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Five Minutes with Chris Haughee: Helping Kids Heal covenantcompanion.com /2018/04/16/five-minutes-with-chris-haughee-helping-kids-heal/ By Guest Author April 16, 2018 Chris Haughee Chris Haughee is a Covenant chaplain working at Intermountain Residential, an intensive residential program for children who demonstrate behavioral challenges with campuses in Helena and Kalispell, Montana. Chris and his family attend Headwaters Covenant Church in Helena. He writes about the ministry at...

CASTAÑER, Puerto Rico — Helicopters from the power company buzz across the skies of this picturesque valley, ferrying electrical poles on long wires to workers standing on steep hillsides. The people of Castañer, an isolated village in Puerto Rico’s central mountains, watch warily. Crews have come and gone, and people living along the mountain roads don’t expect to get power until late summer, if ever. Power finally started flowing to the center of town last month, but the electrical grid...

WASHINGTON — The number of new monthly prescriptions for medications that treat opioid addiction nearly doubled over the past two years, according to new data, while prescriptions for opioid painkillers continued to decline. The changing calculus reflects a stepping up of efforts among policymakers and the medical establishment to address the nation’s opioid epidemic, which is killing more than 115 people every day. But it also underscores questions about whether some pain patients are now...

The Eviction Lab at Princeton University released a new publicly available dataset with aggregated counts and rates of eviction filings and judgments across the United States. The researchers sought landlord/tenant records from courts in each state and other data providers, removed irrelevant cases, and aggregated them into counts by state, county, and other geographic levels. The 13 states that provided court data are Alabama, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri,...

Almost all of the threats in our schools, like in Parkland Florida, are internal, not external. Adding school resource officers, metal detectors, and interior design modifications are all valid and real solutions for protection. As we are debating and looking at school safety options, we need to dig deeper into the underlying issues that aren’t being adequately addressed — namely, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). ACEs are stressful or even traumatic experiences that disrupt the safe,...

In recent years, implicit bias has emerged as something of a buzzword for talking about racial justice in America. Implicit bias is a very real phenomenon and certainly affects wide swaths of American life. Its role in health care has been evident at least since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s influential book , “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” in 2002. Implicit bias is a problem of cognitive “mind bugs” and unconscious stereotypes.

Provides clinicians, counselors, and other helpers with insights on recognizing and dealing with the most difficult crises and turning points that occur in therapy with traumatized children and families. Each webinar features a scene where the youth and caregiver are actors playing fictional characters, but the therapists are real. Viewers will see how therapists handle critical turning points during the therapy session to help families safely heal from the severe emotional and interpersonal...

In the early hours one morning this February, with night still clinging to the horizon and cool air lingering over the surrounding strawberry fields, a couple headed to drop off their three children at daycare before taking the father to work for the day. They noticed flashing lights from an unmarked vehicle behind them on the country road in California’s Central Coast and pulled over. Less than an hour later, the father, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, would be on his way to San...

I had such an amazing chat with author Kathy Brous- Don't Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder about her hero’s journey after discovering some intense pain from early childhood to finding true freedom and wholeness through healing her childhood trauma and attachment disorder. If you are struggling with relationships, this is a must see interview!

“We had no clue whatsoever what it would turn out to be” Jim Sporleder, former Principal, remarks as he looks back on Lincoln Alternative High School, the growing movement of CRI’s trauma-informed community initiative, and the production of the documentary Paper Tigers . Jim’s story is an iconic one. In fact, many have inevitably heard of Jim’s work if they have seen Paper Tigers ; it chronicles the profound impact on Lincoln Alternative High School as Jim, the staff, and the community...

Hi ACEs Connection -- This is the first time I have posted a blog here, and I'm not sure of the process, but I thought you might like to hear about this conference....so here goes.... By definition, a person with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – or any of the Dissociative Disorders – is likely to have a high ACEs score, but I seldom see discussion of ACEs science in the DID literature. On the other hand, dissociation is such a brilliant and creative coping mechanism that it often...

As a society, we need to accord motherhood the significance it rightly deserves. Modern women have to understand that though it is financially viable pursuing a full-time career alongside motherhood.