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Subject Recently from CLASP: Mental Health Support for Young Adult Parents
Date September 27, 2019 7:48 PM
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*This week:* Equitable mental health for young adult parents


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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
September 27, 2019




Looking at Life Different: Equitable Mental Health Support for Young Adult Parents [ [link removed] ]
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In this newest brief on mental health and young adults, CLASP examines the unique challenges of young parents. The brief draws from focus groups held with African American young parents in rural and urban North Carolina and Alabama, Native young parents in urban Colorado and Maryland, and Latina young parents in Texas and California.

"Looking at Life Different: Equitable Mental Health Support for Young Adult Parents" explains how we can best help young parents by recognizing parenthood as a valued, central identity that can spur growth and development in other key areas.

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Low Job Quality Leaves Workers and Our Economy More Vulnerable to the Next Recession [ [link removed] ] As alarms about a possible recession grow, lessons from the Great Recession of 2007 -2009 demonstrate that poor-quality jobs can further entrench poverty for low-wage workers, especially workers of color. This brief examines the impact of the last recession on workers in low-wage jobs. It makes the case for improving job quality for workers by enacting critical new labor standards such as paid family and medical leave, paid sick days and fair work schedules.

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Ending SNAP Broad Based Categorical Eligibility (BBCE), Continuing a Ruthless American Tradition of Sabotaging Communities of Color [ [link removed] ] The Trump Administration has recently proposed stripping SNAP benefits from 3.1 million individuals. This would further exacerbate the country's racial wealth gap and seriously harm people of color-continuing a tradition of preventing people of color from achieving economic mobility.

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CLASP in the News


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Long-Awaited Trump Overtime Pay Requirements Unveiled [ [link removed] ]

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 | INDUSTRY WEEK

Manufacturing's $6 Billion Problem [ [link removed] ]

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 | NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY

Janresseger: New Reports Confirm Persistent Child Poverty While Policymakers Blame Educators and Fail to Address Core Problem [ [link removed] ]

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 | THE 74 MILLION

Back to School but Nothing's Normal. Schools Mobilize to Help Children of Immigrants After Traumatic Summer [ [link removed] ]





Upcoming Events









*September 25-27, 2019*, Los Angeles, CA, CLASP's "Communities Collaborating to Reconnect Youth" host its annual fall meeting.



Ruth Cosse at Congressional Black Maternal Health Caucus stakeholders meeting



*September 28 – October 1*, 2019, Chicago Il, Ruth Cosse and Stephanie Schmit will attend the National Black Child Development Institute's 49th Annual Conference where they will give presentations on two recent CLASP reports about access to child care subsidies and impacts of maternal depression on black children and families.









*October 10, 2019* Christine Johnson-Staub will present on "Equity Starts Early: Embedding Racial Equity at the Center of Early Childhood Policy and Systems" at a "Learning Cafe" webinar for the New York Early Learning Council.




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