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PACEs Connection members are encouraged to join as many communities as they are interested in. Keep scrolling to find our list of geographic communities to join your local, state, or country community! Interest Based: PACEs Connection Community Champions, Facilitators, and Managers (for Community Managers only) PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities (for coop affiliates only) 16 Strong Project Addiction & Recovery Balancing ACEs with HOPE (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences)...

By The HOPE Team, 2/23/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ February is Parent Leadership Month, bringing attention to the importance of parent voices, and parent leadership in the child and family serving sectors. When parents lead and advocate, children and families get better access to the services and supports they need. Encouraging parents to use advocacy tools supports their roles as experts of their children, families, and communities, and supports their skills and...

Self-Care is a necessity for all mental health workers, but it is especially imperative that anyone just entering the profession practices healthy forms of self-care. The mental health field, and anyone with a “relationship intense,” role can easily experience compassion fatigue. The concept of compassion fatigue refers to exhaustion after a period of helping others through emotional, psychological, and/or physical trauma. (Figley, 2002) While some may scoff at the idea of compassion...

Curious about the direct link between having a difficult childhood and struggling with relationships, food, weight, and/or substances? Watch my interview on The Healing Place Podcast with Teri Kamphaus Wellbrock . Watch on: https://youtu.be/yn0HiAcBd70I Take a quick "Look Inside" peek at my new book "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD":...

Alaska state Rep. Eastman sparks outrage after asking about the potential economic benefits of the deaths of abused Alaska children Anchorage Daily News February 21, 2023 JUNEAU - Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman sparked outrage online after asking whether there could be economic benefits from the death of abused children. Eastman asked a series of questions during a Monday House Judiciary Committee hearing on adverse childhood experiences — such as physical and sexual abuse on children...

By Andrea Harris Smith, Photo: Jared Soares, The Guardian, February 21, 2023 I’m sitting in the auditorium at my children’s elementary school. On stage is a multiracial group of kids in a circle singing a K-pop song – in Korean – for the annual talent show. The gym floor that doubles as theatre seating is full of parents, teachers, caregivers and supporters of all kinds. I scan the demographics in the room like a statistician, curious at how diverse it is. Craning my head to discern how many...

By Michael Wines, Photo: Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press, The New York Times, February 20, 2023 Mississippi’s struggling capital has been a favored target of Republican leaders since the G.O.P. took total control of the state a decade ago. But perhaps none of the slings and arrows flung at Jackson has provoked as much outrage as the one the state House of Representatives loosed earlier this month. Legislators approved a bill that would establish a separate court system for roughly...

By Andrew Van Dam, Image: From article, The Washington Post, February 17 2023 Today, we look at a big, fat map of credit scores reproduced from a recent economics paper . And while the map suggests any number of tantalizing questions, we are most intrigued by that big band of credit-score calamity that stretches across the American South. Almost every corner of America’s most populous region — every race, every income bracket — appears to have low credit scores. But why? With precious few...

By Erum Salam, Photo: Robert Kneschke/Getty Images/EyeEm, The Guardian, February 21, 2023 Local news organizations across the United States need to be given serious government financial help, especially in the form of tax breaks, in order to stave off a crisis in the media sector and help save US democracy, a leading advocate for non-profit journalism has said. Steven Waldman, co-founder of Report for America, said a new initiative, called Rebuild Local News, wanted to revitalize hundreds of...

By Anna Cooban, Image: Screenshot from article, CNN Business, February 21, 2023 Men participating in the world’s biggest trial of a four-day work week spent much more time with their children, organizers say. For six months starting in June last year, about 2,900 workers across 61 companies in the United Kingdom worked 80% of their usual hours — for the same pay — in exchange for promising to deliver 100% of their usual work. That is the biggest number of companies to ever take part in such...

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Estimated Deaths Attributable to Excessive Alcohol Use Among US Adults Aged 20 to 64 Years, 2015 to 2019 Marissa B. Esser, ET AL, JAMA NetwORK Open. 2022;5(11):e2239485. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.39485 Question What is the estimated proportion of deaths among US adults aged 20 to 64 years attributable to excessive alcohol consumption, and are there differences by sex, age, and US state? Findings The estimates in this cross-sectional study of 694 660 mean deaths per year between 2015...