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Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images. By Victoria St. Martin, Inside Climate News, October 23, 2023 For over 2,000 years, the Indigenous people known as the Yupik have occupied St. Lawrence Island, a sliver of Alaska that rests in the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle and where, on a clear day, it’s said that one can see the coastline of Russia about 40...

By Anja Nielsen, Patricia Landínez, Rob Jenkins, Zeinab Hijazi, Photo: Unsplash, The European Sting, October 20, 2023 This morning, hundreds of millions of children around the world woke up to a crisis on their doorstep . More than 400 million children are living in areas under conflict; over 36 million children are displaced from their homes; and as many as 1 billion children are living in countries with extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. More than one in five of them...

October 11, 2023: Robeson County Partnership for Children's Program Director, Rhiannon Chavis-Wanson, and Community Engagement Manager, Stacie Kinlaw, trained the staff of Lumberton Junior High School in "Intro to Community Resiliency Model (CRM)". The training gave participants insight on: Facts about CRM The Resilient Zone Brain & Nervous System Trauma & Stress Wellness Skills ~Help Now ~Tracking ~Resourcing ~Grounding For training opportunities, please reach out to Stacie Kinlaw,...

FREE WORKSHOPS! Fall in love with Robeson Community College during the Fall Festival Event at COMTech, located at 124 Livermore Drive in Pembroke. RCC will be offering several free workshops during the Fall Festival event on October 26th from 10am-2pm. Arts, Crafts, and Fashion 10am - 11am How to make wreaths by Dr. Melissa Oxendine 11am - 12pm How to make bows with Vonda Graham 1pm - 2pm Fashionista with Lisa Hunt Finance & Business 10am - 12pm Money for Fun: How to turn your...

Our world is full of challenges and issues that demand our attention. Whether it's poverty, climate change, discrimination, or mental health, there are countless global issues that require a lot of attention. We may feel overwhelmed and find ourselves grappling with how to channel our energies for positive change. Fortunately, one important avenue is open to all of us: volunteering. Volunteering means offering one's time, skills, and resources selflessly without expecting monetary...

Adolescent girls are experiencing extreme levels of trauma and adversity, especially African American, Hispanic/Latina and Indigenous girls, as we discussed with author Donna Jackson Nakazawa last year when her book “ Girls on the Brink—Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media. ” launched. This week host Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, will touch on those topics and more with guest Vernisha Crawford, who discusses the lives of girls...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Baab SM, Lawsing JF, Macalino CS, Springer JH, Cline DM. Nonaccidental Pediatric Trauma: Which Traditional Clues Predict Abuse? Pediatr Emerg...

Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.

La Maida Project (LMP) is hosting three upcoming experiential workshops aimed to create a trauma-responsive and ACEs-aware culture in the organizational settings where you engage. A few spots remain and we are inviting the PACEs community to sign up free of charge using the promo code PACEsTogether . LMP is working to address the mental health crisis by healing our connection to self, community, purpose, and the natural world. Our experiential education workshops emphasize the participant's...

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20231022172231/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-10-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_October_2023.pdf The Surviving Spirit Newsletter October 2023 Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education &...

This isn’t your usual article about domestic violence, the one that’s pretty much been repeating itself since the 1980s: that there’s too much of it, the lifelong pain it causes (mostly) women and their children, that there’s not nearly enough support for them. All that is true. This article focuses on a remarkable solution to family violence: Programs that expand the focus on healing to the abuser.