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By Danielle Carr, Image: Nico Kijno, The New York Times, September 20, 2022 What if the cure for our current mental health crisis is not more mental health care? The mental health toll of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the subject of extensive commentary in the United States, much of it focused on the sharp increase in demand for mental health services now swamping the nation’s health care capacities. The resulting difficulty in accessing care has been invoked widely as justification for a...

By Rachel Zimmerman, Illustration: Washington Post illustration/Unsplash, The Washington Post, September 20, 2022 In a nod to the nation’s pressing mental health crisis, an influential group of medical experts for the first time is recommending that adults under age 65 get screened for anxiety. The draft recommendations, from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force , are designed to help primary care clinicians identify early signs of anxiety during routine care, using questionnaires and...

With an eye towards change and transformation, we will reflect on the journeys that these sky rivers take and what they have to teach us about responding to the climate crisis within ourselves and in community.

In this day of tumultuous breaking news, Lise Van Susteren knows how to calm us down – by helping us identify and unpack our reactor types and foster better relationships by showing us how to better understand each other.

Updates from the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) on White House, Agency, and Congressional action to prevent and heal trauma. Back to School! Help Educate Policymakers on Trauma-Informed Schools CTIPP just published a NEW report that breaks down the benefits and practices of trauma-informed schools. This streamlined report was created to educate policymakers, advocates, and agency staff across the country, as a high level overview about trauma-informed practices in...

Join hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of communities, for this encore episode of their interview with Melissa T. Merrick, Ph.D., president and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America), wherein she covers many topics, focusing on “celebrating the possibility of prevention,” and the importance of focusing on the socio-political conditions we as a society must address to help all people thrive. For the month of September,...

Mi Mundo. Today, Mariela Herrera tells us about the value of rules and how that helps us treat one another, and how rules help to make us all feel safe and well in our world. #WonderWednesday https://youtu.be/mEOOg00jmQ8

A difficult divorce is where marriage or the relationship ends and war begins. The child is then caught in the middle or used as a pawn or battering ram in this high stakes battle for control. Nothing is more challenging for professionals then to get the child out of the middle and the parents to work together. Family trauma is magnified under these conditions. This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to understand cutting edge strategies to quickly engage...

https://youtu.be/To7Hvu0R15Q City Voices seeks to Make Mental Illness Fun Again! Through good peer-to-peer programming that builds friendship and community. That helps to transform pain and suffering into joy, peace, and acceptance, even if for a little while. Seeds are being planted and watered. City Voices organizes in-person gatherings at city parks and museums, often involving a little physical exercise, qigong, yoga and energy movements. We do comedy shows and variety shows that share...

By Andrew Caballero-Reynolds, Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/NPR, National Public Radio, September 18, 2022 Many low-resource areas of the world are short on medical technology, including incubators. So why not turn parents into pseudo-incubators? When a baby is born prematurely, a good way to help the baby survive and thrive is simply to hold it close to a parent's naked chest. No technology needed! That's the essence of kangaroo care. It's a method of holding the baby, clad only in a...

By James McAuley, Photo: PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), The New Yorker, September 18, 2022 W hen we begin “The U.S. and the Holocaust”—a six-and-a-half-hour, three-part documentary about America’s actions during one of history’s greatest atrocities, the Nazis’ attempted extermination of the Jews—we find ourselves in 1933 Frankfurt, where a bourgeois German-Jewish family is going out for an afternoon promenade. This is the Frank family, whose youngest daughter, Anne, has yet to begin the...