Image: Source Since April, 2024, Dana Brown and I have been working as volunteers to keep your social networking site – PACEs Connection – up and running. Gratefully, your donations supported raising $14,859 to pay CrowdStack, the learning management system platform on which PACEs Connection operates, in November, 2024. We are deeply grateful that a longtime PACEs Connection member was able to direct the Langeloth Foundation to make a $10,000 tax-deductible donation toward the total. That...

Table of Contents Introduction Is Our Distress Tolerance Decreasing? Defining Tolerance in the Workplace Tolerance Practice, Step One: Pause and Assess Key Questions to Ask Yourself Tolerance Practice, Step Two: Take the Best Approach for You Draw Clearer Boundaries Learn to Skillfully Disagree Practice Radical Acceptance Your Workplace Tolerance Practice is Unique to You Growing Pains and Uncertainty Caution: A Word on Weaponizing Conclusion Discussion Guide Introduction A note before...

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Please join top researchers and leaders in the movement to create Neuro Nurturing Ecosystems in support of maternal, infant, family and community health TODAY, March 14th, for an information-packed webinar co-sponsored, in part, by PACEs Connection and its fiscal sponsor, the National Prevention Science Coalition. REGISTER now to attend this free webinar, the second in a series that has received scores of five-star reviews. National leaders in early relational health, health equity, and more...

Welcome to a six-part conversation about psychological safety in your workplace with questions inspired by Amy Edmondson , author of The Fearless Organization, and Peter Block , author of Community: The Structure of Belonging. What are your thoughts? Follow and join the conversation at - www.linkedin.com/in/johnpengel

It is great to the this wonderful site live again. Thanks to everyone who struggled to save it - especially Carey Sipp. This interruption is a strong message we need to give more support to PACES Connection and find more funding.

Here are some lofty goals and a possible means to achieve them. Reduced child abuse Reduced domestic violence Improved school discipline Reduced trauma Improved mental health Improved physical health Reduced food insecurity Reduced poverty Reduced homelessness Reduced crime Reduced substance abuse Improved educational outcomes Reduced narcissism Reduced bullying Improved empathy Reduced suicides An entirely new kind of parenting education that reaches everyone, everywhere, all the time could...

If you are someone who cares about the children -- in particular the positive future of children this is a discussion for you! It is designed for those who are a leader, practitioner, funder, or advocate you will want to join us. It will bring together dedicated people in healthcare, government, social services, education, and community organizations who want to move beyond theory to actionable strategies for large-scale system change! Learn more and register here: ...

Congratulations to Dr. Beverly Samaways from the UK on publishing her Churchill Report with learnings from her trip to the US to study trauma-informed care (TIC) and youth with developmental disabilities. She did extensive interviews with those supporting the implementation of TIC with IDD organizations including the Traumatic Stress Institute. You can download the report here.

Why U.S. Maternal Mortality is WORSE Than You Think Homicide is the leading cause of maternal mortality, we just don't count it Jeremy Nay, AMERICAN INEQUALITY blog, March 5, 2025 Today’s article is about how America is dramatically under counting maternal mortality. This is because we fail to include the #1 cause of deaths for pregnant women and new mothers: homicide (usually associated with domestic violence). Homicide is the leading cause of maternal mortality Nationally, there were...

Original Investigation March 3, 2025 Rates of Population-Level Child Sexual Abuse After a Community-Wide Preventive Intervention Jennie G. Noll, PhD 1,2 ; Johnny Felt, PhD 3 ; Justin Russotti, PhD 1,2 ; et al Kate Guastaferro, PhD 4 ; Sunshine Day, MS 5 ; Zachary Fisher, PhD 5 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA Pediatr. Published online March 3, 2025. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.6824...