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Housing insecurity during the pandemic is a huge health story in every community. "One study has attributed thousands of deaths in Texas alone to evictions because displaced families have been forced into more crowded living situations where they caught and spread COVID-19," NPR correspondent Chris Arnold wrote in an articlelate last year. Even before COVID-19, one in four tenants nationwide spent more than half their income on rent, 1 million were evicted a year, and about half a million...

In this episode of the Trauma-Informed Lens Podcast, Matt speaks with Megan Marcus and Kelley Munger from FuelEd about how educators can serve as secure attachment figures, with the power to heal student trauma through the relationships they build, and the need for educators to first do their own healing. We also explore the power of providing simple and safe places for educators within school culture to receive healing from their own trauma. www.traumainformedlens.org

By The Imprint Staff Reports, The Imprint, March 16, 2021 Washington is the first state in the nation that may no longer automatically sentence young adults convicted of murder to life in prison without parole for killings they committed when they were 18, 19 or 20 years old. The 5-4 ruling by the state’s highest court extended the logic that the U.S. Supreme Court used when it held that anyone younger than 18 cannot be given mandatory life sentences for murder, holding that science has...

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, March 16, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic consequences have hurt many people’s mental health. They have had an outsized impact on the mental health of young adults, many of whom have experienced closed schools, lost income, and social isolation. Fifty-six percent of people between 18 and 24 years old reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder — a larger share than other adult age groups, according to...

From Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, March 2021 This brief offers guidance on positioning and explaining the issue of childhood adversity, as well as the need for promoting upstream approaches. The guidance has implications for a wide variety of communications goals and contexts, but it is most relevant for efforts designed to educate the public about strategies that work at the community and policy levels. These framing recommendations were developed for advocates,...

By Ben Smith, The New York Times, March 21, 2021 Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions, Boston University and The Boston Globe, were grappling with protests over racial justice. Ms. Venkataraman, the editor of The Globe’s editorial page, asked Dr. Kendi, the author of a book called “How to Be an Antiracist,” why he decided to found the Center for Antiracist Research in a city known for the backlash to busing and “where sports fans boo...

Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. Read a detailed blog about the science of PACEs and the research being done by our guest speakers by...

Join Dr. Monique Collier Nickles on 4/13/21 for a live discussion related to this post by registering for ChildWIN's free Zoom event at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudu2qrT8oHtDAlFX5xEMUt2o9DC_qaimN?fbclid=IwAR1GdgppIzcIrMO8meIdCqoG5_mpuNz1jUAUbt6FcfKOVI9rg9X5Xh8EHBY The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been stressful and traumatic for many people, particularly our children and adolescents. As we approach the pandemic’s one year anniversary, unfortunately,...

Here are some of the requests that came in just today for sets of our fifity-one parenting tips bumper stickers. Because we have no money none were printed and none were shipped. All were put on a waiting list that was started in 2016. This is a colossal lost opportunity to promote positve childhood experiences and prevent adverse childhood experiences. Visit www.advancingparenting.org. Use a computer. Our website is not optimized for phones.

If you missed out on the screening of the documentary "Resilience" last week, there is an opportunity to view it on Tuesday 23rd March from 9:30am to 11:30am. (N.B. All times are Pacific Standard Time.) Free registration is available at https://bit.ly/resilience323

Once again, Americans are confronting the consequences of unaddressed systemic racism in this society. Too often, intolerable acts of racist bias, discrimination, and hate, culminate in shocking interpersonal violence as well as the shocking mass violence that occurred in Atlanta just one week ago, on March 16, 2021.

By Chloe Yang, 3/22/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Our first annual summit is less than a month away! Please register at this link , which you can also find on the Summit landing page . Our virtual summit seeks to inspire a group of leaders who will, together, champion a movement to shift how we support children and families, creating systems of care based on understanding, equity, and trust. Morning plenary sessions will feature Dr. Bob Sege’s introduction to HOPE and a snapshot of our...