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Mental Wellness: Strength in Self-Care and in Seeking Help

WEBFor example, as referenced in a previous blog post, w e see families thrive when they engage both professional and natural supports.Similarly, our team feels strongly that mental health support is an essential foundation for supporting the “whole person” and whole family—especially at a time when mental health crises are on the rise in the COVID era.

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More Resilient Minnesota

WEBA primary focus of More Resilient Minnesota is to support the capacity of Collaboratives to adopt the Self-Healing Communities approach. This approach, developed by Dr. Robert Anda, Dr. Kimberly Martin, and …

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Adverse Childhood Experiences

WEBThis three-year study (1995 to 1997) surveyed more than 17,000 people about their childhood experiences and the state of their current health (both physical and emotional). One of the largest explorations of child abuse, neglect, and other Adverse Childhood Experiences, the study drew a definitive link between ACEs and negative outcomes later

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Stress Management

WEBOur monthly e-newsletter offers parenting tips, child abuse prevention resources, volunteer opportunities, event announcements, and more. Keep up with FamilyWise here!

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Our first Family Well-Being Index

WEBOur first Family Well-Being Index. Families are the building blocks of our community. They are key to the health of our society. When families are safe and strong, communities are supportive and resilient. In order for families to thrive, parents and children need the support of their communities, whether that support comes in the form of a

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Mental Wellbeing: Finding Hope through Community Supports

WEBThis year, FamilyWise’s Family Wellbeing Index looked at statistics surrounding mental health along with looking at how factors such as healthcare costs and provider availability affect how Minnesotans receive care. Tasha Moulton, The REACH Resource Center. “The issue is that there aren’t enough mental health practitioners for the need

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Adverse Childhood Experiences In Minnesota

WEBThe health effects can arise in childhood, or well into adulthood. However, ACEs are not destiny, and certain protective factors can have a positive buffering effect on adverse outcomes. Similar toACEs, they are also powerful and cumulative: more protective factors can better protect against the effects of ACEs .

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Youth Mental Health

WEBscore, the higher the likelihood of developing health problems, like substance abuse, diabetes, cancer, and depression. This fact sheet presents findings for eight ACE items from the MSS. These items can be summed to calculate an ACE score. Among these ACEs, mental illness in the household is the most common type (Figure 1).

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What is NEAR Science

WEBNEAR Science stands for Neurobiology, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Resilience research. NEAR Science represents a paradigm shift in human understanding of individual and societal health and wellbeing. Neuroscience. Neuroscience is the study of how the brain and nervous system adapt based on our lived experience.

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Our 2023 Family Wellbeing Index

WEBOur 2023 Family Wellbeing Index. Parenting is hard, even in the best of circumstances. All families need the support of their communities in order to thrive, from affordable and accessible housing opportunities to friends and neighbors that can help parents by babysitting, offering words of encouragement, or shoveling snow. Our first Family

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Self-Care Starter Kit

WEBwill benefit your health and well-being. Replace Work on reducing, and then eliminating, negative coping strategies. If you find yourself using negative strategies, then begin by choosing one action you feel is most harmful and identify a positive strategy to replace it. Positive coping skills are an important part of your self-care toolkit.

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Understanding NEAR: Building Self-Healing Communities

WEBMinnesota was the first state in the nation to use this curriculum to build common understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences and to catalyze community actions that address ACEs and build resilience. Using a train-the-trainer strategy, we are taking a public health approach to shifting the trajectory of health and wellbeing in our state.

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Community Partners in Prevention

WEBThe project builds the knowledge, skills, and confidence of community members around neurobiology, epigenetics, ACEs and resilience (NEAR) research and holistic health topics to strengthen the self-efficacy of tribal communities in creating healing systems. One exciting outcome of this project is the Remembering Resilience podcast series.

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2024 Family Wellbeing Index

WEBpopulation with health insurance, but. disparities between White people and. Black, Indigenous and People of Color. remain. For instance, in 2022 96.1% of. White non-Hispanic Minnesotans had. health insurance, compared to 84.8% of. American Indian and 83.3% of Hispanic. Minnesotans (fig 4). It follows that a. greater share of Hispanic, …

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More Resilient Minnesota

WEBIn July 2017, state funding built into the base funding for children's mental health grants began supporting implementation of this ambitious initiative. The Minnesota Department of Human Services contracts with FamilyWise Services to partner alongside Children’s Mental Health and

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Understanding, Hope and Healing through NEAR Sciences

WEBThrough our NEAR Communities Programs, FamilyWise hosts “Understanding NEAR: Building Self-Healing Communities” presentations in communities statewide, emphasizing the full spectrum of NEAR, from root cause to resilience.. As FamilyWise Training Manager Susie Voss puts it, “NEAR is a way to understand how human experiences—including …

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THE POWER OF SHARED PROTECTIVE FACTORS FOR …

WEBhealth issues and suicidal ideation. Further, rates of substance use and mental health issues increase with each additional ACE experienced. While communities simultaneously work to prevent and reduce shared risk factors like ACEs, enhancing protective factors can buffer the negative impact of risk factors. Two examples of this buffering effect

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New Healthy Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence

WEBNew Healthy Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence - https://sparkandstitchinstitute.com/health-advisory-teenage-social-media/ Let’s Design Tech With

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It’s Complicated: Youth, Technology, and Mental Health

WEBExposure to hate content or health risk behaviors. Di!culty moving through post-screen blues. Getting in the way of “buckets” for wellbeing. Build bridges. Bridging the Use Gap: Adults Matter. Space and support to practice skills for navigating “digital dilemmas” of …

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More Resilient Minnesota: Phase 4

WEBPhase 4: Community Resilience Plans & Initiatives. Community Resilience Plan Template. After a Collaborative has: Quote by Greg Reid. Hosted at least 3 Understanding ACEs: Building Self-Healing Communities Presentations (Phase 1) Sent at least 3 Collaborative representatives to a Regional ACE Interface Presenter Training (Phase 2)

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