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It was a Thursday evening around 6pm, and the youth center at UrbanPromise Ministries in Camden, NJ was a hive of activity. Kids buzzed with energy as parents signed in at the greeter table, while down the hall a line of eager possibly people were being served a hot meal before finding seats in the main room. Further down the hall was the childcare room bright with colors and activities awaiting little hands to use them. Welcome to the Be Inc. Collective Family Café! Brainchild of Siomara...

There is a common saying that you've probably seen in meme form that's been going around for awhile ... might look something like this ... I searched and searched for an attribution of this, and the closest I got was Norm Kelly on Twitter back in 2017. I did a quick Google search and discovered he is a retired Canadian politician (but lets not hold that against him! :) ) It's amazing how much traction this got, but not surprising in some ways. It really speaks to the hope that comes with...

The Pan-Indigenous Neuro Healing & Wellness Program is the perfect opportunity to take the next step in our personal journey or guide clients/community members through Collective Healing from a multi-ideology indigenous perspective merged with 21st century neuroscience. In the context of our healing and wellness program, indigenous refers to people all over the world whose way of life, and attachment or claims to land have resulted in their substantial marginalization within modern...

We are the only entity offering a comprehensive, 48-hour Historical Trauma Specialist Certification Program. The Program is broken into 6 levels and is built on a foundation of BIPOC cultures and neurobiology. It is taught from a multicultural perspective, injecting traditions and ideology from various cultures from around the world. In this inclusive study we rely on the ancient tradition of storytelling, visual art and interconnected relationships to intentionally explore difficult topics.

Could a workplace actually help prevent trauma and help people heal? If you are burned out, tired of a toxic workplace, looking to join the Great Resignation, or, if you’re an employer, if looking for ways to prevent a mass exodus and retain valued employees, you are not alone. The last three years have seen the pandemic, racial unrest, environmental traumas, increases in poverty, major policy and political shifts, and the effect these existential threats have on our stress levels. These...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Wood JN, Campbell KA, Anderst JD, et al. Child Abuse Pediatrics Research Network: The CAPNET Core Data Project. Acad Pediatr. 2023...

A headline earlier this year said it simply: Social Media is Devastating Girls Mental Health. Donna Jackson Nakazawa, an award-winning science journalist and the author of seven books exploring the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, is featured in this week’s episode of History Culture. Trauma, and explains the crisis facing today’s girls as being a biologically rooted phenomenon, and more, and offers solutions to the crisis that has many parents wondering what they...

Dealing with traumatic childhood events can be challenging as one grows into adulthood. If left untreated, adverse childhood experience (i.e. trauma), can cause significant strains on the well-being of the individual. Mental health concerns, substance abuse, relationship issues, and physical pain and illnesses. It is important for individuals to become aware and process their hurts and pains from previous traumatic events. In this article, I have provided several steps to healing adverse...

Community Resilience Initiative (CRI) is presenting its first in-person conference after gathering online over the past three years due to COVID restrictions. This year’s conference takes place from July 20 to 21, 2023 at the beautiful Hotel Roanoke Conference Center in Roanoke, VA. Entitled Pathways to Resilience , the conferenc e offers a multitude of talks, presentations, activities and workshops focused on processing the collective trauma we all have lived through over the past few years...

By William Finnegan, Illustration: João Fazenda/The New Yorker, The New Yorker, June 4, 2023 You may think that child labor was abolished a century ago, at least in the United States. That was never quite true. The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed during the New Deal, outlawed “oppressive child labor” but exempted agricultural work from many of its restrictions, which, in the decades since, has left hundreds of thousands of children in the fields. In every industry, enforcement of the law...

Olga Thomas and other residents of Hueco Tanks rely on a private company to haul water to their neighborhood. Now she can count on her hydro panels for drinking water. Credit: Omar Ornelas/El Paso Times By Martha Pskowski, Inside Climate News, June 5, 2023 Olga Thomas has a story about every plant in her garden. The creosote that her mother would brew into a medicinal tea. The ocotillo planted from seed that now towers over her. The prickly pear cactus that blooms yellow each spring. Thomas,...

By Stacey Colino, Photo: Wenjia Tang/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, June 2, 2023 If you’ve watched even a few minutes of HGTV or skimmed a handful of real estate listings, you’re likely acquainted with the notion of “bringing the outdoors in.” But the concept is much more than just a home decorating cliché. “As a species, we are part of the natural world and we have an inherent need to connect with nature, whether we realize it or not,” says psychotherapist Patricia Hasbach,...