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By Asher Lehrer-Small, Photo: YPIE College Zone, The 74, May 9, 2022 A decade ago, Samuel Wallis was teaching in a small city in the Mississippi Delta when students’ phones started going off. News of a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut stopped his class in its tracks. “It was the middle of the school day … and we just had a crying session together,” recalled Wallis. “I was teaching social studies … like, I’m not going to [keep] teaching them the causes of World...

By Jill Elaine Hasday, Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Washington Post, May 9, 2022 In his recently leaked draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade , Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. presents what he sees as his most convincing arguments for permitting legislatures to ban abortion. So what is the best Alito can do? One of his prominent strategies is to repeatedly quote and discuss someone he describes as a “great” and “eminent” legal authority, Sir Matthew Hale. [ Please...

By Robert Reich, Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images, The Guardian, May 9, 2022 I keep running into people who feel overwhelmed by so many seemingly unrelated but terrifying things occurring all at once. “How can all this be happening?” they ask. But these things are connected. They are reinforcing each other. As such, they pose a clear challenge to a decent society. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump refuses to concede and promotes his big lie. Rightwing politicians in America and Europe...

By Gabriel Winant and Theresa Brown, Illustration: Jimmy Simpson, The New York Times, May 9, 2022 America was in a health care crisis before Covid, and the stresses of the pandemic have made it worse. Since the pandemic began, the health care work force — the country’s largest industry by employment — has shrunk by nearly 2 percent . That may seem like a small amount, but historically, the health care work force doesn’t shrink; it only grows . Now, with astronomical turnover and rising...

Calling all companies, businesses, and organizations! Hi! We wanted to personally invite you to our upcoming webinar, Method to The Madness: Mental Health Awareness Made Manageable, May 26, 2022 @ 10 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EST. We are passionate about helping organizations manage the emotional and mental health needs of employees in the workforce. We know businesses are struggling to mitigate the effects of mental health and social and civil justice issues we are facing. As mental health...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Jane Stevens] Child Abuse Gaylord NM, Bland T, Munoz L, Ross R, Olson C. Prevalence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences in an Interdisciplinary, School-Based...

PACEs Connection has two sites: There's the social network, PACEsConnection.com, with more than 55,500 members. And then there's the news site for the general public— ACEsTooHigh.com , a traditional news site that focuses on news and information about the science and practice of positive and adverse childhood experiences. Everything that's on ACEsTooHigh is on PACEsConnection. But the opposite isn't true, because, being a social network, anyone who's a member can post a blog on...

By Karen Bluth, Greater Good Magazine, May 9, 2022 Lee came to the first day of our self-compassion class looking a bit uncomfortable. This wasn’t particularly unusual, as many of our students were signed up by a parent—it usually isn’t the teen’s idea to enroll in a class on self-compassion. But I do remember that Lee asked us to call them by a different name, one that wasn’t listed on the registration. Of course, my co-teacher and I were fine with this—whatever the teen wanted to be called...

By Lachlan Bennett, Photo: Lachlan Bennett/ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, May 7, 2022 They say it takes a village to raise a child. So when someone takes their life, it can shatter an entire community. The long shadow of suicide is familiar to those who live in the idyllic fishing and tourist towns on Tasmania's east coast. Here "everyone knows everybody and if you don't know someone, you know somebody who does", Break O'Day Mayor Mick Tucker said. [ Please click here to read...

By Rachel E. Gross, Illustration: Elia Barbieri/The Guardian, The Guardian, May 9, 2022 In the 17th century, ovaries got their modern name, which essentially means “place for eggs”. Before that, they were known only as female testicles, thought to be vestigial versions of male gonads that may or may not produce “female sperm”. A young Dutch anatomist, Regnier de Graaf, was the first to show that they actually made eggs, by dissecting just-mated rabbits. “Nature had her mind on the job when...

By Jackie Mader, Image: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report, May 7, 2022 I n Florida, kids in a second grade class were told to walk laps during recess after no one confessed to taking money from a classmate. In Kentucky, a first grader who hadn’t been paying attention in class had to sit on a bench next to his teacher and watch his friends play. In Texas, after a few students misbehaved, an entire first grade class had to sit inside silently for recess. Amid long,...