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By Dolly Chugh, Greater Good Magazine, August 3, 2021 When Tamir Rice, a young boy not much older than my own children, was shot by police and killed while playing with a toy gun, I finally felt like I had to get involved in the Black Lives Matter movement. I had never identified as a protester and had never been to a protest, but I knew it was time to go from just watching on social media to actually showing up. I rallied together my husband and some friends for a Black Lives Matter protest...

By Jamie Dimon,The New York Times, August 4, 2021 One in three American adults — more than 70 million people — have some type of criminal record . To put this in perspective, about the same number of Americans have college degrees right now. Unfortunately, these Americans, who were incarcerated or have a conviction on their record, are essentially unable to secure good jobs in this country. Nearly half of formerly incarcerated people are unemployed one year after leaving prison. That is a...

Collaboration of Grantmakers Commit to Addressing Kentucky’s High Rate of Childhood Adversity Launches Statewide Initiative Named Bloom Kentucky LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – A collaboration of dedicated grantmaking organizations from across Kentucky gathered today in celebration of the launch of Bloom Kentucky, an initiative focused on statewide policy change that aims to prevent and mitigate the impact of childhood adversity. "Bloom Kentucky is a first-of-its-kind collaborative effort supported...

By Jocelyn Wiener, Cal Matters, June 30, 2021 On a breezy late May afternoon, members of Madison Park Academy’s senior class donned shimmery white gowns and tasseled caps decorated with fabric flowers and celebratory messages. For most, it was the first and last time in more than a year they had set foot on their East Oakland campus. Among them stood Eduardo Mendoza Miguel, a Guatemalan immigrant who spent the past year practicing his English watching Youtube and TikTok videos, and struggled...

CalEndow Live Virtual Programming Presents Maria Hinojosa Storytelling for Impact A Virtual Event Wednesday, August 25 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Pacific Join CalEndow Live in conversation with media trailblazer Maria Hinojosa about lifting community voices and crafting stories that make a difference. Maria has hosted Latino USA on National Public Radio for nearly 20 years and created The Futuro Media Group in 2010 to harness the power of independent and community-based journalists. Maria will share...

By Nathaniel P. Morris, The New England Journal of Medicine, July 29, 2021 When I became a physician, I was not expecting to learn so much about ankle monitors. Over the past few years, I have worked in clinics caring for patients with mental disorders, substance use disorders, or both, many of whom remain under criminal justice supervision in the community after arrest or incarceration. Some of these devices have Global Positioning System capabilities, allowing law enforcement officers to...

By Linda Grabbe, Melinda K. Higgins, Marianne Baird, and Katherine M. Pfeiffer, Trauma Resource Institute, July 2021 Background: Front-line workers (FLW) are at risk for secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and related psychiatric sequelae: depression, anxiety, suicidality, posttraumatic stress disorder, and sleep and substance use disorders. FLW are in need of self-care programs to support their mental health. Methods: Quasi-experimental study to assess the impact of a simple mental...

By Amanda Merck, ¡Salud America!, June 28, 2021 For the first time, the Healthy People 2030 guidelines have added four objectives on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), a step to recognize the systemic impact of childhood trauma on health. ACEs, such as abuse and poverty, are a public health crisis . None of the past Healthy People editions ─ 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020 ─ had an objective to address ACEs as part of its national guidance to promote health and prevent disease. [ Please click here...

By Kaylyn Belsha, Chalkbeat, August 4, 2021 When Jaylyn Suppah was a high school student, she had a lot of questions for her civics teacher. Why were their lessons on Native Americans about tribes from the Midwest, with no mention of regional tribes like hers, the Warm Springs, Wasco, Shoshone-Bannock, and Yakama? Why did the textbook only spend a few pages on their history? And why were critical topics, like the forced assimilation of Native American children at U.S. boarding schools,...

Dr. Tim Brewerton's course on dissociative identity disorder now available, featuring video clips from various stages of treatment and illustrates the dissociative processes and the various "alters" identified. 5 hours of CMEs/CNEs/CEUs are available. Learn more and register at: www.sharpenminds.com/sylvia

Every time I'm interviewed about the trauma-informed movement or parenting with traumatic stress, I talk about the adoption community because adoptive parents have led bringing the trauma-informed movement into school systems and have been doing this work for decades. And I mention the Attachment Trauma Network (ATN) as the prime example although I recognize that many other organizations have and are doing this work as well. Most often, teachers, principals, social workers, adjustment...

By Michelle Cottle, The New York Times, August 1, 2021 Few people dream of living out their golden years in a nursing home. The very idea sparks existential dread in many Americans, conjuring images of grim, institutional dumping grounds where society’s frailest and most vulnerable members aren’t so much cared for as warehoused. Scattered horror stories of neglect and abuse supercharge more prosaic fears about losing one’s autonomy. The coronavirus pandemic made things all the more...