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By Ray Levy Uyeda, Photo: Our Children's Trust, The Guardian, April 13, 2022 W hen Grace Gibson-Snyder was 13, she launched an independent project in her home town of Missoula, Montana , to encourage restaurants not to use single-use plastic containers. She found that youth activism enabled her to press the adults in her life to take the climate crisis seriously. Even if she was too young to vote, she could still be heard. Three years later Gibson-Snyder upped the ante by teaming up with 15...

View short excerpts of prior webinars on an inspiring success story on transformation of the foster care system in Arkansas--and learn about a new, in-depth webinar that will share more about how the transformation is being accomplished.

It has been hard to ignore the overflow of grief, insults, in-sensitivities, demands and counter demands during the last months. Between January 1 and April 15, over 50 women have been murdered in the confines of intimate relationships. These >50, are the cases that have been reported in the media. If we know Kenya, there are many other cases that never reach the mainstream media, because families, relatives, and friends of the families collude to hide the real reason a woman died. Aren’t...

Kolor with KLBRI is a healing-centered coloring book and therapeutic tool for leaders, advocates, and practitioners.

Dr. Karyn Harvey , noted expert on trauma with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) argues, “Trauma in people with IDD is the elephant in the room.” The statistics are harrowing: People with IDD are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of violent crime compared to people who are not disabled (Harrell, 2017) 31% of children with IDD suffer child abuse compared to 9% of non-disabled children (Sullivan & Knudson, 2000) 14% of direct care staff admitted to acts of...

It’s hard to believe it has almost been a year since Number Story launched. What a year it’s been! Thanks to your contribution, our partners, and our team, we’ve been able to raise awareness of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs), how common they are, and their potential effects. And our work is just beginning. As we move into what promises to be an exciting year, I want to share highlights from 2021 and give you a peek at what's ahead. We listened, learned, and spread the word. Number Story...

Trauma-Responsive and Resilience Building Practices for Early Childhood Educators (ECE), Leaders, Organizations, and Systems: A Three-Part Program Our region is excited to partner with the Center for Optimal Brain Integration (COBI) to provide a three-part virtual training series (an opening institute, a six-part community of practice, and a closing institute) for early childhood educators, organizations and system leaders. Join us as we deepen our advocacy for and increase trauma-informed...

Are you ready to transform your school to become a trauma-informed and healing-centered environment? Join us for the PACEsConnection virtual Trauma-Informed School Leadership Institute. This institute is specifically tailored for school leaders and leadership teams who want to understand the HOW of trauma-informed schools. Speakers will include current and former building leaders engaged in the work as well as other national experts supporting schools through this transformation process.

By Brian Rinker, Photo: Freida Frisaro/AP, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, April 13, 2022 Even as drug use has declined among teenagers during the pandemic, overdose deaths increased, likely due to the highly potent opioid fentanyl, according to a new study . Overdose deaths among teenagers 14-18 held steady for years before doubling in 2020 as the pandemic set in, and they continued to climb last year. A total of 1,146 adolescents in this age group died in 2021 — 20% over 954 deaths...

By Madison Hunt, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco/The Imprint, The Imprint, April 13, 2022 I n a series of social media posts launched today, women cradle their pregnant bellies. They kiss their newborns and lovingly nurse their tiny infants. “Black mamas deserve quality healthcare and unconditional support,” the messages spread by a campaign of New York advocates for low-income parents and families state. “We must make healthcare safe for birthing people at all times.” The coalition behind...

By Moya Sarner, Photo: David Levene/The Guardian, The Guardian, April 12, 2022 P ete Knapp, 36, who lives in London, has visited North Korea, travelled overland from Kenya to Cape Town, motorcycled through Japan and Cambodia and trekked by horse through China. Until a few years ago, “I felt invincible,” he says. He had never experienced anxiety, or worried about the climate crisis. Then, in 2019, he went to Borneo. “I remember flying in one of those small planes over a part of Borneo that...

By Hang Do Thi Duc, Christy Harmon, Melonyce McAfee, and Jaspal Riyait, The New Work Times, April 12, 2022 This is not what Ida Adams thought life would be like at 62. She had planned to continue working as a housekeeper at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore until she turned 65. After retiring, she and her husband, Andre, also 62, thought they might travel a little — “get up and go whenever we felt like it.” She didn’t expect to be hustling a seventh-grader off to school each weekday. But...