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We will gather virtually the mornings of June 24th and 25th, bringing together local Collaborative communities, tribal communities, and others across the state working to Understand ACEs/NEAR and Building Self-Healing Communities. Sessions will feature nationally known speakers Laura Porter and Sam Simmons , local communities sharing their efforts, sessions on building individual and community resilience, engaging community, using the MN Student Survey ACEs and Resilience data, and building...

Message from Sandy Holman, Director of The Culture C.O-.O.P, www.cultureco-op.com : Please join The Culture C.O-.O.P. virtually, this Saturday, May 30th, from 2-4pm to preview our Cost Of Darkness Documentary done in collaboration with UC Davis Students, nationally and internationally renowned experts, courageous community activists, families, and communities nefariously impacted by entrenched, “dark skin,” racism, supremacy ideology, systemic oppression, injustice and insidious inequity,...

By Yesenia Robles and Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat, May 21, 2020 Just a few months back, high school students learning English as a second language in the Adams 14 school district outside Denver spent 53 minutes a day in a special class dedicated to building up their language skills. When school buildings went dark and learning shifted online, that practice ended. High schoolers learning English in the heavily Hispanic, mostly low-income district started getting language assignments twice a week...

By Alex Engel, National Association of Transportation Officials, May 21, 2020 The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) today released Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery , providing cities around the world with detailed strategies they can use to redesign and adapt their streets for new uses both during the COVID-19 crisis and in the recovery. The resource compiles emerging practices from cities worldwide and includes adaptable information on implementing...

By Nina Bahadur, Self, May 28, 2020 We’re all going through some intense stress and anxiety right now, courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic affecting how we live, work, socialize, and move through the world. And experts say that, unsurprisingly, the pandemic could have a major effect on mental health long after it’s over, leading many of us to wonder how we can try to protect ourselves from the potential mental health fallout of living through this global health crisis. “There’s a lot of...

By LivingRoom Conversations, May 2020 At this point, Race and the Coronavirus can not be separated. In our efforts to feel like we can do something to protect ourselves, some of us have succumbed to our baser instincts. This is evident in the ways some Americans have treated people of Asian descent or how people of African descent are being treated in China. By talking about race in light of the Coronavirus/COVID-19 impact on our world, we are acknowledging awareness of the importance of...

We’re proud to announce the release of a brand new training: Bystander Intervention 2.0: Conflict De-Escalation Training in partnership with Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC . Sign up here to take the training . If you’ve already taken our Bystander Intervention training and you’re looking to go deeper into how to directly intervene and de-escalate conflict: this training is for you. Using Hollaback!’s Observe-Breathe-Connect methodology, we’ll learn how to identify potential...

It began with a request from a small rural coastal town. They needed a new way to support families facing some of the biggest challenges. Their community was experiencing trauma at a higher rate than the surrounding towns. Community members were not getting the services they desperately needed to navigate challenges.

Teri Wellbrock, host of The Healing Place Podcast, is honored to join over 30 therapists, doctors, authors and more as they share strategies to help you overcome PTSD.

Here is the link to the recording of the webinar "Lessons from the Past" if you didn't have a chance to tune in yesterday. Carolee https://youtu.be/M_sUW2wWnfA

Terry Maluk is a stress-management coach and author of multiple bestselling books that provide proven methods to relieve stress and rediscover joy. A member of the American Holistic Nurses Association,Terry holds a Master of Science degree in Public Health, is an accredited, certified Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT Tapping) practitioner, and a registered yoga teacher.