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Four Practices (+ one) for Creating Equity in Virtual Visits

By Community Engagement

During the first webinar in the Going Virtual Series, we shared four practices and lots of strategies to help early intervention (EI) practitioners engage families in a virtual space. Before we shared those practices, we talked about the importance of reflecting on your own beliefs. This personal level of reflection is so important that we’re going to add it to the practices list! Let’s review each practice with an emphasis on self-reflection.

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OneOp and the Ukraine Context

By Community Engagement

By Keith Tidball Amongst the various strains and strands of stress and anxiety stemming from the violence in Ukraine comes the subtle but growing sense of dread and concern among the families of military service members. Practitioners will no doubt experience more urgent inquiries from stressed and anxious family members…

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Practicing Mindfulness, Meditation, and Self-Care to Combat Stress for Military Families

By Health and Well-Being

Stress and stressful situations are issues that everyone must deal with and affects individuals and families in a multitude of different ways. This is even more true for military service members and their families. On top of daily, normal stressors, military families must deal with the stress of deployments, transitions, frequent moving, and the possibility of injury or death for the military service member in military combat. Military families need outlets and ways to cope with stressful situations.

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Everyone Can Get Malnourished!

By Health and Well-Being

Malnutrition is a serious condition defined as inadequate, unbalanced, or excessive nutrient and calorie consumption over time. Common signs of malnutrition are unintentional weight loss, lack of motivation to eat, feeling tired, getting sick often, reduced body functionality, slow growth, and putting on weight as expected in children (WHO, 2022). 

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