Links I’m Sharing (weekly) June 21, 2020
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One Way To Be An Ally Right Now? Support Black Mental Health.
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Perpetrators of child sexual abuse use sport as cover, inquiry finds
– I feel like this is not surprising.
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Link – High Schools are Calling Sexual Assault Hazing
An investigation into high school sexual assaults has found schools are mislabeling sexual assault on sports teams as “hazing” to cover it up, the Associated Press reports. You know, this came up awhile back when I was still living in Oregon, when a football team was suspended and games cancelled because of a massive hazing incident….
Link – Boys need better access to mental health care. Why aren’t they getting it?
The article lists out a lot of the reasons, and I encourage you to read it, but this part I found to be very interesting because it reminded me of things I’ve done in some adult learning situations: “Way and her colleagues created “The Listening Project,” which aims to build connections among seventh-graders in New…
Sharing – Creating a Self-Care Plan to Survive Stressful Times
This is, undoubtedly true for women, but I would add that for men, we have been taught that achievement and professional success matter, not self-care, and thus the lessons in the article are equally true. A lot of women feel guilty about a self-care plan — we have been taught to put others first. But,…
Link – The Tragedy of Mental Illness Stigma
This is atrocious. Think about this for a second: “About half of people in the United States are estimated to have a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their lives. Whether we’re talking about major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, OCD, schizophrenia, or a host of other mental health conditions, this accounts for more than…