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Mental health

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2021 Community Health Needs Assessment

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Surgeon General's Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health

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Make It Okay messaging in multiple languages

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Cultivating Change: How the HealthConnect Fellowship lifted a network of advocates to improve children's health in central Iowa

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National Academy of Medicine

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Grant Makers in Health

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Centers for Disease Control

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1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative 2020 Report

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Mental and Sexual Health Education for Youth

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CAMHI4Kids Children's Mental Health System

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Creating a Culture of Sustainability in Helping Professions

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4 Ways to Center Youth in Mental Health Conversations

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Health Equity Work in Action: What Funders Should Know

Funder practices
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A closer look at mental health in schools during the pandemic

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4 issues impacting children’s health during the pandemic

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System-change achievements advocates are making for central Iowa’s kids

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Lessons in preventing burnout

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How my advocacy work became personal

Advocacy
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One voice for a children’s mental health system

System change
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A call to action for Latinx youth

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4 skills to being an effective leader in advocacy

Action planning
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Latinx youth mental health: Resiliency and its limitations

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Mobilizing the political will to develop a children's mental health system in Iowa

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Creating Space for Change

Advocates connect through a shared commitment to improve health outcomes.

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Zeroing in on Health Needs

A needs assessment of Oakridge Neighborhood residents is informing ways to improve health and well-being

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Improving Health through Community Advocacy

How AMOS engaged hundreds of advocates to push for a children's mental health crisis response system

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Protecting Those Who Protect Our Kids

Iowa ACEs 360 shares this story about how supervisors in the Polk County Dept. of Human Services’ Child Welfare Division are addressing trauma in their workforce.

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A New Approach to Supporting Youth in Juvenile Detention

Teenagers in jumpsuits lying on yoga mats, their eyes closed, their bodies still. This is the image Megan Hoxhalli describes as remarkable for juvenile detention, a place where youth arrive shaken, dysregulated, and scared about their future.

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