The Healing Place Podcast has been conducting Facebook LIVE interviews with previous podcast guests (several of whom are ACEs Connection members). I will continue to host the conversations over the next few weeks as a free resource available to those looking for coping strategies, calming skills, and a sense of connection and grounding during this unprecedented time in our world. #PandemicSelfCare
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This is a time of incredible stress, uncertainty and change across the world. Unlike many stressful experiences, we don’t know when the impact of the Covid-19 will ease so that life can return to something closer to normal. We just know that our lives have been impacted in ways we could not have anticipated only a few months ago. Here I want to provide you a little something that might help you get through this. When It’s Too Much Toolkit A few years ago in response to the fires in Sonoma...
We have the best community. And it feels like a community even more right now when things are scary, threatening, and uncertain. Yesterday, Jondi Whitis shared an amazing resource yesterday, by way of a comment, that's great for parents, survivors, providers, and families (all of us). I am making it a blog post in case others missed it or are overwhelmed, as I have been, by sifting through the information coming at us. The home page lets you easily find practices for calming. Here's one...
By Terry Gross, National Public Radio, March 24, 2020 Apocalyptic novelist Max Brooks is something of an expert on planning for pandemics and other disasters. The author, whose books include World War Z , Germ Warfare and the forthcoming Devolution , has toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has reviewed government response plans related to various emergency situations — all in the course of research. "We have a network in place that we as taxpayers have been funding to...
By Bloomwork, PsychCentral, March 18, 2020 Linda : James W. Pennebaker is a social psychologist, and a Centennial Liberal Arts Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin , where he studies the health consequences of secrets. A pioneer of writing therapy , he has researched the link between language and recovering from trauma and been “recognized by the American Psychological Association as one of the top researchers on trauma, disclosure, and health. In his book, Opening...
By Ryan White, Center for Health Journalism, March 18, 2020 Think of the brain, honed by millennia of evolution, as a powerful predictive machine, constantly scanning the horizon for signs of what’s to come. Like an eager young scout, the brain relishes the state of readiness. But what happens when that future is shrouded in a thick fog of uncertainty? Or worse, when that veil conceals real threats to our safety and well-being that exceed our control? That’s essentially the situation we all...
By Matt Apuzzo and Monika Pronczuk, The New York Times, March 23, 2020 In a Queens apartment, a laid-off busboy has no idea if he will make next month’s rent or feed his family. An out-of-work waitress in Amsterdam, though, can count on the government to cover 90 percent of her wages. As a Malaysian florist anxiously burns through her savings, cafe owners in Brussels receive about $4,300 to make up for lost revenue. Weeks of layoffs and lockdowns have made clear that poor and working-class...
Resilient Communities Wisconsin offers this guide which "serves as a starting place to help teams navigate collaborative dialogue and actions to support the integration of trauma-informed practices, procedures and policies. Through a reflective process, teams can identify and reinforce strategies and interventions that are working well, while also identifying opportunities for improvement or change." There are 3 sections: 1. Building Your Foundation 2. Integrating Trauma-Informed Practices,...
For those who love the Trauma Therapist Podcast with Guy MacPherson, as much as I do, here are the three videos in his series on Managing in the Midst of COVID-19. Click each of their names to go to that video interview. Janina Fisher Peter Levine Dr. Bruce Perry
Responding to Families’ Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Conversation with Representative Rosa DeLauro, sponsored by Zero to Three Join ZERO TO THREE, Think Babies™, and partners this Friday, March 27 at 11 am EDT for a web broadcast with U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) about how Congress is responding to families’ needs in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. She will share what is in the bill on issues such as child care, Early Head Start, and paid family and medical leave, and...
From Grantspace, Candid, March 2020 With an increase in hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have started this list to point you to emergency financial resources. NOTE: this is not a comprehensive list; we are simply adding resources as we become aware of them. *Funds in development (i.e., not yet giving funds out) are marked with an asterisk (*) Have a fund for this list? Email it to grantspace@candid.org. [ Please click here for more resources .]
Philanthropy California is an alliance of Northern California, Southern California, and San Diego Grantmakers. Philanthropy California’s disaster resilience team is coordinating with state agencies and partners to respond to the threat and potential impacts of COVID-19/coronavirus. We will be vetting funds, providing recommendations, and supporting our community with safety tips. Consult a trusted news source such as the Center for Disease Control, to track the status of the coronavirus.
With Covid 19 keeping most of us at home, now's the time to let our lives catch up to us and envision a new future.
Posted by Tim McKee – March 25, 2020 A few years ago, NAB author and thinker Bayo Akomolafe told me, “The times are urgent, so let us slow down.” I sensed right away what he meant by this apparent contradiction: that it is during acute periods of tumult that we most need spaciousness, patience, and circumspection. After all, it can be tempting in periods of rapid change to “rush in” out of fear that an extra pause or moment of hesitation will spell doom. Yet history has ample examples where...