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From International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Image: from article As human beings, our physical and mental health cannot be separated from the environments in which we live. Climate change, if left unaddressed, is projected to have catastrophic consequences on the mental health of entire populations. This ISTSS Friday Fast Facts series will feature ISTSS’ recent work to highlight the intersections among global climate change and trauma. Look for new materials every Friday in...

By Jyoti Mishra, The Conversation, January 18, 2023 The big idea Psychological trauma from extreme weather and climate events, such as wildfires, can have long-term impacts on survivors’ brains and cognitive functioning, especially how they process distractions, my team’s new research shows . Climate change is increasingly affecting people around the world, including through extreme heat, storm damage and life-threatening events like wildfires. In previous research , colleagues and I showed...

Greetings Everyone! Jabu here! Founder of Come ALIVE Movement. I hope this report finds you in good health, both in body and mind. Thank you so very much to everyone who encouraged, supported, enquired, and even critiqued the efforts made by the organization this last year. Every's input is greatly valued! Background Let me begin by sharing what Come ALIVE Movement is all about and give a bit of background: Come ALIVE Movement was initially created to bring healing to survivors of Sexual...

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Hello, I'm new here, and happy to find such a great site. I do mindfulness based coaching and training and will be delivering trainings on stress management and well being enhancement for a California police department in May. They've asked for a component on Trauma Informed Care for their officers and I'm looking for a relevant trauma training for my own education - for which I'm willing to travel. If you know of any upcoming trainings, including to train the trainer, I'd much appreciate...

Welcome to virtual Rx Healing Circles! Our sessions serve as an opportunity to foster the Beloved Community and our shared intention for collective healing. We invite you to this connective space for people to offer compassion, experience unity and sustain a practice of transformation. Join us Wednesday, March 15, 2023 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here: bit.ly/RxHealingCircle3-15

Join us for our March CCWT Speaker Series Event! Trauma-Informed Transformations in Schools Film Screening of Paper Tigers + Speaker Talk & Discussion with Jim Sporleder Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET >>Register Here<< Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of a high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a model for how to break the cycle of poverty, violence, and disease that affects families. Jim Sporleder retired...

By Laura Gallant, 3/9/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The 3 rd Annual HOPE Summit will take place on March 29 – 30. Throughout that week, we will be hosting our 2 nd Annual Week of HOPE. During this week, we celebrate the power of positive childhood experiences (PCEs), and the HOPE framework. HOPE makes a real difference in practice whether in policy, organizational structures, one-on-one interactions with children and families, spiritual communities, and many more spaces,...

Elpis was the spirit of hope. Along with the other spirits, she was trapped in a jar by Zeus and entrusted with the care of the first woman—Pandora. When Pandora opened the vessel, all of the spirits escaped except for Elpis (Hope), who alone remained to comfort humankind." 1 As Pandora's story reminds us, even when faced with the most challenging life experiences, hope can be found and fundamentally transform our life's journey. The "elegant design" of the nervous system offers hope. Humans...

Ovester Armstrong Jr. lives in Tracy, California, but is willing to drive an hour to the Bay Area’s more urban regions for doctors’ appointments. “I feel like those doctors are the ones who pay attention to Black folks or minorities of color,” he says. (Shelby Knowles for KHN) By Annie Sciacca, California Healthline, March 9, 2023 A young mother in California’s Antelope Valley bathes her children and dresses them in neat clothes, making sure they look their very best — at medical...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill that significantly rolls back protections against child labor on Tuesday. Photograph: Will Newton/AP By Edwin Rios, The Guardian, March 8, 2023 The governor of Arkansas , Sarah Huckabee Sanders, on Tuesday signed a bill that significantly rolls back protections against child labor, eliminating state requirements to verify that children are at least 16 before they receive a job. A spokesperson for Sanders, who before becoming governor was White House press...

A memorial to Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., in 2020. Credit... Xavier Burrell for The New York Times By Glenn Thrush, The New York Times, March 8, 2023 The police department in Louisville, Ky., engaged in a far-ranging pattern of discriminatory and abusive law enforcement practices, the Justice Department said on Wednesday after conducting a two-year investigation prompted by the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by the police in 2020. In a damning 90-page report , investigators painted...