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In this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily is joined by NARM Senior Trainer and Training Director, Brad Kammer, who shares about the updated Level 3 NARM Master Therapist Training that starts in March 2023. This is a major event in the growth of the NARM Training Institute and as Brad says, “This is also a big moment for me personally as Larry passes this training on to me after over 20 years of studying with and mentoring under him, and working together to evolve NARM. I am honored and...

Seventeen - 15 minute or less presentations about ACEs screening and related topics were addressed at an AVA Preconference in San Diego this January. These represent a diversity of perspectives and practices in applying this new knowledge to healthcare, human services, and education. Audrey Stillerman, MD presents the American College of Preventive Medicine's recent position statement against universal screening and Edward Machtinger, MD discusses the arguments that have been raised about...

Children being processed by the U.S. Border Patrol in Roma, Texas, last year. In the past two years alone, 250,000 minors have come into the United States without their parents.Credit...Kirsten Luce for The New York Times By Hannah Dreier, The New York Times, February 27, 2023 The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, including more aggressive investigations of companies benefiting from their work.

California state Sen. Dave Cortese (D), introduced Senate Bill 9, which aims to prevent homelessness among foster youth aging out of the system at age 21. Provided photo. By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, February 22, 2023 California lawmakers will soon weigh legislation that would extend the nation’s largest foster care system by five years for some youth, making it the first state in the nation to offer housing, financial and caseworker support to young adults through age 26. It’s the...

Environmental justice advocate Sharon Lavigne, founder of the group Rise St. James, inside St. James Catholic Church in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Lavigne is a lifelong member of the church. Credit: James Bruggers By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, February 20, 2023 The brown brick Roman Catholic church that sits here near the Mississippi River, next to dozens of large oil storage tanks, rose in 1930 amid the sugar cane fields of a former plantation. Twenty-two years later, Sharon...

The EPA has ordered Norfolk Southern to pay for the cleanup of its train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Umair Irfan, Vox, February 25, 2023 Many residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have warily returned to their homes after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled more than 100,000 gallons of dangerous chemicals into the air and water earlier this month. The towering smoke cloud from the burning vinyl chloride has...

By Lori Teresa Yearwood, Photo Illustration: Jackie Guzman/Slate, Slate, February 20, 2023 About a year before her death, Denise Lerma began taking the steps she thought would save her life. First, she quit shooting heroin into her veins. Then she walked as far away from a lifetime of homelessness as her traumatized body and psyche could take her. On her last day living in Lincoln Park, in Los Angeles, Lerma handed Louis, a friend living in the encampment, a pink balloon. It was her way of...

Thoughts to share - “Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.” – Robert Brault “A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”- Charles H. Spurgeon “So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to...

Increases in reports of rape and sexual violence against teenage girls, as well as record levels of their feeling hopeless or sad, led federal researchers in February to state that girls across the United States are “ engulfed in a growing wave of violence and trauma ”, a topic that will be explored, alongside the resilience of girls of color, on this week’s History. Culture. Trauma. podcast. In honor of Women's History Month, host Ingrid Cockhren will discuss how adolescent girls are...

the Village in serving the public is uniquely positioned to address unconscious bias, first by recognizing and acknowledging bias, and secondly by working to reduce bias, both externally and within the government unit itself;

By David Leonhardt, Photo: Annie Flanagan/The New York Times, The New York Times, February 27, 2023 Digital technology has caused the biggest changes to teenage life in many decades. Typical American teenagers spend about half of their waking hours on their smartphones. They are on the phones when they are alone at home and when they are hanging out with friends. When I compare my own teenage years in the 1980s with those of my parents in the 1950s and ’60s, I realize how much more rapidly...