C4 Innovations Join Cheryl Gagne on Wednesday, August 18 from 2-3 pm ET for a free webinar on peer support for people experiencing crisis. Learn about the value of peer support in crisis settings and strategies for integrating peers and addressing challenges. Ask questions and get a preview of C4’s upcoming “Peer Support in Crisis […]
Board of Mental Health Subject: Department of Mental Health Description: Board Committee meetings will be held prior to the Board meeting. The full Board will begin at 9 a.m. MEETING LOCATION Department of Mental Health 239 North Lamar Street Jackson MS 39201 CONTACT INFORMATION: Grenaye Sullivan 601-359-6260 grenaye.sullivan@dmh.ms.gov
Mississippi State Board of Education Date: 10 a.m., August 19, 2021 Location: Central High School Building, 359 N. West St., Jackson, MS, 4th floor Board Room Watch the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKX7bRLzog&ab_channel=MSBoardofEducationLiveStream
This hour is open for any family member to drop in for all or some of the time to ask questions or get feedback about IEP issues and other school situations. We ask anyone who stops by to respect the confidentiality of the group and not share anything discussed in the group outside of the […]
The Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) The child health care field is embracing a shift from the traditional child-focused model of well and sick visits to a more upstream preventive, holistic, and anti-racist focus on children, their families, and the systems and communities they interact with regularly. Despite a growing desire to improve care […]
F.A.C.E.S. of Memphis, the Wellness and Stress Clinic of Memphis, the Emotional Fitness Centers of Tennessee and National Federation of Families will host this important session. Join us this Thursday for a virtual lunch and learn! The old adage, ‘prevention is better than cure’, could not be more appropriate for us than it is today. […]
In his 1933 book, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter G. Woodson postulated that Black people of his day were culturally indoctrinated rather than taught in American schools, creating people who would be dependent on and seek out inferior places in the dominant white society. One of the significant points Woodson repeated in his discourse was that the entire educational system was structurally unrelated to the future needs of Black children to develop and thrive with lives rooted in self and race knowledge as well as […]
Institute For The Health Policy Forum School systems have the power to improve the health of a whole community, and COVID-19 shed light on the critical intersection between health and education. This virtual event will explore how health and education professionals can collaboratively and sustainably build healthy schools. Attendees will learn about school funding, community […]
sponsor: National Council on Behavioral Health Suicide prevention can seem like a daunting undertaking for any workforce, but as the number of deaths by suicide keeps increasing, it becomes a necessary public health issue to be addressed within health care. Currently the 10th leading cause of death, suicide claims more lives than traffic accidents and […]
According to Be Strong Families, "Parent Cafés are physically and emotionally safe spaces where parents and caregivers talk about the challenges and victories of raising a family. Through individual deep self-reflection and peer-to-peer learning, participants explore their strengths, learn about the Protective Factors, and create strategies from their own wisdom and experiences to help strengthen […]