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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Food and Mood website: https://www.samhsa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/regional-offices/food-and-mood

Culture Based Prevention for Youth:

Use the wisdom of Native practices of wellness combined with the insights of modern science to help Native and non-Native students avoid the dangers of substance misuse. These hands-on, standards-aligned resources empower students to embrace positive and holistic health practices and gain an understanding of modern and historical Native approaches to wellness. https://www.operationprevention.com/culture-based-resources

Building A Grad Nation 2021 Report:

The GradNation campaign is a nationwide effort to boost the high school graduation rate to 90 percent and prepare young people for postsecondary enrollment and the workforce. The high school graduation rate was at an all-time high of 85.8% in 2019, the final school year unaffected by the upheavals of the COVID-19 pandemic. The convening partners of the GradNation campaign—America’s Promise Alliance, Alliance for Excellent Education, Civic, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University—highlight key learnings about high school graduation in the United States in the newly released 2021 Building A Grad Nation report. The report provides a pre-pandemic baseline, including a 50-state analysis outlining progress and challenges facing key student groups. Unless states make concerted, data-driven efforts to sustain improvements among key student groups, particularly English Learners and students with disabilities, COVID-19 could jeopardize graduation rate progress. The GradNation report outlines a series of policy recommendations for states to meet the demands of the current moment so that every young person reaches the graduation milestone college- and career-ready. https://www.americaspromise.org/report/2021-building-grad-nation-report

Food Councils Convene Nationally to Transform Food Systems:

Some of the forum’s “conversation catalysts” and “deep dives” addressed sensitive topics, such as allyship, intersectionality, gentrification (a concern associated with urban agriculture) and how councils might attempt to address the rural-urban divide. Other conversations took a nuts-and-bolts approach, discussing tactics that have proven successful for initiatives such as preserving land for cultivation by indigenous communities and facilitating the purchase of cropland for New Americans who come to this country with skills and knowledge but not capital. https://clf.jhsph.edu/stories/food-councils-convene-nationally-transform-food-systems

NIDA Study: Reduced Activity in One Brain Region Links Childhood Adversity to Aggression/Delinquency and Substance Use in Adolescence:

This study found that: People who experienced more childhood adversity had higher rates of substance use in late adolescence. Children who experienced adversity were more likely to show externalizing behavior (e.g., aggression, delinquency) in early adolescence, which in turn predicted substance use in late adolescence. Reduced activation of the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex mediates the relationship between childhood adversity and increased externalizing behavior. https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-events/nida-notes/2021/08/reduced-activity-in-one-brain-region-links-childhood-adversity-to-aggression-delinquency-and-substance-use-in-adolescence?utm_source=daRSS&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=da-researcherdigest

You may not be depressed, but you could have symptoms of languishing. Learn what this means, the effects, and what you can do about mental languishing: