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Arms disaster recovery workers with a toolkit on mental health awareness. Includes materials for responding effectively to the general public during and after a disaster and in dealing with workplace stress. Also includes materials for the general public.


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Thriving on Stress New research on resilience finds it might be possible to teach people how to interpret stressful situations as something useful and thereby enable them to change the way they respond to them. Most people find not only being laid off, but particularly the near- constant process of shopping for and trying to secure another job to be very stressful. The ability to get yourself up after losing a job, and then get out there and sell yourself to a new employer, requires something unique. And that takes us to the general topic of resilience. Some people really can't handle this different environment, but others probably thrive in it. A recent study pointed to differences across individuals in their abilities to process dopamine, a neuro-transmitter that is released in large quantities when we experience stress. The more stress, the more dopamine. If your genetic make-up allows you to process the surge of dopamine quickly, you actually do better in such stressful contexts. You are sharper mentally than those who process dopamine more slowly in these stressful situations. But people in the former group may actually do worse in other less-stressful contexts. Is changing people to overcome their genetic background worth preparing oneself for a career of self-marketing?


Read More Connecticut Passes Nation's Strictest Gun Law in Wake of Sandy Hook Massacre


Both houses of the Connecticut legislature have passed some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, approximately 100 days the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In passing the sweeping set of laws, Connecticut joins Colorado, New York and Maryland, the three states that have passed major gun control legislation. But no state embodies the high costs and conflicting forces in America's gun debate more than Connecticut. The Connecticut legislation bans the sale of gun magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds and requires background checks for private gun sales, including those at gun shows. It also expands the state's current assault weapons ban to include more than 100 gun models. Additionally, the Connecticut bill allocates $15 million for expanded school safety and mental health programs, and includes new eligibility requirements for ammunition sales. It also has a provision to create the nation's first registry of dangerous offenders, which will be accessible only to law enforcement officers. Senate Democrats and the White House have zeroed in on expanded background checks and tougher penalties for gun trafficking, the two measures most likely to become federal law.


Read More Bill to Require Guns in Indiana Schools Raises Concerns


A proposal to require at least one teacher, principal, or other school staff member to carry a gun in every public or charter school in Indiana appears to be raising eyebrows at the highest levels. Senate Bill 1 initially was created to provide grant incentives for school districts to hire resource officers, a job sometimes handled by police officers. While security experts, parents and teachers acknowl- edge the need for security, questions about training remain a big issue. Gov. Mike Pence danced around whether he opposed the legislation that would make Indiana the first state to have such a requirement, while State Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz opposes the mandate. Ritz supported giving local schools the resources for their own security needs but not forcing a district to have an armed employee. Initial and annual training for protection officers is not specified in the bill. School districts would have until September to adopt those policies if the bill becomes law. But under the same bill, resources officers, which some school districts already voluntarily employ, would be required to complete minimum training requirements for law enforcement officers and at least 40 hours of certified school resource officer training.


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