The House has passed a budget reconciliation bill that supporters are referring to as a "one big, beautiful bill." However, the authors of this Issue Brief believe that this budget bill threatens the health and nutrition of millions of children and pushes millions of children into poverty in order to provide tax credits for corporations,…

Many children today are in full-time early care and education settings; they may obtain one-half to two-thirds of daily nutrient needs during their time at the centers. Because of that, early care and education professionals can play a key role not only to offer nutritious food but also to help children establish healthy eating habits. The purpose…

Introduction: This study examines the effectiveness of local community cultural service providers in Hungary, focusing on how community venues and public cultural institutions contribute to cultural learning. Methods: A time-series analysis was conducted based on OSAP 1438 cultural statistical data collected between 2014 and 2023. The dataset…

Rates of diabetes in youth are rising and more than 1 million children have diabetes. School nurses are central to a school-aged child's diabetes care and they must make important moment-to-moment decisions requiring understanding of and comfort with diabetes care and technology. The rapid changes in diabetes care and technology make ongoing…

To explore various stakeholders' understanding of student privacy and how protections for it are enacted on their campus, we conducted interviews with 27 faculty, instructional designers, and academic librarians at Very High Research Activity universities across the United States. Although there were no interview questions concerning the pandemic,…

Background: The Needs Assessment Framework (NAF) stimulates awareness of care staff to consider perspectives of clients with intellectual disabilities in decisions on involuntary care. We explored the effect of implementers' participation in a Virtual Community-of-Practice (VCoP) for designing implementation plans, on NAF implementation and staff…

Objective: The study assessed perceived health, health behaviors and conditions, and medical care utilization among students of different weight categories. Participants: Participants were college students (n = 37,583) from 58 institutions who responded to a national survey of student health behaviors. Methods: Chi-squared and mixed model analyses…

College health services are uniquely situated to reduce barriers that have historically made it difficult for Transgender and Gender Diverse (TGD) people to access care. The Big 10 Gender Care Coalition recognizes the importance of providing gender-affirming care and presents recommendations for integrative, inclusive college health services.

An increasing number of PK-12 students need mental health support. While a broad group of professionals (e.g., teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, families) may be involved in school-based mental health and well-being work, not all are trained mental health experts well-versed in the nuances of implementing the…

Perhaps no corner of the college campus better illustrates the innovations that the modern delivery of student services has experienced than does the university police department, where, according to Katherine Knott (2022) in "Inside Higher Ed," the growing trend toward a co-responder model--pairing mental health professionals with…

Previous research on preparation for the VPSA role has emphasized career progression rather than participation in professional development activities. This study aimed to explore the perceived effectiveness of 11 different professional development activities across 8 of the NASPA/ACPA Professional Competency Areas for Student Affairs Educators in…

This article examines the promise of honors programs in the context of service as a non-prototypical site for learning. The authors evoke publicly engaged scholarship, high-impact practices for student success, and critical pedagogy as intersecting frameworks that illuminate the Honors Living-Learning Community model at Rutgers University --…

Counselor educators, counselors-in-training, and LGBTQ+ community members engaged in a community-based qualitative inquiry exploring LGBTQ+ affirmative care education. Findings revealed counselor educators' components and delivery of content, developmental implications for applying LGBTQ+ affirmative care, and gaps between education and LGBTQ+…

In this chapter, we reconcile vocationalist and humanist education by embracing pre-professional programs' humanizing potential. Inspired by Freire and hooks' critical praxes, we define "humanization" as facilitating mutual relationships and respect between people. We draw from our experiences as educators and clinical supervisors in…

In this article, we examine the relationship between self-reported opioid use and employment outcomes among Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants who applied to SSDI in 2009. We use a machine learning method to identify opioids recorded in text fields on SSDI applications. Studying outcomes for 4 years after the U.S. Social…