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Our commentary comes from Oprah Winfrey, who is partnering with the Smithsonian Channel to raise awareness about inequities in our health care system. The documentary "The Color of Care" debuts May 1. By Oprah Winfrey, MAY 1, 2022 / CBS NEWS During the height of the pandemic, I read a story about a family in Detroit . This story would not let me rest; as a matter of fact, it haunted me. It was the story of the Fowler family. Gary Fowler worked hard his entire life. Fifty-six years old,...

First, a little background on Maslow and Bloom. Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist. His hierarchy of needs framework is a popular theory of motivation. In this theory, Maslow states that our actions are motivated by our physiological needs. Most often this is represented by a pyramid, with the most basic needs at the bottom and the more complex needs at the top, as pictured below. Benjamin Bloom also developed a theory around how children learn, called Bloom's taxonomy. This...

Did you register yet? This event is to touch on how violence impacts our youth. Exposure of domestic violence, community violence, firearm violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and youth violence have a serious impact on health. Research shows that violence is a public health issue because it effects people at all stages of life and can lead to a lifetime of emotional, physical, and economical problems. It's time for us to go deeper with addressing this problem! You don’t want...

April has been quite the busy month. There were many sensitive conversations on various mental health themes. We focused on stress and alcoholism as they are huge problems in the Kenyan society. Did you know that the disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) of Kenya stands at 54,000 years. Those are the numbers of lives lost to alcohol. That number does not account for childhood trauma, financial stress, or terminal illness caused by alcoholism. So we dived deeper into asking, what now? So...

Hi. I'm not a marketing whiz, so I thank you for understanding as I simply share some of the challenges around promoting this training, along with some of the need for this training. Challenge: It has on the promo "For all who want to attend!". The reasoning behind that is, what is going to be shared is for "general public" and those working in the fields; and for those working in the fields, it's for all fields. Trying to find a simple way to bridge: for many people, when they see CEUs, and...

The third annual Resilience Week Virginia will take place May 1-7, 2022. Resilience Week Virginia has been celebrated during the first week in May since 2020, led by Virginia's Trauma-Informed Community Networks . In past years, local libraries have created collections of books related to resilience, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts created a shareable art activity , organizations hosted virtual and community film screenings and trainings, and much more. The Governor of Virginia has signed a...

By Stephen Hinshaw and Jeremy Adam Smith, Greater Good Magazine, April 27, 2022 Today, people in the United States know far more about mental illness than did previous generations. They might know what it looks like: changes in emotions, thinking, or behavior that make function in daily life difficult, if not impossible. They’re much more likely to understand that most of us will experience some form of mental illness in our lifetimes, like depression or anxiety. And they know that smaller...

By Betty Márquez Rosales, Photo: Josie Lepe, EdSource, April 28, 2022 J udge Katherine Lucero is tasked with leading California’s massive transformation of its juvenile justice system by June 2023, a change prompted by the signing of Senate Bill 823 in 2020. The state’s Division of Juvenile Justice will effectively shut down, and any youth who would have previously been sent to one of its four facilities will now be placed in juvenile facilities within their own counties. There are about 600...

By Gabrielle Frackman, Photo: Anna Malgina/Stocksy United, Women's Health, April 28, 2022 I followed a nurse into an exam room at a fertility clinic in New York. As a psychologist in her mid-thirties who provides mental health care to women throughout the transitions of their reproductive life cycle—many of whom are pregnant or trying to conceive—I’ve been acutely aware of my dwindling fertility and long deliberated about freezing my eggs. After losing a year to COVID, I decided to finally...

By Charley Locke, Photo: Djeneba Aduayom/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 22, 2022 One day last spring, Jett Hawkins, 5, asked his mom to braid his hair for him. He loved the way it looked: “I was so proud and happy,” says Jett, who lives in Chicago. But when he got to school, his mother says, an administrator called her and told her that his hairstyle had broken a school policy that banned students from wearing braids, locs and twists. Jett is not the only kid who has been...

The Global Resiliency Accelerator co-founded in 2020 by Dr. Warren Larkin of the UK and Becky Haas of the US will be meeting on May 17. Information on this upcoming event and how to register are provided below. Becoming a Trauma Informed organization or system: Reflections on the successes and challenges of implementation About this event Please join us for the fourth Global Resiliency Accelerator event on Tuesday 17th May (5pm - 7pm GMT/ 12pm - 2pm EST) Format: Presentation by Dr Warren...