The African Parent’s Post

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🇿🇦 South Africa recently celebrated Youth Day and Father's Day, highlighting the importance of young people and fathers in society. These events bring attention to the challenges faced by communities with absent fathers and the impact on youth development. 📊 The article discusses the significant issue of absent fathers in South Africa, resulting from historical and cultural factors. It highlights the crucial role fathers play in providing discipline, security, and inspiration for their children, and how their absence can lead to a cycle of challenges for young people. 💡 This content emphasizes the need for balance between masculine and feminine influences in society. It suggests that providing alternative role models and teaching emotional management skills can help young people overcome the challenges posed by absent fathers. By offering love, support, and positive examples, we can work towards building a more emotionally healthy society. 🔗 Explore the full article to learn more about the impact of absent fathers and potential solutions: https://lnkd.in/dBmUwsBC 🏷️ #5thplace #emotionalfitness #fatherhood #youthempowerment #societalbalance

🚀 Survey Launch Alert! 🚀 We're excited to announce the launch of our new survey, which focuses on the mental health challenges faced by European youth and their impact on rights and democratic participation. Our survey takes a youth-centered and intersectional approach and is a unique opportunity for young people to make their voices heard and contribute to meaningful change! 🔍 If you're between 18 and 30, we want to hear from you! Take the survey and have your say! ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: The survey includes questions about mental health that may be sensitive or triggering. Please proceed with caution and prioritize your well-being while participating. #YouthVoices #MentalHealth #DemocraticParticipation #SurveyLaunch #YouthPerspective #IntersectionalApproach

International Day of the Boy Child: Celebrating Their Strengths and Supporting Their Growth Every May 16th, we celebrate International Day of the Boy Child to recognize the unique experiences boys face and emphasize their well-being, education, and positive inclusion in society. At Nuture Child Development Clinic, we understand that boys face a complex world shaped by societal expectations around masculinity, mental health struggles, degrading or harmful stereotypes, emotional needs, and uneven academic journeys. These challenges can impact their development. We can support them by ensuring: Safe spaces: Let boys express emotions freely. Challenge stereotypes: Celebrate their full range of emotions. Positive role models: Surround them with healthy masculinity examples. Open communication: Encourage mental health conversations. Equal opportunities: Ensure access to quality education and resources. Together, let's nurture boys' strengths and empower them to be healthy, confident individuals who contribute to a society valuing equality. Happy International Day of the Boy Child! #boychild #celebration #neurodivergent #strength #support #inclusion #internationaldayoftheboychild2024 #growth #mentalhealth Father Stock Videos by Vecteezy https://lnkd.in/d4JY5t6d

International Men’s day is today - 19th November. These celebrated/ highlighted days should used to raise awareness of issues facing groups of individuals and to further expand on equality. It's about time gender-based stigmas are waved goodbye. 👋 It’s 2024. We are all human. We all deserve to be treated the same. So please: 📎Talk to people, even when life is feeling good. 📎Check in with your family, friends, co-workers, and strangers – you might be the right person at the right time. 📎Spread awareness and resources to those around you. 📎Be yourself and be proud of it. Here are some things you can talk about: 🗣️ Supporting boy's and men's wellbeing 🗣️ Allyship: caring for everyone 🗣️ Mental health: encouraging conversations 🗣️ Health: Getting checked and looking after themselves 🗣️ Community & celebrating differences 🗣️ Togetherness: Checking in on present and past connections 🗣️ Education: E.g. equality, domestic violence, prostate cancer 🗣️ Fathers: General support for all

This International Day for Persons with Disabilities, we celebrate Assistant Research Professor. Edith Luhanga, who is collaborating with Dr. Skye Adams from the University of the Witwatersrand on a groundbreaking study on designing applications that use artificial intelligence to enhance the ability of parents and health workers to detect and address feeding difficulties in young children with autism in Africa. Feeding difficulties affect up to 90% of children with autism, often manifesting as challenges with swallowing, food selectivity—such as only eating foods with specific textures or colors—and disruptive mealtime behaviors. Addressing these challenges often requires therapy, but in Africa, there are very few trained specialists and therapy sessions are often prohibitively expensive for families. This research aims to bridge these gaps by co-designing innovative and accessible solutions with parents and health workers in South Africa. Learn more about the research here:  https://lnkd.in/et_CbUa9.   CMU-Africa is committed to advancing disability-inclusive research towards fostering our shared value of inclusion #IDPD2024

With a Young Scholars award from the Foundation for Child Development in 2018, I was able to study the impact of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policy changes on school communities. In a previous post, I discussed the ways educator work and well-being were impacted. Below, I share a bit about the impact on Latina mothers and children in elementary schools: Latino/a/e children in low-income immigrant communities were exposed to anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican messages at school, in their neighborhoods, and in the media. This precipitated discussions within homes about safety, rights, race and immigration. Mothers reported engaging with schools to seek mental health supports for distressed children & then disengaging with schools upon feeling dismissed. To support children in low-income immigrant communities, philanthropy is encouraged to attend to ways to support school based mental health in low-income immigrant schools. Effective anti-bullying programs that support teachers, parents and students are also needed. See more recommendations discussed in our 2022 paper, "Racialization, discrimination, and depression: A mixed-method study of the impact of an anti-immigrant climate on Latina immigrant mothers and their children" https://lnkd.in/ef5TEYNy #socialjustice #edequity #mentalhealth #earlyeducation #Latinohealth #philanthropy

What do you bring to the table?.. . . 🎯Day 3: Shed light on professional journey, skills and talent. Many a time, in job interviews, relationships and business deals, I’ve heard people ask this question a lot. I decided to share through what I’m passionate about so you get to know me more on this journey. 📝Professional- I have experience in the requisite clinical skills and knowledge in managing conditions related to; -child health -obstetric(pregnant women) & gynecological ailments -surgery and requiring surgical intervention. 📝Public Speaking: - I have had the opportunity of speaking to myriad of people-children, youth, adults on topics of Health, Relationship, Mental Health, Youth Empowerment, Leadership & Spiritual growth. 📝Health Advocacy: -health outreaches to remote and urban areas to make healthcare more accessible -health education to churches, community and participating in health campaigns 📝Leadership: - 7 years experience in leadership that have driven impactful change in the church,school, student groups and project led intervention. -Training sessions on leadership for student groups and amongst the youth. 📝Skills: -Creativity and Innovation skills -Good Time Management skills -Graphic Design Skills - Team player and Team Lead skills -Volunteerism and Teachability 📝 Impactful Change: A couple of impactful change I have driven include: 📍Children -Partaking in the organization of outreaches : -orphanages - children with disability and -needy but brilliant children 📍Women -Projects that advocated for women presence in the leadership of students council. 📍Fundraising -Partaking in the Organization of fundraising concert. -Raising funds to pay for investigations and labs for sick children who could not afford it. 📍SDG campaigns - Partaking in Campaigns that advocated for SDGS such as Clean Ghana and Recycling. 📍Faith Leading a community of believers that are committed to knowing God through the Word. I believe everyone has that table that can make the world a better place. Have you found your table yet? Or you are on your road to discovery? Seeing my post for the first time?, I am Dr Vanessa Abokoma Quaye , I help you access the right information about health and inspire you to be the transformational leader you want to be. #Letsconnect. #consistencychallengewithDrLinkedIn #day3 #linkedingrowth #ladydoctor #talent #skills

This article highlights the overrepresentation of neurodivergent children in the youth justice system and the need for a more inclusive society that embraces the benefits and strengths that neurodivergent people offer. #youthjustice #neurodiversity https://lnkd.in/e6JVbVAd

#AutismAcceptanceMonth Words matter in neurodiversity. Embracing neurodiversity means respecting individual preferences in language. While some prefer person-first language ("a person with autism," "a person with Down syndrome"), research has found that a majority of the autistic community prefers identity-first language ("an autistic person"). It's crucial to ask directly about someone's preferred terms, promoting inclusion and respect for all. This awareness extends to clinicians, ensuring holistic care for individuals with neurodevelopmental differences. Let's foster understanding and acceptance through mindful language choices. Read more on identity-first language from the Autistic Self Advocacy Network >> https://loom.ly/wboY7nU #SherwoodAutismCenter #AutismAwareness #AutismSpectrum #AutismCommunity #KansasCityNonprofit #KansasCity