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By Jeremy Loudenback, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, October 25, 2022 Former foster youth Christina Torrez turned 26 in May. And although she was a first-generation college student pursuing an admirable future after overcoming homelessness, the mother of three hit a new barrier. Her eligibility for the program that had provided her with everything from the cost of books to bus passes while attending Bakersfield College came to an abrupt end. The state-funded NextUp program...

By Ben Casselman, Photo: Sarah Rice/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 25, 2022 The strong late-pandemic labor market is giving a lift to a group often left on the margins of the economy: workers with disabilities. Employers, desperate for workers, are reconsidering job requirements, overhauling hiring processes and working with nonprofit groups to recruit candidates they might once have overlooked. At the same time, companies’ newfound openness to remote work has led to...

Are you struggling to implement Forward-Facing principles and skills into your therapy and/or coaching practice? Do you have clients with whom you know Forward-Facing would be helpful but cannot seem to get it delivered to them in a way that is palatable? Are you unsure when and how to introduce Forward-Facing to your clients? Would you like some support and assistance practicing and mastering Forward-Facing in your own professional and personal lives? Would you like to develop a support...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of six books and longtime friend of PACEs Connection, joins the History. Culture. Trauma. podcast this week in an excerpt from the launch of her sixth book, “Girls on the Brink—Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media.” "Anyone caring for girls today knows that our daughters, students, and girls next door are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before,” said Nakazawa. But the...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. A funder who’d promised $500,000 reversed course and we are asking for help, from you, our 57,400+ members, to help cover the loss. Pay and hours have been cut for our staff – most of us will be laid-off for the month of December. Since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised about $22,000 . To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please enjoy our first in a series of donor profiles, and be like Lois:...

🍃 Befriending your Nervous System, a non-clinical approach to achieving post-traumatic growth. 🍃 Hosts: Jenny Brackman and Emily Hedrick 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭: https://forward-facing.com/event/module-3-of-the-post-traumatic-growth-specialist/ Hope to see you there! ➡️ 4PM AZ | 5PM MT | 6PM CT | 7 PM ET

Welcome to virtual Rx Healing Circles! This session serves as an opportunity for building the beloved community and fostering healing through a shared humanity perspective. We invite you to join us in sharing a connective space for people to offer compassion and experience unity. Join us Wednesday, November 16, 2022 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here : bit.ly/RxHealingCircle11-16

During six weeks at the Blackfoot Reservation in the 1930’s, 30-year-old Abraham Maslow did not find support for his theory that social hierarchies are maintained by dominance. Instead, he saw a tribal community where “…levels of cooperation, minimal inequality, restorative justice, full bellies, and high levels of life satisfaction…” were the norm. During my career in Alaska, I watched a transformation of villages from substandard houses with outhouses and honey buckets to places with more...

"Game changing. Strategies that I know will improve my practice & improve the experience that students have at school." “I’m Safe. I Belong. I Matter.” This is the way every child needs to feel in order to learn. How can you, as an adult who works with youth, help them experience emotional safety? Especially when our own nervous systems are overwhelmed. In our online, interactive Reimagining Resilience workshop , we cover the three R’s critical in building positive relationships with...

By Aatish Bhatia, Francesca Paris, and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, October 25, 2022 The first two years of the Biden administration have included huge legislative victories: a major bipartisan infrastructure deal, a technology bill, a veterans’ health bill, a gun safety bill, and a package of new investments in climate and health care. Of course, President Biden didn’t get everything he wanted; no president does. Even with these major bills, he has fallen substantially short of...

By Jessica DuLong, Photo: Maskot/Getty Images, CNN Health, October 24, 2022 Straight away, Nora McInerny noticed core differences in how people responded to the coronavirus pandemic. For some, the deadly virus and its upheaval constituted the “first big thing they’d ever been through.” Meanwhile, McInerny and others whose lives had been shaped by grief, loss or tragedy had long known that “life is fragile and our pace in this modern world is untenable.” McInerny’s first husband, Aaron, died...

By Phoebe Weston, Photo: Emilio Naranjo/EPA, The Guardian, October 24, 2022 Industry groups representing some of the world’s largest companies are “opposed to almost all major biodiversity-relevant policies” and are lobbying to block them, according to a new report. Researchers found that 89% of engagement by leading industry associations in Europe and the US is designed to delay, dilute and block progress on tackling the biodiversity crisis, which scientists say is as serious as the climate...