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Join NAMI Sarasota and Manatee Counties on September 10th, 2020 from 4-5:30pm, for our Self-Care for First Responders presentation. This 1 ½ presentation, led by Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Charles Kenniff, and including speakers Joyce Carter Psy.D., LMHC, and Sarah Miller, CRPS, will provide all 1st responders with tools to help cope with trauma and stress, and how to be resilient during these turbulent times. To tune in, visit Zoom.us and enter Webinar ID- 846 4827 1239 Or...

Beyond the main pillars of sleep, exercise, and nutrition, these six practices optimize brain health and functioning in the present, while preparing the brain to adaptively rewire the hidden wounds from toxic childhood stress.

By Laura Gallant, 3/9/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Today, Wednesday, March 9, is the third day in our Week of HOPE. This week is intended to spread awareness of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences TM and help people learn about the difference that positive childhood experiences can make for children, families, and those who serve them. Today’s theme is HOPE and Policy. We will be talking about policy in its many forms, from legislative action and advocacy...

ln this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily is joined by practitioner, teacher, and author, Galina Denzel. Galina is trained as a practitioner of NARM as well as Somatic Experiencing. She recently published a book, Peace with Self, Peace with Food. Throughout the episode we hear about how Galina integrates trauma healing approaches into her work. Galina’s current focus in her work is with people who are suffering in their relationship with food, and often people who also have...

Dr. Karyn Harvey, noted expert on trauma with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) argues, “Trauma in people with IDD is the elephant in the room.” Yet, few IDD organizations train their staff about trauma, address trauma in the people they support, or recognize how re-traumatization can happen in their programs. This 60-minute webinar will discuss how TIC could strengthen your organization and how to determine your readiness to make this rewarding change.

Women of the PACEs science movement featured for Women's History Month! In consideration of Women's History Month, the entire month of March is dedicated to the women creating a legacy in the worldwide PACEs movement. In this episode, we will talk with Dr. Sandra Bloom. For the past 40 years, Bloom has done pioneering work in the field of traumatic stress studies. From 1980-2001, Bloom served as founder and executive director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the...

Dig deeper into strategies for making the most of the American Rescue Plan's money for school districts, students and families.

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.

By Helen Branswell, Image: NIAID, STAT, March 7, 2022 A new report released Monday charts a path for the transition out of the Covid-19 pandemic, one that outlines both how the country can deal with the challenge of endemic Covid disease and how to prepare for future biosecurity threats. The report plots a course to what its authors call the “next normal” — living with the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a continuing threat that needs to be managed. Doing so will require improvements on a number of...

By Greater Good Editors, Photo: Mike Maguire/CC BY 2.0, Greater Good Magazine, March 7, 2022 Here at the Greater Good Science Center, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is provoking a range of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, and more. We’re reading the news every day and wishing that there were more we could do to help. As an educational nonprofit, the best we can do, perhaps, is to remind ourselves and our readers that peace is always possible , the vast majority of people resist killing , even...

By Dylan Matthews, Image: Leemage/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, Vox, March 6, 2022 The Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I and establishing a new postwar order, began with a charter for a new organization. Called the Covenant of the League of Nations , the new body was meant to resolve international disputes peaceably — and, crucially, it committed members to “respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political...

By Patrice Worthy, Photo: Oakland Avenue Urban Farms, The Guardian, March 5, 2022 For the last 10 years, residents in the south Baltimore neighborhood of Cherry Hill who struggled to access affordable food had a reliable place to go. Visitors to the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a 1.5-acre urban farm, would find cheap, fresh vegetables and a strong sense of community. But in the spring of 2021, the farm received an eviction notice. For Eric Jackson, servant director of the Black Yield...