Blog

By NJ.com, October 8, 2021 The Princeton Area Community Foundation has awarded a $275,000 grant to fund a program to teach school staff throughout Mercer County how to identify students exposed to stressful or traumatic experiences and how to engage all students in a way that promotes healing from the mental health effects of the pandemic. The Foundation for Educational Administration’s Healing Centered Engagement initiative will be funded with a $137,500 grant from the Community...

By Lauren Markham, Mother Jones, October 2021\ I drove to Oregon because I wanted to see the future. Our rapidly changing climate vexes me, keeps me up at night—perhaps you’ve felt this, too—and recently I’d become particularly preoccupied with trees. In California, where I live, climate change helped kill nearly 62 million trees in 2016 alone, and last year, 4.2 million acres of our state burned. I wanted to know what was in store for our forests and, because we humans rely on them for so...

By Katie Surma, Inside Climate News, October 7, 2021 The United Nations’ top human rights body voted Friday to adopt a resolution recognizing the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The resolution passed with 43 votes in favor while China, India, Japan and Russia abstained from voting. The United States is not a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council and did not participate in the vote. The approval, while not legally binding, solidifies the idea that the...

By Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post, October 8, 2021 Just after 11 a.m. on a steamy Thursday in September, when Sean Vo should have been heading to AP Statistics, the 18-year-old shut his laptop, zipped his backpack and walked out of school. All around him, in the well-appointed brick high school that serves Sean’s affluent, mostly White, conservative hometown, other children were doing the same. Like Sean, an Asian American who said reading books by Angela Davis raised his racial...

By: Lori Chelius, MBA/MPH “Stories are data with a soul.” Brene Brown Eisner Health’s journey through implementing trauma-informed care (TIC) began more than six years ago when Chief Medical Officer Dr. Deborah Lerner attended a conference focused on community healthcare and wandered into a session hosted by a social worker who worked for the San Diego Police Department. The social worker’s story of how TIC had transformed her work planted a seed in Dr. Lerner’s mind, which continued growing...

PACEs Connection is honored to host guest speaker Lynette Grey Bull at our event: PC Reacts to Gabby Petito and Missing White Woman Syndrome on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. PC Reacts is a new series by PACEs Connection in which we look at current events through a trauma-informed and PACEs science lens. Please register for this event: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 Noon to 1pm Pacific Time >> Register Here<< Please read the full event details here. Lynnette Grey Bull Northern Arapaho -...

I started a Facebook group for people who wish to inform their and other providers. The intention is to share resources, strategies, and success stories. Patients For Trauma Awareness : Uninformed providers inadvertently harm trauma survivors. The medical system doesn't spread trauma awareness or focus on Trauma-Informed Care training fast enough for our safety. Patients for Trauma Awareness is for trauma survivors and others who want to share resources, strategies, and successes to help our...

How does toxic stress in the first eighteen years of life cause such suffering in adulthood? Understanding promotes recovery.

This is the second in a series on how the arts can build resilience in a community. This project, in particular, was one of the top five in my career and still has lasting impact on so many levels.

A difficult divorce is where marriage or the relationship ends and the war begins. The child is then caught in the middle or used as a pawn or battering ram in this high-stakes battle for control. Nothing is more challenging for professionals than to get the child out of the middle and the parents to work together. Family trauma is magnified under these conditions. This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to understand cutting-edge strategies to quickly engage...

By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, October 6, 2021 In a shocking revelation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released provisional data suggesting that between 2019 and 2020, the country had its biggest increase in the rate of homicides in modern history. Furthermore, The Guardian pointed out , “At least four Black women and girls were murdered per day in the United States in 2020, according to statistics released by the F.B.I. last week, a sharp increase...

I wanted to share a little series about the ways in which the arts can build resilience. For this weekend, I will start at the beginning ... back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with a rock musical that impacted thousands of lives.