@jaspar.bsky.social of @statnews.com talked to our #USCNationalFellows on how tracking federal health cuts can impact your communities, and walked them through that data.

@laurasanthanam.bsky.social advised #reporters to keep "being creative and don't let these efforts [to disappear data] undermine your ability to tell stories that we all know in our hearts, deserve to be told, need to be told, and to serve the people who we are serving."

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"Looking at alternative #data sources is helpful. Going to experts who you found helpful in your #reporting projects as background sources to help interpret these alternative #datasources is also interesting to consider," @laurasanthanam.bsky.social said.

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It's the last day of our #NationalFellowship! Today our #USCNationalFellows will hear from Senior Fellow
@laurasanthanam.bsky.social of @newshour.bsky.social & @joshpasek.com, Professor at @umich.edu

The session will focus on 'Disappearing Data: What's Missing and How Reporters Can Respond.'

"It just takes one person to engage with in a completely different way, who can change your entire reporting," Kuzydym said.

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Safer Sidelines: An in-depth look at sudden death in high school sports The Courier Journal spent several months investigating sudden death in high school sports. Here’s what we found.

Kuzydym talked to our #USCNationalFellows about how she incorporated #communityengagement in her reporting.

Read more here: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/i...

"Reporting and journalism at its core is about engaging others," Kuzydym told our #USCNationalFellows.

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We have arrived at our last session of the day! We are joined by our national engagement editor @teenaapeles.bsky.social and former data fellow Stephanie Kuzydym, reporter at @courierjournal.bsky.social, who will be talking to our #USCNationalFellows about engagement journalism.

#USCNationalFellows also heard from Carol Peralta, and Dwain Wilson of Wildwoods LA about “nature-deficit disorder” — the lack of green space in this community.

#USCNationalFellows heard from Ronald E Brown, CEO of
All For Kids, about the innovative ways in which they’re stepping up to serve the community.

Today our #USCNationalFellows took a field trip to Magnolia Place, a community hub near downtown LA that brings together a network of services to support families in the area.

"Sometimes their kid is right next to them, and you can kind of be on the speaker, and they can listen to the questions that you ask their parent," @kalynbelsha.bsky.social added.

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"A strategy I use when interviewing children ... is interview the parent first and then say, 'hey, I'd also love to talk about that so that they have a better sense of what questions you might ask," @kalynbelsha.bsky.social advised our #USCNationalFellows.

Congress wanted schools to hire more mental health staff. The Trump administration took an ax to that bipartisan plan. The Trump administration told many school districts, states, and colleges that they would no longer receive grant funding to hire or train mental health staff for schools. Proponents of the program wo...

@kalynbelsha.bsky.social spoke about her reporting for @chalkbeat.org. You can read more here: www.chalkbeat.org/2025/05/02/t...

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"Voters tend to overwhelmingly agree with reasons for investing in children and family-friendly policy," @brucelesley.bsky.social said.

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"Kids are one of the least politically powerful groups, but they're also seen as one of the most deserving," when it comes to access to public benefits," @brucelesley.bsky.social said.

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"Even before the administration took office in this Congress, the kids were not doing well. So we ran far behind other countries in all measures. And the fact of the matter is, our investments in children are far less than other wealthy countries," @brucelesley.bsky.social said.

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Our next session is 'Children's Funding Under Fire on Every Front,' featuring @brucelesley.bsky.social of @firstfocus.bsky.social and @kalynbelsha.bsky.social of @chalkbeat.org

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"What shapes your #health has nothing to do with doctors. It has to do with the opportunities we navigate, and how we feel about our ability to navigate those opportunities ... it has a lot to do with what's called #agency, a sense of control," Dr. Iton said.

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"Our theory is that #chronicstress is a driver of American life expectancy and that wealth doesn't insulate society. And the more #unequal a society is, the more stress there is," Dr. Iton said.

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"If you want better health in your country, spend more on your social contract," Dr. Iton said.

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"There are a lot of narratives [about America], but there are two competing uber narratives, and a lot of these narratives are basically derivative of these two narratives: America as a people (narrative of exclusion) and America as an idea (narrative of inclusion)," he said.

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"Stories and #narratives are extremely powerful motivators of #humanbehavior," Iton said.

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For our second session of the day, we are hearing from
Dr. Anthony Iton, Lecturer of Health Policy & Management at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social School of Public Health, who will be speaking to our #USCNationalFellows on 'Health & Race: How Inequality Turns Communities into Stress Incubators.'

"We found that when you deliver trauma-informed therapy to mothers and children, the process of resolving the trauma for the moms and making meaning of their past and building insight and healing unlocks access to positive memories," Narayan said.

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"I think of it as a process from which we leverage all the resources that we have available to us, including internal resources, supportive relationships, concrete resources, basic needs, networks, and communities to mobilize, adapt and thrive despite trauma," she said.

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"My definition of resilience is as a dynamic process that helps people thrive and harness larger resources during or following adversity ... oftentimes it's thought of as a capacity or a trait that an individual has. That's not how I think of it," Narayan said

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"Individuals who are pregnant, if they're stressed, that stress can be passed across the placenta and be transmitted to the fetus ... but there's specific ways we can break the cycle, and that's where my work is, understanding how we can halt the transmission of generations."

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In a conversation about childhood adversity and the science of resilience, Narayan highlighted how "positive childhood experiences can help compensate for childhood adversity, because they often co-occur."

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"We found that experiences that happen between birth to five, and this is substantiated across literature, those often have a particularly enduring effect on later development adaptation, because that period is so critical for so many different developmental tasks," she added.

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