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We know addressing mental health will be critical next school year. However, we also know that every school has to work within what’s possible. Join three school mental health leaders to explore how schools and districts can take a sustainable approach to supporting the mental health needs of students and staff. This will include choosing an approach, road mapping implementation, and securing funding. Signups will get a recording AND all resources (e.g. funding sources + roadmaps) Register HERE

Substance abuse not only affects the abuser, but also those closest to them. Children of parents who struggle with opioid addiction can be the most susceptible to addiction later on.

Title: Literary Explorations of Well-Being in Challenging Times Summary: During this unprecedented year of challenges, health care practitioners have faced inordinate and unexpected stressors and transitions in health care delivery and team-based care. This series of six one-hour interactive and participatory sessions will provide an opportunity for self- and group reflection on what has and continues to sustain us in our professional and personal lives. We will weave our conversation with...

Data At-A-Glance: Synergy: Why Two Can Be Greater than Four or More Offers providers information about synergy for children who experience trauma. This fact sheet is a summary of important points from a NCTSN Core Data Set publication developed to help providers understand whether certain pairs of trauma and adversity have more additive synergy than others. It also shares whether additive synergistic pairings differed by gender and/ or age group. This product looks at the issue, the...

Members of the four Cape Fear Area resiliency initiatives celebrate their joining the PACES Connection Cooperative of Communities and thank United Way - Cape Fear Area leadership for "leaning in" on the work being done to prevent and heal childhood trauma, and build on positive childhood experiences to create individual, family and community resilience. The United Way-Cape Fear Area (UW-CFA) board of directors has voted to fund four North Carolina resiliency initiatives to join the PACEs...

"The pandemic has upended the meaning of authenticity in my life and has made me reconsider my own resilience in the face of hardship. ...Every day I wake up and I choose to reimagine and shape what future worlds will look like. I don’t want a new normal; I want a new era." Read more from disability justice advocate Bri M . and check out Power Not Pity , a podcast that centers and celebrates the lived experiences of disabled people of color. “People put their heads down and do what they have...

I had a good life prior to December 14, 2012, the day of the Sandy Hook tragedy that took my six-year-old son Jesse's life. I was a single mom with a full-time job, a first and seventh grader, living on a horse farm with a wonderful mother/grandmother living nearby to help, and a supportive extended family. Always on the go, I woke up early, went to bed late, and would list the day’s accomplishments in my head each night. When I woke in the morning I would thank God for another opportunity...

If you live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder or love someone who does, you are aware of how difficult it is to find a therapist who understands the disorder. While there are tons of clinicians who received training in post-traumatic stress disorder, few have even heard of CPTSD, and some do not believe it exists.

By Soo Youn, The Washington Post, June 29, 2021 Meg Trowbridge’s plans for the week are pretty simple. She’ll take long, meandering walks and explore some new parks and visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the first time since 2019 — all on company time. “I’m so excited to take a morning or afternoon walk when I’m not in the crowd of after-work people,” said Trowbridge, a copywriter for Mozilla, which produces the Firefox Web browser. “I’m definitely going to hit SF MOMA and just...

By Sarah McCammon, National Public Radio, July 4, 2021 SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Bestselling author Michael Pollan has made a career of asking big questions about the natural world and our relationship to it. In his latest book, he's turning his attention to three psychoactive plants - opium, caffeine and mescaline. The book is called "This Is Your Mind On Plants." In it, Pollan experiments with each mind altering substance and writes about what their classifications as drugs - legal or not -...

By Marina Koren, The Atlantic, July 1, 2021 In the beginning, the small group of Americans who aspired to become astronauts had to pass an isolation test. Spaceflight wasn’t going to be easy, and the country wanted people with tough minds. For his test, John Glenn sat at a desk in a dark, soundproofed room. He found some paper in the darkness, pulled a pencil out of his pocket, and spent the test writing some poems in silence. He walked out three hours later. For her test, Wally Funk floated...

By Alison Escalante, Forbes, August 11, 2020 What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all? In a compelling new paper , biological anthropologists call on the scientific community to rethink mental illness. With a thorough review of the evidence, they show good reasons to think of depression or PTSD as responses to adversity rather than chemical imbalances. And ADHD could be a way of functioning that evolved in an ancestral...