Tag: Support

How adoptees, parents can access adoption support groups and mental health services

June 6, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Parents who have adopted internationally or privately get little support if things go wrong. A USA TODAY investigation into broken adoptions found one of the major challenges facing adoptive families is access to support and mental health services. Roughly half of states provide post-adoption services only to families who adopt from foster care, leaving parents…

Healthy Parenting

Support for parent employees should address their kids’ mental health

April 18, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Mental health support in the workplace has undeniably been a huge part of recent efforts to help employees thrive: in the past few years, many companies have started training managers on how to recognize signs of poor mental health, offering employees more mental health days, and reducing out-of-pocket costs for getting mental health care. For parent…

Healthy Parenting

Following heart-healthy lifestyle behaviors can support good brain health

January 27, 2022 Sharika Soukup

The same risk factors that contribute to making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide also impact the rising global prevalence of brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the American Heart Association’s Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics -; 2022 Update, published today in the Association’s flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation. Experts…

Healthy Lifestyle

Facing pandemic burnout, Washington state health care workers join growing call for more long-term staff support

November 1, 2021 Sharika Soukup

Treating COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit for the past 19 months often reminds Paul Fuller, a registered nurse in Wenatchee, of his time in the U.S. Army. Fuller began his nursing career as an Army medic and spent 14 months deployed to Iraq, he said Thursday evening in a panel with other nurses…

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Support for Stress & Restlessness

September 14, 2021 Sharika Soukup

City Paper is in the middle of our annual end of summer membership campaign, and we need your support now. City Paper is free for everyone to read, and hundreds of thousands of people rely on our trustworthy reporting. Unfortunately, only a fraction of our readers support our work financially. Those generous readers support local…

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