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Among the key findings: Each of the 20 largest US cities is spending at least hundreds of millions of dollars per year on the criminal legal system, with the vast majority of those resources going to the police. Many cities and counties spend in the billions, with New York City the largest at $7.7 billion in 2022. In total, these cities and their counties are spending $37.9 billion on the Mass Criminalization System in 2022. 16 out of the 20 cities invest more on the Mass Criminalization...

We are pleased to provide a career opportunity at Florida State University , located in Tallahassee, FL. FSU is recruiting a Director for the new Trauma and Resilience Collaborative (TRC) . The Director of TRC will identify, harness, and promote the university’s trailblazing multidisciplinary expertise on trauma and resilience. This is a Faculty I 12-month salaried position. The Director will be responsible for the growth of TRC programs and end users by successfully recruiting partnerships...

Join us for our inaugural Speaker Series event with the Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma! Tuesday, January 24 th , 2023 from 12-1pm ET Register Here. Event is free and open to the public. Learn about Elaine’s Community Resiliency Model to prevent and heal trauma, supporting our mission to build safe, trusting, engaged, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and healthy communities where children and families thrive. Elaine Miller-Karas is the Co-Founder and Director of Innovation of the Trauma...

Join the Center for Community Resilience and our partners on Wednesday, February 8, as we unveil the 2023 national policy agenda to promote health and well-being across the lifespan. This comprehensive agenda focuses on the building blocks for health and well-being to promote social and economic equity for America's children, families and communities. Register at https://bit.ly/3ZyelGU Read more about the agenda here . Presented in partnership with the Institute for Women's Policy Research...

By Laura Gallant, 1/12/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The 3 rd Annual HOPE Summit – Practicing HOPE will take place online, March 29-30. Register now to get $50 off the regular ticket price, this special ends Sunday, January 15 th . During the two-day Summit , attendees will get to select two of the over 15 workshops offered. All workshops will also be recorded and available to watch after the summit for attendees only. These workshops range from topics like, applying HOPE...

Missteps with Trauma-Informed Schools I am a part of a team of highly committed, innovative, and creative individuals who all believe that we are the right people to create meaningful and positive change. Each of us also believes deeply that YOU are the right person for this job too. There are three environments in which almost all young people exist: 1) the family environment, 2) the community environment, and 3) the school environment. It’s time that we let go of all the narratives that...

Explosive kids often have explosive parents. This “interactional trauma” dance between kids and their parents often involves communication that contains criticism, lecturing, sarcasm, and a lack of nurturance. Over time, this drama leads to out-of-control behaviors like aggression or disrespect as well as unforgiveness and generational trauma. It often goes untreated when providers are only trained in individual therapy with the child and not the entire traumatized family. In this free...

Lemonade for Life helps share the ACEs science with families in a way that builds hope and resilience.

In my tradition, relatives never die and the ancestors are always with you. We spend a lot of time and resources revering relatives who have transitioned into the spirit world. So, one day after we made ritual for my beloved ancestor, it came as no surprise to receive a request to keynote at a feminist festival in Kenya. She was a powerful woman in the physical world who left a legacy of powerful male feminists in an oppressive African society. My invitation to Kenya had her handprints all...

For decades, I’ve helped people discover the root cause of their disease—physically, mentally, and emotionally. Sometimes, internal “dis-ease” manifests into excess weight or obesity and is often rooted in adverse childhood experiences—ACEs. This is something I’ve seen repeatedly in my decades of work alongside Dr. Felitti and the ACE Study. Interestingly, I’ve had patients who realized they were using their excess weight as a form of protection from the outside world and the opposite sex.

In the throes of a financial crisis as the result of a foundation reneging on a grant, PACEs Connection launched its most successful membership-focused fundraising drive to date, and raised more than $66,000 in the last two quarters of 2022. Many gifts were new quarterly pledges. “We’re excited to have engaged more of our almost 58,000 members than in years past, and we hope that this is a sign of more involvement,” says Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO. “If everyone gave even a little...

We’ve all heard of ‘generational curses’. But did you know that a growing body of research finds that it’s possible for trauma to pass through generations? “This research implies that the experiences of your ancestors can have real impact on your physical and mental health,” says PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren. Cockhren co-hosts the “History. Culture. Trauma.” podcast with Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of education and outreach, on Thursday, January 12 at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m.