The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change (The Report of the National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being), Part II, Recommendations for Law Schools

During the last years, muscle strengthening exercises have been included as an essential part in youth physical activity guidelines of national and international health organisations. It is well-documented that strength training is effective in improving physical fitness and promoting health and psycho-social well-being. Therefore, the purpose of this review article is to present empirical evidence on the effectiveness of strength training in children and adolescents. Additionally, and with reference to an established youth physical development model, conceptual and methodological aspects of safe and effective strength training in youth will be discussed and specific practical recommendations will be presented.

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National Task Force of Two-Year College Biologists

BioScience ◽

10.2307/1294718 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 19 (10) ◽

pp. 908-909

Author(s):

Elwood B. Ehrle

Keyword(s):

Task Force ◽

Two Year College ◽

National Task

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Residency Training and Continuing Medical Education in School Health

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.92.3.495 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 92 (3) ◽

pp. 495-496

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

American Academy ◽

Graduate Medical Education ◽

Continuing Medical Education ◽

School Health ◽

Task Force ◽

Well Being ◽

Pediatric Practice ◽

Graduate Medical ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics

Children between the ages of 5 and 18 spend a significant amount of their time in school. School health is a vital part of pediatric practice and an important concern for pediatric graduate medical education. There are few substantiated data, however, to suggest that residents entering pediatric practice or academic medicine are exposed to school health in a significant way. Many pediatricians, upon entering practice, find that they are consulted by school systems and parents whose children have problems related to school. Pediatricians find themselves unprepared for this new role and express the need for postgraduate education in school health.1-4 The American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Pediatric Education5 and the most recent report from the Pediatric Residency Review Committee have both underscored the appropriateness and importance of education in school health as an important part of the residency curriculum.6 The American Academy of Pediatrics believes that education in school health should be an important part of graduate medical education for pediatric residents and of continuing medical education for practicing pediatricians. Many advances in pediatrics that affect the well-being of the child relate directly to the school setting. Increased attention to federal legislation (Section 504 of PL 93-112, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; parts B and H of PL 102-119, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), health education including education about the prevention of drug and alcohol abuse and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, new approaches to screening and health services in the schools, immunization requirements, physical fitness, and knowledge about the school environment—all are important aspects of school health and areas in which many residents and/or pediatricians have had little or no training or experience.

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Confessions of a Free Speech Lawyer

10.7591/cornell/9781501749650.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rodney A. Smolla

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Free Speech ◽

Hate Speech ◽

Task Force ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

Law Schools ◽

History Of ◽

Gang Rape ◽

The Right ◽

The City

This personal and frank book offers an insider's view on the violent confrontations in Charlottesville during the “summer of hate.” Blending memoir, courtroom drama, and a consideration of the unhealed wound of racism in our society, the book shines a light on the conflict between the value of free speech and the protection of civil rights. The author has spent his career in the thick of these tempestuous and fraught issues, from acting as lead counsel in a famous Supreme Court decision challenging Virginia's law against burning crosses, to serving as co-counsel in a libel suit brought by a fraternity against Rolling Stone magazine for publishing an article alleging that one of the fraternity's initiation rituals included gang rape. The author has also been active as a university leader, serving as dean of three law schools and president of one and railing against hate speech and sexual assault on US campuses. Well before the tiki torches cast their ominous shadows across the nation, the city of Charlottesville sought to relocate the Unite the Right rally; the author was approached to represent the alt-right groups. Though the author declined, he came to wonder what his history of advocacy had wrought. Feeling unsettlingly complicit, the author joined the Charlottesville Task Force, and realized that the events that transpired there had meaning and resonance far beyond a singular time and place. Why, he wonders, has one of our foundational rights created a land in which such tragic clashes happen all too frequently?

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Report from the National Task Force on Access to Hospice Care by Minority Groups

The Hospice Journal ◽

10.1080/0742-969x.1995.11882786 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 1-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bernice Catherine Harper

Keyword(s):

Minority Groups ◽

Hospice Care ◽

Task Force ◽

National Task

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Somaliland: a self-declared country’s fight against COVID-19

Kateb Journal of Medical Sciences and Biotechnology ◽

10.32592/kjmsb.2021.1.1.7 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 81-87

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care ◽

Health System ◽

Task Force ◽

African Countries ◽

Medical Facilities ◽

National Task ◽

Unfavorable Effect ◽

Trade Partner ◽

The Impact ◽

Better Than

Somaliland despite having a weak health system, managed COVID-19 better than some well-resourced countries in the continent by establishing a National Task Force to direct efforts in early detection, surveillance, risk communication and infection control of the virus. The Ministry of Health has been able to garner personnel with medical skills to increase the response workforce and also supervise the activities of medical facilities across the country. However, these measures have shown unfavorable effect on the economy. Somaliland is in active trade with other African countries and neglecting the impact of the virus can greatly affect the trade partner countries. Appropriate relief funds should be offered by capable countries to lessen the economic impact of the pandemic in the country. In the meantime, it is time to reframe the health system of Somaliland and improve sectors that have been underfunded like emergency, intensive care units and the surgical departments.

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Implementing trauma-informed care through social innovation in child welfare residential treatment centres serving elementary school children

International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience ◽

10.7202/1072600ar ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 222-232

Author(s):

Denise Brend ◽

Nicolas Fréchette ◽

Arnaud Milord-Nadon ◽

Tim Harbinson ◽

Delphine Collin-Vezina

Keyword(s):

Child Welfare ◽

Residential Treatment ◽

Complex Trauma ◽

Social Innovation ◽

Task Force ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Well Being ◽

Worker Attitudes ◽

Trauma Informed Care ◽

Trauma Informed

Objectives: This article presents the theoretical basis, initial deployment strategies, and resulting preliminary findings of a program implemented in residential treatment centres (RCs) in child welfare. “Program Penguin” aimed to help workers develop trauma-informed attitudes and implement trauma-informed practices, make the workplace more responsive to the well-being of RC workers, and reduce the use of restraints and seclusion among school-aged children in RCs. Methods: Informed by the theories of complex trauma (National Child Traumatic Stress Network Complex Trauma Task Force, 2003), polyvicitimization (Finkelhor et al., 2007), Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency (ARC; Blaustein & Kinniburgh, 2018) and Positive Behavioural Interventions and Supports (PBIS; Sugai & Horner, 2002), Program Penguin was developed and deployed using the social innovation approach (Fixsen et al. 2005). The key stages of social innovation will here be used to describe the implementation process. Results: Changes in practices were observed, RC worker attitudes towards trauma-informed care were assessed and showed strong effects between multiple covariables. RC worker support needs were identified, and a reduction in the use of restraints and seclusions was shown. Key strategies towards the development and maintenance of buy-in and meaningful change in practices are also described. Implications: Changes observed at all levels of this implementation suggest Programme Penguin is a promising approach, despite local issues that arose and the challenges inherent to program deployment within child protection settings. It appears a trauma-informed program using positive behavioural approaches and leveraging existing organizational strengths may impact intervention strategies, worker attitudes, and the use of restraints and seclusions against children in RCs.

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