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The elementary school principal routinely broke into tears. At Wednesday afternoon meetings of the Creating Trauma Sensitive Arizona Schools work group, a committee of the Arizona ACE Consortium , the leader of a high-need, inner-city K-5 school frequently wept as she talked about the trauma her students carried into the classroom and the ways it percolated throughout her campus: in lagging test scores, behavior problems, even teacher retention. The other committee members became her...

Have you been hearing all the buzz about Dr. Mona Delahooke's new book, Beyond Behaviors ? In my opinion, it’s the best new book of 2019. Dr. Delahooke is a practicing pediatric clinical psychologist of thirty years. She is gaining critical acclaim and grassroots support for challenging the prevalent and pervasive behaviorist bias in schools. As a result, she is an emerging authority in the growing revolution to re-interpret children's misbehavior. She highlights much of the books' content...

By Chris Caraveo, Independent News Media, August 12, 2019 Children are the future adults of the world, and some countries are doing more to help their youth better than others. August is Child Support Awareness Month, and with the U.S. having the seventh highest child poverty rate among economically-developed countries, personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children. Arizona has the 11th most underprivileged children, per the...

Please see the attached flyer for the National Attach conference coming to Scottsdale this October. Great national conference coming to the valley this year!

By Laura Singleton The Independent , Jun 4, 2019 SNOWFLAKE – Navajo County residents, including children, face a number of serious problems that affect the county’s health and well-being. The problems facing children in particular were the focus of a community forum held May 20 in Snowflake, and attended by 135 community leaders. The problems were identified in the Navajo County Public Health District published the results of their 2018 Community Health Assessment (CHA) which described the...

ACEs Connection presents, "Starting & Growing Resilient Communities: Online & In Real Life (IRL)", an interactive webinar training series focused on developing existing and potential online community managers and IRL ACEs champions. This series is dedicated to providing insight into creating sustainable and effective online & IRL ACEs initiatives. In this fifth session, we’ll talk about why it's so critical to tell your story far and wide. This incudes how to blog and share...

HERE this NOW is proud to bring its Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference to California, October 23 – 25, 2019, at the stunning Temecula Creek Inn in Temecula, CA (2 hours north of San Diego; 3-hours south of Los Angeles). This is not a typical conference. Participants will be actively engaged in an immersive experience, rendering more growth - personal and professional. Five diversely skilled and experienced pioneers of trauma-informed schools change are coming together for first time, to...

Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday signed into law a bill to create a task force that will investigate and gather data about missing and murdered Indigenous women. The committee will serve as a way to assess the scope of the problem and identify methods to address cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, or MMNWG. Ducey tweeted that he was proud to sign House Bill 2570 , adding, "the crisis of missing and murdered and indigenous women and girls must be addressed." {To read...

Editor's note: In addition to an overview of how states are spending federal opioid dollars, the Bipartisan Policy Center report also includes 5 state in-depth briefs—Arizona, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Ohio and Tennessee. News release Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Washington, D.C. – In 2017, more than 70,000 people in the United States died from a drug overdose, with almost 50,000 of these deaths involving an opioid. Americans are now at greater risk of dying from an opioid overdose than a car...

This summer Indian Country Today will open a newsroom in Phoenix at the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University. Indian Country Today is on the move. It has a new legal framework — and soon will have a new newsroom and partnership with Arizona State University. Last month the news organization officially incorporated as Indian Country Today, LLC., a non-profit news company, owned by the non-profit arm of the National Congress of American Indians. The new legal structure codifies...

Association for Training on Trauma and Attachment in Children Drop by Phoenix Children's Hospital on April 24th anytime between 7:30-9:30 AM for breakfast, networking and discussion. Learn about ATTACh and have an impact on the the 31st annual conference scheduled for this October. This event is free. Phoenix Children's Hospital 2632 N 20th st. Phoenix AZ . RSVP to attachorg@gmail.com

April 26, 2019 B U R T O N B A R R L I B R A R Y 1 2 2 1 N . C E N T R A L A V E P H X , A Z 8 5 0 0 4 P U L L I U M A U D I T O R I U M 9 : 3 0 A M T O 4 : 0 0 P M Cultivating a Culture of Equity- Trauma Informed Primary Prevention #1 Arizona's Youth Are In Crises #2 Trauma Informed Primary Prevention (TIPP) #3 Equity in Schools & the Workplace #4 Call Me Trauma Informed www.eventbrite.com/e/cultivating-a-culture-of-equity-tippcertification- tickets-56084751000