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By Jane Dutton and Monica Worline, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, October 24, 2023 Three years ago, we met a woman named Denise when we visited her organization to offer a workshop. Denise shared her passion for learning about organizational culture and culture change. We had a brief, energizing conversation about how she was transferring what she was learning about culture change at work to her volunteer role at her daughter’s school. Fast forward to earlier this month, when we...

The AAP invites pediatricians and other pediatric health professionals to participate in this brief survey to assess needs related to training on trauma-informed care. The survey will close November 10, 2023 . We all know the statistics: Almost half of American children, or 34 million younger than 18, have faced at least one potentially traumatic adverse childhood experience (ACE) and more than 1 in 7 adults report 4 or more ACEs during childhood. (Duffee et al., 2021) Exposure to traumatic...

By Bobby Bostic, Illustration: Douglas Lopes/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, October 20, 2023 R ecently, at one of the writing workshops that I teach at three juvenile lockups in and around my hometown of St. Louis, one of my students posed a provocative question: “Why should I write about changing the world when the world doesn’t care about me?” The tall, lanky 16-year-old asked his question in a slow, rebellious twang that reminded me of how I spoke as a child. “You should...

Physicians and public health experts have pointed to one culprit time and again when asked why Americans live shorter lives than peers in nations with similar resources, especially people felled by chronic diseases in the prime of life: stress. A cardiologist, endocrinologist, obesity specialist, health economist and social epidemiologists all said versions of the same thing: Striving to get ahead in an unequal society contributes to people in the United States aging quicker, becoming sicker...

Black children, on average, experience their first microaggression by age 6, according to an expert on race-based trauma. (Getty Images) By Margo Snipe, Capital B, October 16, 2023 Ignored complaints of students using racist slurs, Black children getting in trouble for reporting instances of discrimination, and white students mockingly reenacting the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers are all outlined in a lawsuit that hit a Georgia school district earlier this year. The...

Steven James, 12, waits to hunt geese on St. Lawrence Island, in Alaska, sitting hidden behind a wood bar and a whale bone. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images. By Victoria St. Martin, Inside Climate News, October 23, 2023 For over 2,000 years, the Indigenous people known as the Yupik have occupied St. Lawrence Island, a sliver of Alaska that rests in the Bering Sea just below the Arctic Circle and where, on a clear day, it’s said that one can see the coastline of Russia about 40...

By Anja Nielsen, Patricia Landínez, Rob Jenkins, Zeinab Hijazi, Photo: Unsplash, The European Sting, October 20, 2023 This morning, hundreds of millions of children around the world woke up to a crisis on their doorstep . More than 400 million children are living in areas under conflict; over 36 million children are displaced from their homes; and as many as 1 billion children are living in countries with extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. More than one in five of them...

October 11, 2023: Robeson County Partnership for Children's Program Director, Rhiannon Chavis-Wanson, and Community Engagement Manager, Stacie Kinlaw, trained the staff of Lumberton Junior High School in "Intro to Community Resiliency Model (CRM)". The training gave participants insight on: Facts about CRM The Resilient Zone Brain & Nervous System Trauma & Stress Wellness Skills ~Help Now ~Tracking ~Resourcing ~Grounding For training opportunities, please reach out to Stacie Kinlaw,...

FREE WORKSHOPS! Fall in love with Robeson Community College during the Fall Festival Event at COMTech, located at 124 Livermore Drive in Pembroke. RCC will be offering several free workshops during the Fall Festival event on October 26th from 10am-2pm. Arts, Crafts, and Fashion 10am - 11am How to make wreaths by Dr. Melissa Oxendine 11am - 12pm How to make bows with Vonda Graham 1pm - 2pm Fashionista with Lisa Hunt Finance & Business 10am - 12pm Money for Fun: How to turn your...

Our world is full of challenges and issues that demand our attention. Whether it's poverty, climate change, discrimination, or mental health, there are countless global issues that require a lot of attention. We may feel overwhelmed and find ourselves grappling with how to channel our energies for positive change. Fortunately, one important avenue is open to all of us: volunteering. Volunteering means offering one's time, skills, and resources selflessly without expecting monetary...

Adolescent girls are experiencing extreme levels of trauma and adversity, especially African American, Hispanic/Latina and Indigenous girls, as we discussed with author Donna Jackson Nakazawa last year when her book “ Girls on the Brink—Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media. ” launched. This week host Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, will touch on those topics and more with guest Vernisha Crawford, who discusses the lives of girls...