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A 6-week virtual empowerment program for Canadians who have been impacted by the stress and stigma related to a parent's substance use. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/348233755537 If you live in Canada and have been affected by the stress and/or stigma related to a parent's substance use such as opioids or alcohol this peer group is for you! In this 6-week program, peers and guests will lead the group through the Forward with Hope Guide, a 100-page guide specific to impacted...

June event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!

Safe & Sound’s Center for Youth Wellness (CYW), the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP), today announced that it is seeking the next cohort of pediatric practices for participation in its Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening & Intervention Evaluation Project ECHO (TASIE Project). More information can be found here: www.njaap.org/tasie, including a pre-recorded informational webinar. Safe & Sound was awarded a grant from the Health Resources and Services...

Wednesday, June 22, 2022 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET A family-centered approach reflects an understanding and responsiveness to the fact that parents and children live within the context of a larger family system and services must respond to the needs of each family member and the family system to achieve the best outcomes. Children with actively involved fathers have better outcomes. i Engaging fathers in services for families affected by substance use disorders, particularly in the perinatal...

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By Abené Clayton, Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP, The Guardian, June 3, 2022 For decades, US researchers have studied behavioral signs that could help identify people who are at risk of carrying out mass violence. They have looked at histories of drug abuse, interpersonal violence or “red flag behaviors” like posting images of firearms on social media and threatening their classmates or co-workers. “These behaviors are observable. Someone can notice if their nephew or neighbor is starting to wear...

By Gina Shaw, NeurologyToday, June 2, 2022 Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and other forms of toxic stress have been associated with a wide range of common neurologic and neuropsychiatric conditions later in life. In a Viewpoint published April 25 in JAMA Neurology, experts in so-called trauma-informed medicine call on neurologists to become educated about how these ACEs may contribute to toxic stress and underlie associated neurologic disorders, and to incorporate that awareness into...

By Dave Collins, Photo: Matt Rourke/AP Photo, Associated Press, June 6, 2022\ David Harrington spent a tense eight months in a Philadelphia jail when he was a teenager — the result of a robbery charge in 2014 that automatically sent his case to the adult court system under state law. Only 16 at the time, he said he got into fights and spent time in isolation. He missed his sophomore year in high school and the birth of his child. He was facing five to 10 years in prison. He was on a path, he...

By Anna Cooban, Photo: Adobe Stock, CNN Business, June 6, 2022 Thousands of UK workers are starting a four-day work week from Monday with no cut to their pay in the largest trial of its kind. The pilot, which will last for six months, involves 3,300 workers spanning 70 companies, ranging from providers of financial services to a fish-and-chip restaurant . During the program, workers receive 100% of their pay for working only 80% of their usual week, in exchange for promising to maintain 100%...

By Wilfred Chan, Photo: Pixel-shot/Alamy, The Guardian, June 4, 2022 F or the last two years, the notion that no kid should ever have to go hungry in the US has gotten closer to a reality, thanks to federal waivers that have expanded children’s access to food. The waivers resulted in a simple but revolutionary outcome: free lunch, year-round, for every American schoolchild. But that will come to an end in weeks, as Congress has failed to include an extension of the waivers, which have...

Greetings friends! The Give An Hour, Route 91 Heals project is proud to offer ongoing connection activities for the survivors and family members of the Route 91 Harvest Festival tragedy of October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas and for the Borderline nightclub tragedy of November 7, 2018 in Thousand Oaks. We are hosting three in-person gatherings for survivors in Bakersfield, Camarillo and Santa Clarita in June and July. We are also hosting a Family Picnic for affected community families in Long Beach...

Thousands of parents, pediatricians, social workers, educators, community advocates, kids, judges, police, district attorneys know exactly what led to Salvador Rolando Ramos running into a school and slaughtering 19 kids and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. And what could have derailed his path, as well as the path of all other recent mass shooters. To people educated about the consequences of too many childhood adversities and too few positive experiences, what happened in Uvalde is not a...