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By Beverley Barnett-Jones, Photo: Janine Wiedel Photolibrary/Alamy/Guardian Design, The Guardian, April 3, 2023 D uring pregnancy and then from birth to five years old, the critical foundations for our adult lives are built. Early childhood is the period when we are learning to understand that we have our own thoughts and feelings, and that others do too. This stage in life helps us to build the scaffolding for our future adult wellbeing. To grow well and to be able to cope with the...

Please join us on May 3, 2023 as we welcome Dr. Patti van Eys, Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Consultant for van Eys Mental Health, who will be presenting Thriving or Surviving? Building Everyday Resilience. This webinar is free to the public; however, registration is required. Please see our attached flyer for additional information. We hope you will join us! Registration link: tinyurl.com/may-2-23

When studying suicide in children, unfortunately most epidemiology looks at the factors immediately surrounding the tragic event. Nonetheless there is strong evidence (Association of Childhood Maltreatment With Suicide Behaviors Among Young People A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Ioannis Angelakis, Jennifer L. Austin, Patricia Gooding, JAMA Network Open. 2020;3(8):e2012563. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.12563) that children who have experienced abuse and neglect trauma are up to 4X...

A reunification area for parents to meet their children was established at a nearby church after a shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville on Monday. Credit...Desiree Rios/The New York Times By Emily Cochrane, The New York Times, April 4, 2023 The first 911 calls started coming in just before 10:13 a.m. Teachers and staff members, hiding in rooms, bathrooms and closets across the Covenant School and its church, whispered prayers and pleas for help on the line, children’s voices and...

By Betty Márquez Rosales, Photo: Alison Yin/EdSource, EdSource, March 31, 2023 E ach morning begins the same way for Hattie Tate: She reviews a list of Oakland students at the local juvenile facility who have been booked, released or scheduled for a court appearance. For over a decade, her job as an educator and administrator has been to secure the quickest possible re-enrollment of students into their local schools once they are released from the juvenile facility. But the re-enrollment...

An American flag flies over the historic buildings of King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Photograph: Hal Bergman/Getty Images By Susan Crawford, The Guardian, April 4, 2023 P redictions about how much water is coming vary greatly. Some scientists say we should be planning on three feet of rise by 2050, six feet by 2070 and 10 feet by 2100. Someday, not too long from now, the stories of many current coastal and riverside cities across the US will include sudden plot twists as well as...

Children play tag on Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at Russian Jack Springs Park in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) By Trevor Storrs, Anchorage Daily News, April 2, 2023 Take a moment and remember a time when you felt safe and allowed to be your true self as a kid. For me, it was a regular day of name-calling and bullying. It was so typical I almost became immune to it. But one day, it got past my fictional armor, causing a feeling of darkness. My ninth-grade teacher must have seen it on my face,...

By Amy Joyce, Caitlin Gibson, and Elizabeth Chang, Illustration: Elise Tel/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, March 29, 2023 Parents do what they can to keep their children safe from all sorts of dangers. We lock them in car seats, make them wear helmets. We teach them how to cross a street safely. But many feel powerless when it comes to gun violence. They don’t know if their teen might get caught up in a fight that involves a gun instead of a fist. They don’t know if their child...

Our beloved friend and former PACEs Connection staff member, Cissy White, died peacefully in Weymouth, MA, on Sunday morning, surrounded by family and friends. This the obituary the family wrote that appeared here . So many people are holding this angel of grace, strength, beauty, intellect, humor, and compassion in their hearts right now, remembering Cissy’s deep kindness and generous, brave heart. She taught us all how to live. Cissy leaves daughter Kai Schildmeier, mother Nancy Atwood and...

In this milestone 100th episode of Transforming Trauma, NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer is joined by Chloé Valdary, public educator, anti-racism activist, and Founder of the Theory of Enchantment program. Theory of Enchantment focuses on bringing compassion to diversity and inclusion training by addressing bigotry with principles and practices based in love and compassion. Chloé has presented Theory of Enchantment to students, school administrators, individuals, and professional...

Community Resilience Initiative (CRI), the inspiration behind the Paper Tigers documentary, is partnering with the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC). For more than a decade, CRI has been providing trauma and resilience training to thousands of organizations across the country. What caught DOC’s eye, however, is CRI’s adherence to emerging neuroscience, specifically the focus on inclusive interactions. “Prisons are inherently stressful environments for both incarcerated...

Almost everyone has adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) of some kind. However, for some, these adverse experiences are severe enough to leave a mark that lasts decades. Unfortunately, many ACEs come with unexpected financial costs. Families that experience trauma or distress may be hit with unaffordable healthcare costs and typically require extra support from medical professionals and therapists. Many who experience difficulties early in life have difficulty with money and may enter a...