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In college, it's hard to learn while you're hungry. That's a message Temple University higher education policy professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has been getting throughout her career. She self-identifies as a "scholar activist." She has advocated for free college, and in 2013 she founded the Wisconsin HOPE Lab , which aims to turn research about low-income students into policies that improve equitable outcomes in post-secondary education. [For more on this story by LAUREL DALRYMPLE, go to...

Since 2015, Tulane University professors Stacy Overstreet, Courtney Baker and Kathleen Whalen have collaborated with a team of community partners to determine how six local schools can better support trauma-exposed students through an innovative study called Safe Schools NOLA . The study will help school administrators create an action plan to support those students. “Nationally, approximately 67 percent of kids have been exposed to at least one adverse childhood experience,” said...

Chicago is making strides in getting more black and brown people on bikes, but the Windy City isn’t moving fast enough, according to local activist Oboi Reed. His solution: “bike libraries.” Reed is the co-founder of Slow Roll Chicago, an offshoot of Slow Roll Detroit. Both groups host community rides to get more people of color cycling. In December 2017, Reed resigned from Slow Roll to focus on his new nonprofit, Equiticity , with an expanded mandate to tackle racial equity, increased...

The hard work of Native advocates and leaders to call attention to the ongoing problem of missing and murdered Native women in the United States may finally be gaining traction. In states across the country, lawmakers are giving the issue more attention in recent months. As reported by Rewire.News , a December 2017 Office of the Inspector General report revealed damning information regarding the Department of Justice’s failure to meet some of the most basic mandates of the Tribal Law and...

Imagine you are the tightfisted potentate of a small republic, plotting the least expensive way to care for subjects in fragile health who depend on your beneficence. You could watch while your subjects who are elderly or disabled (or both) scramble to find and pay for healthy meals. And you could open your checkbook each time one of these subjects lapses into a health crisis that calls for a trip to a hospital's emergency department in an ambulance. But you might just try feeding these...

A month ago on a college campus in Newburgh, N.Y., an unusual group gathered to talk about gun violence: community leaders, social service providers, the police chief, the district attorney, a staff member of the United States attorney’s office — and 11 of the most dangerous individuals in Newburgh. A few years ago, this town of 30,000 had the highest rates of violent crime and homicide in New York State. The gathering — the seventh since October 2015 — was part of the city’s response: its...

A federal court has ruled, for the first time, that the federal government is obligated to meet the mental health and wellness needs of Native American students as part of its educational obligations to those children. The families of nine children, who are members of the Havasupai tribe, filed a lawsuit against the federal government in January 2017 for failing students who attend Havasupai Elementary, located in the remote village of Supai in the Grand Canyon. The federal government had...

Read more of this article by Kathleen Martens in the APTN National News .

I'm so grateful to have received seven 5-star reviews on Amazon of my book “Don't Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder” at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1976120128#customerReviews Samples: “ The world needs this book! Until now, all the books on this I've seen are by therapists… I've wanted to hear what it was like from behind the eyeballs of someone who has done the work.” “ Full of the scientific why of trauma... A must read. Am buying copies for friends.” “ As an...

Without music, I'd have been dead long ago. So I'm especially happy that several reviewers of my book "Don't Try This Alone: The Silent Epidemic of Attachment Disorder" have picked up on the role of music in my healing. “I'm glad to read about the role of music in healing that this book describes,” writes L.S. “When Kathy writes about how she sang Handel's 'Messiah' every year forever, it reminds me how my dad used to take the family to 'Messiah' every year... So healing...” “She shares her...

Join the SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) and nationally-recognized speakers for this webinar to learn more about trauma and its impact, hear the case for adopting trauma-informed approaches, and walk through a methodology for implementing trauma-informed care. April 18, 2018 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET Presenters: Linda Ligenza, LCSW, Clinical Services Director, National Council for Behavioral Health; Karen Johnson, LCSW, Senior Director, Trauma-Informed Services, National...

This most recent blog from Sue Jones is a vivid reminder of the many pieces in the healing-from-trauma puzzle. Including having a trauma-informed person to be in it with you, reminding you cognitively that you are safe and also co-regulating your system, reminding you that the sensations in our bodies may feel real, but they are not true. "When the traumatic memories that have lived in our bodies for years or decades present themselves to us, the experience can be so frightening, so...