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The EPA has ordered Norfolk Southern to pay for the cleanup of its train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Umair Irfan, Vox, February 25, 2023 Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have warily returned to their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals into the air and water earlier this month. The towering smoke cloud from the burning vinyl chloride has...

By Lori Teresa Yearwood, Photo Illustration: Jackie Guzman/Slate, Slate, February 20, 2023 About a year before her death, Denise Lerma began taking the steps she thought would save her life. First, she quit shooting heroin into her veins. Then she walked as far away from a lifetime of homelessness as her traumatized body and psyche could take her. On her last day living in Lincoln Park, in Los Angeles, Lerma handed Louis, a friend living in the encampment, a pink balloon. It was her way of...

Thoughts to share - “Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.” – Robert Brault “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”- Charles H. Spurgeon “So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to...

Increases in reports of rape and sexual violence against teenage girls, as well as record levels of their feeling hopeless or sad, led federal researchers in February to state that girls across the United States are “ engulfed in a growing wave of violence and trauma ”, a topic that will be explored, alongside the resilience of girls of color, on this week’s History. Culture. Trauma. podcast. In honor of Women's History Month, host Ingrid Cockhren will discuss how adolescent girls are...

the Village in serving the public is uniquely positioned to address unconscious bias, first by recognizing and acknowledging bias, and secondly by working to reduce bias, both externally and within the government unit itself;

By David Leonhardt, Photo: Annie Flanagan/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 27, 2023 Digital technology has caused the biggest changes to teenage life in many decades. Typical American teenagers spend about half of their waking hours on their smartphones. They are on the phones when they are alone at home and when they are hanging out with friends. When I compare my own teenage years in the 1980s with those of my parents in the 1950s and ’60s, I realize how much more rapidly...

By Richard Sima, Illustration: George Wylesol/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 23, 2023 One in five Americans will experience major depressive disorder in their lifetime, and many will not find relief from current therapies. But now researchers have identified an unexpected source of the problem: inflammation. Inflammation in the body may be triggering or exacerbating depression in the brains of some patients. And clinical trial data suggests that targeting and treating the...

During Black History Month, Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport of BEM | books & more curated a list of the top books about Black food. Composite: HarperOne/Candlewick Press/ Bloomsbury USA By Kayla Stewart, The Guardian, February 25, 2023 F or sisters Gabrielle and Danielle Davenport , every month is a good time to read about Black food. As the owners of Brooklyn’s BEM | books & more , the country’s first book store to focus on the topic, the two sisters are regularly curating works...

By Caitlin Gilbert, Image: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 28, 2023 Do brains peak in childhood? Is it all downhill after 30? Can a 65-year-old brain keep up with an adolescent? While growth charts tracking metrics like height and weight give a relatively clear picture of the range of human physical development, less has been known about the key milestones of normal brain aging. To find out more, an international team of researchers collected brain scan data...

Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research (TIHCER) Collaborative Presenter : Maurice E. Hicks Jr., Medical and MBA Student at U of Minnesota During this session, Mo will briefly introduce some of the novel ways he has approached building trauma-informed care solutions, before using the rest of the hour to facilitate a discussion on considerations and barriers to TIC implementation. Bio: After graduating from Carleton College with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Mo gained...

By Bob Sege, 2/28/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Below is an excerpt from a blog written by HOPE Director Robert Sege for the American Academy of Pediatrics . Dr. Sege discusses the results from a survey that asked over three thousand parents their experiences throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. He shares that even in the face of disaster families were able to find hidden rewards. February 2020 started out like any other winter in Boston – cold and dreary. However, almost...