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By Julia Preston and Ariel Goodman, Photo: Jodi Hilton/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, December 15, 2021 O ne tenant saw an amber glow flickering through her bedroom window. Another, awakened just after midnight by frantic shouts, put his hand on the wall and felt heat. The side of their apartment building was engulfed in flames. They seized their children and fled down darkened stairways. “There was so much smoke we felt like we were drowning,” tenant Lucia Mateo Pérez...

By Chris Crook, Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder, Zanesville Times Recorder, December 7, 2021 Avondale Youth Center became the first children's residential center in the state to be awarded the qualified residential treatment program certification by the federal government. The certification focuses on trauma informed care. "What the federal government wants to see is every child residential center is serving kids in a way that is taking into considering their trauma history," said Gary...

By Dawn McKeen, Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times, The New York Times, December 8, 2021 A year after her mother died from Covid, Fiana Garza Tulip held a small memorial service on a Texas beach that her family had visited countless times when she was a child. As she and her brother dropped a wreath of yellow roses into the waves, she expected to cry. But the tears did not come. She felt only guilt for appearing to be unmoved, heartless even. Ms. Garza Tulip, 41, had endured so many...

By Joe Hernandez, Photo: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images, National Public Radio, December 14, 2021 The Canadian government will set aside $40 billion — more than $30 billion in U.S. currency — to compensate Indigenous people who faced abuses as children in the country's residential schools, officials announced Monday. The funds will also be used to reform the country's troubled child welfare system. The pledge comes amid ongoing negotiations between Canadian authorities and First Nations...

By Janae Jordan, WXXV 25, December 9, 2021 Gulf coast judges and 150 stake holders came together for a two day training event to implement trauma-informed care for children. Professionals working in mental health, schools, law enforcement, church ministries, and child welfare gathered at the u-s-m gulf park campus for a two-day training on “Trust-Based Relational Intervention”– also known as TBRI . TBRI Is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of...

Description The purpose of the SD Program is to prevent sexual and domestic violence through primary and secondary prevention efforts, prioritize marginalized/underserved populations within communities, and build the capacity of local organizations. Grant Subaward Performance Period May1, 2022 – April 30, 2024 Submission Deadline Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Available Funding Individual Applicants may request up to $300,000. [ Please click here to view the RFP .]

Have the events this past week in Mayfield, Kentucky been impacting you? We understand the tragedy of climate events and how every person can be affected. In this episode, we share some wellness skills to help your nervous system return to balance.

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By Ben Brazil, Photo: Don Leach/Times Community News, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2021 A few years ago, Adelia Sandoval sat at the foot of an old oak tree and pondered the resilience of her people, the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians. The spiritual leader and her tribe, considered to be the original people of Orange County, had been fighting for years to preserve a small portion of the land surrounding the old oak. The Mother Tree, as she called it, was rooted on the grounds of one of...

By Maddie Bender, Photo: Alex Hogan/STAT, STAT, December 13, 2021 During the time that a song whose title is the number of a national suicide prevention helpline topped charts, calls to the helpline increased and suicides decreased, a new study shows. The song, “1-800-273-8255,” depicts a fictitious exchange between someone expressing suicidal thinking and an operator of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline who counsels a person and ultimately changes that person’s mind. Leaders of the...

By Michaelle Bond, Photo: Jose F. Moreno, The Inquirer, December 13, 2021 Black Philadelphians will need both short-term support and long-term solutions to help them become homeowners in the aftermath of the pandemic and as racial homeownership gaps persist, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Because of entrenched inequities in employment and income, owning a home is relatively more expensive for Black homeowners than for white homeowners, according to an October report...

By Sara Tiano, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, December 7, 2021 A s more than 1,000 young adults in Los Angeles are set to age out of foster care on New Year’s Eve, county leaders are scrambling to find them all stable homes. The youth raised in government care who are set to lose basic needs benefits had been granted a reprieve during the pandemic. They turned 21, but did not have to leave the program known as “extended foster care” that provides housing and other government...