Research into positive childhood experiences (PCEs) shows how PCEs can mitigate the impact of adversity in childhood and promote healing and recovery. When collaborating with families, we have the opportunity to model, discuss and shine the light on PCEs. We will cover: · What are PCEs · The impact of PCEs · Strategies to promote PCEs using the social-ecological model >>Register Here<< This event is part of a series by Tend Collective , a trauma-informed care consultancy.

The group will help end shame spirals, help members feel less alone, label potential work abuse or neglect, and inspire members to identify their needs and take action steps towards a more fulfilling work life. Details: 8 Wednesdays from 3/27/24 to 5/15/24 @11 AM ET 45 minute calls Well-structured and guided by an experienced facilitator Small group Join to: process your experience build confidence strategize your next move >>Register here<< This group is for anyone: feeling...

For many organizations, the inability to recognize the ways that sociocultural trauma is activated becomes the missing link in otherwise genuine efforts to create a healthy workplace environment. In this webinar, we’ll: + define socio-cultural trauma + learn how it becomes activated at work + learn how to create a truly inclusive community at your workplace >>Register Here<< This event is part of a weekly series by Tend Collective , a trauma-informed care consultancy. @Donielle...

Consent-based work cultures create empowered, enthusiastic teams who take the initiative to co-create the best possible thriving work environment. Unfortunately, many workplaces are stuck in old authoritarian ways of coercion. Join us to: + Identify workplace abuse, neglect, and coercive control + Learn tools to improve morale resulting in higher productivity and staff retention + Understand the health science of fear >>Register here<< All who register will receive a link to the...

Join us to co-create the world we want to live in! At Tend Collective, our mission is to become communities and workplaces where people feel valued and cared for. Join us for our inaugural book club: Restoring the Kinship Worldview with Dr. Darcia Narvaez, who will join us for a Q&A facilitated by Alison Cebulla. >>Register here<< Wed, March 20, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT Join us to co-create the world we want to live in! At Tend Collective, a trauma-informed care and...

Your organization may be organized around trauma--actively stressing out employees to toxic levels. Learn how to change course with Bri Twombly, LMSW, trauma expert. >>Register here<< Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT Stressed organizations lead to stressed staff who are often unable to respond with care and compassion to staff and families. Join us to: + Understand how TI systems support caring and compassionate environments. + Learn tools to improve the morale and...

Learn about why “attunement” has become the latest mental health buzzword with @Alison Cebulla , MPH. >>Register here<< Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PT We’ll go over: + The brain science of attunement + How to prevent toxic stress and burnout in employees + Easy management tools you can start using immediately to boost morale and productivity This is part of the free community event series by Tend Collective .

The group will help end shame spirals, help members feel less alone, label potential work abuse or neglect, and inspire members to identify their needs and take action steps towards a more fulfilling work life. Details: 8 Wednesdays from 1/17/24 to 3/6/24 @12pm PT / 3pm ET 45 minute calls Well-structured and guided by an experienced facilitator Small group Join to: process your experience build confidence strategize your next move >>Register here<< This group is for anyone:...

The group will help end shame spirals, help members feel less alone, label potential work abuse or neglect, and inspire members to identify their needs and take action steps towards a more fulfilling work life. Details: 8 Fridays from 12/1/23 to 2/2/24 (no meetings over the holidays 12/22 and 12/29) 45 minute calls Well-structured and guided by an experienced facilitator Small group Join to: process your experience build confidence strategize your next move Register here:...

When Anne Sherry and I started recording our podcast interviews in May of 2021, launching Season 1 on September 17th, 2021, we didn't know what would people would think about how often we laughed about trauma. Kids almost burning down the whole house trying to make cinnamon toast while home alone after school? Insanely scary and yet, hilarious...why would parents set this situation up for their children?? When did this seem like a good idea? Kids coming up with elaborate schemes to watch...

What we may want to say about peak therapy and declining mental health in America is that the privilege of self-actualization, while including ever-widening circles of participants, does not make up for the larger impact made by economic hardship and feeling chronically unsafe while a small percentage of the population hoards the vast majority of the wealth.

Join us for our June CCWT Speaker Series event! Inclusive Child Wellness With panelists Justice Roe Williams, Kanoelani Patterson, and John Bridger Join us for a discussion with the contributors to the newly published book, Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What it Means to Be Fit in American Culture. The authors explore their diverse experiences as trainers, educators, and movement instructors who hold BIPOC, trans, queer, fat, neurodiverse,...

In this episode, hosts Anne and Alison talk to relationship expert Jayson Gaddis on his path to healing his childhood wounds through the teachings of his romantic relationships. He shares the moment he stopped viewing himself as the victim in his failed relationships and started to take ownership of his life and responsibility for his growth. He's creating a relational world in which people care how their actions impact the way people feel. It's a world we want to live in! We discuss...

Join us for our March CCWT Speaker Series Event! Trauma-Informed Transformations in Schools Film Screening of Paper Tigers + Speaker Talk & Discussion with Jim Sporleder Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET >>Register Here<< Paper Tigers follows a year in the life of a high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a model for how to break the cycle of poverty, violence, and disease that affects families. Jim Sporleder retired...

Join us to hear how historical trauma impacts American society, including the socio-political landscape of today as well as the health of Americans. Ingrid will show us the links between historical trauma and the current mental health crisis, social determinants of health, and the disparities and inequities present in our communities today. Thursday, February 16th, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET >> Register Here<< Event is free and open to the public. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs...

Latchkey Urchins & Friends Podcast starts the year off by talking about sobriety, toxic intensity, cycles of trauma and addiction, and making the choice to turn around family trauma by healing at all costs. We interview PACEs Connection's Carey Sipp about her journey to Turn Around Family Trauma. Show Notes. Carey Smith Sipp is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at PACEs Connection and a disrupter of multi-generational cycles of trauma and addiction. PACEs = Positive and Adverse...

Join us for our inaugural Speaker Series event with the Center on Child Wellbeing and Trauma! Tuesday, January 24 th , 2023 from 12-1pm ET Register Here. Event is free and open to the public. Learn about Elaine’s Community Resiliency Model to prevent and heal trauma, supporting our mission to build safe, trusting, engaged, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and healthy communities where children and families thrive. Elaine Miller-Karas is the Co-Founder and Director of Innovation of the Trauma...

In this episode, hosts Anne and Alison interview Cynthia Perez, LCSW, a Chicana therapist, author, public speaker, and Inner Child Hype Woman. We learn how she came to do this work of hyping up our inner child, how to do the work, and why acknowledging our inner child is so important (the pain is not too great! We can do it!). We discuss social justice-informed therapy and healing, the work of feeling self and historical pain, and Cynthia’s Chicana identity. Click here for episode show...

Our World Mental Health Day episode is a conversation with Philip Butler, Ph.D., about the future of mental health care: one that puts healing in each person's own hands. We talk about the barriers to accessing healing and mental health care, especially for Black people. Dr. Butler's solution is to put the Internal Family Systems therapy methodology in everyone's hands through his Seekr Bot app so that we can access healing anytime anywhere. “The Seekr Project is part of a larger plan to...

We are so excited to launch Season 2 with author, psychologist, and former Mister Rogers' Neighborhood ventriloquist Susan Linn. We interview Dr. Susan Linn about her new book, Who’s Raising the Kids: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children. It turns out we've all been indoctrinated from a young age to value buying things due to the United States' lax child protection policies for advertising. Here's Susan Linn on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood early in her career. The show ran from...

Latchkey Urchins are kids who grew up unsupervised or without attentive emotional care. Latchkey Urchins & Friends Podcast delves into trauma and childhood emotional neglect topics weekly through survivor and expert interviews. We bring a touch of humor to these normally heavy topics—laughing about life's never-ending struggles, even as we quest to create a future free from violence. In this week's episode, cohosts Anne and Alison (me!) interview @Adrian Alexander and @Juleus Ghunta ,...

That seemingly benign phrase, “Dance as if no one is watching,” pops into my head. It’s inspirational, right? To let everything go. To surrender. It should be freeing and relaxing. So why the fudge does it sound so terrifying? Why, instead of letting go, does my whole body tense up at the suggestion?

Dear PACEs Connection Community, Today I'm celebrating just shy of three years as an employee at PACEs Connection as I say farewell as an employee. I started here in May of 2019 to fulfill my grad school practicum requirement and was so grateful to be brought on full-time in November of 2019 as a Community Facilitator. It's been an honor to get to meet so many of you in the PACEs Connection community. I loved meeting with community leaders throughout the US and the world to hear how you all...

Yesterday I logged onto Goodreads, the website that tracks the books you and your friends are reading, and I noticed that an old college classmate had marked a book "to-read": What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo. "Ooh a new trauma book?" I thought, my interest piqued. Turns out this book was very new—the newest. It was released on the auspicious 2/2/22, mere days ago. I wondered if her story and insights would be boring since I've been spending at...

I was thrilled to interview my colleague here at PACEs Connection, @Donielle Prince (PACEs Connection Staff) , for Episode 22 of Latchkey Urchins & Friends Podcast . My podcast co-host Anne Sherry and I interview Dr. Donielle Prince about holidays in the United States like Presidents day and the legacy of historical racial trauma and violence which complicates celebrating said holidays. We talk about the messiness of engaging with social justice and racial equity work and how to stay in...

Last week my mom texted me that a police officer had just stopped by her office and asked her to call the coroner's office. "It's about Kevin," she said. My heart sank. We'd been trying and trying the past three-and-a-half years to get Kevin the treatment he desperately needed. He had symptoms of so many illnesses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, borderline personality disorder, bipolar. He'd been in and out of jail, homelessness, and sober livings since relapsing on methamphetamine...

By Mariah Cooper, Campaign US, January 20, 2022 In five years, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection’s global tool Project Arachnid, which detects images of child sex abuse material (CSAM) on online platforms, has removed six million CSAM images and videos. The PSA “Unwanted Followers” spotlights how CSAM can hurt a survivor long after the abuse took place. The spot follows a young girl throughout different stages in her life. The viewer is introduced to her before she is abused and...

By Salma M. Abdalla, Gregory H. Cohen, Shailesh Tamrakar, et al., Photo: Unsplash, Frontiers in Psychiatry, November 25, 2021 Introduction: Following mass traumatic events, greater exposure to traditional media like television (TV) about the event is associated with higher burden of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, we know little about how social media exposure, combined with other media sources, shapes the population burden of PTSD following mass traumatic events. Materials...

It is great to see that my former roommate from when I lived in NYC in 2014, Dr. Jet Vonk, now a researcher at Columbia University, just published research on child maltreatment in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 299, 15 February 2022, Pages 559-567. I am so grateful this research is being done. May 2022 be filled with such research! Although disheartening, we can only change the problem once we see it clearly. Please click here to read the study. Available until Feb 13, 2022.

Latchkey Urchins & Friends is a podcast by me* and my co-host Anne Sherry, a therapist. We explore different topics within The Nurturance Void, the space left when we experienced childhood emotional neglect. Childhood emotional neglect happens between parents and their kids, within families, across generations, in communities, in nations, and in policies and programs. We seek to heal through humor and holding space. Each week a guest shares their childhood emotional neglect stories,...

By Julia Preston and Ariel Goodman, Photo: Jodi Hilton/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, December 15, 2021 O ne tenant saw an amber glow flickering through her bedroom window. Another, awakened just after midnight by frantic shouts, put his hand on the wall and felt heat. The side of their apartment building was engulfed in flames. They seized their children and fled down darkened stairways. “There was so much smoke we felt like we were drowning,” tenant Lucia Mateo Pérez...

By Michaelle Bond, Photo: Jose F. Moreno, The Inquirer, December 13, 2021 Black Philadelphians will need both short-term support and long-term solutions to help them become homeowners in the aftermath of the pandemic and as racial homeownership gaps persist, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Because of entrenched inequities in employment and income, owning a home is relatively more expensive for Black homeowners than for white homeowners, according to an October report...

By Gabrielle Bruney, Image: Showtime Documentary Films, Jezebel, December 3, 2021 “I never wanted to lose my virginity, but it just happened,” says one of the teenaged subjects of the new documentary Cusp . “The whole time I was like, ‘Fuck, what am I doing? Okay, we’re going to say, ‘No.’ One, two, three—.’” She cuts herself off, making a noise that sounds as though a word has made its way out of her throat only to be caught against closed lips. “I just couldn’t say no,” she concludes . “I...

By Catherine E. Schoichet, Photo: Brianna Soukup/Portland Press Herald/Getty Images, CNN US, December 7, 2021 Deqa Dhalac saw it in their faces when she started campaigning. Some people, she says, seemed scared to open their doors when she knocked. Others saw her hijab and assumed she didn't speak English. But Dhalac kept knocking and telling her story. And she says a lot has changed since those days back in 2018, when she first ran for City Council in South Portland, Maine -- and won. On...

By Campbell Robertson, Photo: Michelle Gustafson/The New York Times, The New York Times, December 1, 2021 Early in the November school board meeting, a few of the departing members made farewell remarks, talking of things that they believed still need addressing: more special education programs, mental health initiatives, a program for high school students to take college classes. There was a long list, but over the past two years other things had gotten in the way. When the meeting opened...