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National Suicide Prevention Week is Sept. 10-16, 2017 and World Suicide Prevention Day was Sept. 10, 2017. The Vermont Suicide Prevention Center, a public-private partnership of the Center for Health and Learning, and a long time member of American School Health Association is promoting public and well informed conversation about suicide prevention.
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ASHA
This month, ASHA's membership overwhelmingly voted to approve the 2018 Board Slate. These five individuals will join eight other board members, including two independent board members to collectively serve as the 2018 Board of Directors. While the official business of the 2018 board will not commence until Jan. 1, the bylaws direct that it must hold a meeting by December to determine who will serve in the various officer and committee chair roles. We will update you when those decisions have been finalized.
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Reserve your room at the Hilton St. Louis at the BallPark today and be sure to mention the ASHA Conference to secure the special room rate of $155/night. There is still time to register for the 2017 ASHA Annual Conference which will be held Oct. 11-13. Click here to see our full schedule of sessions. Interested in Sponsorship Opportunities? Contact Erin Dlugacz.
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The Conversation
Hurricane Harvey's historic floods have killed at least 30 people. An estimated 32,000 more have been evacuated into shelters, and approximately 210,000 have registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for assistance. Disasters, whether natural (like hurricanes and floods) or man-made (like wars), can cause tremendous upheaval in people's lives. Imagine what being evacuated from your home — even temporarily — would feel like. What about having your home and all of your possessions destroyed? For adults, these are traumatic and deeply distressing experiences. For kids, they may be even more distressing. Losing a home for a kid may mean losing the only home he or she has ever had.
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The New York Times
On a sweltering morning in July, Sonny Perdue, the newly minted secretary of agriculture, strode across the stage of a convention hall here packed with 7,000 members of the School Nutrition Association, who had gathered for their annual conference. After reminiscing about the cinnamon rolls baked by the lunchroom ladies of his youth, he delivered a rousing defense of school food-service workers who were unhappy with some of the sweeping changes made by the Obama administration.
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Medical Xpress
Back-to-school shopping lists might include school supplies, new clothes and even a haircut, but does it include an eye exam? Physicians in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology think it should. "More often than not, vision problems go unnoticed until children begin school," said Associate Professor of Ophthalmology Marcela Frazier, O.D.. "Children grow up naturally adapting to vision issues, so when they get into school and start reading and learning, that is when parents and teachers begin to notice certain problems."
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CNN
Just as bullying has shifted over the years, Hollywood has shifted how bullies are portrayed in film and TV. Take a look back at some of pop culture's best-known bullies. Rachel McAdams, left, plays Regina George, the meanest of the "Mean Girls," in the 2004 film, and she's particularly cruel and controlling toward her friends.
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NPR
The arrival of a new school year and cooler temperatures also means the arrival of flu vaccines in doctors' offices, pharmacies, clinics, work places, and school campuses. With flu season on its way, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued updated recommendations Monday for the flu vaccine — but without the needle-free option so many parents were hoping for. Parents and pediatricians both may be dismayed to hear that the FluMist nasal vaccine is once again not recommended.
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Sleep Review
Sleep problems contribute to a number of mental health issues in adolescents, researchers say. But a lingering question is whether some teens need more — or less — sleep than others to be healthy and at their best. A UCLA study in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology finds that there are differences among teens in how much sleep they need to maintain the best daily mood. Few teens function well on less than 7 hours of sleep a night; more than 11 hours is also not optimal for the vast majority of teens. Most teens need 8 to 10 hours of sleep, the researchers found.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center examined differences in the number, location, and magnitude of head impacts sustained by young athletes during various youth football practice drills. Such information could lead to recommendations for football practices, including modification of some high-intensity drills in order to reduce players' exposure to head impacts and, consequently, lessen the risks of injury. Detailed information on the findings of this study can be found in the article, "Head impact exposure measured in a single youth football team during practice drills," by Mireille E. Kelley, MS (a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest Baptist), et al., published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.
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