What are the Signs of Alcohol Poisoning?
Alcohol poisoning is a serious and life-threatening condition. Unfortunately, many people do not know the signs of alcohol poisoning. As a result, there are many unnecessary alcohol poisoning deaths in America every year.
Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave
Firstly, it’s important to understand that leaving an abusive relationship is not as simple as just walking away. Victims of domestic violence often feel trapped and powerless, and their abusers may use various tactics to control and manipulate them. This can include physical violence, emotional abuse, financial control, and isolation from friends and family. As […]
Benefits of Using Evidence-Based Behavior Change Strategies in Schools
Changing behavior is much easier when the right tools and resources are used. This is especially true when you apply evidence-based practices. All of 3rd Millennium Classrooms’ prevention and intervention courses incorporate evidence-based strategies, which are proven to be effective and designed specifically with middle and high school students and staff in mind.
What is Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?
What is Social Emotional Learning? Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is a framework that teaches the life skills people need to understand themselves and other people.
Tips for Internet Safety Month
June is Internet Safety Month, and we’d like to highlight some tips for parents and educators.
What is Domestic Violence?
Domestic violence is intentional violent or aggressive behavior. Forms of domestic violence include intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and other abusive behaviors. Domestic violence is often used as a means of power and control typically by one intimate partner against another. This includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence, and emotional abuse, and its […]
A Lesson in Human Decency
There is really no way to avoid it: the recent brutal sexual assault by a Stanford college student was all over the news and was all the media could talk about. So was the case of the preventable death of a Penn State student who died from injuries received during a fraternity hazing. No matter […]
Trauma-Informed Schools: Helping Traumatized Students Succeed
One out of every 4 students have been exposed to a traumatic event that can affect learning and/or behavior. Trauma comes in many forms, from living in extreme poverty or neglect, to experiencing difficult events like bullying, school shootings, community violence, or physical or sexual violence, to divorce or death of a loved one. With […]
NO MORE’s 7th Annual Challenge: Change Happens Here
NO MORE’s seventh annual NO MORE Week is March 8-14, 2020. The goal of NO MORE is to bring awareness about sexual violence and to end domestic violence and sexual assault.
Building Resilience to Cope with Adversity
Resilience is the ability to bounce back from a difficult situation or to cope with stress or adversity. Stress can come in many forms: relationship struggles, sickness (your own or that of a loved one), drastic change in your environment, isolation, or uncertainty.
