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A Books Not Bars demonstration pushes for closing the N.A. Chaderjian Youth Correctional Facility, among the last three youth prisons to close in California. Photo provided by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. By Nell Bernstein, The Imprint, April 25, 2023 Long before the “school-to-prison pipeline” was a well-worn phrase and even law-and-order Republicans had traded “tough on crime” for “smart on crime,” a tireless group of parents trekked, over and over, to the California state...

Social policies can reduce income disparities in brain structure. In those states providing more generous cash benefits for low-income families, income disparities in hippocampal volume were reduced as were patterns for internalizing psychopathology.

We are excited to announce the First Annual #WeHealUS Trauma-Informed & Mental Health Justice Summit in conjunction with #WeHealUS May Mental Health and Trauma Awareness Campaign . The Justice Summit will feature local, state, national and international organizations and governments that are creating change in the justice system and restoring hope and healing for a better tomorrow. The Summit is free, offers In-Person and Virtual participation and is offering CEUs. Learn more and...

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We must implement suicide prevention programs that increase connectedness at the family, school and community levels.

Please join our hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell for an encore of "What if Self-Care isn't the Answer". This episode is a conversation with Candice Valenzuela , which occurred in July 2022. Candice provides insight about the need for collective care to heal communities, especially communities struggling with systemic racism and historical trauma. Candice has worked at the crossroads of education, justice and community healing for the past 16 years. She has extensive experience in...

Learn from a beloved international expert and understand why this in-person experience is not to be missed.

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

The NJ Office of Resilience wants to connect with you, in your community, to introduce or advance information and programs that help to prevent and heal the trauma that affects people’s ability to thrive! While traumatic experiences can occur at any age, I’m primarily referring to ACEs, Adverse Childhood Experiences, that happen to children and can have lasting effects into adulthood, especially if not countered with Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs). Together, positive, and adverse...

We are all liars. In the very moment that our trust is violated and we are abused, we have to make a decision – will we tell or will we cover it up. Most of us, because we are young when the abuse occurs, don’t even make this decision in a deeply insightful way. We simply know something about what has happened is bad and wrong, and you get in trouble for doing bad and wrong things – so we don’t tell. This means that we sit down to breakfast with this huge thing happening that we can’t speak...

Discrimination can hinder access and to quality health services.Credit: PA images/Alamy By Layal Liverpool, Nature, April 28, 2023 A network of European health organizations and parliamentarians is calling for the European Commission to explicitly recognize racism as a key factor that can negatively affect people’s health, and to prioritize the issue for research funding. “It’s about time,” says Sarah Hamed, a sociologist at Uppsala University in Sweden who researches racism in health care.