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Being Trauma-Informed means that we are Culturally Attuned. Heal Trauma Global is a sister company to Heal Historical Trauma and was cultivated to fill a wide gap in stress science & trauma training. The trauma-informed movement is beautiful! It's wonderful that as a society we are moving in a direction that honors an individual's past as part of the driving force behind current behaviors. Yet, time and time again, I have attended trainings that are labeled as Trauma-Informed only to...

Race and Disability: A New Reckoning "Race and disability are the most dangerous intersection history has ever held." - Talila Lewis, lawyer and advocate for racial and disability justice One year after America's racial reckoning, grant makers are recognizing that advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion means centering the perspectives of individuals of color with disabilities. The combination of race and disability disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people, magnifying the...

By SwagHer, The Higher South, November 5, 2021 With over 20,000 women on the waitlist, Akina will launch on Nov. 11 as the leading social hub for Black mothers, aunties, bonus moms, and caregivers -- as a safe space to connect, learn and receive daily doses of inspiration as they navigate raising Black children. After receiving the absolute worst setback of her life Leigh Higginbotham Butler, the Dallas, Texas, Founder and mother, found herself going from financially successful to utterly...

By The Imprint Staff Reporters, The Imprint, November 8, 2021 L ast month, half of the states in the nation and the District of Columbia joined the federal government and four federally recognized tribes in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Indian Child Welfare Act, commonly referred to as ICWA, was signed into law 43 years ago today to correct the practice of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them in...

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, November 8, 2021 A mid calls for schools to diversify their teaching staffs, some are saying those efforts should extend beyond the classroom — to the counseling office. The needs of Black students, advocates argue, are too often overlooked by non-Black middle and high school counselors. Black students are more likely to be placed in classes that don’t prepare them for college or a career, subject to harsher discipline and less likely to have their mental health...

By Amanda Winn, 11/10/21, positiveexperience.org/blog One of our favorite things to do at the HOPE National Resource Center is to partner with others to create new tools. Over the past few weeks, we have had multiple requests from our HOPE Innovation Network members and West Coast partners for new handouts . We are excited to share these new, hot-off-the-presses resources with you today. HOPE-informed Leadership and Supervision Checklist During a HOPE Train-the-Facilitator session,...

The Trauma Informed Community Development Institute Resumes in June 2022. The Neighborhood Resilience Project is thrilled to announce our Trauma Informed Community Development Institute , which offers a week-long intensive training in the Trauma Informed Community Development Framework. This training will occur in Pittsburgh in June of 2022! Applications are now open for cohorts from different neighborhoods, communities and cities from across the nation to apply to join us for this Institute...

By Nathanael J. Okpych, Suggeun (Ethan) Park, Mark E. Courtney, and Jenna Powers, Chapin Hall, November 2021 Graduating from college is a life-transforming achievement for young people with foster care backgrounds. This memo provides an early look at factors that promote or stymie college degree completion by around age 23 of youths transitioning to adulthood from the foster care system. What We Did The outcome investigated in this memo is whether or not youth completed a college degree,...

By Peter Kalmus, The Guardian, November 4, 2021 I f you are anything like me, you think of the climate emergency a lot. Possibly every waking hour. Perhaps you experience the psychological tension caused by feeling trapped between the truth of climate and ecological destruction on the one hand and inaction from world leaders on the other. I feel this tension myself, and as a parent and climate activist, I see it affecting young people especially hard. We are in a growing epidemic of serious...

By Alexa Imani Spencer, Black Enterprise, November 2, 2021 This math teacher came up with a pretty cool solution after learning his students weren’t focused because they were hungry—make them healthy, all-natural breakfast smoothies to kickstart their day. George A. Caesar, an educator at Liberty City High in Miami, founded Smoothies 4 Students in 2018 after noticing many of his students were struggling to pay attention in class. The social entrepreneurial nonprofit provides nutritious...

By Aaron Hutcherson, The New York Times, October 26, 2021 An award-winning author who has been writing plant-based cookbooks for the better part of two decades, Bryant Terry calls his latest project, “ Black Food ,” “a communal shrine to the shared culinary histories of the African diaspora.” He writes in the introduction: "These pages offer up gratitude to the great chain of Black lives, and to all the sustaining ingredients and nourishing traditions they carried and remembered, through...

Please join us today at noon for our WCCI Wednesday Conversation. We will be talking with Alysia Hoover-Thompson. She is a licensed psychologist and health service provider and the Director of Behavioral Health Integration at the High Country Community Health Center. She will be talking with us about how she sees trauma in the people she works with, how she helps them build resilience, and how she stays well. Read more here about HCCH: https://www.highcountrycommunityhealth.com/about-us Hope...