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“The insidious effects of childhood poverty disrupt nearly every aspect of child development. The Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress Model posits that one of the key mechanisms through which poverty disrupts healthy development is a combination of heightened exposure to poverty-related stress and reliance on specific coping strategies to manage stressors that may contribute directly to symptomologies….”

FREE Interactive Webinar - September 13 through November 1, 2022 (Tuesday nights from 5:00 - 7:30 PM CST) Training Objectives for your child or children you work with: 1) Take care of yourself. 2) Recognize the impact trauma has had on your child. 3) Help your child feel safe. 4) Help your child to understand and manage overwhelming emotions. 5) Help your child to understand and modify problem behaviors. 6) Respect and support positive, stable, and enduring relationships in the life of your...

By Damian Carrington, Photo: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images, The Guardian, August 29, 2022 Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is driving the climate crisis were to end overnight. The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other...

By Matt Richtel, Photo: Anastasiia Sapon/The New York Times, The New York Times, August 27, 2022 Parents seeking therapy for teenagers who self-harm or suffer from anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts face an imposing thicket of treatment options and acronyms: cognitive behavioral therapy (C.B.T.), parent management training (P.M.T.), collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and others. Each approach can benefit a particular...

By Tatum Hunter, Photo: Hao Nguyen/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, August 29, 2022 Issey Moloney signed up for therapy through Britain’s National Health Service when she was just 12 years old. She was on a waiting list for four years. In the meantime, social media helped her feel less alone, says the now 17-year-old who lives in London. She connected with people online as the pandemic isolated her from real-life friends. Eventually, she started making her own content. Now, she has...

By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Erik McGregor/Lightrocket/Getty Images, The Marshall Project, August 27, 2022 Odds are it’s been a while — tobacco ads on television, radio, billboards, transit and event sponsorships have all been banned by federal law for decades. It’s an approach that some gun control groups and lawmakers are now seeking to deploy in response to the nation’s mass shooting crisis . “The gun industry at some point recognized there was money to be made by appealing to and...

By Marian Jones, Photo: Dorothy Roberts, The Guardian, August 28, 2022 For many women of color, the right to control one’s reproductive destiny has always been about much more than the right to abortion. With the recent loss of the constitutional right to abortion in the US, some reproductive rights advocates are calling for a renewed focus on reproductive justice, a concept developed in the early 1990s by women of color. Reproductive justice stresses not just the right to abortion, but also...

In 1992, the California Wellness Foundation launched the Violence Prevention Project (VPI) , which funded violence-prevention programs and research for 10 years. The initiative was unusual for two main reasons: It advocated a public health approach to preventing violence, which the CDC had identified as an epidemic in 1983. And the funding lasted for 10 years, practically unheard of in those days and criticized. Eight other funders eventually joined the initiative. With the exception of the...

For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...

Can collective care heal communities, especially communities struggling with systemic racism and historical trauma? Join PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren and guest Candice Valenzuela on PACEs Connection’s podcast “History. Culture. Trauma.” as they address that question. They’ll discuss collective care, especially how communities struggle with system racism and historical trauma as they strive to heal. The podcast airs on September 1 at 1 p.m PT/ 4 p.m. ET on the VoiceAmerica Talk Radio...

We can all protect ourselves from extreme heat and its accompanying stress—on our streets, neighborhoods, and at the local and federal government levels.

PACEs Connection's interactive sessions focus on trauma-informed education and the impact of policy and system changes. This course will be facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEs Connection's educational consultant, and will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and collaboration. This session will use the RYSE center Interacting Layers of Trauma and Healing as a framework. Policy and Systems, Trauma-Informed Education and your Community PACEs Initiative Outline the importance of including...