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Parents Are in Crisis: A Developmental Framework Can Offer Support

NonProfit Quarterly

On August 28, 2024, the United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared parental stress a public health crisis. While it is rarely acknowledged, parents undergo their own developmental changes alongside their children. Development is not an isolated, individual process but one that unfolds within a network of relationships.

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Camp Management Software | How to Run a Successful Camp

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Determine the Camp’s Theme and Curriculum: Choose a theme or focus area for your STEAM camp , such as robotics, environmental science, or digital arts. You can also promote at school fairs, newsletters and other social events. Skills like HTML and Python for example can be an effective way to introduce technology to children.

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When the Mouth Speaks, the Whole Person Heals: Bringing Integrative Community Therapy and Solidarity Care from Brazil’s Favelas to the United States

NonProfit Quarterly

And while technology can provide tools that can be very helpful to achieving our evolving healthcare and related social needs, human connection remains the pivotal key to healthcare as well as our overall health and wellbeing. 1 We live in a world of increasing social fragmentation, trauma, and stress.

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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

That changed when a team from Reimagining the Civic Commons decided to reinvigorate public spaces in Akron’s systemically disinvested neighborhoods, including Summit Lake. Moving at the Speed of Trust Employing deep listening, engaging in meetings, and building one-on-one relationships with neighbors…helped inform public space design.

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Teachers Unions Take on Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

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Gender Inequality Needs a Platform at Climate Talks

NonProfit Quarterly

Children, particularly girls, face similar challenges. Climate-induced displacement also strains social and health services, including access to menstrual hygiene and sexual and reproductive health. Established in 2014, the LWPG aims to integrate gender-specific considerations and measures into climate policy. percent from 27.5

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Climate Justice: Best of 2023, Editors’ Selections

NonProfit Quarterly

The stories range from the role of public libraries in climate justice to how the climate crisis is changing mental healthcare—and that’s to name a few. Please consider making a donation to NPQ today to help us continue to publish thought-provoking content that promotes civic engagement and social justice.