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By Matt Richtel, The New York Times, January 16, 2021 The day after New Year’s, John Reichert of Boulder, Colo., had a heated argument with his 14-year-old son, James. “I’ve failed you as a father,” he told the boy despairingly. During the long months of lockdowns and shuttered schools, Mr. Reichert, like many parents, overlooked the vastly increasing time that his son was spending on video games and social media. Now, James, who used to focus his free time on mountain biking and playing...

In the spring of 1982, Susan Burton turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the death of her 5-year-old son, who had run into the street and was hit by a vehicle driven by an off-duty police officer . Over the course of the next 17 years, Burton was in and out of prison. “Each time I left, I felt a little more broken,” she told me recently. What would have made a difference, she said, was “if there could have been a way to have therapy from traumatic childhood events, disappointments and...

Ever want to be able to message in one swoop what SEL, trauma-informed principles and practices, multi-tiered systems of support, and equity + anti-racism work have to do with one another? We do too. Join us this Thursday 1/21 from 12-1 PST as we dive into this meaty topic. We would appreciate your input, expertise, and collective wisdom as we endeavor to eventually create either a document and/or graphic visualization that achieves our goal. Register for the event with this link: ...

By Mackenzie Mays, Politico, January 17, 2021 The tale of two Californias has never been clearer. As Bay Area tech workers set up home offices to avoid coronavirus exposure, grocers, farm workers and warehouse employees in the Central Valley never stopped reporting to job sites. Renters pleaded for eviction relief while urban professionals fled for suburbs and resort towns, taking advantage of record-low interest rates to buy bigger, better homes. Most of the state’s 6 million public school...

Join ATN for our Virtual 2021 Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference. Join educators from across the country and around the world as we gather virtually, for the 2021 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference, February 15-18, 2021. The four-day conference will feature keynote speeches from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson , Dr. Melissa Sadin , Ingrid Cockhren , Dr. Mona Delahooke, and special guest Dr. Bessel van der Kolk . This year we are are adding track for parents and caregivers. This...

The December 2020 CTIPP-CAN call began with an update by a representative from the Office of Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) to provide an overview on trauma-informed legislation and additional highlights in the policy landscape for engaging race, trauma, and wellness. The next presenter, Father Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project and CTIPP board member, explores the ways in which anti-racist and trauma-informed work may find synergy. This session examined ways in which...

Resilience, which is defined as the capacity to recover from difficulties, is a vital tool in building a strong child welfare system, but what does that really mean? It is easy to say that resiliency is important, but effectively utilizing systems and tools for children and families as well as the employees who serve them is a different challenge. Through the latest research, we know resilience is made up of many different factors, from one’s genetics to their environment and support...

Thanks to the generous support of the more than 130 people who donated, we are more than half-way to our goal to raise $50,000. And we have no doubt that we’ll get there! To recap, we began this campaign in November with a challenge from an anonymous donor, who told us that if we could raise $50,000, there would be another $50,000 coming. Our original deadline was December 31, but we closed our doors during the last part of December and the beginning of January to give our very tired staff a...

In this episode of "Delusional Optimism," Dr. B explains the need to trace back earlier patterns of unresolved emotional conflict in our past, understand trauma in our present life and work towards breaking the cycle of trauma transmission through generations. Understand how unresolved reminiscence from the past affects your relationships in the present. “This is at the heart of how intergenerational trauma works, it's about the reminiscence of the past that impacts the relationships in the...

By Child and Family Blog, The Good Men Project, January 18, 2021 New research from Romania has demonstrated a clear correlation between adverse childhood experiences in fathers’ lives and their children’s development, including sleep disruption, inattention, anger, and anxiety. Fathers’ symptoms of depression partially accounted for the correlation between their early experiences and their children’s inattention and anger. Fathers’ negative parenting practices partially accounted for the...

By Center for Care Innovations, January 15, 2021 The Resilient Beginnings Network at CCI recently screened Resilience : Resilience: The Biology of Stress and The Science of Hope a documentary by the late James Redford, a film that traces the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and resilience. As the makers of Resilience explain, “Toxic stress can trigger hormones that weak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness,...

By Lisa Wilcox, Kim Larson, & Robin Bartlett, Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, January 2021 Abstract Adverse childhood experiences and health disparities profoundly affect the health of ethnic minority adolescents and influence their overall well-being. In light of current health disparities and civil unrest, this secondary analysis sought to better understand resilience among ethnic minority adolescents living in rural eastern North Carolina (NC). Using Ungar’s ( 2013 ) Theory...