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Join the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) and nationally-recognized speakers for this webinar to learn more about trauma and its impact, hear the case for adopting trauma-informed approaches, and walk through a methodology for implementing trauma-informed care. April 18, 2018 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET Presenters: Linda Ligenza, LCSW, Clinical Services Director, National Council for Behavioral Health; Karen Johnson, LCSW, Senior Director, Trauma-Informed Services, National...

This most recent blog from Sue Jones is a vivid reminder of the many pieces in the healing-from-trauma puzzle. Including having a trauma-informed person to be in it with you, reminding you cognitively that you are safe and also co-regulating your system, reminding you that the sensations in our bodies may feel real, but they are not true. "When the traumatic memories that have lived in our bodies for years or decades present themselves to us, the experience can be so frightening, so...

I am very excited to announce a new ACEs Connection community, Trauma-Informed Libraries. @Madeleine Charney and I would like to invite anyone who is interested in bringing trauma-informed approaches to libraries to join in the conversation. We are a collaborative of library professionals and library supporters who seek to share ACEs Science with our institutions, organizations and communities; explore and implement trauma-informed approaches and build community resilience through...

HOWLAND — The story of a mother who dealt with her young child wanting to die because he felt he was causing problems between his parents was a strong message shared with more than 120 people who gathered last week for a childhood emotional trauma conference. Parent Chandra Kelly shared her passion for wanting to help her 5-year-old son who she said was being abused and neglected by her ex-husband and faced many problems. “It’s horrible to have to watch your child go through this and not...

Every week in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Zibin Guo guides veterans in wheelchairs through slow-motion tai chi poses as a Bluetooth speaker plays soothing instrumental music. "Cloudy hands to the right, cloudy hands to the left," he tells them. "Now we're going to open your arms, grab the wheels and 180-degree turn." The participants swivel about-face and continue to the next pose. Guo , a medical anthropologist at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has modified his tai chi to work from a...

In recent years, the blocks around Oakland’s Fruitvale Transit Village have seen many changes that are typical of urban neighborhoods around the United States. Housing prices are on the rise, and the population has grown wealthier and more educated. But Fruitvale’s transformation is unusual in one key way: It hasn’t gotten whiter. Between 2000 and 2015, homeownership, median household income, and educational attainment all increased in the majority-Latino neighborhood. The gains were on par...

My school has had the fortunate honor to be featured as a part of Edutopia's best practices around ACEs and trauma informed practices. Give them a watch if you have a few minutes. https://www.edutopia.org/school/fall-hamilton-elementary Mathew Portell Principal Fall-Hamilton Elementary: A Leader in Me School 510 Wedgewood Ave. Nashville, TN 37203 (615) 291-6380 (Office) (615) 335-7836 (Cell) Twitter: @fallhamiltoneos Instagram: @fallhamiltoneos

When Dr. Nadine Burke Harris set up the Bayview Child Health Center in 2007, she immediately noticed an association between traumatic experiences and health outcomes in the children she treated. “Day after day I saw infants who were listless and had strange rashes,” she writes in her new book, The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity . “Kids just entering middle school had depression. And in unique cases…kids weren’t even growing.” Often, she discovered, these...

In Arizona, as in many other parts of the United States, school stability for foster youth is a significant problem. Forty-two percent of students in foster care switched schools during the school year, according to a 2015 West Ed report , and research has shown that each change costs a student at least three months of academic progress. These frequent moves jeopardize the already dim academic prospects for foster youth in a state that is struggling to provide quality education to students...

The week before winter break, snow is piled up around St. Louis Park High School, a low-slung, rambling brick complex in suburban Minneapolis. And more snow is falling. This is a big, diverse school with proud roots. Alumni include Joel and Ethan Coen, who shot their semiautobiographical 2009 drama, A Serious Man, in this area, once a Jewish enclave, which today has immigrants from all over the world. But in 1998, when Angela Jerabek was a school counselor for freshmen here, she was...

Editor’s note: It has been 50 years since the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly known as the Kerner Report, was first released. It contained hard truths about the inequality and brutality in American society that were at the root of many urban uprisings and rioting. For CityLab’s look back at 1968, visual storyteller Ariel Aberg-Riger digs in to the history of the report and its legacy today. [For more on this story by ARIEL ABERG-RIGER, go to...

John legend and jesse williams are known mainly as, respectively, a Grammy-winning R&B singer and a lead actor on ABC’s long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. But they are also outspoken about racial injustice and the continuing struggle for civil rights. Legend, 39, has headlined benefit concerts and festivals dedicated to social justice. In 2015 he led a nationwide “listening and learning” tour in prisons and immigrant detention centers about problems in the U.S. criminal-justice...