Ask the Doc: What Are Ways to Protect My Mental Health?
Defense Health Agency mental health leader offers coping strategies to boost mental readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Zachary Foster)
Related Articles
5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death
The U.S. has a violent child death problem. Developing strategies to prevent violent child deaths death from firearms and traffic crashes is a demanding task that requires consideration of numerous upstream, interrelated, and tangential issues. To help safety advocates develop strategies to prevent violent child death, we compiled five frameworks to help: Understand and explain …
The post 5 Essential Frameworks for Preventing Violent Child Death appeared first on Salud America.
The Foster Care System Has a Suicide Problem. Federal Cuts Threaten To Slow Fixes.
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”…
2023 Veterans Day retail discounts, free meals and other offers
Veterans Day 2023 is Saturday, November 11. This Veterans Day discounts list will continue to be updated as we learn of more nationally available Veterans Day discounts, meals or other ways businesses and organizations want to give back to Veterans.
Study: Air Pollution Linked to Childhood Obesity in Latinos
Latinos suffer from toxic pollution in the air at higher rates than their white peers, and it can lead to many harmful side effects. University of Colorado Boulder researchers just added another side effect to that list: Childhood obesity in those whose mothers were exposed to air pollution during pregnancy. Study authors say their findings …
The post Study: Air Pollution Linked to Childhood Obesity in Latinos appeared first on Salud America.
How to Use Social Service Strategies to Address Toxic Stress
The child welfare system plays a critical role in identifying, investigating, and intervening to protect children facing abuse and neglect. However, the child welfare system traditionally isn’t as focused on preventing abuse and neglect. Because abuse and neglect are among the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) associated with toxic stress and some of the most common …
The post How to Use Social Service Strategies to Address Toxic Stress appeared first on Salud America.
