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I listened to this great conversation between Dan Harris and Resmaa Menakem last night. Here's more information about this conversation from the 10% Happier podcast notes:

There are online parenting classes in both English and Spanish offered through Echo Training. Here's more information about the online classes from @Louise Godbold who is the Executive Director of Echo Training.

Survivors’ Voices , The McPin Foundation , and the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network are conducting research to understand how to help children and young people who are experiencing, or at risk of, abuse at home but who are not known to social services or other authorities, both during the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards. The research is being led by survivor-researchers with lived experience of violence and abuse and involves an anonymous online survey, open to people aged 16 and...

7/2/20, positiveexperience.org/blog Today’s post is based on an interview with Elliott Orrin Hinkle (they/them), an alumnus of the Wyoming Foster Care System. They are an advocate for child welfare, mental health, and the LGBTQ population. Nationally they work as a consultant to the National Capacity Building Center for States at ICF International and at JBS International working on NYTD. Since 2014 they have been a trainer of Youth Thrive and recently were certified to train on Youth Thrive...

By Nicole Ellis and Maya Lin Sugarman, The Lily, July 2, 2020 In the last month since George Floyd’s death, people across the United States have started to look more critically at how we deal with race and incorporate anti-racism into our everyday lives. But one of the biggest challenges we’re running into is white people getting it wrong. We’re diving into why that’s happening and how to do better. It can be exhausting for many black people in this moment to hear from their nonblack...

By April M. Short, Witness LA, June 21, 2020 Protests against systemic racism and police brutality in America continue to call for justice after the police murder of George Floyd on May 25. Floyd’s death catalyzed an uprising of voices that are pushing forward the national narratives around policing and public safety. There is a widespread, growing call to defund and dismantle America’s long-militarized police departments, restructure their use of force policies, and redistribute their...

By Nicholas Ibarra, Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 23, 2020 After fostering the development of predictive policing technology a decade ago, Santa Cruz on Tuesday became the first city in the U.S. to approve a ban on its use. Both predictive policing and facial recognition technologies are set to be barred from use by Santa Cruz police under a closely watched ordinance unanimously approved by the City Council, which will return to the council Aug. 11 for final adoption. San Francisco, Oakland and...

By Richard A. Oppel Jr., Robert Gebeloff, K.K. Rebecca Lai, Will Wright, and Mitch Smith, The New York Times, July 5, 2020 Teresa and Marvin Bradley can’t say for sure how they got the coronavirus. Maybe Ms. Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital. Maybe it came from a visiting relative. Maybe it was something else entirely. What is certain — according to new federal data that provides the most comprehensive look to date on nearly 1.5 million coronavirus patients in America —...

Interested in learning what it takes to Grow a Resilient Community? Do you want to learn how to become a member of ACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities? If so, please join us Tuesday, July 7th, 12-1pm PDT for our next 'A Better Normal' community discussion series. In this discussion we will be talking with Brian Semsem of Fresno's Every Neighborhood Partnership. We will be talking to Brian about what led him to work with ACEs and resilience. In addition, we will be discussing the path...

For adults who are important in the lives of young children. Commit by July 15th This collective is online, and the schedule is flexible.

By Rebecca R. Bibbs, July 6, 2020, The Herald Bulletin. ANDERSON — In a typical school year, a relatively finite number of students need socioemotional support because of adverse childhood experience, such as parental divorce, death of a loved one or the fallout of an inappropriate relationship with an adult. But as the 2020-21 school year nears, Lori DeSautels, assistant professor in Butler University’s College of Education, said it is a certainty that 100% of students returning to school...

By Melissa Fay Greene, The Atlantic, June 23, 2020 F or his first three years of life, Izidor lived at the hospital. The dark-eyed, black-haired boy, born June 20, 1980, had been abandoned when he was a few weeks old. The reason was obvious to anyone who bothered to look: His right leg was a bit deformed. After a bout of illness (probably polio), he had been tossed into a sea of abandoned infants in the Socialist Republic of Romania. In films of the period documenting orphan care, you see...