Childhood Effects of Parental Opioid Addiction
Substance abuse not only affects the abuser, but also those closest to them. Children of parents who struggle with opioid addiction can be the most susceptible to addiction later on.
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Practitioner Resilience Sessions - Strategies for an Energized and Effective Healthcare Workforce [healthnet.com]
Title: Literary Explorations of Well-Being in Challenging Times Summary: During this unprecedented year of challenges, health care practitioners have faced inordinate and unexpected stressors and transitions in health care delivery and team-based care. This series of six one-hour interactive and participatory sessions will provide an opportunity for self- and group reflection on what has and continues to sustain us in our professional and personal lives. We will weave our conversation with...
NCTSN July 2021 eBulletin [mednet.ucla.edu]
Data At-A-Glance: Synergy: Why Two Can Be Greater than Four or More Offers providers information about synergy for children who experience trauma. This fact sheet is a summary of important points from a NCTSN Core Data Set publication developed to help providers understand whether certain pairs of trauma and adversity have more additive synergy than others. It also shares whether additive synergistic pairings differed by gender and/ or age group. This product looks at the issue, the...
Four North Carolina resiliency initiatives join the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities—thanks to the United Way
Members of the four Cape Fear Area resiliency initiatives celebrate their joining the PACES Connection Cooperative of Communities and thank United Way - Cape Fear Area leadership for "leaning in" on the work being done to prevent and heal childhood trauma, and build on positive childhood experiences to create individual, family and community resilience. The United Way-Cape Fear Area (UW-CFA) board of directors has voted to fund four North Carolina resiliency initiatives to join the PACEs...
VA TICNs eNote July 6 2021 [grscan.com]
"The pandemic has upended the meaning of authenticity in my life and has made me reconsider my own resilience in the face of hardship. ...Every day I wake up and I choose to reimagine and shape what future worlds will look like. I don’t want a new normal; I want a new era." Read more from disability justice advocate Bri M . and check out Power Not Pity , a podcast that centers and celebrates the lived experiences of disabled people of color. “People put their heads down and do what they have...
How Do You Want to Live Your Life?
I had a good life prior to December 14, 2012, the day of the Sandy Hook tragedy that took my six-year-old son Jesse's life. I was a single mom with a full-time job, a first and seventh grader, living on a horse farm with a wonderful mother/grandmother living nearby to help, and a supportive extended family. Always on the go, I woke up early, went to bed late, and would list the day’s accomplishments in my head each night. When I woke in the morning I would thank God for another opportunity...
Finding Help for Those Living with CPTSD and Those Who Love Them.
If you live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder or love someone who does, you are aware of how difficult it is to find a therapist who understands the disorder. While there are tons of clinicians who received training in post-traumatic stress disorder, few have even heard of CPTSD, and some do not believe it exists.
America's workers are exhausted and burned out — and some employer are taking notice [washingtonpost.com]
By Soo Youn, The Washington Post, June 29, 2021 Meg Trowbridge’s plans for the week are pretty simple. She’ll take long, meandering walks and explore some new parks and visit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for the first time since 2019 — all on company time. “I’m so excited to take a morning or afternoon walk when I’m not in the crowd of after-work people,” said Trowbridge, a copywriter for Mozilla, which produces the Firefox Web browser. “I’m definitely going to hit SF MOMA and just...
Michael Pollan Talks New Book, ' This Is Your Mind On Plants' [npr.org]
By Sarah McCammon, National Public Radio, July 4, 2021 SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Bestselling author Michael Pollan has made a career of asking big questions about the natural world and our relationship to it. In his latest book, he's turning his attention to three psychoactive plants - opium, caffeine and mescaline. The book is called "This Is Your Mind On Plants." In it, Pollan experiments with each mind altering substance and writes about what their classifications as drugs - legal or not -...
Guess Who's Going to Space With Jeff Bezos? [theatlantic.com]
By Marina Koren, The Atlantic, July 1, 2021 In the beginning, the small group of Americans who aspired to become astronauts had to pass an isolation test. Spaceflight wasn’t going to be easy, and the country wanted people with tough minds. For his test, John Glenn sat at a desk in a dark, soundproofed room. He found some paper in the darkness, pulled a pencil out of his pocket, and spent the test writing some poems in silence. He walked out three hours later. For her test, Wally Funk floated...
Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders At All [forbes.com]
By Alison Escalante, Forbes, August 11, 2020 What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all? In a compelling new paper , biological anthropologists call on the scientific community to rethink mental illness. With a thorough review of the evidence, they show good reasons to think of depression or PTSD as responses to adversity rather than chemical imbalances. And ADHD could be a way of functioning that evolved in an ancestral...
The Juvenile Justice Task Force report gave us a roadmap to reform. Now it's up to lawmakers to finish the job | Opinion [penncapital-star.com]
By Malik Pickett, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, June 27, 2021 Glen Mills, Wordsworth, Devereaux, and most recently the Delaware County Juvenile Justice Center are all highly publicized scandals involving the abuse of children inside Pennsylvania juvenile facilities. Abuses such as these precipitated Gov. Tom Wolf’s creation of the Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Task Force which studied the Commonwealth’s juvenile justice system for 16 months to create recommendations for reform. Last week, the...
The Day We Can Globally Celebrate
I no longer celebrate holidays, as doing so would be illogical to have the most safety and hopeful possibilities for myself and who I am attached to - and would equally betray the connection I have to other life, impacting every child and innocent having the most safety and hopeful possibilities.
The American Rescue Plan Redefines Child Poverty as a Societal, Rather Than Individual, Challenge [childtrends.org]
By Dana Thomson and Susan Balding, Child Trends, June 22, 2021 Public debate on the root causes of child poverty has often focused on individual—usually parental—behavior. This means that safety net policies have often concentrated on encouraging or discouraging certain behaviors among parents and caregivers, usually through program eligibility requirements like minimum work hours or citizenship, rather than focusing on societal obstacles to alleviating poverty. The American Rescue Plan...
Watch: 'We are not our mistakes.' [resolvemagazine.org]
By Cecily Sailer, Resolve Magazine, June 2, 2021 On a chilly spring morning in Philadelphia, Michelle Simmons unlocks the door to the building she owns on Chelten Avenue, not far from her old middle school. She owns three buildings in Germantown, actually. More accurately, her nonprofit owns them. But Simmons and her organization, Why Not Prosper , are basically synonymous. Once inside the building, she moves quickly, flipping light switches, sorting paperwork, stuffing goodie bags, talking...