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By Caitlin Dickerson, Illustration: The Atlantic, The Atlantic, August 7, 2022 As a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine that she repeats each time she meets a new patient in her office in Grand Rapids, Michigan: She calls the parents or closest relatives to let them know the child is safe and well cared for, and provides 24-hour contact information. This process usually plays out within hours of when the...

By Arthur C. Brooks, Illustration: Jan Buchczik, The Atlantic, August 4, 2022 n the midst of financial news that seems to get grimmer by the day, one story of a man trying to escape caught my eye. Andrew Formica, the 51-year-old CEO of a $68 billion investment firm, abruptly quit his job. He did not have another job waiting—or anything else, it seems. When pressed about his plans, he said, “I just want to go sit at the beach and do nothing.” Easy, right? Not for a lot of us, it isn’t.

By Fran Kritz, Illustration: Lisk Feng/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, August 6, 2022 The move from high school to college can be a trying one, particularly for students with mental health concerns. But today there are ways to make it easier. “In the last few years, and especially since the pandemic began, campus resources for all students have proliferated, and ahead of coming to campus is when students should be connecting with the resources that they need,” says Amy Gatto,...

By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, Photo: Marissa Leshnov, The Guardian, August 7, 2022 W hen Sol Mercado was incarcerated, one of her few sources of comfort was to dig her hands into dirt. Coming from a family of sugarcane and coffee farm workers in Puerto Rico, a love of gardening was in her roots. But it wasn’t until she was in prison and started participating in a gardening program that she truly connected with this part of her heritage. “It’s a huge coping skill to be working with the soil,...

The Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) of New Bern, North Carolina is proud to offer an in-person day of trauma-informed training to members of law enforcement facilitated by national subject matter expert, Becky Haas. This event for members of law enforcement is free of charge, however registration is required. A certificate of attendance with contact hours will be provided. Trauma-Informed Police Training: Law enforcement professionals have a history of...

Note: I've not posted in a while. I can't believe it's been almost three years since I was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. I miss this community and I miss work. But I am doing well at the moment and I'm SO grateful to still be here (meaning alive and on the planet). It's been A LOT of treatment and quite a roller coaster of medical and other experiences, but that's not why I'm here and posting today. Today, I'm writing today is to reflect on how healing from trauma feels and is...

Hi. As a follow up to the post I did 8.2.22, https://www.pacesconnection.com/blog/mental-health-apps-and-online-concerns , I have put together the language below. And, for those it might help, here is an example of how I am utilizing it, “Help lines and other information” https://www.connectall.online/_files/ugd/fda416_4edb0247191645bdb670c9a14a8eaf48.pdf ; which regardless of the language you might find it beneficial. Also, if anyone else has language, I'd obviously appreciate knowing when...

Plan now to join us for the Global Resiliency Accelerator on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, from 12-2 p.m. EST. This event will be focused trauma informed work in the justice field both in the US and UK. Becky will be sharing on her Trauma Informed Policing training which she's used to train numerous police departments on as well as published an article about it in the October 2021, International Association of Chiefs of Police Magazine. She will provide examples of Trauma Informed Policing and...

By Michael Benanav, Photo: Michael Benananv/Searchlight New Mexico, The Guardian, August 4, 2022 On 7 August 2015, crews from the Navajo Nation irrigation office in Shiprock rushed to close the main gates of two irrigation canals that carry water from the San Juan River toward the fields of hundreds of Navajo farmers. It was peak growing season in the arid north-western corner of New Mexico . About 12,000 acres of crops had been planted. And a disaster was threatening all of them. Two days...

By Cinnamon Janzer, Photo: David Bricker/Shutterstock, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, August 3, 2022 A month after the murder of George Floyd, the Minneapolis school board voted to end its contract with the Minneapolis Police Department to staff schools with armed school resource officers and tasked Minneapolis Public Schools Superintendent Ed Graff with creating a new plan for school safety. At the time, schools across the country were considering ending the presence of police...

By Michael Rezendes, Photo: Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Photo, Associated Press News, August 4, 2022 MJ was a tiny, black-haired girl, just 5 years old, when her father admitted to his bishop that he was sexually abusing her. The father, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an admitted pornography addict, was in counseling with his bishop when he revealed the abuse. The bishop, who was also a family physician, followed church policy and called what church officials have...

By Erika Bolstad, Photo: Lauren Petracca/The Associated Press, PEW, August 2, 2022 As a boy in the late 1950s, Terry McDonald watched as workers built an 80,000 square-foot manufacturing plant in an industrial neighborhood on the west side of Eugene. Long after childhood, McDonald felt an affinity for the factory, where American Steel once fabricated heavy-duty logging equipment until the timber industry waned in Oregon. Now, as the executive director of the local Society of St. Vincent de...