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“There is a largely untold story about parent mental health in America,” MCC's Rick Weissbourd tells The Hill's Daniel de Vise. “Parents’ and teens’ mental health are deeply interwoven, and we need to do much more in this country to support parents and to promote their mental health.”
Read more about the link between parent and teen mental health in The Hill.
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“We can’t really understand what’s going on with teens if we don’t understand what’s happening in their families," MCC's Rick Weissbourd tells The Washington Post.
Read more about our new report showing high rates of anxiety and depression in parents of teens.
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"There will be major losses in diversity on college campuses," MCC's Rick Weissbourd told the Harvard Gazette about one impact of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision about race-conscious admission practices. "Diversity is so important for the prospects of many kids, and it’s also important in terms of having a healthy community, where people learn about themselves and the world.”
Read more about how admissions processes may change and what it may mean for colleges, universities — and the nation itself.
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How—and why—should we raise children who care about the common good? the Purposeful Empathy podcast’s Anita Nowak discusses this core MCC topic with Rick Weissbourd.
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The Golden Rule, treating others as you want to be treated, is one of the oldest and most universally agreed upon moral principles in human history. So why aren’t parents today teaching it to their kids?
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This article in Harvard Medicine magazine looks at the high rates of loneliness among young people and related concerns over possible damage to their mental and physical health.
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Today, much of higher education is predicated on gaining a competitive advantage. But what if colleges and universities could cooperate instead of compete for applicants?
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A new tool that Making Caring Common piloted with the Common App will allow college applicants to provide more diverse information about their life circumstances — information like time spent taking care of siblings. Through the Common App, the most-used college application platform in the country, students can apply to multiple colleges and universities at the same time.
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This Newsweek piece about a woman seeking friendships through weekly dates with potential friends cites MCC’s loneliness report.
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USA Today’s Nada Hassanein checked in with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd for this piece about the U.S. Surgeon General’s May 2023 advisory about loneliness and mental health.
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“Probably our most effective way to reduce loneliness is if we take more care of the people in our lives,” MCC's Rick Weissbourd said in response to the U.S. Surgeon General’s May 2023 advisory on how loneliness negatively affects mental health. Read more in The Washington Post.
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In this article, Washington Post writer Petula Dvorak quotes MCC’s Rick Weissbourd and calls on adults to do more to support teen girls. She suggests that we can start by listening to them, believing them, and empowering them.
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Social isolation and loneliness can have devastating health consequences. This piece in Managed Healthcare Executive highlights MCC research and a program that used persona mapping and artificial intelligence to match users with trained peers who had similar experiences and could provide emotional support and companionship.
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This piece in TIME by MCC's Rick Weissbourd and Senator Chris Murphy challenges us to think about how we can balance individual autonomy and the common good and calls for a renewed commitment to community and collaboration to address the issues we face today.
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In today's increasingly polarized political climate, it's more important than ever to teach students how to have productive conversations with people who have different beliefs. In this ASCD article, MCC's Rick Weissbourd, Glenn Manning, and Eric Torres share tips for helping students develop the skills they need to talk across political difference.
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An Askwith Education Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featured a panel discussion, hosted by Senior Lecturer Josephine Kim, including four field experts: MCC’s Rick Weissbourd; Alisha Moreland-Capuia, founder of the Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change at McLean Hospital; author and clinical psychologist Lisa Damour; and Linda Charmaraman, director of Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College.
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In response to the growing youth mental health crisis, school districts across the country have filed suit against social media giants, including Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Good Morning America checked in with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd about the lawsuits.
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In this Washington Post piece, writer Donna St. George looks at lawsuits filed by school districts across the country arguing that Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube have helped create the nation’s surging youth mental health crisis and should be held accountable.
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In this New York Times piece, Claire Cain Miller cites MCC’s 2020 report on fatherhood and explores how some dads have stayed more engaged in family life since the pandemic.
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