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By Tiffany L. Green, Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo, The Hill, April 14, 2023 April 11-17 marks Black Maternal Health Week, a week-long campaign officially recognized by the Biden administration as a time to address racial inequities in Black maternal health and to “amplify the voices, perspectives and lived experiences” of Black during pregnancy. It is difficult, however, to celebrate this year’s theme, “Our Bodies Belong to Us: Restoring Black Autonomy and Joy!” when our governments and...

By Laura Gallant, 4/20/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Earth Day is this Saturday, and the HOPE National Resource Center wants to share ideas of actions that help protect the well-being of our planet, and the future of all children. When we promote practices that heal the Earth, we are celebrating all the amazing things this planet provides for us to create positive childhood experiences (PCEs), and happy, healthy children. This is at the core of the safe, stable, and...

Mass shootings in America marked a new milestone Saturday with seven separate events in six different states leaving 10 people dead. At a Sweet Sixteen birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, four people between the ages of 17 - 32 were killed, and 28 more were injured. The previous one-day high for mass shootings was January 1, 2023, when there were six. As of April 18, 2023, the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) reported there have been at least 164 mass shootings in the United States leaving more...

Alexander Reddy, who's friend's little sister is Hallie Scruggs, pays respects at a makeshift memorial for victims by the Covenant School building at the Covenant Presbyterian Church following a shooting, in Nashville, Tennessee, March 28, 2023. - A heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack at a private elementary school in Nashville on March 27, before being shot dead by police. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI-AFP By Jeremy...

A kindergarten class at Mott Haven Academy Charter School. Photo by MacKenna Lewis. By Madison Hunt, The Imprint, April 16, 2023 Each weekday, students at a Bronx elementary school pass a rainbow-colored mural dotted with flowers and butterflies on the way to the front office. Outside their classrooms, every teacher they pass offers a quick hug or a high-five. And there’s music. On a school day earlier this year, trumpets and flutes blasted Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the U.S.A.” Mott Haven...

When Antonio Diaz Mendez arrived in the U.S. from Guatemala at age 14, he was already deep in debt and largely on his own.Credit...Kirsten Luce for The New York Times By Hannah Dreier, The New York Times, April 17, 2023 In the spring of 2021, Linda Brandmiller was working at an arena in San Antonio that had been converted into an emergency shelter for migrant children. Thousands of boys were sleeping on cots as the Biden administration grappled with a record number of minors crossing into...

Rodney and Temecia Jackson speak at a news conference at The Afiya Center on 6 April. Photograph: TheAfiyaCenter/Twitter By Edwin Rios, The Guardian, April 14, 2023 Last week at a press conference, Temecia Jackson recalled the moment when police officers and child protection services agents had “stolen” her baby from her Dallas home. Her words, and her story of how her newborn baby was taken from her because she opted to follow a midwife’s recommendation over a physician’s, sparked outrage...

By Tara Parker-Pope and Caitlin Gilbert, Illustration: Juan Bernabeu/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, April 17, 2023 A silent crisis in men’s health is shortening the life spans of fathers, husbands, brothers and sons. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that a lack of sex-specific health research mainly hurts women and gender minorities. While those concerns are real, a closer look at longevity data tells a more complicated story. Across the life span — from infancy to the...

In this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily is joined by Monti Pal, Licensed Professional Counselor and NARM Therapist with a special focus in the emerging field of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. Monti’s vast experience in clinical settings, psychiatric hospitals, and now private practice, have provided her with a unique way of understanding the diversity of people’s healing journeys. Like many inquisitive clinicians, she is reflecting on how to best provide supportive and transformative...

Personal boundaries are the rules we set for ourselves and others to ensure that our needs and wants are respected. Traumatic experiences can have us questioning ourselves - what we need, who we can trust and how we see ourselves. It takes away an integral part of our identity without us being aware it is being altered. Working through your trauma can be a challenging journey. It is important to create the right environment to successfully move through your trauma. Effectively communicating...

NTTAC offers an array of learning events at no cost to participants, including mental health professionals, primary care providers, peers, educators, systems leaders, and other youth-serving professionals. Please join us on April 27, 2023 for our upcoming NO-COST ACEs Event: Joining in this session will be a young adult with lived experience, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, and a community organizer. Together the panelists will bring their varying perspectives to discuss preventing...

Deepen your understanding of gender-responsive and trauma-informed care and build your skill set at this national conference.