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Understanding Financial Stress and Mental Health for Service Members

By Health and Well-Being

In addition to inflation, additional economic challenges facing Americans today include rising interest rates, housing prices, and a return to federal student loan repayments. Other financial stressors may include debt, medical bills, or rising day-to-day expenses like food and housing-related costs. Learn about objective and subjective financial worries and how financial stress impacts mental health.

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Inclusive Storytelling: Using Books Intentionally to Teach About Disabilities

By Community Engagement

Inclusive classrooms (that include students with and without disabilities) are becoming more common, but they still are not the norm. Students with disabilities are often segregated to special classrooms for most or all of their day, limiting their opportunities to interact with peers without disabilities. This separation of students by disability label also limits opportunities for students without disabilities to learn about and from their disabled peers.

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Understanding and Addressing Problematic Sexual Behaviors among Children

By Community Engagement

Cases involving problematic sexual behaviors (PSBs) among children can be challenging for clinicians and non-clinicians to navigate. Clinicians are often working with the family or families involved, including parents and caregivers, but may also need to work with non-clinicians within the school systems the children are in. Addressing problematic sexual behaviors among children also has an added layer when cases take place or involve Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools, which in turn gets the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) and the Child and Youth Advocacy Program (CYAP) within the Dept. of Defense involved to provide or coordinate services for families or individuals impacted by PSBs.

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Inclusive Foundations: How Fostering Inclusion Moves Diversity & Equity Forward in Classrooms

By Community Engagement

Children with disabilities may have a difficult time when they start to recognize the ways in which they are different from their peers. These differences may become more noticeable to a child when they enter a new setting, such as entering preschool, moving to the general education classroom, or entering middle school. Additionally, it is even more difficult when the child does not see or hear themselves reflected in that setting’s materials or environment. Teachers at all grade levels can support inclusion by using several strategies related to representation suggested by Yu and colleagues (2016).

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Understanding the Cost of Convenience

By Health and Well-Being

Our society moves at a fast pace. Most any purchase is available at the push of a button, making delayed gratification a concept of the past. Do you want groceries or merchandise now? No problem. Are you hungry, but don’t have time to get takeout? Don’t worry, it can be conveniently delivered. The question is… what does all this convenience really cost?

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