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By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post, June 28, 2021 A heavy snow was falling here in the Taconic Mountain Range outside Albany when Leah Penniman moved to the farm she bought with her husband. It was the day after Christmas, Penniman recalled, “and I cried.” They were not tears of joy. Penniman was having second thoughts. “I was, like, can we just stay in Albany?” Her family had left that city’s impoverished South End community because it was a food desert — devoid of grocery stores with...

By Cecily Sailer and Kelly West, Resolve Magazine, July 1, 2021 Karen Evans is executive director of the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board (CYPB), a coalition of adults and youth who work together to improve outcomes for children and youth in New Orleans Parish. Evans left a career in corporate training and development to work in child welfare, helping develop family centers in public schools and assisting nonprofits refining their programs to meet children and family’s needs.

Good morning, I am the director of EmpowerSurvivors ( www.EmpowerSurvivors.net ) which is a nonprofit located in Stillwater, MN that serves survivors of childhood sexual abuse through peer support groups, programs, and classes. We are currently looking for volunteer mental health professionals, holistic health providers, drug and alcohol counselors, psychiatrists, advocates, survivors of childhood sexual abuse, etc to come to be our guests on our Monday evening Zoom program, Conversations...

Transforming Trauma Episode 46: NARM Inner Circle Presents: Working with Anxiety, Anger and Rage with Dr. Laurence Heller and Brad Kammer In this special episode of Transforming Trauma, the NARM Training Institute presents a summertime gift to Transforming Trauma listeners: a special topic webinar from the NARM Inner Circle online program. This webinar provides a window into the Inner Circle learning community where helping professionals from around the world come together to learn more...

Surviving not only Auschwitz but also a difficult childhood, this courageous woman's story reveals much about healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences.

By Elissa Strauss, CNN Health, July 5, 2021 I'll begin with a confession. Or maybe it's a warning. I like playing with my kids. I don't play with them every day, nor, consistently, every week. But when I do play with them things happen in my brain and body, positive things that counter the oppressive rigidity and repetition of adult life. This happens through all kinds of play, including family-wide games of charades, pretending plants can talk and impromptu lip-sync and dance parties.

By Richard C. Sadler, Usama Bilal, and C. Debra Furr-Holden, Housing Matters, June 30, 2021 Research shows the legacy of housing discrimination influences not only where people of color live, but also investments in neighborhood food systems, such as supermarkets. This pattern—sometimes called supermarket redlining—hinders access to healthy food options and perpetuates inequitable health outcomes. This study explores the connection between supermarket redlining and housing discrimination in...

By Judy Fahys, Inside Climate News, June 28, 2021 Perhaps the proudest achievement of Michael Kourianos’ first term as mayor of Price, Utah was helping to make the local university hub the state’s first to run entirely on clean energy. It’s a curious position for the son, brother and grandchild of coal miners who’s worked in local coal-fired power plants for 42 years. Kourianos sees big changes on the horizon brought by shifts in world energy markets and customer demands, as well as in...

By Sarah McCammon, National Public Radio, July 4, 2021 NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks to attorney Mary Kathryn Nagle about how a recent Supreme Court decision could affect the policing of crimes on reservations, especially violence against women. SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: The Supreme Court just wrapped up its most recent term, and among the many cases decided, we wanted to focus on one that involves the rights of Native American tribes. In the United States v. Cooley, the court ruled that tribal...

By Janelle Griffith, NBC News, July 2, 2021 When Resmaa Menakem heard a Minnesota judge sentence Derek Chauvin to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, he was angry. "My first thought was, 'Here we go again, this is the same old bull---- couched as objectivism, couched as law,'" said Menakem, an author and a clinical social worker who specializes in racialized trauma. Although the sentence is one of the longest prison terms ever imposed on a U.S. police officer in the...

BounceBack Wednesday is a safe platform where our Hostess- Early Childhood Educator, Trauma Support Specialist, Emotional Intelligence Consultant, Jameelah Hanif and Special Guests provide hope to those who may be suffering in silence, by sharing their overcoming stories of the impact of Positive & Adverse Childhood Experiences. This week Special Guest is Ronald Puckett, CEO My Pure Health. Come join the discussion as Mr.Puckett will share with you why your health is your wealth. Join Us...

If one were to spell out the benefits of joining PACEs Connection’s Cooperative of Communities (COOP), there is no better person to ask than Barbara Finch, co-lead for Resilient Santa Barbara County , which was one of the first four affiliates to join COOP. “The biggest benefit,” she says, “is recognizing that you are part of an expansive and growing movement. There are so many different approaches to the work, and every community has its own experience. What we have learned since joining...