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Black theater takes center stage for second year [indianapolisrecorder.com]

By Indianapolis Recorder Staff, Photo: OnyxFest, Indianapolis Recorder, February 4, 2022 In 2021, OnyxFest staged six Black-led plays and tripled its audience size from its opening in 2020. Now, the plays can be streamed for free through the end of February on Butler University’s Arts and Events Center (BAEC) website. Sponsored by the Africana Repertory Theatre of IUPUI, the plays included “Fly Blackbird Fly/Voices We Can’t Unhear” by Latrice P. Young and “That Day in February” by Janice P.

New Jersey Children With Long Prison Sentences to Get Review After 20 Years [eji.org]

From Equal Justice Initiative, February 4, 2022 The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that imposing a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years on a child is unconstitutional. People sentenced when they were children are now entitled to have their sentences reviewed after 20 years. The court’s decision, issued in January, combined two cases in which children were sentenced under a New Jersey statute that required them to serve a minimum of 30 years without any chance for parole. James Comer...

Just Love Me

My wife NaTasha and I are mental health practitioners and published a children's book last year called Just Love Me . Parents, youth, teachers and youth-serving professionals have found this book refreshing so we thought sharing with our PACEs Connection community would be a valuable resource to some of you. See description below: JUST LOVE ME In a world where kids are so different at so many levels, it often becomes overwhelming to determine our thoughts, feelings, and reactions to those...

I Got A Big Brain

My wife NaTasha and I published a children's book last year that we think the PACEs community might be interested in. It's called I Got a Big Brain. Using lessons from brain science, we wanted to highlight concrete messaging of resilience based on nurturing adults through the lens of young children. See description below: I GOT A BIG BRAIN Many children experience adversity in their lives at alarming rates including abuse , neglect , parental loss or other household stressors . Although...

Healing Healthcare: A Free Global Mindfulness Summit [healthcare.mindful.org]

FEBRUARY 8-10, 2022 Join us for some or all of this inclusive 3-day online event featuring conversations, meditations, and panel discussions with 40+ experts in healthcare and mindfulness. All summit content will be available to view through February 20. Welcome to the Healing Healthcare Global Mindfulness Summit Our healthcare industry has been delivered to the edges of its capacity by this global pandemic. The successive waves of grief, PTSD, and burnout caused by COVID have yet to be...

The spa-like atmosphere of ‘calming rooms’ help students find peace in turbulent times [fontananewsroom.com]

By Fontana News Room, Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times, Fontana News Room, February 7, 2022 When I conjure the image of a typical public school — the bright fluorescent lighting, the hard, unyielding plastic desk chairs and the shrill bells that announce the beginning and end of class — the word “calming” doesn’t exactly come to mind. Combine that with the frenetic energy that comes with 15 to 30 students crammed into a relatively small room all day, and you’ve got a recipe for...

Complex Trauma, False Gratitude, and Letting Go

In the first article of this series, we focused on toxic positivity and gratitude shaming. We spoke about how while gratitude is an important part of our life; it is unnecessary to be grateful for the harmful things that have happened to us such as childhood trauma. This article will cover how false gratitude and letting go affect those of us who live with the aftereffects of complex trauma. Complex Trauma, What Is It? I realize we cover complex trauma quite a bit here in CPTSD Foundation’s...

Climate Change Enters the Therapy Room [nytimes.com]

By Ellen Barry, Photo: Mason Trinca/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 6, 2022 It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl. Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would remain through her lifetime and the lifetime of her children. She longed, really longed, to make less of a mark on the earth.

The Black woman sentenced to six years in prison over a voting error [theguardian.com]

By Sam Levine, Photo: Karen Focht/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, February 3, 2022 Hello Fight to Vote readers, For the last few months, I’ve been following the case of Pamela Moses, a 44-year-old activist in Memphis who was convicted in November for trying to register to vote while she was ineligible. On Monday, Moses, who is Black, was sentenced to six years and one day in prison. Amy Weirich, the local prosecutor, has trumpeted both the conviction and the sentence in press...

Student Debt Cancellation Would Promote an Equitable Recovery without Increasing Inflation [rooseveltinstitute.org]

By Alí R. Bustamante, Photo: Unsplash, January 31, 2022 Decades of federal and state policy choices have placed the burden of financing colleges and universities on the backs of families instead of in the government’s hands, leading to today’s student debt crisis. Americans currently hold $1.7 trillion in student debt, with a disproportionate share of this debt falling on Black and brown families. Payments on student debt have been paused since the start of the pandemic, and President Biden...

Inside Mississippi's only class on critical race theory [mississippitoday.org]

By Molly Minta, Photo: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today, February 2, 2002 B rittany Murphree was born and raised in Rankin County, Mississippi, one of the most Republican counties in one of the most Republican states. She went to Northwest Rankin High School where she was the president of the school’s chapter of Teenage Republicans of Mississippi. She interned for Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, and her parents voted for Donald Trump twice (she did too, one time). At the...

5 Years Ago and 5 Days Later (AZTIFC) – The 4th Annual Building Resilient Church Conference

Register now! February 11, 2022 10:30 AM 6:30 PM EST Pure Heart Church, Glendale, Arizona (In-Person or Online) As the founder of The Faithful City, I also founded Arizona Trauma Informed Faith Community (AZTIFC) five years ago. It was out of my life with a traumatic season and powerful healing journey with trauma informed care (TIC) that includes my faith tradition and practice. AZTIFC has been in an exponential growth as a grassroots movement, collaborating with all other social sectors to...

All Inclusive Trauma Healing

Healing from trauma requires a multi-faceted process. Bessel van der Kolk, Dan Siegel, Bruce Perry, Stephen Porges, Laura Porter and The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University all incorporate the felt sense of safety and belonging and strengthening capabilities in their protocol or frameworks for healing from trauma. All three concepts, when interconnected, create a synergy for personal and community growth and healing. Creating safety and belonging are important first steps in...

‘We have to adapt’: US Pacific north-west weighs plans to cope with extreme weather [theguardian.com]

By Hallie Golden, Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP, The Guardian, February 3, 2022 F irst came the heavy snow in late December that blanketed Seattle and the surrounding area. Then the torrential rain and flooding hit in early January. One by one, four of the region’s main mountain passes were deemed impassable, and a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 south of Seattle was closed. It was the first time all five had been closed in more than a decade, leaving the Seattle area virtually cut off from...

Whoopi Goldberg's baffling claim forced many to ask tough questions about race and identity in the US [cnn.com]

By Brandon Tensley, Image: CNN, CNN US, February 5, 2022 Whoopi Goldberg's claim earlier this week that the Holocaust wasn't about race was baffling and shocking. An apology followed, along with a two-week suspension -- but the controversy has forced deeper questions about the history and evolution of race and identity in the US. Goldberg made her comments during a conversation about a Tennessee school board that removed Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series "Maus,"...

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