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By Trisha Powell Crain, Photo: Laura Bruce, The Hechinger Report, June 29, 2022 A labama schools were just starting a new venture to help students find mental health resources when COVID hit. Mental health service coordinators are now in place in nearly all of Alabama’s 138 school districts; they help smooth the path so more students can find resources. The new role came at a key time, officials say, and will help more communities wrestle with the best way to help more students. “We know...

Deeply rooted shame from childhood adversities can lurk beneath conscious awareness, even after early memories are reworked. New understanding of the brain provides hope for breaking the painful grip of shame that’s imprinted in childhood. Traditional therapeutic strategies might not be the best starting point. This blog introduces the first of several healing strategies.

By John Blake, Photo: Jim Wilson/The New York Times/Redux, CNN US, July 3, 2022 A White judge tells an interracial couple that "Almighty God" placed the races on different continents because he "did not intend for the races to mix." A US Senator writes a book about the dangers of interracial unions called, " Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization ." A White father is so disgusted after reading a magazine article on interracial marriage that he writes a letter to the editor saying if...

By Maggie Astor, Photo: Ryan David Brown/The New York Times, The New York Times, July 1, 2022 Legislators in Colorado, historically a major coal state, have passed more than 50 climate-related laws since 2019. The liquor store in the farming town of Morris, Minn., cools its beer with solar power. Voters in Athens, Ohio, imposed a carbon fee on themselves. Citizens in Fairfax County, Va., teamed up for a year and a half to produce a 214-page climate action plan . Across the country,...

By Ramon Castaños, Photo: Ramon Castaños, EdSource, July 1, 2022 M y name is Ramon Castaños. I am 24. I am Mexican-American. And I am a third-year journalism student at California State University, Fresno trying to jumpstart my journalism career. All of those things about me are more interesting than the fact that I live with autism. I hate that most people treat me differently when they find out I have autism. I just want to be treated like everyone else. In 2016, I graduated from Sunnyside...

Background checks, absolutely! Assault weapons ban, absolutely! But…violent people have one thing in common. They did not experience parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children. This is not to say that everyone who experiences unsupportive and harmful parenting becomes violent. Indeed most do not. But, if we want to put an end to violence, working to improve the overall quality of parenting must be part of the solution.

Peace4Tarpon is a community initiative that began in 2010 making Tarpon Springs the first trauma-informed community in the nation. Through ongoing research, we now know that unaddressed childhood trauma is the root cause of the most challenging issues we face whether in our personal, family, work life or in the larger community. These impacts on mental, emotional and physical health can have a ripple effect which often crosses generations. We also know that trauma knows no boundaries –...

While news of mass shootings, such as the July 4th shooting at an Independence Day Parade in Highland Park, Illinois, dominates media feeds, community gun violence takes more lives and impacts more people in the United States. This week the PACEs Connection podcast History. Culture. Trauma, again focuses on gun violence in America, with a conversation departing from the focus on mass shootings, to instead look at community violence and solutions to community violence with policy analyst and...

My father was diagnosed with terminal cancer right around the start of my senior year of high school. I had also broken up with my "first true love" right around that same time. As you can imagine, my little 17 year old self didn't quite know how to cope with it all . Sure I put on a good front (childhood s*xual abuse had made me a master at pretending)! But as I watched my father wither away and at the same time tried to mend my broken heart, I was a swirly whirly mess of thoughts and...

After more tha n two years of a deadly pandemic, a racial reckoning laying bare gross inequities, historic environmental catastrophes, and record-breaking gun violence and mental health challenges, could the first known national study of “What Happened to You?,” by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey, help us heal our collective trauma, one relationship and community at a time? That’s the question Carey Sipp, PACEs Connection director of strategic partnerships, hopes will be answered with a...

COST: $150 - General Registration F REE - Cooperative of Communities Network Members ***Contact Mathew Portell for COOP discount code mportell@pacesconnection.com Register here J oin the RYSE Center and PACEs Connection on July 12. 2022 from 10 am-1 pm PT / 12 pm-3 pm CT / 1 pm-4 pm ET to examine how conventional social science research often produces and replicates unjust and harmful narratives about Black, Indigenous, Youth of Color (BIPOC) capacities, priorities, dreams, and needs. At the...

Please join us in-person or virtually at the 2022 IACET Conference where Dr. B will be discussing "Managing Mental Health: How to Navigate Social and Emotional Well-Being in the Workplace". Register here! https://www.iacet.org/events/annual-conference/2022-annual-conference/sessions/