Each week a quote is shared for your consideration. Some quotes might offer comfort, hope, a challenge, a chuckle, or inspiration. You may or may not agree with the quote, but it is offered simply to help you reflect and ponder.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The MFP is an initiative staffed by ANA with funding from SAMHSA, making fellowships available to ethnic and racial psychiatric nursing students who are enrolled full time in an accredited master’s/doctoral nursing program.
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
This week’s recommended Health and Wellness Activity
HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES
Black men face many more health hurdles. An expert discusses why (opens new window)
Social epidemiologist Roland Thorpe Jr. is on a double mission: to improve the health and extend the life expectancy of Black men, and to do the same for himself since both of his grandfathers died prematurely from heart disease. Read more (opens new window)
Current State of Health Equity and Diversity Within Children’s Mental Health (opens new window)
Over the past several years, our field has joined others in marching towards equity. In 1998, research by Fellitti and colleagues definitively linked adverse experiences occurring in childhood with later significant health challenges. This original body of research connected the ways in which multiple childhood adverse experiences, in an additive fashion, led to significant poorer health outcomes in adulthood, spanning the spectrum from cardiovascular health to mental health. Read more (opens new window)
Suicides and Homicides Among Young Americans Jumped During the Pandemic (opens new window)
The homicide rate for older U.S. teenagers rose to its highest point in nearly 25 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the suicide rate for adults in their early 20s was the worst in more than 50 years, government researchers said Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report examined the homicide and suicide rates among 10- to 24-year-olds from 2001 to 2021. Read more (opens new window)
Kansas City experts fight to end stigma on substance use recovery (opens new window)
Kansas City resident Keith Gale can still recall his mother’s tears as she pleaded with him to begin substance use recovery in 2010. He started drinking heavily in 2008 while, like so many others with substance use disorder, dealing with trauma. “It kind of became comfortable to not be sober because I didn’t have to deal with any of those emotions,” he said. “I didn’t have to worry about what people thought about me.” That quickly spiraled into habits that were much worse. Read more (opens new window)
MFP/ANA ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Congratulations to National Advisory Committee (NAC) member Dr. Karethy Edwards on a successful presentation, "Outcomes of the Caring-based Academic Partnerships in Excellence (CAPS) RNs in Primary Care," during the Association of Black Nursing Faculty, Inc.'s 36th Annual Meeting and Scientific Conference in Biloxi, MS.
MFP Podcast: Mental Health Trailblazers – Psychiatric Nurses Speak Up! (opens new window)
Earn 0.5 hours of CNE credit for listening to this session! MFP/ANA Academic Program Consultant and alumna Dr. Freida Outlaw joins host, Indrias Kassaye, to explore the historical dynamics that have contributed to rising rates of suicide among young African American youth for several years now. Click here (opens new window)to learn more.
The following may be of interest to you:
• National Institute of Health (NIH): "Value of Diversity in Down syndrome (DS) Research"
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