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Parenting & Families

The alchemy of gender

June 18, 2024
I'm an adolescent mental health provider, and I’d like to share an exercise with you. If you’re cisgender and heterosexual, take a moment and see if you can imagine the idea of being gay in your mind. If you’re cisgender and gay, see if you can imagine the idea of being straight in your mind. Could you do it?
MomsRising Education Fund
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Alexis Bleich, LCSW, MA
Childcare & Early Education

Child care is a movement and this is our moment

June 17, 2024
There was a time not that long ago where child care was essentially ignored as a national crisis even though this system has been broken for decades. For too long child care has been unaffordable and unattainable for too many families with many paying a third of their take home pay to child care...
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S. Nadia Hussain
Pride Month
Five Amazing LGBTQ+ Books for Teens!
Parenting & Families

Five Amazing LGBTQ+ Books for Teens

June 13, 2024
Publishers, over the last decade, have increasingly invested in LGBTQ books for teens. There are so many stories out there now, and so many good ones. Choosing only five was almost impossible, until I decided to go with a few older books that have really stuck with me. So, here are five young LGBTQ books that live rent-free in my head and in my heart.
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Desirée Peterson
Pride Month
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Health Care Parenting & Families

I'm an adolescent mental health provider, here's what happens when a kid needs gender-affirming medical treatment

June 12, 2024
Part two in a series about LGBTQIA+ youth. How do I know if and when medical intervention is appropriate? Luckily, I have guidelines from trusted organizations. They have deep knowledge about the development, mental health, and medical well-being of adolescents. In my assessments, I’ll reference the specific criteria outlined for a diagnosis...
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Alexis Bleich, LCSW, MA
2024 Summer EBT Instagram Live
Food! Parenting & Families

EBT de Verano: ¡Informe de nuestro Instagram Live!

June 10, 2024
¿Qué es el programa de Transferencia Electrónica de Beneficios de Verano (EBT, por sus siglas en inglés), también conocido como Sun Bucks, y quién califica para él? Tuve el placer de hablar con Kelsey Boone, Analista Sénior de Políticas de Nutrición Infantil de FRAC sobre el EBT de Verano y cómo...
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Hanna Addis
Pride Month
5 Picture Books to Help Parents Introduce LGBTQ Topics with Their Kids
Parenting & Families

Five Picture Books to Help Parents Introduce LGBTQ Topics with Their Kids

June 10, 2024
"My Shadow is Pink" by Scott Stuart is about a little boy who likes things he "isn't supposed" to like, like dressing up and princesses. But his dad shows him that everyone has a shadow they sometimes want to hide, and that it's okay to like what we like.
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Desirée Peterson
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Food!

Summer EBT 101: Instagram Live Debrief!

June 10, 2024
What is the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program (also known as SUN Bucks) and who qualifies for it? I had the pleasure of speaking with Kelsey Boone, the Senior Child Nutrition Policy Analyst at FRAC , on all things Summer EBT and how you can access this nutrition assistance program...
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Hanna Addis
Podcast

Breaking Through: #TheGuarantee #SummerMeals #AbortionAccess #BirthControl

June 10, 2024
On the radio show this week, we touch base with the award-winning author of the new book, The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy about the changes we can make together so everyone can thrive; then we dive into the ways for kids to get nutrition support during the summer with SUN...
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Health Care Parenting & Families Social & Emotional Development

I'm an adolescent mental health provider, here's what happens when a kid tells me they're trans

June 6, 2024
Sometimes I know before the first appointment. A parent may have been the one to reach out, to answer the question when I ask, “So, tell me what’s going on.” Maybe this is a family where the parents have already wondered about their child’s sexual orientation or gender identity (or both!). Perhaps the kid has already come out, to themselves, at school, at home, or nowhere. Sometimes it’s not on anyone’s radar - and anxiety, depression, trouble focusing, or other struggles are front and center.
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Alexis Bleich, LCSW, MA
Childcare & Early Education MomsVote Politics & Policy

Make voting for child care your love language!

June 4, 2024
Already, too many families report paying a third of their take home pay to child care and across the country, the annual price of infant child care often exceeds the annual cost of in‑state tuition at a public four‑year university. The good news is that because of the actions you have taken to lift our collective voices for child care, this issue is finally at the forefront of national consciousness where it belongs!
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S. Nadia Hussain

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