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This online interactive workshop is for all therapists since most people have experienced some form of sexual harassment or assault by the time they are adults. Groundbreaking for a workshop about sexual healing, this workshop is led by a therapist, Reena Bernards, LCMFT , as well as a leader and author in the survivor movement, Donna Jenson, MA, each bringing their own unique perspective. The workshop will cover the stages of healing from an attachment lens, as well as techniques of...

By The HOPE Team, 11/8/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ In our recent blog, HOPE in Policy , we discussed the work that the HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) will be doing to let policymakers know more about positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and how public policy can support access to the Four Building Blocks of HOPE . Likewise, the HOPE NRC works directly with organizations to make HOPE-informed changes to their internal policies. This work is important for the HOPE...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Debelle G, Efstathiou N, Khan R, et. al. The Typology and Topography of Child Abuse and Neglect: The Experience of a...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We are asking for support, from you, our 57,586 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff—most of us will be laid off for the month of December. Another grant will pick up in January, but we will still be underfunded. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $26,000 . Thankfully, about 25% of new donors are making monthly...

Tune into History. Culture. Trauma. – 1pm PT Thursday, November 10 – Encore of Agnes Woodward discussing murdered and missing Indigenous women. In honor of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIW/MMIP) movement and November being Native American Heritage Month, we will air an encore discussion between podcast host Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Agnes Woodward, indigenous activist, mother, artist, and survivor of generational...

Dr. Mike Flaningham is a physician at the Siletz Community Health Clinic in Siletz, Oregon. I very much appreciate Dr. Stillerman's thoughtful response , as well as the work of her and her co-authors to advance PACEs awareness in the health care system (How cool is it that one of the authors is a PACEs Connection member?!?!). I furthermore appreciate the ongoing discussion here on the PACEs Connection forum, started by Craig McEwen's post on ACPM's recommendations, then spurred by Dr.

By David Treuer, Art work: Gilbert Charles Stuart/British Museum, The New Yorker, November 7, 2022 I remember when I first encountered what must be the best-selling book of Native American history ever published, “ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ,” by Dee Brown. I was twenty years old, and had made my way from the Leech Lake Reservation, in northern Minnesota, where I grew up, to Princeton, in a part of New Jersey that seemed to have no Indians at all. Since “Bury My Heart” appeared, in 1970,...

By Nicole Lewis and Alexandra Arriaga, Photo: Tampa Police Department, The Marshall Project, November 4, 2022 For years, Derrick Oliver has traveled across the state of Alabama helping register formerly incarcerated people to vote. Most often, he says he spends his time correcting the misinformation that any Alabamian with a felony conviction has permanently lost the right to vote. But this year he encountered an overwhelming barrier: fear. In August, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the...

By Jan Hoffman, Photo: Allison V. Smith/The New York Times, The New York Times, November 7, 2022 The little girl who will soon be known by the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court as Y.R.J. is now 4 years old. For much of her short life she has been living with Dr. Jennifer Brackeen and Chad Brackeen, a suburban Texas couple fighting with the Navajo Nation to adopt her. Y.R.J.’s birth mother is Navajo. The Brackeens are white. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments...

By Ted Mellnik and Andrew Van Dam, Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, November 4, 2022 Deep in the bowels of the nation’s 2020 Census lurks a quiet milestone: For the first time in modern American history, most White people live in mixed-race neighborhoods. This marks a tectonic shift from just a generation ago. Back in 1990, 78 percent of White people lived in predominantly White neighborhoods, where at least 4 of every 5 people were also White. In the 2020 Census,...

Kevin has recently been active in leading a position statement on ACEs for the American College of Preventive Medicine and will present a short synopsis of the umbrella review that has been completed and published as a preprint in AJPM FOCUS journal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773065422000372?via%3Dihub Kevin Sherin MD, MPH served as the Founding Program Director, of the AdventHealth Sebring family medicine residency until June of 2022, He is currently serving as a...

Recognizing trauma responses is an important skill for trauma-informed leaders to learn—and knowing these common trauma responses is a great place to start. When we view the world with a trauma-informed lens, we can identify two distinct states of mind or headspaces. Of course, this is an overly simplified model—but it can help us easily identify when someone (including ourselves) is experiencing a trauma response. These two states of mind are “trauma brain” and “executive functioning...