News from the Field Related to Wraparound
A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
June 17, 2020
This report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine discusses the findings of a recent comprehensive study on child poverty and outlines a proposed plan to reduce child poverty by half in the next ten years.
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Strings Attached: Young Adults Fight to Stay In Foster Care
June 17, 2020
The most vulnerable young people in California struggle to remain in the state’s extended foster care program, even as the state has expanded eligibility during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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U.S. Parents Say COVID-19 Harming Child’s Mental Health
June 17, 2020
This article looks at a recent Gallup Panel of parents that asked about the effects of school closures and social distancing on children’s mental health.
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Black Suicidality and Mental Health #BlackLivesMatter
June 13, 2020
This blog post breaks down some of the factors that go into rates of black suicide among young people, lists some organizations working specifically on Black mental health and provides resources for further education.
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Researchers Call for Youth Exercise Programs in Inpatient Mental Health
June 7, 2020
This article looks at recent research that examined the benefits of implementing exercise and diet-based interventions with young people in residential and inpatient treatment facilities, from both a treatment outcomes and human rights standpoint.
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How Therapists Are Using TikTok to Reach Teens & Talk Mental Health
May 28, 2020
Therapists are using popular social media and content creation platform TikTok to introduce young people to the concept of therapy and share mental health education.
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FosterStrong, Media Platform For and By Foster Youth, To Launch This Week
May 28, 2020
A new nonprofit led by those with lived experience in the foster care system, designed to share stories of those currently in foster care as well as alums, launched this week.
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Youth who understand mental illness more likely to ask for help later
May 28, 2020
A new study looked at how education on mental health and stigma impacts the likelihood of young people seeking help for mental illness.
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As Pandemic Batters Economy, Foster Youth Bear the Brunt
May 28, 2020
This article, from the Chronicle of Social Change, details how the unemployment crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic could hit foster youth harder than other employment-eligible young adults.
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How to Keep Children’s Stress From Turning Into Trauma
May 8, 2020
The New York Times spoke to experts on childhood adversity on how to turn stress from the Covid-19 pandemic into resilience rather than trauma.