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St. Louis - A group of nine women were sworn in as corrections officers, a first for the county in multiple ways. This is the first all-women class of corrections officers and also the first time in recent memory that the county has held a graduation ceremony for a group of graduates from corrections officer training. Nationally, only 41% of the corrections workforce is women. According to reporting by The Marshall Project, these women are often at high risk of sexual harassment and assault –both by their colleagues and by those they are guarding. But, Banasco said, “Corrections has come full-circle in the last hundred years. It’s a very safe environment as long as we have policy and procedures and provide them with the skills to do their job.” Now, these women will each be working on different floors of the Justice Center – not in the open office-style rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows where they graduated that visitors to the building might see, but in the inner network of concrete hallways and cells where incarcerated people are held. They will join a staff of about 250 correctional officers currently employed by the county. Some of the women hope that their gender will actually give them an advantage in relating to inmates. Kayla Cattage, one of the graduates, said that women may be more able to deal with the stress of working in a jail because “we come at things from a different perspective.” Source: stlamerican https://www.instagram.com/p/B72v5sjAM2J/?igshid=6i3cdwtj3cyi

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(1/2) I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Tishaura O. Jones, but she's the current St. Louis City Treasurer, running for Mayor in the election this March. She penned a response to the white STL Post-Dispatch editorial director calling him out on his self-centered, racist, and short-sighted idea of the sort of questions the candidates for Mayor should be asked:

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Pediatricians say child checkups should include gun safety advice | Health News | stlamerican.com

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Pediatricians say child checkups should include gun safety advice | Health News | stlamerican.com

As a pediatric surgeon at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Dr. Bo Kennedy has seen firsthand how bullets can shatter tiny bodies.

He has collected dozens of horror stories from his time in the hospital’s emergency department, including the time a 3-year-old boy stuck a loaded gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.

“That’s what he did with his water pistol to get a drink out of it,” Kennedy said. “And obviously he didn’t survive.”

Because of their experience treating guns’ youngest victims, St. Louis pediatricians have increasingly considered it their responsibility to promote gun safety by talking to parents about how to keep guns away from children.

They’re following guidance from American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends doctors talk to parents about firearm safety during visits. The academy’s official stance is guns should be kept locked, unloaded and away from where kids can find them.

But having that conversation is becoming more difficult, Kennedy said.

“Talking about guns has become much more of a volatile issue in the past 20 years,” Kennedy said. “The [National Rifle Association] has named any conversation about keeping guns in a way that’s safer into a control issue, and I think people have become very polarized.”

According to the journal Pediatrics, between 2012 and 2014, an average of 7,000 children were killed or injured by firearms each year. Of those shootings, 1,300 were fatal, and close to 80 — about 6 percent — were accidental shooting deaths.

In the last month alone, there were at least two incidents in St. Louis in which young children died or were injured after finding a loaded gun.

A first-grade girl in Florissant died after her older brother found a loaded pistol in a dresser drawer and accidentally shot her. Just a week before that, a toddler in Pagedale found a 9mm handgun in his father’s backpack while he was looking for snacks. He pulled the trigger and shot himself and his 7-year-old brother.

Guns carry different risks for children of different ages. In those under 12, the greatest risk comes from accidental shootings. Adolescents and teenagers are in danger of finding a gun and using it to kill themselves, Kennedy said.

While accidental shootings in children are going down, suicides are increasing. Nationally, more than 650 children each year intentionally shoot themselves with a gun, according to the Pediatrics study. Three-fourths of those died.

Pediatrician Ken Haller, M.D., the immediate past president of the Missouri chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, asks the “gun question” at nearly every checkup, tailoring it to fit the age of the child.

In the case of 3-year-old Azaya, a stone-faced toddler in a pink coat, he worked the topic into a larger conversation about general safety in the home during a routine checkup. Pediatricians call this “anticipatory guidance,” but parents will recognize it as the part of the visit in which doctors ask about potential hazards such as swimming pools or incorrectly installed car seats.

“Are there things in your house that could be hazardous?” he asked Azaya’s mother, Angella Brown. “Any guns or weapons in the house?”

“What we want to make sure of is if people have weapons – particularly guns – that they’re stored in a place that’s locked, the ammunition is stored separately from the weapon itself,” he told Brown.

Haller also recommended that Brown ask about weapons in other houses before Azaya goes on a playdate or visits other relatives, another piece of advice the AAP recommends doctors give.

The conversation isn’t political, insisted Haller, a SLUCare pediatrician who works in Danis Pediatrics, the primary care practice at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital.

His only agenda is to keep younger children from playing with a dangerous firearm and older children from using it to hurt themselves.

“I have not said to anyone, ‘You should not have a gun’ or ‘having a gun is bad’ or ‘having a gun is the wrong choice for you,’” he said. “What I do say is, ‘If you choose to have a gun, I know you want to keep your child safe; I want the same thing. Here are some things you can do to make sure you have the safest possible environment for your child.’”

Even though individual doctors may not have a political agenda, the American Academy of Pediatrics does. The professional organization has officially come out in favor of stricter gun laws and maintains, “The absence of guns from children’s homes and communities is the most reliable and effective measure to prevent firearm-related injuries in children and adolescents.”

Many people agree the safe-storage guidelines endorsed by the professional organization are common sense. Even the National Rifle Association advocates keeping guns unloaded and away from unauthorized users like little kids.

But some people think doctors aren’t the ones who should give that advice. In Florida, a state law barred doctors from discussing gun ownership with their patients. Courts eventually found that law violated a doctor’s First Amendment rights. A similar but less-restrictive law in Missouri outlaws requiring doctors to ask about guns and prohibits them from documenting if patients own firearms.

Doctors have historically shied away from treating gun safety as a public-health issue. Since 1997, federal laws have barred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding any research that would potentially promote gun control, and funding for research into gun safety pales in comparison to other public-health issues with similar morality rates.

“What pediatricians want for children is what parents want for children – for them to be safe to lead healthy, happy lives,” Haller said. “Discussing gun safety is one of the most important things we can do to that make sure parents, children and families have that opportunity.”

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Edited for length and reprinted with permission from news.stlpublicradio.org.

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Brittany ‘Tru’ Kellman honored by Missouri Foundation for Health | Health News | stlamerican.com

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Brittany ‘Tru’ Kellman honored by Missouri Foundation for Health | Health News | stlamerican.com

Brittany “Tru” Kellman, the founder and executive director of Jamaa Birth Village, has received the 2018 Dr. Corinne Walentik Leadership in Health Award from the Missouri Foundation for Health.

The award was created to honor the late Dr. Walentik’s commitment to serving vulnerable groups, especially children. Each year it is presented to a health leader in Missouri who exemplifies the passion, dedication, and energy that Walentik brought to her work.

Since 2015, Kellman and her team at Jamaa have been caring for and empowering expectant mothers and their families through midwifery services. The organization focuses on racial and health disparities that women and families of color face when seeking access to quality maternal health care.

“Women find their voices at Jamaa,” Kellman said. “Their minds and emotions are nourished by a network of compassionate, skilled, and supportive peers and professionals at Jamaa. Our patients receive a level of care they never knew existed when they walk through our doors, and we often hear, ‘I wish I had you all when I had my first child; I wouldn’t have gone through what I did if I had Jamaa.’”

Kellman said that through midwifery Jamaa is breaking generational cycles of poverty and mental health issues and giving babies a better start to life. The birth village is located in Ferguson, a community that struggles with equity and access like many others.

“We’re providing community-based care from the heart of our neighborhoods,” she said. “Eight out of 10 women who come to Jamaa for care, support, or education have experienced trauma, abuse, or biased care from other providers.”

Kellman told The American in 2016 that in addition to midwives, Jamaa makes sure that every woman who wants a doula – an education and emotional support provider – has one. While the midwife is the skilled professional in low-risk pregnancy and birth who actually delivers babies, doulas provide mothers with emotional and physical support during the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period. 

“The primary role of the doula is to be there for the mothers, babies and their partner during pregnancy, birth and post-partum,” Kellman said. “Usually, we are there to offer comfort measures, different positioning ideas and education throughout the course of pregnancy and postpartum.” 

She said with a doula, “it’s like having your own personal assistant or person that’s there to assist you if you want to have a birth with low intervention. Sometimes, if you go into birth uneducated and you’re in a hospital, there could be a lot of intervention based on how the hospital regulates birth, which can cause issues with mother and baby.” 

Kellman will be honored at the Missouri Foundation for Health’s annual dinner, an invitation-only event. She will receive a $2,500 individual award and, per her direction, $25,000 will go to Jamaa Birth Village. She said the award will allow her to continue her efforts toward completing midwifery school and becoming Missouri’s first black certified professional midwife, which she hopes will pave a path for more women of color to become skilled and trained in the field.

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