CEV in the News 5/14/2012
Safe Start's weekly offering of current events with a childhood exposure to violence focus. This week continues the focus on Mental Health Month and Children's Mental Health Awareness.
OK Day Raises Mental Health Awareness at OP
To support Children's Mental Health Awareness Orchard Park Secondary School hosted a large event sharing a variety of activities to raise awareness about mental health. Some activities included expert-led seminars for teens and teaching stress relieving activities.
OK Day Raises Mental Health Awareness at OPSarah and her daughter Emily have spoken to media, raising awareness of child and youth mental health and was recently awarded the YWCA&#...L.A.'s "Children's Mental Health Awareness Day" Efforts To Reach 1.5 Million Spanish Language Readers in May
Staff and contributors to El Clasificado, a free Spanish language publication available in L.A. County, worked to develop an interactive promotion for adult readers to learn ways to build childhood resilience through praise. A contest had readers submitting completed puzzles, made up of positive words and phrases to use with kids, for prizes promoting family interaction.
LA's "Children's Mental Health Awareness Day" Efforts To Reach 1.5 Million ...LOS ANGELES, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Councilmember Bernard Parks led the City Council today in declaring May 9th "Chi...Children's Mental Health Awareness Day 2012
A roundup of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day events around Washington, D.C. including the SAMHSA Heroes of Hope program.May 9th was a busy day around Washington, DC. with many events to highlight children's mental health for the awareness day. From a legislative briefing to the SAMHSA Heroes of Hope program, Safe Start Center hit the streets to learn about children's mental health focused research and policy efforts.
Giving Troubled Young Children a Voice
A blog post shares how complex children's mental health issues can be. It also reiterates the importance that relationships play in promoting children's healthy emotional development, especially relationships between caregivers and children and clinicians.
Giving Troubled Young Children a VoiceHe really understands and values this preventive approach to children's mental health. Most recently I had the honor of being invited...Michael McCartan: Knowing effects of children's trauma can help them prosper
Michael McCartan, executive director of St. Clair County Community Mental Health, shares how good mental health is key to a child's positive development and the ways parents and caregivers can help children cope.- Michael McCartan: Knowing effects of children's trauma can help them prosperResearch has shown that exposure to traumatic events early in life can have many negative effects throughout childhood and beyond. Trauma...
Children's Mental Health: Can You Recognize Myths About Autism, Anorexia And Other Disorders?
The Child Mind Institute's Speak Up For Kids campaign helps parents recognize myths about mental health. This provides a short quiz to test knowledge and raise awareness about children's mental health issues.
Children's Mental Health: Can You Recognize Myths About Autism, Anorexia And ...In honor of National Children's Mental Health Awareness Week, the Child Mind Institute has launched its annual Speak Up For Kids camp...Why Treatment Is Critical for Youth With Mental Illness
Michelle Roberts shares a blog post about the importance of helping children suffering from mental health issues and their families. She points out that early treatment is critical because 1 in 10 kids have a mental illness serious enough to impair their day-to-day life in some way.
Why Treatment Is Critical for Youth With Mental IllnessHe asked me to join the organization's board to help support the goal of identifying and adapting the best childhood mental health in...The Invisible Bruise: Complexities of Protecting Children from Emotional Abuse and Psychological Maltreatment
Brean C. Flynn, a Tufts University, Child & Family Policy M.A. student, presents a paper on the difficulties and intricacies that make identifying and assessing emotional abuse to children so complex.- The Invisible Bruise: Complexities of Protecting Children from Emotional Abuse ...This is the case for three primary reasons: the lack of a common definition of what constitutes emotional abuse and what does not; the wi...
Pennsylvania Releases 2011 Child Abuse Data
The State of Pennsylvania discusses its most recent child abuse data report, the impact on children, and a note about the Task Force on Child Protection created by the government in response to last year's Penn State abuse case.
Pa. releases 2011 child abuse dataMost of the abuse reports -- about 78 percent -- came from mandated reporters, a category of individuals whose professions bring them int...Next step for abused children still evolving
This article talks about Maine's evolving child welfare policy, in alleged cases of abuse & neglect, of keeping children with parents unless they face physical abuse or serious neglect. It touches on the impact the process has on children's mental and emotional health.
Next step for abused children still evolvingThe numbers mirror a national trend, supported by findings that children can suffer severe emotional trauma when separated from their fam...Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? This New York Times article shares a discussion about the difficulties surrounding diagnosing child development issues and the social and emotional impact it can have on the mental health and well-being of the child and the family. 
Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?Michael's problems started, according to his mother, around age 3, shortly after his brother Allan was born. At the time, she said, Micha...
