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(Originally posted at ctipp.org) By Laura Braden, CTIPP's Director of Communications As we stand at the threshold of 2025, the movement for trauma-informed policy and practice faces an unprecedented opportunity. With new leadership taking office at every level of government – from City Councils to Congress – we have a unique moment to advance policies that can prevent trauma and foster healing in communities across America. And transformation requires more than just good timing. It demands...

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/federal-policy-debates-in-2025-carry-high-stakes Federal Policy Debates in 2025 Carry High Stakes Proposals in recent House Republican budget plans, the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and past Trump Administration budgets call for massive disinvestment in a wide range of federally funded services and supports. If even some of these proposals are enacted, more families will struggle to pay their...

The TiD Society announces the release of Trauma-informed Design: A Framework for Designers, Architects, and Other Practitioners!

If perfectionism is the enemy of good, compassionate, flexible striving for excellence may be the wiser approach.

To read more of Echo's blog post, please click here; Trauma-Informed Journalism . The power dynamic between journalist and trauma survivor is inherently unequal. Unlike survivors, journalists know and control the reporting process. They ask the questions, choose the quotes, and frame the story—often without any input from the survivor. Power and control (“agency”) are taken from the survivor during the traumatic experience; therefore, trauma experts agree, restoring agency is essential for...

Launch of the "Power Of the Mind" Conferences. Do join us 💃🏽🥳🎉🥳❤️ Join the Movement by clicking the link below and getting yourself a ticket/s for Conference Launch. https://form.jotform.com/243490533526558 Be a part of the work we are doing. God bless you!🥰❤️ #comealivemovement #jointhemovement #shareyourstory #speakupagainstabuse #speakupspeakout #standupforyourself #foryourinspiration #foryouシ

Applications are open for the 2025 TraumaWise Summit Series! These are virtual summits for people who want to increase their trauma wisdom, compassion, and capacity for activating sustainable healing and systems change in their spaces and places. We are looking for people with lived-experience to bring their trauma wisdom and skills to the TraumaWise Community! TraumaWise equips change agents to transform broken systems by activating trauma-informed communities. Our virtual summits (which...

WE HAD A GREAT MEETING YESTERDAY!!! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR CONTRIBUTING! Thank you ROAR community stakeholders for your continued commitment to building individual and collective resilience in Robeson County!!! We have lots to ROAR about this month!!! READ THIS NEWSLETTER IN FULL TO FIND OUT ABOUT SOME IMPORTANT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE SHARED AT THIS WEEK'S MEETING! For additional information about ROAR or any of the information shared within this email, please...

A special thank you to Lorilee Binstock for her publication and re-publication of my posts. In her online journal, Authentic Insider , she share a myriad of articles on trauma and its amelioration. Well worth perusing regularly. In her May issue, linked here, she shares an article I wrote (and illustrated) on trauma art and the many ways it leads to healing. I often do art when working with groups. See:...

Acevedo-Garcia, D., McArdle, N., Shafer, L., & Noelke, C. The State of Racial/Ethnic Equity in Children’s Neighborhood Opportunity: First Findings from the Child Opportunity Index 3.0. diversitydatakids.org and Brandeis University. https://www.diversitydatakids.org/research-library/state-racialethnic-equity-childrens-neighborhood-opportunity The Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) has integrated the Child Opportunity Index into its Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS), a vast...

Workshop after workshop asks people to check off their ACE's. Then, presenters tell you about your odds of having all sorts of adverse, unhealthy, or worrisome outcomes. You face doom without mitigation, as the story is told. As a clinician and behavioral scientist, one needs to take a sip of water and some steady breathing before resigning one's self or to affected individuals to the dung heap of life. I recall the first time I heard a breathless clinician talking about ACE's about...