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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Listening is a fundamental skill that’s essential for success in school, in relationships, and in life. Unfortunately, many children struggle with listening. They may interrupt, tune out, or simply not pay attention. If your child has difficulty with listening, don't worry—there are things you can do to help. Below are five research-based tips for helping kids become better listeners. These tips focus on developing three key listening skills: body language, focus, and expressing empathy
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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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Our 2022-23 Youth Advisory Board represents a diverse group of young people who will work with Making Caring Common to make schools and communities more just, caring, and respectful places.
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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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Key takeaways on bullying prevention and intervention from a webinar featuring expert and scholar Dr. Dororthy Espelage. The event was hosted by Making Caring Common, Facing History and Ourselves, and The Choose Kindness Project.
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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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College admissions decisions can trigger complex emotions for students and families alike. In this piece, MCC offers five tips for what to say to your child when they receive disappointing admission decisions.
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For this piece in U.S. News & World Report, writer Andrew Bauld checks in with MCC’s Kiran Bhai for advice for parents in choosing a K-12 school for their child.
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In this Wall Street Journal essay, Jennifer Breheny Wallace checks in with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd about our forthcoming research suggesting that far more teens feel comfortable talking to their mothers than their fathers about mental health challenges.
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In this piece for Time, former Congressman Adam Kinzinger cites MCC’s 2021 report, Do Americans Really Care For Each Other? What Unites Us—And What Divides Us. Kinzinger makes the case that Americans need to break free from extremist views in order to come together.
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Making Caring Common’s Caring Schools Network (CSN) team shares some of their favorite empathy-building books for young teens, along with reflection questions for teens and adults to think through together.
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How can we effectively manage feelings of loneliness? Katie Couric Media checks in with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd about how loneliness can lead to self-defeating thoughts and also cause us to become more reflective about our relationships.
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The founders of SoulCycle, the wildly popular indoor cycling workout class, have launched a new venture focused on “relational fitness.” Fortune Well checked in with MCC’s Milena Batanova about whether the new wellness studio—called Peoplehood—could help alleviate loneliness and create connection.
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