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Have you ever been snarky with a partner? Yelled at your kids? Lost it in rush hour traffic or when you couldn’t find your keys? Then you, my friend, have failed to self- regulate! No judgement here! Unfortunately, this is a skill we’ve never been taught and because of that...we see ourselves failing day in and day out. When we lose our cool, uncomfortable feelings come up and we start to feel shame, disconnection, guilt, or anger for our actions. We question ourselves and wonder who we...

Self-harm, also known as self-injury, happens when a person becomes overwhelmed and deliberately hurts their own body. The injuries inflicted on oneself can be anywhere from minor cuts to severe injuries that are life-threatening.

By Tom Wheeler, Brookings, September 30, 2021 F acebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told listeners to his July 2021 quarterly earnings call that “I expect people will transition from seeing us as a social-media company to seeing us as a metaverse company.” A few weeks later, the business plan had morphed into a political plan and the Washington Post headlined , “How Facebook’s ‘metaverse’ became a political strategy in Washington.” “[T]he metaverse is already a full-on political push,”...

By Bobbi Nodell, University of Washington Medicine, August 25, 2021 John Nolan served in the U.S. Army and Marines and later worked in law enforcement and as a correctional officer. A career spent dealing with traumatic events led to post-traumatic stress disorder and insomnia. He felt like his life was spinning out of control. Nolan was greatly helped by telepsychiatry services in his town, 125 miles from Little Rock, Ark. He was invited to chair the community advisory board for the largest...

By John Blake, CNN, October 2, 2021 At first, Clint Smith had trouble making out the objects beside a white picket fence in the distance. Then he drew closer; what he saw made him shudder. Planted in a garden bed in front of the fence were the heads of 55 Black men impaled on metal rods, their eyes shut and jaws clenched in anguish. Smith, a journalist and a poet, was visiting the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana as part of his quest to understand the impact of slavery in America. He had...

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, October 1, 2021 S chools should offer more counseling, suspend fewer students and address the underlying mental health challenges of students who misbehave in class, according to the state’s new school discipline guidelines . The guidelines, released last month by the California Department of Education, are intended to help schools navigate an anticipated uptick in student misbehavior following more than a year of remote learning, said department spokesperson...

Why is toxic stress in the first eighteen years of life being called our number one unaddressed public health problem? The suffering and costs associated with ACEs are largely preventable and treatable.

Video resource for teachers, doctors, and mental health professionals to better understand the complexities in intercountry and transracial adoption.

On September 16, 2021, PACEs Connection hosted our second event in our Historical Trauma in America series . This event was led by Ingrid Cockhren, the director of the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities; and Porter Jennings-McGarity, our community facilitator of the Midwest Region. It featured guest speaker Agnes Woodward who is Plains Cree from Kawacatoose First Nation, Saskatchewan, Canada. To download the slide deck from this presentation, click here. Then click "download file".

A few days ago, I shared the post included at the end of this – and wanted to follow up with a few of the reflections from the guide (pg14): *There is the question on why we might be allowing or/and creating injury ~ which takes us back to the need for the logic-connection foundation. *And there is the question for individuals and fields: “How can we work with others, if we are allowing, and also in any preventable way contributing to their injuries? The first reflection: While I mentioned...

Now Available! September 29 Webinar Recording "Implementing ACE Screenings: How-To Guide and Lessons from the Field" WATCH NOW at ACEsAware.org A recording and materials are now available for ACEs Aware's most recent webinar, "Implementing ACE Screenings: How-To Guide and Lessons from the Field," which highlights learnings from clinics across California. The webinar covers: Ways the How-To Guide can help your clinic move further in its ACE screening journey. How several practices have...

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, October 1, 2021 A ll California students and school staff will be required to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as soon as January 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. The mandate, the nation’s first, applies to all students in kindergarten through 12th grade in public, charter and private schools, and all school employees. It goes into effect in the first semester, either Jan. 1 or July 1, following the Federal Drug Administration’s full approval of the Covid...