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It's an interesting thing --- being a coach. My life experiences, who I am, how I navigate my own relationships - well, it all becomes a part of the work I do with my clients. Sometimes, this creates a bit of internal tension for me. What do I share? What do I hold privately? How do I keep the focus on my clients while still using my own lived experiences to support them? Lately, more and more of my clients are sharing with me about their struggles to be authentically themselves when it...

The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is the most widely used psychometric measure of trauma-informed care currently available with over 50,000 administrations globally. It is available in paper-and-pencil form and via an automated online platform. Under the direction of the Senior Research Coordinator, this position entails supporting all aspects of the ARTIC Scale including onboarding new purchasers, delivering consultation to customers, providing ongoing customer...

How to detect early trauma for french speaking communities ? This first 13 minutes hopefully will start awarness on ACE science and how to support youthness in France and abroad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxF0zwOrIU

I'm grateful for the awareness on post traumatic stress - but I hope someday they drop "disorder" from the language and use "injury" or some other word - just feels stigmatizing, like we are defective and lends credence to the stigma & discrimination we face when trying to heal from things that were done to us, experienced or that we observed. Take care, Michael. Support Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month & Learn the Signs of PTSD - ...

I am a practical person... and in ministry I am one of those that asks questions like, "Can you give me some examples?" and "How would that look in MY ministry setting?" While theoretical knowledge is helpful, and ACEs science is amazing and interesting in its own right, trauma-informed/trauma-sensitive ministry must actually APPLY that knowledge in order to help anyone. So, as my colleague Rev. Sami Pack-Toner (chaplain, Intermountain Residential ) and I prepared for the Mountain Sky...

By The Imprint Staff Reporters, Photo: Unsplash, The Imprint, June 2, 2022 T he Connecticut governor signed a new law late last month ensuring that federal protections for American Indian families are also enforced in state law — even if a pending U.S. Supreme Court case invalidates the related federal statute. The legislation approved by Gov. Ned Lamont (D) ensures that proceedings involving an Indigenous child’s custody, placement in a foster or adoptive home or termination of parental...

By Frances Stead Sellers, Illustration: Oaklee Thiele/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, June 6, 2022 Mallory Stanislawczyk was hesitant to make the call. She hadn’t spoken to her friend in years. But the friend, who gets around in a wheelchair, was the only person the 34-year-old nurse practitioner could think of who would understand her questions. About being ready to accept help. About using a wheelchair. And about the new identity her battle with long covid had thrust on her. “I...

By Ananya Roy, Ashley Bennett, Jennifer Blake, et al., Photo: Michael Bogner/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, June 1, 2022 In 2019, an unhoused encampment formed at Echo Park Lake, a public park in a downtown, gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood. This community grew during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting the social composition of homelessness in LA, the encampment had many Black, Indigenous, and immigrant residents and was a refuge for people fleeing gendered violence. Residents built...

By Elaine Godfrey, Photo: Ethan Aaro Jones/The Atlantic, The Atlantic, June 5, 2022 T he instagram influencer’s workshop on abortion was not meant to persuade anyone. But by the end of the 2,000-person, five-hour Zoom history lesson, at least a few attendees were thinking differently about one of the most fraught topics in American politics. “I personally believe in the sacredness of life,” Shelley Smith, a conservative participant from California, told me afterward. But “something that was...

Decades of funding expertise will come together to support rural resilience initiatives on June 9th from noon - 1:30 p.m. ET in a webinar hosted by the Campaign on Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) and PACEs Connection. Register now . “We’re excited to present this group of three experts, who have worked in every corner of the United States, to help rural communities secure what more they can of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding and opioid settlement funds, as well as...

PACEs Connection and the Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative, a project of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) have developed two new resources, “Community Strategies to Address California’s Digital Divide and Its Impact on Children and Families” Report and the “Digital Divide Brief: Community Strategies to Address California’s Digital Divide and Its Impact on Children and Families”

Of the approximately 74 million youth under age 18 in the US, two-thirds have experienced a potentially traumatic event by age 16 . Traumatic experiences can impact a child's ability to learn and have lasting adverse effects on mental and physical well being. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already urgent need for more trauma-informed support for students and their families. Recognizing the need for schools to better identify and support students who have experienced traumatic events,...