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By Katy Knight, Illustration: Siegel Family Endowment, The 74, June 27, 2022 The past two years have demonstrated that schools are much more than places of education. While pandemic-related closures interrupted learning, reduced academic expectations and widened inequality gaps for students, they also carried high consequences for communities at large. When schools shut down, working parents — especially women — who were left without child care suffered career setbacks as they struggled to...

By Gene Marks, Photo: Drazen Zigic/Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Guardian, June 26, 2022 Recently, the Society of Human Resources Executives surveyed approximately 3,100 HR executives about the benefits their companies are providing and of course the obvious ones – healthcare, retirement and paid time off – made the top of the list. But here’s something that should catch your attention if you’re a small business owner: more than 91% of the respondents also said that their company provides...

By Moira Szilagyi, American Academy of Pediatrics, June 24, 2022 “Today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade means that the once Constitutionally protected right to access an abortion is no longer guaranteed nationwide. This decision carries grave consequences for our adolescent patients, who already face many more barriers than adults in accessing comprehensive reproductive healthcare services and abortion care. “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) this morning reaffirmed...

Just as millions of other people over the last few days, we’re still reeling from the news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade . One overpowering emotion after another hit us—we’re sad, devastated, numb, livid. So many parts of people’s lives are affected that it’s overwhelming to try to comprehend. It’s not just the 40 million women of childbearing age who live in states where access to abortion will be prohibited,...

By David Frum, Photo: New York Daily News/Getty Images, June 27, 2022 The culture war raged most hotly from the ’70s to the next century’s ’20s. It polarized American society, dividing men from women, rural from urban, religious from secular, Anglo-Americans from more recent immigrant groups. At length, but only after a titanic constitutional struggle, the rural and religious side of the culture imposed its will on the urban and secular side. A decisive victory had been won, or so it seemed.

By James Russell, Photo: Ken Sparks/Fort Worth Camera Club/Transform 1012 N. Main Street, Bloomberg City Lab, June 20, 2022 After years of start-and-stop efforts, citizens in Fort Worth, Texas, are taking steps to change the narrative about a darker time in their city’s history. A project to transform a nearly century-old Ku Klux Klan meeting hall just received a $3 million boost from the federal government. The former KKK Klavern No. 101 auditorium — long an eyesore — was headed toward...

By Matt Vasilogambros, Photo: Matt Rourke/Associated Press, PEW, June 27, 2022 With President Joe Biden signing legislation that will incentivize states to enact red flag laws, some states already are trying to find ways to make their current red flag laws more effective in preventing gun violence. Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have laws that allow law enforcement—and sometimes family members and school administrators—to petition civil courts to confiscate firearms from people who...

By Darius Tahir, Illustration: exdez/Getty Images, California Healthline, June 23, 2022 In 2011, Sean Duffy and Adrian James were sitting in San Francisco’s Dolores Park debating what to call some workers at the company they founded, Omada Health. Omada , which launched that year, provides virtual treatment for chronic conditions. The company addresses the conditions through a team of employees — some traditional clinicians and others meant to give encouragement to patients as they manage...

Children spend three hours a day with their peers, the volunteer leader, and the larger group of children and leaders in the camp. Over the week, the camp emphasizes five themes with the children: safety, calming, hope, self and community efficacy, and connection.

IT can be traumatically consequential for a very young child when his or her positive ‘white’ scenario instantly turns into a negative ‘black’; for, it is common enough for that child to thus experience catastrophization, even if it is of his/her own making — indeed, law-breaking mountains out of childhood-adventure molehills. The author of Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal writes that it is the unpredictability of a stressor, and not the...

One of the most consequential weeks in Washington, DC, brought both celebration and alarm to advocates for gun legislation to reduce violence in America.

A trauma-informed culture understands the potential impacts of past trauma and is equipped to navigate these workplace impacts. This article explores a few more potential factors at play in working with those with past trauma. We will also introduce a few tools to help navigate the impacts of past trauma and build a trauma-informed culture in the workplace.