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Lt. Gov. Schatz Records ‘It Gets Better’ Video
Hawaii Lt. Gov. recently released an It Gets Better video on YouTube, delivering inspirational words of hope and encouragement to LGBTQI youth enduring bullying and harassment. Click here to view video.
Understanding Adolescent Stress and Depression
One in 8 adolescents in America suffers from depression which can lead to school failure, substance abuse and suicide. Hawaii Public Radio broadcast a report on the workshop “Understanding Adolescent Stress and Depression” with Mary Jadwisiak from Washington state and Dr. Evie Yanagida, clinical program manager for The Sex Abuse Treatment Center, a program of Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children . Click here to listen.
Thanks to Nancy Kern, Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the Hawai‘i State Department of Health for bringing this workshop to the community and to HPR reporter Wayne Yoshioka for covering this event.
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Researcher Responds to DHS Policy Presentation
Dr. Jill Duerr Berrick, a well-known researcher on kinship care and child welfare, suggests DHS consider modifying its placement policy.
Resiliency–Finding Strength to Overcome Anything
Deborah Blum, in this Psychology Today article, explores how people overcome trauma, survive and thrive.”David Miller — and, really, everyone in the field of resilience — emphasizes the importance of someone else’s presence. Parents, first and best of all, who believe in you, and, if that fails, neighbors, friends, teachers. The foremost element in transcending trouble is not having to do it alone. Emmy Werner found that many islanders in her study group pulled their lives together when they married. There’s an element of obvious common sense here — we all need love and hope and help.”
Some at-risk kids do ok—Why?
The 40-year longitundinal study on Kauai of resiliency describes a constellation of protective factors that help build resiliency in children. These factors are important to incorporate into the development of public policy.