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While the scientific community has come to unprecedented international scientific agreement on the causes of climate change and what needs to be done to stop it, there remains significant contention about the issue.

Want to build and support empathy in the workplace to help prevent and mitigate trauma on the job? Please join CTIPP’s next Community Action Network (CAN) call (free!) on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT: REGISTER https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 ; +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations The call will feature Katherine Manning , author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a...

BJ (Betty) Adkins shares her passion for helping communities overcome trauma as coleader of a team that is seeding PACEs throughout Kentucky. Starting with a planning grant from the Foundation for Healthy Kentucky in 2012, her team of community stakeholders initiated the Bounce Coalition . Bounce reaches educators, administrators, service providers, and parents throughout Kentucky counties who are adopting the Bounce trauma-informed model. More than 16,000 people have been trained in ACEs...

The horror of a child maltreatment case being mishandled or overlooked compelled this week’s guest on “History. Culture. Trauma.” to create a national, education-based solution. Dr. Tyler Counsil is the director of Child Advocacy Studies (CAST), part of the Zero Abuse Project . He uses his passion for prevention, healing, education, and justice to the benefit of students at almost every level of education after high school. “Today’s students in community colleges, technical schools and...

Attend this webinar to learn how to strengthen your coalition by partnering with your local health department and using the new Public Health Infrastructure funding to build their workforce and partnerships.

By Giles Bruce, Photo: Giles Bruce/Kaiser Health News, National Public Radio, June 10, 2022 Linnea Sorensen falls into a funk whenever her girlfriend of four years leaves for her six-month stints with the Marines, and the high school junior has trouble concentrating on her classwork. "I'm somebody who struggles with my mental health quite a bit," said the 17-year-old, who attends school in Schaumburg, Ill., a suburb of about 77,000 people northwest of Chicago. "When you're in school and not...

By Nicole Sturzenberger, Sustainable America, June 30, 2022 As parents, we teach our children small things each day, with the hope of preparing them for an eventual departure and life on their own. As climate change becomes an increasingly prevalent part of our lives, raising them to protect and care for the earth is imperative. Like many aspects of parenting, creating healthy habits involves repetition and explaining the reason behind why we do things. If we don’t explain why composting...

By Jenny Taitz, Illustration: Derek Abella, The New York Times, July 7, 2022 Following nonstop news in an era of gun violence, war and political divide can become overwhelming. And amid our many ongoing challenges — the pandemic, climate change, economic uncertainty — it’s understandable to feel sad, angry and anxious. As a clinical psychologist who specializes in giving people the tools to cope with intense emotions, I know how difficult it can be to remain positive — or simply balanced —...

Chris Wilson is the author of the book: "The Master Plan." He is a living example of how discipline, self-determination and knowing your self worth can change everything: including getting yourself out of prison. Chris Wilson splits his time between Baltimore, Maryland, and New York City and works as a visual artist, author, film producer, and social justice advocate. Through his work, he investigates societal injustices, human relationships, and public policies.

Eating disorders have been expanding dramatically in recent decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have pushed us to even higher rates of eating disorders. Hospital wards are full of children who need to be medically stabilized before they can even begin treatment for the condition. The frustrating thing about the increasing rates of eating disorders is that we know many of them are preventable. As biopsychosocial disorders, they are rooted in heredity and individual psychology, but...

These three cognitive countermeasures round out the skills for neutralizing shame imprinted in the first 18 years of life. They complement the right brain strategies described in recent articles.

Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2022 “ By giving ourselves unconditional kindness and comfort while embracing the human experience, difficult as it is, we avoid destructive patterns of fear, negativity, and isolation.” -...