For Mental Health Awareness Month, this blog shares resources to help military service members and their families prioritize mental health needs and issues.
Read More
By Lakshmi Mahadevan, Ph.D. May is Mental Health Awareness month. When working or serving as caregivers for individuals with disabilities, there remains a paucity of information related to managing mental health and in particular preventing suicide. What is known is that suicide rates are much higher among people with spinal...
Read More
Join us on June 1 as we kick off the 2022 Military Family Readiness Academy (MFRA) focusing on Family Well-Being: Navigating the Social Justice Landscape. The Academy series will address intersections between engaging a social justice mindset as a family service professional, and the ability to support the well-being of...
Read More
In March 2022, the Federal Reserve approved a 0.25% interest rate hike, its first increase since December 2018. More interest rate hikes are likely during the Fed’s remaining 2022 meetings in an effort to aggressively reduce inflation.
To create more equitable early intervention experiences, it is essential for practitioners to use practices that support learning for parents (and other caregivers) and children while considering the family’s cultural values and beliefs. When we use culturally sustaining practices, we invite and encourage cultural and linguistic practices into the early intervention process to maintain and strengthen them (Paris, 2012; Paris & Alim, 2017).
In last week’s blog post, we introduced five key “nuggets” about Buy Now Pay Later Services that Personal Financial Managers (PFMs) need to know, based on our recent webinar. The webinar described how BNPL works, user demographics, connections between BNPL and laws that
Over 300 participants attended this free webinar Assessing Malnutrition in the Adult Population: The Role of the RDN offered by OneOp. There was a lively discussion and many questions in the chat pod
The OneOp Personal Finance team recently held a webinar about Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services. The webinar described how BNPL works, user demographics, connections between BNPL and laws that protect service members from high-cost loans, and implications for military consumers.
Our food is not distributed equally despite the abundance and ability of our current food system to produce food. People of color are the most severely impacted by hunger, poor food access, and diet-related illness.
Military families are families first. Though their context and culture might be a bit different – as it is with all families – as Cooperative Extension professionals, part of helping them see the benefits of accessing Extension programming might be promoting our own understanding of the needs of military families....
Read More
