October 2021

In this time of real need for mental health intervention, consider attending (virtually) this conference. Here is the material and hope to see you there. Our students need us to understand trauma and its symptomology. Date: Nov. 4 from 8 -- 2:30. Come for all or some of the event. https://www.massachusettspta.org/2021-health-summit-agenda/

Recording of Called to Care 2021 New Orleans Virtual Summit A one-day virtual summit held on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 to promote compassionate healing in New Orleans for our children, youth, and their families. Building on the 2019 New Orleans Summit on Compassion & Resilience and Called to Care strategic plan and report , the Called to Care: 2021 New Orleans Virtual Summit brought together mental health and well-being practitioners, community members, sector and systems leaders, and...

Native American Heritage Month Events Please join us this November to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. Virtual lectures include an Indigenous food cooking demonstration, Indigenae Podcast screening and discussion, a beading workshop and a keynote address on November 17 featuring Oren Lyons and Thomas Banyacya Jr. Indigenous Food Cooking Demonstration - November 2, 12:00pm EDT REGISTER: https://bit.ly/CAIHxPFG Indigenae screening & discussion - November 8, 12:00pm EDT REGISTER:...

By Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American, October, 28, 2021 In 1929, October 28 was a Monday, the opening night for New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Four thousand glittering attendees thronged to the elegant building on foot or in one of a thousand limousines to see Puccini’s Manon Lescaut , the melodramatic story of an innocent French girl seduced by wealth, whose reluctance to leave her riches for true love leads to her arrest, deportation to the wilds of America, and tragic...

By David R.M. Beck, Next City, October 25, 2021 T he National Day of Remembrance for Native American children honors children who died years ago while attending the United States’ Indian boarding schools each Sept. 30. On that day this year, a bill was reintroduced in both the Senate and the House to establish an American Indian Truth and Healing Commission on Indian boarding schools. The bill’s purposes include both truth-seeking and healing. It asks “to formally investigate and document”...

By Michele L. Norris, The Washington Post, October 26, 2021 Claudette Colvin was 15 years old when she was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., and placed on indefinite probation, after refusing to vacate her seat on a bus so a young White woman could sit down. This was March 1955 — nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested for violating Alabama’s racial segregation laws after refusing to give up her seat to a White man, an act that sparked the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. Parks, who died in...

By Special to the Enterprise, Davis Enterprise, October 25, 2021 In November, Resilient Yolo will launch a three-part virtual workshop series to educate members of the public on strategies for strengthening health and social support systems in Yolo County. To advance conversations around health and equity, the collaborative will also be hosting a Building a Resilient Yolo Summit in spring 2022. Formed in 2014, Resilient Yolo is a community-based collaborative with an interest in...

This handout is based on the work of Donna Jackson Nakazawa , who worked with us and generously allowed us to paraphrase content from her book, Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology & How You Can Heal . Donna's book specifically addresses those of us parenting with ACEs (which she also does brilliantly in the powerful documentary, Wrestling Ghosts , which is about parenting and healing from ACEs). This handout can be downloaded, distributed, and used freely. It is...

This article demonstrates that relieving poverty is a powerful approach to preventing child abuse and neglect.

By Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, October 28, 2021 Centuries of land loss and forced relocation have left Native Americans significantly more exposed to the effects of climate change, new data show, adding to the debate over how to address climate change and racial inequity in the United States. The findings, which took seven years to compile and were published Thursday in the journal Science , mark the first time that researchers have been able to quantify on a large scale what...

By Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers, Women's eNews, October 27, 2021 Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v Wade. But abortion is not the only issue that is critical to female control of their bodies. We tend to think about child marriages as something that happens in distant third-world countries, but not in the U.S. Unfortunately, that is far from true. In this country, there is no federal legislation regarding age of marriage, and states have...

By Katy O'Donnel, Politico, October 25, 2021 Treasury Department data released Monday showed the disbursement of federal rental aid has started to plateau, despite Biden administration pressure on state and local governments to ramp up delivery of the money to avert evictions during the pandemic. State, local and tribal officials had disbursed about $10.7 billion in rental assistance as of the end of September, representing less than a quarter of the $46.5 billion Congress authorized in two...