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By Caitlin Gibson, Photo: Contributed Family Photo, The Washington Post, March 17, 2022 The sticky note left on Amber Briggle’s desk was scrawled with a name, a phone number and the words urgent and private . When Briggle, a mother of two and a small-business owner in Texas, arrived at her office on Feb. 28, she felt sure she knew what the note meant: Another parent of a transgender child — perhaps one who was under investigation by the state’s protective services agency — was calling for...

In support of Ukrainians aligned with EdCamp Ukraine, members of the New Hanover Resiliency Task Force met Sunday afternoon to create a banner and a video to be shared during daily Zoom Support Meetings offered to the Ukrainians; by the Trauma Resource Institute (TRI). An international volunteer team led by TRI’s executive team members, Elaine Miller-Karas and Michael Sapp have offered daily Zoom Support Meetings reinforcing the skills of the Community Resiliency Model. Since the beginning...

For many who read this blog, speaking about depression may seem redundant. However, an enemy that isn’t acknowledged becomes a silent killer. So, for both those who understand too well what depression is and how it affects our lives and those who don’t know I am writing this post. Every human on planet earth experiences depression. There are no exceptions. When we lose jobs, loved ones, or face a significant negative life change, it is not at all uncommon for human beings to feel out of...

For most of Western history, long-term incarceration wasn’t used as punishment, and many countries even had rules against it, Rubin tells Knowable . “The idea of confining people for long periods of time as punishment was really quite revolutionary.” Her research involves combing archives for records, letters and other documents on the early history of prisons, and along with other scholars she argues that prisons as we now know them first arose in the nascent United States, shortly after...

Most people I know remember the school visit of an elderly, and usually elegant, senior citizen with a slight accent. Sometimes showing a tattooed number on a forearm, they shared their direct experience as survivors of Hitler’s concentration camps.The quiet dignity and enduring resilience stunned us into silence and stayed with us for the rest of our lives. We grew up in the shadow of the holocaust. We assumed that what was right and wrong had been settled. That in democracies at least,...

RFI Opening: Up to 30 Grants of Up to $1M Each to Prevent ACEs in CA Communities - Public Health Institute (phi.org) Note that prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to complete this RFI by March 21, 2022. The completion of the RFI is non-binding and not required. Responses will help grant organizers to better understand the existing ACEs landscape, assess organizational capacity across the state, and plan for the technical assistance needed to ensure the success of selected grantees.

PACEs Connection is a social media sponsor of the World Happiness Fest and shares this information as part of our media sponsorship agreement: The World Happiness Fest is thrilled to present our annual six-day Happiness Celebration taking place from March 17th – 22nd. This series of events is the most diverse, and polycentric global happiness forum, reaching over 10M people in 2021 in over 76 countries. The World Happiness Week unites the leading happiness and well-being experts from the...

America Talks is a unique opportunity to join thousands of Americans who refuse to give up on our country. By Pearce Godwin, Opinion contributor March 17, 2022 — On a recent road trip across the United States, I repeatedly encountered the breathtaking beauty of the place we call home. The peaks and plains awakened my patriotism. The pain and fear prevalent today seemed, at times, far away. Yet I know that toxic polarization – the way we demonize each other across differences – is causing...

By Mavis Sanders, Photo: Unsplash, Child Trends, March 17, 2022 In Spring 2020, when schools abruptly closed due to COVID-19, millions of children in low-income communities lost access to free and reduced-price meals . Food insecurity and the risk of hunger subsequently increased for these children and their families. Full-service community schools (FSCSs)—schools that integrate social and health services, extended learning opportunities, family and community engagement, and collaborative...

By Michael Fitzgerald, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, March 17, 2022 In a wood- and marble-paneled Washington, D.C., hearing room last month, President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top child welfare post delivered a stunning number to United States senators: Despite all the devastation families experienced following the emergence of COVID-19, there were roughly 1,000 fewer children in the Oregon foster care system when compared with two years prior. Rebecca Jones Gaston cited “a...

By Emily Laber-Warren, Illustration: Oscar Bolton Green, The New York Times, March 17, 2022 Thirty percent of workers around the world surveyed last year said they would consider seeking a new job if their current employer required them to return to the office full time. Millennials are especially resistant . In response to the Covid pandemic, PepsiCo , Meta and General Motors , among others, have incorporated remote work into their corporate cultures. But in a truly flexible workplace,...

By Kaiser Health News, Illustration: Oona Tempest/KHN, Kaiser Health News, March 16, 2022 Mary Kathryn Nagle is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an attorney, a playwright ― and an advocate working to increase protections for Native women in the U.S. justice system. Not long after the Violence Against Women Act, or VAWA, was reauthorized in 2013, she sat with fellow activist Lisa Brunner to talk about a new play Nagle was working on in response to the ruling. Brunner said she told the...