Drive Impactful Change in Your Work Environment The Trauma-Resilient Professional Certification is designed for educators, social workers, mental health providers, and community leaders who want to develop an understanding on the impact of trauma, build resilience, and foster trusted relationships with those they serve. Please click here Trauma-Resilient Professional Certification | Trauma Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) to learn more. Attached, please find attached a 3-page overview.

The Trauma-Resilient Healthcare Professional Certification is designed for healthcare professionals, social workers, and mental health providers who want to develop an understanding on the impact of trauma, build resilience, and foster trusted relationships with those they serve. Please click here, Trauma-Resilient Healthcare Professionals Certification | Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) to learn more. TREC's Individual Trauma-Resilient Healthcare Professional Certification is...

Please click here, Trauma-Resilient Parent Certification | Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) , for the free certification. As a public service, TREC is sharing this opportunity for any parent/guardian globally. With Our vision is to cultivate a more compassionate world comprised of resilient people and their communities where equitable and sustainable practices are commonplace within all public and private institutions and systems, we invite you to join our TREC ecosystem.

To read more of Alex Tabet and Lisa Cavazuti article, please click here. President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. "I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did," Biden said in strident remarks. "It's long overdue." The president's apology, on...

Adobe Stock/ Good Studio To read more of Elaine Smookler's article, please click here. After everyone has gone home and you are left with just you, life—which at this moment might feel like it is clearly already against you—could also feel like it has booby-trapped the way forward with the gulp of yet another “Oh no, not that!” As if you haven’t been through enough, you might suddenly find yourself staring into a searing interrogator’s light reminding you that the rest of life is now on...

Come join our next San Diego Trauma-Informed Guide Team (SDTIGT) meeting on Friday, April 5th, from 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm. We are a hybrid meeting via Zoom and in-person at the San Diego Center for Children. Join in-person at the San Diego Center for Children located at 3002 Armstrong Street, San Diego, CA 92111. Please sign in at their front office. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89760652302 Meeting ID: 897 6065 2302 Call mobile +1(669)444-9171

The culmination of thousands of hours from our Trauma-Resilient Educational Communities (TREC) team in developing our TREC Model, we launched TRECeducation.com website on Thursday, January 25, 2024. Craig Beswick, Vice-President, School Development Division, Lifelong Learning Administration Corporation (LLAC) opened up our exciting launch, which was hosted by the beautiful UCSD Park & Market in downtown San Diego. Craig warmly welcomed over 200 attendees to our Awards Ceremony and TREC...

To read more of OLIVIA OLANDER , MACKENZIE WILKES , KATY O'DONNELL , DANIEL PAYNE and RUTH READER article, please click here. Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating bizarre and deceptive images. It’s already humming along in unseen and unregulated ways that are touching millions of Americans who may never have heard of ChatGPT, Bard or other buzzwords. A growing share of businesses, schools, and medical professionals have quietly embraced...

Chief Ousamequin shares a peace pipe with Plymouth Governor John Carver. California State Library To read more Claire Bugos' article, please click here. In Thanksgiving pageants held at schools across the United States, children don headdresses colored with craft-store feathers and share tables with classmates wearing black construction paper hats. It’s a tradition that pulls on a history passed down through the generations of what happened in Plymouth: local Native Americans welcomed the...

Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash It's time to make Thanksgiving purely about giving gratitude. To read more of Annie Reneau's article, please click here. As families across the U.S. start prepping for family gatherings and feasts of turkey and mashed potatoes, people are engaging in the usual debates over the origins of Thanksgiving . Kids in American schools are learning various versions of the Pilgrims in Plymouth story, most of which are overly simplistic and many of which are flat-out...

Credit: ManifestWorks To read more of Michaela Hass' article, please click here. Four years ago, Leslie was on the edge of homelessness. “Everything was going wrong. I was sleeping on the floor of relatives’ living rooms with my two kids,” she remembers. Then, Hollywood called. It wasn’t a talent scout or a casting director that brought her into the industry. It was ManifestWorks , a unique program that guides people from homelessness, incarceration and foster care directly into entry-level...

"And while men’s loneliness certainly requires intervention, the real question is who, exactly, is expected to carry the load of care? ILLUSTRATION BY UNDREY/GETTY IMAGES To read more of Sara Youngblood Gregory's article, please click here. In 2017, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy penned an essay for the Harvard Business Review , where he named loneliness a growing health epidemic. This loneliness was so dire, Dr. Murthy argued, it could shorten a lifespan by as much as smoking 15...

A look back from a future in which racism is no more—inspiring us to start taking positive action today. "It's the year 2050… and racism has ended." Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism , Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact—not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation. Written for...

To read more of Kelly Wendorf's article, please click here. dis·mem·ber·ment noun 1. the action of cutting off a person’s or animal’s limbs. 2. the action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization. Most of us grew up learning that our body is a flesh and blood object, made up of organs, bones, veins and arteries, and encased in muscle and skin. We learned it is something to be researched, objectified, judged, used, harmed, exercised, fed, built, and discussed as if it is...

Visit the website: Not Our Native Daughters In the whispers of the wind, a tale unfolds, Of missing souls, their stories left untold, A haunting lament, through the ages it flies, Of indigenous women and children, lost in the skies. Mystic breezes carry their names on their breath, Echoing across lands, whispering the depth, Of sorrow and loss, of shattered dreams, Where silence reigns, and justice teems. The wind's mournful wail, a solemn refrain, For the daughters and sisters, who can't...

A group of disabled and non-disabled people of various races, ethnicities, genders and ages pose for a photo in front of Capitol Hill. Photo Credit: Ameya Okamoto To read more of Dr. Alonzo Plough's article, please click here. People with disabilities deserve the same rights and opportunities as everyone, including access to affordable housing, employment opportunities, safe transportation, quality education and healthcare. And disability rights advocates have tirelessly fought to uproot...

Register HERE for the free audio. Many discussions and debates around race claim to adopt a color-blind approach, intending to treat everyone equally. But equality is not the same as equity. And many claims to color-blindness nevertheless subtly reinforce the central tenet of white-body supremacy: that the white body is the norm, and the standard against which all other bodies are to be measured. In this eye-opening audio session, renowned expert on race and trauma Resmaa Menakem shares why...

Photograph: Noah Berger/AP © Provided by The Guardian To read more of Maanvi Singh's article, please click here. In early January, the small Central Valley community of Planada was one of the first towns engulfed by a wave of back-to-back storms that hit California this winter. Amid relentless rains, a creek that runs past the town broke through an ageing levee. Flood waters swamped the town and surrounding agricultural fields. About half the homes were damaged, and many remain in various...