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Mental Health Awareness Month: The Effects of PTSD & Food Allergies

May 18, 2020  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, FAACT, FAAW, Family, Feelings, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-Allergy-Awareness-Month, Food-allergy-blog, FoodAllergyAwarenessWeek, Grandparent, Healthcare, Know-The-FAACTs, Mental-Health, Mental-Health-Awareness-Month, Parent, Patient, Psych, PTSD, Support, Teens, Tips

by Emery Gewirtz, M.A., FAACT Director of Behavioral Health May is Mental Health Awareness Month AND Food Allergy Awareness Month. While it is a coincidence that these two important issues share a month of awareness,

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Compassion Blog

Compassion in a Time of Chaos: There is No Right Response

April 13, 2020  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Awareness, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Compassion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Family, Feelings, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Healthcare, Know-The-FAACTs, Mental-Health, Mom, Mother, Parent, Preparedness, Psych, School, Self-care, Support, Teens, Tips

by Emery Gewirtz, M.A., FAACT’s Director of Behavioral Health This season is temporary, and so are these feelings. Still, while they may be temporary, and will not last forever, some days it may feel like they will.

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Lost Memories

The Lost Memories of Students in Transition: Where Do We Go from Here?

April 12, 2020  |  8th-Graders, Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Awareness, Behavior, Behavioral-Health, Blog, Caregivers, Children, College, Compassion, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Education, Elementary, Emotional, Emotions, FAACT, Family, Feelings, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Graduation, High-School, Know-The-FAACTs, Parent, Psych, School, Secondary, Self-care, Senior, Support, Teens, Tips

by Emery Gewirtz, M.A., FAACT's Director of Behavioral Health Amidst the coronavirus chaos, there is one forgotten group whose lives were taken out from under them. With little fanfare and no applause, these kids went

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Summits

Highlights from FAACT's Summits

October 11, 2019  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-Action-Plan, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Catered-events, Children, Civil-Rights, DBV Technologies, Dining-Out, early-intro, Education, Emergency, Emotional, Emotions, FAACT, FAACTs-Teal-Ghost, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Know-The-FAACTs, KyleDine, Safety-Tips, School

by Caroline Moassessi Bridging a desperately needed gap, five years ago FAACT launched the inaugural Food Industry and Research Summit. “This is the only meeting in the nation where everyone comes together, from

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Helping Kids with Food Allergies Build Self-Esteem

June 21, 2019  |  Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Medication, Parent, Patient, Psych, Risk-taking, Safety-Tips, School, Self-Care, Support

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC We're all familiar with the term self-esteem, but it can be hard to describe it in a concrete manner.  In the simplest of terms, self-esteem is a positive sense of

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Anxiety Blog

Food Allergy Anxiety in Kids - 5 Tips for Parents

April 15, 2019  |  Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Medication, Mom, Support, Teens

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC Those of us who are food allergy-knowledgeable licensed behavioral healthcare providers will inevitably get calls from parents seeking guidance on helping their child with food

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Navigating Food Allergy Tragedies

March 12, 2019  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Family, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medic-Alert, Medications, Self-Care, Support

Another food allergy-related tragedy recently populated our social media feeds. This story involved a teenage boy, all set to graduate high school, but suffered an anaphylactic reaction to walnuts days before

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Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

Navigating the Emotional Seas of Food Allergies: One Parent’s Journey Towards Resilience

June 18, 2018  |  Action-plan, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Caregivers, Children, Civil-rights, Civilrights, Education, Elementary, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Food, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Label, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medical-id, Medications, Patient, Psych, Readlabels, Recipes, School, School-resources, Self-care, Support, Support-group, Tips, Travel, Traveling

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC As a parent, there are days that are etched in your mind forever. The day your children were born. Their first words. Their first steps. Their first days of school. But when you’re the

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