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DCPAP Adds Consulting Psychiatrists, Offers New Office Hours for Providers

WILMINGTON – The Delaware Child Psychiatry Access Program has expanded and updated its service offerings for participating pediatric primary care providers. Over the summer, the Delaware Child Psychiatry Access Program, known as DCPAP, added three new child psychiatrists to offer consultations to pediatric serving primary care providers. Saurabh Gupta, M.D., Narpinder Malhi, M.D., and Markian […]



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  • Youth and their Families

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Governor Carney, Lt. Governor Hall-Long, DSCYF Announce $16 Million Investment for Vulnerable Delawareans

Governor John Carney, Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long and the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families (DSCYF) on Tuesday announced a $16 million investment to renovate and remodel Wharton Hall on the DSCYF campus.




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Why Mental Health is Key to a Child’s Overall Health and Wellbeing

In addition to a caring adult, research shows that prevention and treatment programs do work and there are resources available to help children and their families through the Delaware Children’s Department Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services (DPBHS) and the Department of Education (DOE) and local schools.




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Briefly Stated: Stories You May Have Missed

A breakdown of high-profile news stories you may have missed during the week.




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The Challenging, Often Isolating Work of School District Chief Equity Officers

As some districts try to dismantle racist and biased policies and practices, they are creating high-profile positions to lead that public, sometimes hostile, reckoning.




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Start Early: Close the Achievement Gap Before It Starts

The non-marital birth rate to women age 24 and under was 71 percent in 2017. Here's what that means for educational outcomes and schools, according to guest blogger Ian Rowe.




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Equity-Focused Leadership Is Risky. Do It Anyway

As superintendents, we must make the system work for all students—however socially, politically, and professionally dangerous it may be, writes Demond A. Means.




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Flipped Classrooms May Exacerbate Student Achievement Gaps. Here's How

Flipped classrooms have been getting attention as a way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but a new study cautions that the model could trade short-term gains for wider achievement gaps.




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Does 'the Achievement Gap' Evoke a Negative Stereotype? What the Research Says

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.




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Poverty, Not Race, Fuels the Achievement Gap

A new analysis finds that high-poverty schools are the least effective. But why those schools stifle achievement is harder to figure out.




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I Need More From My Daughter's School Than Lip Service About Racism

Districts must put real action behind their anti-racist statements, writes Funmi Haastrup. Here are five places to start.





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How to Really Close Opportunity Gaps During Our National Racial Reckoning

"Colorblind" teaching isn’t going to cut it, writes Vanderbilt University’s H. Richard Milner IV.




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Boys´ stuff and Bible talk

After a successful season of ´Generation X´, the OM Chile team decided to carry on with the activities for teenage boys living in a boys home in Santiago.




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Faith Day

The experiences of the Intensive Training students when they were sent out into Santiago, Chile for a day without resources, relying on the Lord to guide their steps.




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Changed in only nine months

The participants of OM Chile’s nine-month Intensive Training were different people when they left than when they had arrived.




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An answer to prayer

A young boy in a Chilean children's home receives an answer to his heart-felt prayer.




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Praying for the children

An OM Chile team member visits two children's homes each week to invest in the kids' lives. She asks people to join her in prayer.




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OM Chile moves into new ministry base

God supplies OM Chile with a new ministry base big enough for the team to live and work together in the same location.




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Loving every child

An OMer shows loves to a young boy at a children's home who finds it easier to connect with animals than with other people.




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Quality time with water slides, dramas and pizzas

OM Chile celebrates Christmas with the boys and girls of two children's homes in Santiago.




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Flexibility during an afternoon of film

OM Chile's homeless ministry planned to show a movie on the street for around 100 homeless friends. They had to get creative when problems arose.




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Wilful girl touched by God's love

Jennifer Lam from Hong Kong experiences the love of God transforming the lives of children during OM Chile's Intensive Mission Training.




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Meetings arranged by God

Worker Mirjam Hoolsema, from the Netherlands, talks about her experience with a woman she saw every day during her daily devotion.




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Everyone must decide

A man renews his decision to follow Christ after chatting with a volunteer during an OM flash mob in a busy area of Santiago.




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A week for the Holy Spirit

For two days, the OM Chile Agape Team share with homeless people about the Holy Spirit and witness miracles.




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Fellowship beyond borders

Marloes Achterveld, from the Netherlands, shares about falling in love with the people of Curarrehue in southern Chile during OM Chile's Intensive Missions Training.




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Broken but saved by grace

OM Chile team member Marloes Achterveld witnesses God change the life of a homeless man.




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The miracle of a family meal

Jessie Stein tells the story of God's faithfulness in the midst of learning a foreign language and the struggles of a broken family.




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An ever changing testimony from an ever present God

When asked to share his testimony, a participant of OM Chile's Adventure Team realises just how much God has worked in his life.




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God loves you in every language

A participant of OM Chile's Adventure Team shares about a man who was deeply affected while they visited the homeless in the streets of Santiago.




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Storytime, Meet Number Play: Early Math in the Home Matters for Later Skills

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.




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SMS Bible verses become daily bread

Pamir Productions radio ministry sends texts to encourage listeners and viewers.




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Pray for Uzbeks

In learning the Uzbek language, OMers gain insights into Uzbek culture and worldview, thus gaining greater understanding in how to pray for them.




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Glorifying God through an unexpected gift

An OMer in Kazakhstan tells of a Kazakh friend and believer who, finding herself pregnant again before she is ready, wrestles with cultural norms.




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A joyful mobilisation

A Central Asian girl receives her first wheelchair.




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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

A worker in Kazakhstan notes the impact of the gospel on the Kazakh language.




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Every tribe and tongue and nation

A dream comes true - the first OM recruit from her country sends the next group of recruits to the OM ship.




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From the streets to seminary

Azamat was living in the streets, but through the ministry of OM team members in Central Asia he moved into rehabilitation and then seminary.




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'Get out of my brothel!'

God is allowing OMers to slowly build relationships with the owners of a brothel in Central Asia.




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The Holy of Holies

An athlete visiting Central Asia to compete in an international competition hears the gospel in depth.




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Inspiring creativity and worship

A new recording studio aims to bring Central Asian musicians together for collaboration and worship.




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Transformational technology

OM workers in Central Asia use technology to develop new discipleship and worship tools for local believers.




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Breaking barriers for homeless ministry

A worker uses previous experience with homeless ministry to reach out in Central Asia and introduce his church to people they could serve.




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Playing fair

OMers in Central Asia model integrity on the playing field and share Jesus with people they meet through sports.




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'Everyone to everywhere'

When a short-term outreach team finds openness among an unreached people group, their church gets motivated to send more people.




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Discipleship on a daily basis

God uses OMers to show His love to local believers, who then spread that love to their own communities.




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Every last apricot

“We were strangers, and they called us over to bless us. They didn’t have to give us anything—let alone everything—but they did it with smiles on their faces. They didn’t know us; they didn’t expect anything in return; they just gave,” remembers Nicole.




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The love of my Father is good

The Xenos team in Germany is delighted about Ibrahim, a Turkish man, who is following Jesus. This is the story of Ibrahim’s journey to faith in Christ.




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European youth gather for second-ever Mission-Net Congress

Mission-Net welcomes more than 2,500 people and 110 mission organisations from Europe and other parts of the world to Erfurt, Germany, this week.