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By Guest Author, 9/7/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics released the fifth snapshot in the Family Snapshots: Life during the Pandemic series. In past blogs , we discussed the results of the survey that the HOPE team, in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics , Prevent Child Abuse America , and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) , conducted using the national online platform YouGov.com . This survey asked a national...

In less than a week, parents and caregivers for children impacted by early childhood trauma will be learning and supported at the Standing Strong Virtual Conference - Sept 13-15, 2021, hosted by the Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc. (ATN) . This 3-day event is focused on helping those caring for children with developmental trauma, complex PTSD and attachment challenges learn advocacy strategies and focus on their own care/burnout needs now that their children are back in school. Speakers...

Survivors experiencing emotional flashbacks are stranded in the feelings of being in danger, hopelessness, and helplessness that they felt in the actual traumatic events. If, for example, the survivor as a child was physically traumatized, they certainly would have felt anger, rage, and hopelessness at the same time. However, since they were only a helpless child, they could not escape or change their situation.

You can also read this post on Rise to Resilience . A special thanks to the Center for Optimal Brain Integration for inviting me to write about my story and originally publishing this post on their website here ! “It’s been validating to learn that I’m autistic,” I said to my therapist. “Can I offer a way to reframe that?” I knew what was coming. “Sure!” Commence a well-intentioned suggestion of thinking of myself as having autism. I wasn’t upset, knowing my therapist’s training had all made...

I’m a survivor of Harvey Weinstein. There’s a question I’d like people to stop asking me. BY LOUISE GODBOLD AUG 23, 2021 5:45 AM Last month, Harvey Weinstein was in the news again following his extradition to Los Angeles , where he faces additional charges of sexual assault. I am a Weinstein survivor. My case falls outside the statute of limitations and therefore will never be prosecuted. But because I have been public about my experience—and also because I have made a career of training and...

Introducing our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system. September...

By Kerry Breen, Today, August 30, 2021 A Chicago coffee shop that focuses on mental health wants to make sure its customers have a place to "talk about hard stuff." Christopher LeMark, the founder of "Coffee, Hip-Hop and Mental Health," has dealt with trauma for much of his life after being "abandoned and abused for a span of 12 years." LeMark said that he didn't know either of his parents and struggled with "a lot of complications," including "physical, mental and emotional abuse" for 30...

By Karim Doumar, ProPublica, August 26, 2021 I’m Karim, an audience editor here at ProPublica. That means I spend many of my working hours reading about pain and suffering and working with reporters whose job it is to bear witness to the most traumatic moments of people’s lives. It’s something I’ve thought about and struggled with a lot during my time at ProPublica, and it’s been exacerbated by living through the pandemic news cycle of constant misfortune and death. Last week, in partnership...

By Steve Fiedeldey, Benchmark Education, August 31, 2021 Everyone has a story. As our family settled into our cozy living room sofas, my eldest daughter, Tess, turned on a favorite television singing competition. That is when it happened. I heard my own words through the mouth of my daughter. As the hosts of the show became emotional about the contestant’s experience, Tess reflected, “Everyone has a story.” It was during these emotional backstories that I would often reach for the remote to...

By Chip Brownlee, The Trace, August 19, 2021 T he violence intervention team at Hartford Communities That Care is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Within 20 minutes of getting a call from Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, the staffers spring into action to help a shooting victim recover — from more than just their physical wounds. In many cases, the patient is still unconscious, their name unknown. Hospital-based violence intervention programs —...

Photo: Allison Shelley for American Education By Leigh Deal Victoria Our students are suffering from learning loss. … Schools and teachers should do the following to mitigate learning loss: … We must be ready to diagnose our students’ learning loss. … This type of rhetoric has appeared in our news feeds, educational blogs and journals, curricular textbook programs, and most unfortunately, school districts across the nation. Since the pandemic shutdown, the term “learning loss” has...