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SHREWSBURY, Mass. – Jennifer Ford and her daughters, Addison and McKinley, look like the picture of a happy family. “We’re very close,” she said. It wasn’t always that way, though, especially when Ford gave birth to her younger daughter, McKinley. “I was just in a zone, I guess,” she said. “And then, when I had her, I had a c-section. It was totally unplanned.” So was what happened next: Ford experienced a deep depression. “I did a lot of crying. It was very difficult to carry on a conversation with somebody because all I would do was cry and I couldn't do normal functions,” she said. “Like, I couldn't cook dinner, I couldn't clean my house. It was difficult to even shower.” Help came from an unexpected place: her OB-GYN, through a program called the 774

A landspout tornado briefly touched down in New Jersey on Saturday and the high winds flipped over a car.The tornado moved across a warehouse parking lot in Mount Laurel Township about 2 p.m. ET before overturning the car, the National Weather Service said.It also passed over a nearby warehouse building, causing minor roof damage."Portions of roof material were pulled back causing the roof to bow. Two air conditioning units were torn off the roof. Ceiling tiles were also dislodged throughout the interior of the building," the weather service said.The tornado dissipated shortly after.Police said no injuries were reported. 640

With international borders closed, the final step of the process for adoptive parents have been put on hold. Many adoptive parents in the United States are unable to fly to other countries to bring their child home. “We’re in the process of adopting an 11-year-old girl from Columbia. Her name is Maria Camila,” Gwen Christensen said.Seth and Gwen Christensen spent years making this decision and filling out all the paperwork. “We went down there in March, the middle of March to adopt her, and finish everything up,” Gwen said. However, they were a few days too late, in terms of bringing home their child.“Then there was news they were closing the airport for international flights that following Monday, which started to make us realize ‘oh my goddess we’re not going to be done by Monday,” Seth explained. “And we have three kids back here [in the U.S.],” Gwen added. Days before they were scheduled to fly home with Maria Camila, courts closed across all of Colombia.“Everything was just going swimmingly until they shut down all the courts in the whole country,” Gwen said. This halted the official adoption process.“That Thursday night the lawyer said we think you should leave,” Gwen said. “That was a really, really hard night.” On Friday, they took Maria Camila back to her group home. “It was awful, but she was old enough,” Gwen explained. “We cried and she was like ok, going back for a couple months.” The Christensens flew back to the U.S. “I was glad to be back in the U.S., but it was really hard to be back without her,” Gwen said. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic caused a lot of disruptions and halted a lot of international adoptions mid-process.“A year, we usually facilitate anywhere from 100 to 120 adoptions,” said Hollen Frazier, President of All God’s Children International. “So far, year-to-date since January, we’ve only had 12 children be able to make their way home to families.” The agency facilitates adoptions from a number of countries, including the adoption of Maria Camila. “For many of these families even to get to the point of travel to bring their child home, they've been already in it for two plus years,” Frazier said. “China was where we saw COVID-19 really take root early on in January and February, which has affected a lot of our families and adoption processes. And then in March, we saw that really take off and expand to really the world and in all seven of the countries we have adoption programs in,” Frazier explained.She said they’ve seen matching of parents with children really slow down since the pandemic started. “We went down another 26 percent over last year in the number of international adoptions,” Frazier said. This makes her concerned, as everything deemed non-essential is closed.“A lot of the countries we work in, the social services children need to be safe and then thrive, they’re not being deemed as essential,” she said. But some emerging options give her hope.“We’re really looking at new ways in utilizing technology to leverage and expand the work we’re doing,” Frazier said. For example, usually Haiti adoptive parents have to go on two trips to the country – the first is a socialization period, and then months later they go back for a final trip. But with technology, that has changed.“The Haitian Central Authority announced they'll allow that first trip to happen via Zoom,” Frazier explained. She said this is a step in the right direction. “It is hopeful to see some countries are now starting to really think through ways we can continue to progress these adoptions, so we are being child-centered and focused on how we can get these kids home,” she said. As for Seth and Gwen, they keep in touch with Maria Camila via video chat, until the day Colombian borders and the legal system open up again.“We want to be able to bring her home and start having her new life,” Gwen said.  3897

School lockdown. It's a term that has become far too common in America. An analysis by the Washington Post found more than 4.1 million students were involved in at least one lockdown in the 2017-2018 school year. One million of those students were in elementary school. Just this month, a lockdown at Sandy Hook Elementary occurred on sixth anniversary of the nation's worst school massacre in history. Another this month happened at Columbine High School. "Being able to have the capacity to lockdown a school effectively is a really important safety tool,” says Amanda Klinger, a school safety educator and advocate. Klinger says although school lockdowns are needed, how they are conducted can be traumatic for students. “There is a cost,” she explains. “There is a cost to emotional anxiety cost.” Data shows 15 percent of all school lockdowns are related to threats, including bomb threats. Another 15 percent is related to police manhunts, and at least 61 percent were related to firearms. Klinger says for student’ mental well-being, we have to do better job communicating why they’re going on lockdown. She says schools should be more transparent with students, parents, and staff to help them better understand the situation and not promote panic. “We're going into a level 1 lockdown because they're serving a warrant in the neighborhood, so everyone can go, ‘OK, I’m not going to die today, probably, but we're just not going to go outside for recess,’" she says. Klinger says we should empower instead of intimidate. 1543

"When they leave their pets here, we treat them like they're still alive. We pet them. We talk to them," said Bob Sutton who recently left his last career to begin working at Pet Passages in Livonia, Michigan. "We want them to feel like they're still being loved and they are."Bob's wife, Wendy, owns the newly opened franchise that offers cremation and visitation for grieving pet owners.In January 2018, the Suttons lost their beloved dog, Lulu. Soon after they realized they have such a love for animals and compassion for those grieving their loss that Bob quit his last job to become the funeral director at their Pet Passages. In addition to cremation services and transportation of pet remains and cremains, Pet Passages also offers euthanasia by a veterinarian for those who don't want to take their pets to an animal clinic, a place that many people know their pets already don't enjoy visiting."They can come here and have a service and say goodbye in a very serene and peaceful environment," said Wendy Sutton. "And we will take care of the pet until we send them home." Pricing varies on the size of the pet being cremated, and they offer a 10% discount for veterans. Pet Passages is located in Livonia, Michigan, and you can visit the company website at 1279