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Free Webinar: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Toxic Stress, and Chronic Disease Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood that can result in toxic stress. When the body’s stress response stays activated over a long period of time, the result is increased inflammation and hormone disruption. Research has found that an adult who has one or more ACEs that were not mitigated by protective factors has an increased risk for many chronic...

By Guest Author, 9/29/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ This interview was conducted by our high school summer intern, Nabeli Peña . Can you introduce yourself and your work to our readers? My name is Elliott Hinkle, and I use they/them pronouns. I am the principal and founder of Unicorn Solutions which is my independent consulting firm where I do training, consultation, facilitation, and advising. It really focuses on helping young adults that are impacted by systems,...

By Ashley Southall, Photo: Elias Williams/The New York Times, The New York Times, September 26, 2022 Anytime the police approached the street in the Bronx where Hector Bonilla used to hang out, his friends would toss away their marijuana on the ground, he said. The police would pin the drugs on whomever was closest, Mr. Bonilla said. That is how he ended up with two convictions for marijuana possession in early 2000, he recalled, for weed he maintains was not his. Mr. Bonilla, 42, a taxicab...

By Hannah Devlin, Photo: Westend61/Getty Images, The Guardian, September 28, 2022 The impact of the Covid pandemic may have been so deep that it altered people’s personalities, according to research. Previously psychologists have failed to find a link between collective stressful events, such as earthquakes or hurricanes, and personality change. However, something about the losses experienced or simply the long grind of social isolation appears to have made an impact. “Younger adults became...

By Kalyn Belsha, Chalkbeat, Photo: MediaNews Group/Getty Images, September 27, 2022 Kelly King was able to do something this summer she’d never been able to before: pay students to help others. King, who works for the school district on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, used federal COVID aid to hire three rising high school seniors to staff a booth at a riverside park. There, as crowds flocked to a farmers market and free concerts, the students told residents how local schools could help families...

Peer Workers United is a support group for peer workers and for others who are interested in learning more about peer work. Together, we share the ups and downs of our daily lives and the trials, tribulations and achievements of peer support work. Phillip Fleming, Tishna Lopez, Meesha Dyson & Judith Berman are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Emotions are not some kind of cosmic error. They exist for our benefit. Emotions tell us (sometimes before our brains get there) to move away or towards people, situations, and ideas. They are a kind of compass for our lives. But only when we allow them to be so. Curious about how that works?

PACEs Connection is thrilled to share that our first-ever Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative involved thousands of people; scores of book studies! The PACEs Connection's Connecting Communities One Book at a Time initiative helps people bring their community together around books that help us have critical conversations about trauma, racism, inequity, protective factors, positive childhood experiences, and the role community plays in preventing and healing trauma and...

In 2021, the Trauma Resource Institute - along with over 80 other organizations - endorsed this act in a letter to Congress. Now, Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY) is going to introduce the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (CMWRA) in late October of this year! The Trauma Resource Institute is a founding member of the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) which aims to gather a wide and diverse set of endorsements from national, regional, state, tribal, and...

Please welcome these new communities to the PACEsConnection.com network. Durham Community Resilience Collaborative Wilkes Resiliency Collaborative Healing The Hearts of Elk & Cameron Counties Resilient Communities of East Georgia PACES Community Faith & Community Wellness Centers. Inc. Details about each are below, as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Durham Community Resilience Collaborative : We are the...

From ANewsCafe: https://anewscafe.com/2022/08/10/redding/prevalence-of-shasta-county-residents-early-toxic-childhood-traumas-produce-high-aces-scores-hope-remains0/ Editor’s note: Today’s article was written by Eythana Miller as part of the California Humanities Emerging Journalist Fellowship program in collaboration with Shasta Community College and the Shasta College Foundation. Welcome, Eythana Miller, to A News Cafe. A 3-year-old boy stood in a parking lot in downtown Redding in 2018,...

By Victoria Namkung, Photo: Matt Kelly Elementary Community School, The Guardian, September 26, 2022 B efore California became the first state to implement a universal meals program for its 6.2 million public school students, Alyssa Wells would keep granola bars in her classroom for students who complained of being hungry. When the new program began in August at Foussat elementary school in Oceanside, California , which is primarily attended by Latino students from low-income families, the...