#parent | #kids | Cincinnati Children’s develops chatbot app to help children cope with COVID-19 related anxiety | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

Jackie Drees – Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 Print  | Email Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati researchers have teamed up to create an app that offers digital mental health support and anxiety coping practices and skills for children. The organizations tapped chatbot developer Wysa to develop the Covid…

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#parent | #kids | #cyberbullying | #cyberbully | Federal report highlights key ways to prevent school attacks

NEW YORK — School officials nationwide should improve mental health resources, monitor student social media accounts and improve physical security measures, according to a Justice Department report on school safety released Tuesday. The report, compiled by the department’s School Safety Working Group, examined what the panel believes are the 10…

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#parent | #kids | #cyberbullying | #cyberbully | Cyberbullying: See Something, Say Something

Panelists at Hadassah’s cyberbullying event at Temple Beth Tikvah on Sunday offered different perspectives on the topic, yet one message prevailed: Be an upstander, not a bystander. Renee Evans, community and political advocate, opened with an anecdote about an Atlanta mother’s struggle to protect her special needs children from anti-Semitism…

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#parent | #kids | “Israeli Soldiers Abduct Eleven Palestinians In West Bank”– IMEMC News | #childabductors

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday at dawn, eleven Palestinians, including a husband, his wife, and two of their children, from their homes in several parts of the occupied West Bank, and summoned a former political prisoner, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS said the soldiers stormed and…

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#parent | #kids | There has been a 90% increase in Covid-19 cases in US children in the last four weeks, report says | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

Dr. Sean O’Leary, vice-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday that coronavirus cases in children should be taken seriously. “It’s not fair to say that this virus is completely benign in children,” said O’Leary. “We’ve had 90 deaths in children…

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#parent | #kids | #cyberbullying | #cyberbully | Sonakshi Sinha says ‘ab bas’ to cyberbullying, calls for action to support a poet getting rape threats : Bollywood News

With the restrictions on travel and lockdown, digital modes of communication and social media are more important than ever. However, in recent times, instances of online harassment have also increased manifold and threats like rape and death have become a common occurrence. And unlike the perception that only women are…

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#parent | #kids | The 7-year-old Georgia boy with Covid-19 who died drowned in a bathtub after a seizure, coroner says | #covid19 | #kids | #childern

The boy drowned in a bathtub after having a seizure due to a high fever, Chatham County Coroner Bill Wessinger told CNN Monday. The child did not have any known underlying health conditions. After being found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the hospital, the child tested positive for Covid-19 postmortem,…

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