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By Anonymous, Photo: Veryan Dale/Alamy, The Guardian, April 5, 2022 Last week, while watching an outdated DVD about “growing and changing” with my year 2 class, a child in the programme blew out their birthday candles and shared slices of the cake with their friends. Outrage in the classroom ensued. “Miss, was that before corona? That’s disgusting!” Birthday parties are a small part of what young children have missed over the past two years. Since the first lockdown began, children have...

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By Jennifer Jones, 4/7/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ At HOPE, our vision is for all children to have safe and equitable access to the Four Building Blocks . As April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, we want to share just some of the work that is moving that vision forward. Today, we are talking to Jennifer Jones, Chief Strategy Officer at Prevent Child Abuse America. Jennifer promotes child abuse prevention and positive childhood experiences in her daily work. Here, she...

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2022 THE PALACE AT SOMERSET PARK 333 DAVIDSON AVENUE FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, NJ 08873 Click here to register Join us at the 2022 Early Relational Health (ERH) Summit to hear from national experts and learn how foundational relationships between young children and their caregivers impact physical health, child development, social well-being, and resilience. This summit is designed to bring together forward-thinking pediatric healthcare professionals, early childcare providers,...

Greetings, The Chicago Department of Public Health, Office of Violence Prevention and Behavioral Health (OVPBH) is seeking volunteer evaluators for upcoming (Spring/Summer 2022) Request for Proposal (RFP) opportunities where we call for proposals from organizations to fund their violence prevention initiatives. Our team-based approach ensures that all RFP applications are thoughtfully considered using a transparent scoring criterion. All potential evaluators will be screened for conflicts of...

On this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily is joined by Drs. Joanne Barron and Lynne Friedman-Gell. Drs. Joanne and Lynne have been studying and integrating NARM into their work since 2012. Together they have developed an integrative approach for trauma treatment incorporating mind, body and emotion in which NARM plays a big role. They are also Co-Founders of the Trauma and Beyond Psychological Center, an intensive specialized treatment program which provides day-treatment and...

By Megan Conn and Michael Fitzgerald, Photo: Hiram Alejandro Durán, The Imprint, April 4, 2022 T he bar association representing tens of thousands of New York attorneys has taken a first-ever stance against racism in the child welfare system, endorsing specific calls for change that include revising decades-old federal laws. The New York State Bar Association resolution , approved Saturday, acknowledges the harms the American child welfare system has visited disproportionately on Black...

By Monika Scislowska and Stephen McGrath, Photo: Stephen McGrath/AP Photo, Associated Press, April 4, 2022 Nataliya Hibska quickly brushes her teeth and makes the bed. She is rushing to her new job. From a small hostel room in eastern Warsaw, Hibska, a Ukrainian refugee, is slowly rebuilding her life, which was abruptly upended by Russia’s invasion of her homeland. European Union member nations like Poland and Romania — the two neighboring countries to have received the most refugees from...

By Matthew Yglesias, Photo: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg, Bloomberg Opinion, April 3, 2022 The establishment of Fox News in the late 1990s forever changed both media and politics in America, transforming the formerly staid world of television news into the series of political shoutfests we know and love-hate today. More than a quarter-century after its founding, however, the question persists: Does watching Fox News actually change voters’ minds? It’s worth noting that, in a famous study published...

By Ellen Barry, Photo: Kim Raff/The New York Times, The New York Times, March 31, 2022 New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on adolescents’ mental health during the coronavirus pandemic suggests that for many teenagers who were ordered to stay at home, home was not always a safe place. A nationwide survey of 7,705 high school students conducted in the first half of 2021 built on earlier findings of high levels of emotional distress, with 44.2 percent describing...

By Emmanuel Felton, Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, April 1, 2022 If you really concentrate, you can imagine the town that this community’s elders describe. There was the grocery store on the highway, and the gas station. There were the shops where children walked to buy lunch for 50 cents on school days. There was Ms. Sadie’s chicken shack and Dr. Minor’s office. All of that’s gone now. In their place, either vacant lots or dilapidated buildings. Today, you’re...

When the trauma Informed lens is in place, you will inevitably see that change is needed in your organization. The 'change' could be to practice, or process, or maybe wholesale culture change - but there will be change. The impacts (positive and negative) will impact in a parallel process. It should be felt by 'those we serve', 'those we employ' and modeled/felt by leadership. A TIC/ACE/PACE based foundation is exactly what organizations need in order to develop a healthy, thriving workplace...