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By Damon M. Petrich, Travis C. Pratt, Cheryl Lero Johnson, and Francis T. Cullen, University of Chicago, October 2021 ABSTRACT Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment. Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring inmates from reoffending. Skeptics argued that imprisonment may have a criminogenic effect. The skeptics were right. Previous narrative reviews and meta-analyses concluded that the overall effect...

Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.

We are so very grateful our Cracked Up community has been offered a 25% discount code, crackedup25 , to attend this program. My film Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story is the film it is because of Bessel’s pioneering work! I am so honored to have him in the film as well as joining us on panels and participating in Cracked Up, The Evolving Conversation series. His book, The Body Keeps The Score helped me more than any book on trauma I ever read. I felt seen and known with every word!

By Caitlin Gibson, The Washington Post, October 13, 2021 P atty Sang sat alone in the living room of her Seattle apartment, riveted by the breaking evening news on her television. A White gunman had just murdered eight people — six of them women of Asian descent — in a rampage that spanned three spas near Atlanta. It was March 16, one year into a global pandemic that incited a torrent of anti-Asian racism and violence, and Patty, a 48-year-old Korean American actor, instructor and solo...

By Taylor Dafoe, Artnet, October 4, 2021 Looking to the New Deal for inspiration, lawmakers in Congress have proposed $300 million in workforce grants that would put unemployed art workers back on the job. Inspired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Creative Economy Revitalization Act , or CERA, would establish a program within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act that would give grants to artists and cultural organizations for public projects. The funds, which would...

By Madison Hunt, The Imprint, October 13, 2021 Ridding itself of ties to a past now seen as barbaric and unjust, it is now illegal to place “shackles, handcuffs, irons and straitjackets” on children appearing before the New York family courts. “The use of restraints on children is humiliating, traumatizing, stigmatizing, and permanently damaging into their adult life,” Democratic state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, the bill’s author, wrote in a public statement released last week. “The human cost of...

By Myisha Cherry, The Atlantic, October 17, 2021 When we think of love, we recognize its varieties. Philia , brotherly love. Eros , romantic love. Agape , universal love. Conditional and unconditional love, requited and unrequited love, love for virtue and love for vice. Our awareness of these different kinds of love not only allows us to perceive its varied forms; it also gives us adequate information to approve or disapprove of a particular type. When we talk about anger, by contrast, we...

Join us in a 3 part conversation addressing community concerns around child sexual abuse and developing community action to prevent it. You can attend 1, 2 or all 3! Monday @ 6:30 pm. November 1st, November 8th, November 15th To register for cafe: https://tinyurl.com/yxtx5dkf Please Note: Although not required, Café topic’s will be based on feedback from “It’s Not Just Jenna “ Film Screening October 26th @ 7pm . Film Registration link is: https://tinyurl.com/768vh6vk

Talk to any pediatrician and we’ll tell you: We are living through a teen mental health crisis. The pandemic brought school closures and stay-at-home restrictions that bred social isolation among teens. With more than 721,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide, many teens personally know someone who has died, and in some cases might have even lost a parent. Unsurprisingly, on the front lines, pediatricians like us are caring for more than double the usual number of teens struggling with depression,...

On Tuesday October 26th, 2021 at 7pm we will host a film screening documentary of a child survivor of child sexual abuse and a community discussion on the lessons we can learn from survivors and how to prevent it. https://tinyurl.com/768vh6vk

***Trigger Warning: this article will address childhood sexual abuse and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** As our readers know by now, CPTSD Foundation is not afraid to tackle tough subjects that have for too long been considered taboo. This month’s articles will be about childhood sexual abuse and the recovery process to achieve a healthy and happy adult life. This article will concentrate on what childhood sexual abuse is and how it relates to complex post-traumatic stress disorder...

The Lingering Effects of Attachment Disruptions