Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 43 (181 total reports)
18.10.2023-24.17.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people and increasing their mental well-being in a time of racial meritocracy.
Best Links of The Week
24.10.2023
18 Phrases To Use With Your Adult Kids That Will Transform Your Relationship, According to Psychologists
https://parade.com/living/phrases-to-use-with-your-adult-children-according-to-psychologists
If you have adolescent children or young adults with whom you work—or even in your personal relationships with other adults—this is a great list of questions to review and remember. This list is a keeper! Print it out and post it on a wall somewhere for easy review.
23.10.2023
Khan Academy: An AI Revolution In Education Or Threat To Human Skills?
The Khan Academy is one of my favorite educational resources and I can’t wait to dive deeper into Kahnmigo. This is their new mentoring AI program for students all over the world—and like all of Kahn’s phenomenal programming—it’s donation-based. The article goes on to review a TED Talk by Kahn Academy founder, Sal Kahn, with the esteemed futurist Adam Grant. In the interview, Kahn explores what is uniquely human and cannot be replaced by AI; the ability to critically appraise and judge. These are the two features we should be emphasizing in our schools, group homes, and personal lives. Invest some time today in exploring Kahnmigo, the children in your care and YOU will be thankful you did.
22.10.2023
Global Risks Report 2023
https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/digest/
The World Economic Forum released their annual review of Global Risks that looks at the next two years and the next decade. Being WOKE is not one of the global risks, in fact, being WOKE is one of the major solutions to the problems that we will be facing. As we need a world that is more critically informed and aware, all the skills of empathy, critical thinking and compassion will become ever-more important. Education and parents—anyone who works with children—needs to take heed and prioritize the growth of these skills in all their interactions.
21.10.2023
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
Our world is broke, that seems like an aphorism, but it is critical to analyze who profits from the brokenness of the world. Who profits from this Meritocracy, who profits most from rampant, unchecked capitalism, who wins when entire segments of the population work full-time and still live below the poverty level of their respective countries?
20.10.2023
The Myth That Made Us How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
I love articles like this that take me on a deeper dive into the fundamental societal issues we are facing. Author Jeff Fuhrer, in his book, ”The Myth That Made Us: How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It),” asks us to analyze systemic racism and meritocracy and how it underscores false inhumane beliefs that undermine human rights. Recognizing the four key insights he highlights will help us to rethink our decisions about politics, social issues, and education. This is well-worth the read and review.
19.10.2023
Denver Gave People $1,000 a Month, Led to Reduced Homelessness and Increased Full-Time Employment
https://mymodernmet.com/denver-basic-incom-project-1000-month/
One of the fallacies about homelessness is that people who live on the streets (and I was on for eight years of my life) do not know how to handle money. This has also been a false belief that has blocked the concept of Guaranteed UBI (Universal Basic Income—see the article below about Canada’s research into this economic policy). Even a quick, open-minded read of these articles will lead to a retrenchment of most of the policies we are promoting in Social Services today. Similar programs have been tried in other states and also found effective.
18.10.2023
Jean-Paul Sartre's Bad Faith: The Danger of Denying Freedom
Here is another deep-dive article for your week about Jean-Paul Sartre’s philosophy on “Bad Faith” (French, mauvaise foi). This examination is extremely timely as we watch the circus show at the GOP-controlled House of Representatives enter it’s third week of egomaniacal chaos.
This Week’s Links
24.10.2023
18 Phrases To Use With Your Adult Kids That Will Transform Your Relationship, According to Psychologists
https://parade.com/living/phrases-to-use-with-your-adult-children-according-to-psychologists
US abortion rates rise post-Roe amid deep divide in state-by-state access
https://apple.news/AlHSqa55FQ62D9t6WY-bdLQ
Where are the cities of tomorrow? New report shows which cities will win and lose in the global economy
https://www.fastcompany.com/90971321/cities-of-tomorrow-new-report-global-economy
If You Relate To These 7 Problems, You're Probably Gifted
https://www.yourtango.com/self/if-you-relate-problems-youre-probably-gifted
“Anyone Else Angry?” The Link Between Trauma and Anger
The climate crisis has a price — and it's $391 million a day
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/the-climate-crisis-has-a-price-and-its-391-million-a-day.html
Fast Forward: 5 Power Principles to Create the Life You Want in Just One Year
Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide feel lonely, according to new survey
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/24/health/lonely-adults-gallup-poll-wellness/
23.10.2023
Khan Academy: An AI Revolution In Education Or Threat To Human Skills?
Forget Basic AI Tools, Digital Clones Will Be The Next Big Workforce Disruptor
While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
The Hard Truth About Immigration
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/us-immigration-policy-1965-act/675724/
Insecurity Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Capitalism. But It Can Spark Resistance.
5 TED Talks that will make you smarter and more persuasive: 'Conventional wisdom' for winning arguments is 'wrong'
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/22/ted-talks-to-make-you-smarter-more-persuasive.html
The Wonderful Karma of Black Women Saving American Democracy
https://msmagazine.com/2023/10/22/fani-willis-black-women-democracy/
More than the law: Why Trump's trials trigger him so much
https://www.salon.com/2023/10/23/more-than-the-law-why-trials-trigger-him-so-much/
Incorporating nature into education can build skills and improve mental health
22.10.2023
Global Risks Report 2023
https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-risks-report-2023/digest/
An Absurd Approach to Find More Meaning in Life
https://thetaoist.online/an-absurd-approach-to-find-more-meaning-in-life-f66b6ec764b5
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland
House Republicans defend book bans in subcommittee hearing
10 Deep, Soul-Searching Questions To Figure Out Who You Really Are
https://www.yourtango.com/self/deep-soul-searching-questions-find-out-who-you-really-are
ACLU Wins Settlement on Behalf of Migrant Families Separated During Trump Era
Enough is enough: It’s well past time to fully democratize the U.S. electoral system
21.10.2023
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises
The Inflection Point
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/biden-reagan-foreign-policy-ukraine-israel/675711/
What is a war crime, and who gets held accountable? Here's what you need to know
How a weekly breakfast at grandma's helped students heal from the grief of losing a classmate
Stop struggling with small talk by using the simple 'FORD method'
https://www.upworthy.com/how-to-make-small-talk-ford-method
Choosing Ignorance: 40% Shun Consequence Knowledge for Selfish Gains - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/ignorance-selfish-altruism-24974/
The Art of the Pivot — 6 Steps to Reengineer Yourself for a Career Change
https://www.entrepreneur.com/living/how-to-reengineer-yourself-for-a-career-change/463297
Brain activity reveals differences in moral judgments between liberals and conservatives
https://studyfinds.org/morals-liberals-conservatives/
20.10.2023
The Myth That Made Us How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
Canada is considering a guaranteed universal basic income program. Here’s what that means
Pioneering L.A. program seeks to find and help homeless people with mental illness
A school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
https://www.upworthy.com/this-school-replaced-detention-with-meditation-the-results-are-stunning-rp2
"We Were So Hard On Him:" 7 Moms On What They Wish They'd Known Sooner About ADHD
https://www.romper.com/parenting/parents-learn-about-adhd-diagnosis-process
Proven Ways To Help Kids With ADHD Succeed In School
https://www.yourtango.com/family/proven-ways-help-teens-adhd-succeed-school
Collectively, we spend only 45 minutes daily on the activities that produce the most pollution
The House Mess Is What GOP Voters Wanted
https://apple.news/AH_zk9Aj5Rm-twmplkKq_pQ
19.10.2023
Denver Gave People $1,000 a Month, Led to Reduced Homelessness and Increased Full-Time Employment
https://mymodernmet.com/denver-basic-incom-project-1000-month/
Black Success, White Backlash
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/black-career-success-race-backlash/675437/
Mindfulness approaches show potential in retraining addiction-related brain dysfunction
How AI will shape our children’s future
What Is IQ, and How Well Does It Predict Success?
https://www.rd.com/article/what-is-iq/
A Perfect Argument for Remote Work: Considerable Research Shows Noise Significantly Impacts Productivity and Cognitive Ability
18.10.2023
Jean-Paul Sartre's Bad Faith: The Danger of Denying Freedom
Native American Concept of Land Ownership
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2296/native-american-concept-of-land-ownership/
What Is a Trauma Bond?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-hope-circuit/202310/what-is-a-trauma-bond
7 skills to teach your daughter by age 13
https://mashable.com/article/things-to-teach-your-daughter
Why I was forced to move my family out of Florida
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/forced-to-move-family-from-florida-258165
Meet Jason Arday, the Cambridge Professor Who Didn’t Learn to Talk Until Age 11, or to Read Until Age 18