO YOURSELF • Episode 9: HONEST CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACISM AND MENTAL HEALTH, FEATURING A PROVIDER, A MOTHER, AND A YOUNG ADULT • Friday Update 9-11-20 • Persisting in Providing Quality Services During the “New Normal” • Help Your Baby Deal with Emotions • Friday Update 9-4-20 • Friday Update 8-28-20 • #Healthy At Home - Mental health • Leaving No One Behind During the Pandemic: Children With Disabilities and COVID-19 • Race, Identity and Kids’ Conversations • The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Mental Health • Let’s Raise a Generation of Children Who Are Thoughtful, Informed, and Brave About Race • Ten Core Competencies for Youth and Young Adult Centered Mental Health Systems • Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Racial and Ethnic Minority Group • Strategies to Support Young Children With Disabilities During the Pandemic • Pediatric Mental Health Minute Series: Trauma-Informed Care • AAP suggests relaxing screen time guidelines • How Fatherhood Programs can Prevent and Address Domestic Violence • Friday Update 8-21-20 • Using Telehealth to Meet Mental Health Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis • COVID Resources for Rural Communities • Friday Update 8-14-20 • The Optimistic Advocate podcast • A Practical Guide to Self-Care for Wraparound Professionals • Words on Bathroom Walls • Children Of Incarcerated Parents: Need Support Now More Than Ever • THE POWER OF PARENTING: HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD AFTER THE DEATH OF A SIBLING FROM SUBSTANCE USE OR OVERDOSE • About 14 million children in the US are not getting enough to eat • KATHRYN GOETZKE – TEACHING HOPE TO OVERCOME DEPRESSION • How Young Adults Can Manage Loss of Income During the COVID-19 Pandemic • A practical guide to self-care for helping professionals • Making the most of a summer at home • Satcher Health Leadership Institute Launches Health Equity Project with Google • Should schools reopen? • Bonita Gibb on Innovations in Rural Mental Health and Personal Self Care • Friday Update 8-2-20