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Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

When we hear about a person’s mental health, it’s often in the context of a problem – a colleague is struggling to handle stress at work, a friend’s child is having behavioral problems at school, or a family member has received a diagnosis. And almost always, these discussions are limited to older...

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Matthew Melmed

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

I recently traveled to East Tennessee, up in the Appalachians, and the green and mountainous beauty all around really struck me. At the same time, I heard how difficult life there can be, especially for the adorable elementary-school children I was meeting. My local colleagues shared with me a wide...

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Sarah Wakeen

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

As the founder, and current Director of Admissions, of Escuela Bilingüe Internacional, a pre-kinder through 8th grade school in Oakland, California, I am frequently asked by worried, monolingual, English-speaking parents if their child will suffer emotional stress by being immersed in the Spanish...

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Liza Sánchez

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education Health Care

04/18/16

Every time I hear the statistics that 18 to 22 veterans commit suicide each day, I am heartbroken. I wonder what more could have been done to help. Perhaps nothing, but I don't really believe that. While I have never attempted suicide, I have experienced depression. My husband deployed last year...

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Susan Reynolds

Podcast

04/18/16

On this show we cover the growing momentum to end mass incarceration and move forward criminal justice reform; then we move on to discuss the recent debates and who said what and how. The next segments covers the top things to eliminate from your diet to be healthier and how to build a culture of...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Families & The Federal Budget

04/18/16

This Tax Day, we need YOU to reach out to Congress and tell them tax breaks for working families, not just wealthy corporations!

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Elyssa Schmier

Immigration

04/18/16

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in the challenge to President Obama’s expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Legal Permanent Residents (DAPA) programs. At issue is whether President Obama’s actions exceeded his...

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Miriam Yeung

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

“Who helps the helper?” In a new documentary, Portraits of Professional Caregivers: Their Passion and their Pain , this poignant question is posed by an early childhood educator. Over the last decade a plethora of research has emerged demonstrating that exposure to trauma and violence in early...

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Leslie Lieberman

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

Community networks organized around ACEs and resilience, like those participating in MARC, provide a ready vehicle for concerned moms (and non-moms) to join the movement to end childhood trauma and to create a just, healthy and resilient world.

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MARC

Blog Carnivals Childcare & Early Education

04/18/16

A core component of a healthy school environment is supporting social and emotional learning. Social and emotional learning includes knowledge and skills such as understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving positive goals, feeling and showing empathy for others and making responsible...

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