Teen Stress
Is the teen in your life stressed out? You’re not alone. According to a recent survey conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in partnership with the Harvard School of Public Health and National Public Radio, almost 40% of parents say their high-schooler is having stress from the demands of achieving good grades in honors and advanced placement courses. There [...]
Introducing Health-e-Arizona Plus
AHCCCS and ADES have rolled out a new website that makes it easier than ever to enroll for Medicaid and other benefits. It’s called Health-e-Arizona Plus… and it’s Arizona’s one-stop-shop for easy Medicaid enrollment. Health-e-Arizona Plus provides an easy pathway to apply for a full range of AHCCCS and ADES benefits and local health access programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps) [...]
Arizonans Continue to Kick the Habit
We continue to make strides to get Arizonans to Kick the Habit. We got the good news this week that Arizona’s adult smoking rate dropped 2 more percentage points in the last year… going from 19% 2011 to 17% today. The data come from this year’s CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System… and it translates into 72,000 fewer AZ smokers [...]
Flu Near You
Flu Near You is a free tool that’s been made to help in the fight against flu. The way it works is that people like you and I anonymously report each week on whether we had symptoms or flu shots. The information is used to place a dot on a map of the community so flu-like activity to be tracked [...]
Maricopa County Contract Decision Announced
The Department of Administration made a decision about the Regional Behavioral Health Contract for Maricopa County this week. Deputy Director Cory Nelson explains more about the decision and its impact on the current behavioral health service in his blog.
To Spank or Not to Spank?
Finding effective ways to guide kids can be a struggle- especially since each child responds so differently. From “time outs” to “spanking”, parents hope that discipline works to modify behavior. But what about the long-term impact of discipline like spanking? Is it effective in the long-run? A recent study completed and published in the journal of Pediatrics found that kids (ages [...]