Children spend three hours a day with their peers, the volunteer leader, and the larger group of children and leaders in the camp. Over the week, the camp emphasizes five themes with the children: safety, calming, hope, self and community efficacy, and connection.
IT can be traumatically consequential for a very young child when his or her positive ‘white’ scenario instantly turns into a negative ‘black’; for, it is common enough for that child to thus experience catastrophization, even if it is of his/her own making — indeed, law-breaking mountains out of childhood-adventure molehills. The author of Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal writes that it is the unpredictability of a stressor, and not the...
One of the most consequential weeks in Washington, DC, brought both celebration and alarm to advocates for gun legislation to reduce violence in America.
A trauma-informed culture understands the potential impacts of past trauma and is equipped to navigate these workplace impacts. This article explores a few more potential factors at play in working with those with past trauma. We will also introduce a few tools to help navigate the impacts of past trauma and build a trauma-informed culture in the workplace.
New understanding of the brain provides hope for breaking the painful grip of shame that’s imprinted in childhood and continues to affect adults. Rewiring shame calls for more than the traditional left brain approaches.
I want to throw out an idea based on years of successfully addressing the underlying childhood trauma that contributes to initial and continued drug use. I am seeking feedback as to whether or not those suffering from the memories of traumatic experiences feel that the loss of respect for one's self, i.e., the feeling that you are guilty, at fault in some way, or the victim that can never regain the sense of self purpose and control, is the factor that interferes with being able to grow and...
Amid my concern of the massive societal impact from overturning Roe v. Wade, lies the intersection of this decision’s havoc with every iteration of trauma.
By Victoria St. Martin, Photo: Robert Nickelsburg/Getty Images, Inside Climate News, June 16, 2022 For years, research journals devoted to the earth sciences have warned of the dire consequences that could result from global warming and pollution going unchecked. Now, one of the nation’s oldest medical journals has committed itself to increasing the public’s knowledge about the health effects of the planet’s changing climate. Beginning with the issue published Thursday, The New England...
By Leigh Fondakowski, Image: Screenshot from article, CNN Opinion, June 23, 2022 On June 23, 1972, a piece of legislation quietly made its way to the desk of President Richard Nixon. Buried within the large omnibus education bill were 37 words that would make up Title IX, a landmark civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in schools or other educational programs funded by the federal government. The handful of women who were behind Title IX didn't even lobby on its...
By Chip Brownlee, Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images, The Guardian, June 23, 2022 T he street outside the Brownsville Community Justice Center used to be a hub for drug use and violence. A dead-end road, it lacked good lighting, overlooking windows and car traffic – a combination that made it unsafe to walk down. The surrounding neighborhood in east Brooklyn has historically suffered from some of the highest rates of gun violence and other violent crime in the city. Now, the street is a...
By Matt Barnum, Photo: Kena Betancur/VIEWpress/Getty Images, Chalkbeat, June 22, 2022 Congress appears poised to respond to the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting, which gripped the nation’s attention and resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers. A bipartisan bill , unveiled Tuesday evening, would add modest gun control rules and provide new funding for a bevy of mental health and school safety programs. It quickly gained support from 64 senators, clearing its first procedural...
By Sandy West, Photo: Cindy Elizabeth, The Imprint, June 23, 2022 There is a sense of serendipity for Travis County Judge Aurora Martinez Jones, as she presides over the Texas courtroom where a history-making lawsuit in the 1940s helped bring an end to legal segregation. Today, she is the first Black woman to preside over the 126th District Court, and the first judge to oversee a docket fully devoted to the region’s struggling children and families. Communities battered by poverty,...
Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...
Despite the importance of vulnerability at work to promote a trauma-informed environment, the stigma surrounding emotional vulnerability in the office is still running rampant. Mental health has become an increasingly popular topic of conversation in mainstream media, especially among high-profile athletes like Simone Biles and entertainers like Ariana Grande. This shift towards mental health awareness hasn’t transitioned as quickly among business leaders—but it’s about time it did. Our...
7 th Annual Mental Health Symposium, 3 rd Annual Trauma-Informed Educational Symposium (T.I.E.S), and the Brake The Stigma Car Show Co-Sponsored by: Georgia Southern University, Chatham County Strategic Planning, Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, Gateway Community Service Board and Coastal Georgia Indicators Coalition Call for Presenters We are looking for presenters to offer breakout sessions for this collaborative symposium, being held on September 10th, 2022, from 8am-1pm on...