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By Diane Bernard, The Washington Post, November 3, 2021 On a sunny spring day in 1963, 14-year-old Violetta Sharps Jones rode atop a burgundy red convertible down the main street of her segregated neighborhood in College Park, Md. Adorned with a tiara and white sash reading “Miss Lakeland,” she waved to the crowd, representing the aspirations of four generations of African Americans who built the thriving community near the University of Maryland. “It was such an honor,” said Jones, who is...

By Judith L. Pace and Wayne Journell, EdSource, November 2, 2021 I n Texas, teachers who once taught controversial issues in history and politics are now afraid to do so . Political attacks on school board members across the country also threaten those in California . State laws banning critical race theory in schools are censoring educators and the curriculum. Does this mean the time has passed when teachers can engage students in open discussion of controversial issues, which we know is a...

By Micah Danny, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, November 1, 2021 In the eyes of court officials with say-so over whether he remains free or on lockdown, Nasheem Heath has mostly made the right moves since, at age 16, he was arrested for pointing a pistol at a random stranger and snatching that man’s necklace and cash. Heath has not been re-arrested. He has held a seasonal job with a moving company. What he still doesn’t have is a home to call his own or the kind of income that would...

Healing the Wound That Won't Heal: The Reality of Trauma: Spencer, Jo: 9781523601448: Amazon.com: Books This book is a chronicle to my uncovering and understanding the abandonment trauma and neglect I suffered during the first year of my life due to my father's shell-shock from WWII.

By Guest Author, 11/03/21, positiveexperience.org/blog On Monday, November 1 st , HOPE held its first National Advisory Board meeting for the 2021-2022 cycle. Lexie Beck from Youth MOVE Nevada joined us to talk about youth engagement and the importance of including youth in decision making. We brainstormed ideas about our annual work plan and topics to learn about together. Later, the team from Root Cause led breakout groups to discuss what being HOPE-informed looks like in practice. We also...

Measuring trauma-informed care is an essential ingredient for successful TIC initiatives. With an effective, easy to use, validated measurement tool, benefits of TIC measurement include: Readiness assessment for TIC change process Pre-post comparison to evaluate TIC intervention effectiveness Monitoring of TIC change process Data to drive stakeholder engagement Empirical evidence to advance TIC field Whether you’re ready to collect baseline data to inform TIC planning or begin a pre-post TIC...

Transforming Trauma Episode 055: Supporting Women to Reconnect Back to Themselves and Their Bodies with Lara Eisenberg In this episode of Transforming Trauma, Brad Kammer, Senior Faculty and Training Director of the NARM Training Institute, is joined by Lara Eisenberg. Lara is a bilingual licensed professional clinical counselor, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and women's spirituality and sexuality therapist. She’s the owner of Body-Mind Wellness, a somatic psychotherapy and coaching...

By Lynsdey Bonomolo, October 28, 2021, For Ed Source With students across California returning to classrooms earlier this autumn, it’s become undeniable that the ongoing pandemic is exacerbating systemic issues that long pre-date Covid-19 . As in many similar districts, Black students in Los Angeles County schools face unique and serious equity barriers, and many teachers are not equipped to address the disparity in access to opportunities that are obvious in their own classes. [Please click...

By Alicia Wallace , November 2, 2021, CNN Business If communities across America were to become more racially integrated, it would be an "economic game changer," boosting gross domestic product growth by an estimated 0.3 percentage points in the span of a decade, Moody's Analytics has found. Deeply entrenched racial bias and segregation, however, are limiting the nation's potential and hampering economic growth by billions of dollars annually, the financial research firm's chief economists...

By Sara Tiana, October 28th, 2021, Imprint News Nestled in posh Santa Monica, La La Land Kind Cafe may appear from the outside to be yet another bougie coffee shop. Its ceremonial grade matcha drinks feature lavender, beetroot and rose saffron. Lattes in shades of baby blue, lavender and sea-green boast butterfly pea flower, CBD and cardamon. But there’s a key ingredient at the cafe affectionately known as La La: Many of the young people making and serving the rock candy and bamboo teas and...

By Diana Lambert, November 1, 2021 for EdSource When Sacramento State professor Otis Scott slammed his fist on the table at a Sacramento Area Black Caucus meeting in 2007, infuriated about the test scores of local Black students, no one knew he was setting in motion the creation of an organization that would eventually fight for the equity and fair treatment of California’s Black and Latino children. In February 2008 a small group of community activists formed the Black Parallel School Board...

Virginia's First Lady Pamela Northam recently organized a Road to Resilience Tour in four regions across Virginia with the state’s network of 27 trauma-informed community groups (TICNs).