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Is there such a thing as false hope? Recently, a friend suggested that the Peanuts comic strip hero, Charlie Brown, had a high level of false hope because Lucy kept pulling the football away at the last minute. I disagreed. I suggested Charlie Brown didn’t have false hope, he was simply overly optimistic because he put his success in Lucy’s hands when he should have sought a new pathway around the barrier (i.e., Lucy). Of course, Charlie Brown may also be a low-hope person because he didn’t...

PACEs Connection is pleased and grateful to announce Hilary Marine as our Fall Graduate Intern. She joins us this fall for an internship as part of her journey to earn her Master of Public Health! Learn a bit more about Hilary and her work below: What made you want to intern with PACEs Connection? What makes a person resilient through adversities has fascinated me for a long time. Many children encounter adverse experiences, yet the outcomes can be vastly different. Aside from all of this,...

Our World Mental Health Day episode is a conversation with Philip Butler, Ph.D., about the future of mental health care: one that puts healing in each person's own hands. We talk about the barriers to accessing healing and mental health care, especially for Black people. Dr. Butler's solution is to put the Internal Family Systems therapy methodology in everyone's hands through his Seekr Bot app so that we can access healing anytime anywhere. “The Seekr Project is part of a larger plan to...

Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to ending child maltreatment. One of Zero Abuse Project’s flagship programs, Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) , is an educational curriculum designed to better prepare college learners for the realities of working in child protection. Zero Abuse Project has been funded through the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Building the Capacity of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs to Train Child...

FREE WEBINAR ON NPEIV YOUTUBE CHANNEL Preventing Future Harm: Concrete Action Steps to Prevent Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan – Thompson, LeBlanc, Gotch, & Berman 90 minutes (excluding the Q & A) This following contains four presentations that build on each other to help you learn how you could take action to make safety at home, in the community, and within the institutions of society through building resilience skills. The first presentation provides a definition of...

By The HOPE Team, 10/20/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE framework centers on the importance of positive experiences during childhood. Of course, children and their parents can do a great job in creating these opportunities – but social policies can make this easier or harder for families. The HOPE National Resource Center intends to help policymakers know more about Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) – and how public policy can support access to the Four...

By Gina Siddiqui, Illustration: Lucy Jones, The New York Times, October 18, 2022 Sal was 58 when I was assigned his case. Sal had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in the 1960s and was considered an old survivor; all his friends who had been diagnosed at the same time, including his younger brother, were dead. I was 21, a few weeks out of college and one of the youngest students in my medical school class. Our assignment, to follow patients with chronic diseases to their clinic...

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Image: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), October 18, 2022 When my son was born with a congenital heart condition, like any parent, I felt lost. He required open-heart surgery and I felt overwhelming uncertainty for what the future might hold. I understood that the outcome might not be good, but I also knew that a positive outcome was possible if I could provide the best care for him. At a time like that, it was hard to focus on...

By Andrew Gregory, Photo: Anthony Devlin/PA, The Guardian, October 18, 2022 Children whose parents lack warmth are more likely to grow up overweight or obese, according to the first study of its kind. The effects of different parenting styles on children’s weight have been determined for the first time – and suggest parental warmth is key to a healthy weight, researchers at the International Congress on Obesity in Melbourne, the biennial congress of the World Obesity Federation, will say on...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykJ2an39t8g&t=1s Haj is a healer who can sense what the trouble is in your body and emotional states resulting from trauma and karma. https://www.sophia.institute/

Courage to Caregivers will host its third annual Caring for Caregivers Virtual Summit on Wednesday, November 16, and Thursday, November 17, 2022, from 9 am to 12:30 pm ET as part of National Family Caregivers Month. This year’s theme is Getting UNStuck: Moving From Languishing to Flourishing. The event is free for licensed professional caregivers and anyone providing care to a loved one with mental illness. All are welcome to attend one or both days. CEUs are provided for Ohio professionals.