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The healthcare gap between rural and urban patients is finally beginning to close. Remote technology like video conferencing can help patients connect with doctors all over the country, and doctors can use the Internet of Things (IoT) to assess patients’ biometrics remotely. Despite these recent advancements, the disparity between rural and urban healthcare is significant. The age-adjusted death rate in rural areas is 7% higher than in urban areas and folks who live in a rural area are more...

After the earthquake in Turkey, Syria earthquake the death toll surpasses around 40,000 and more than 70 million children effected according to the UN report. The Safety precautionary measures during an earthquake is highly important for everyone. a) Drop under heavy furniture such a table, desk, bed or any solid furniture. b) Cover your head and torso to prevent being hit by falling objects. c) Hold on the objects that you are under so that you remain covered. Be prepared to move with the...

In this episode of Transforming Trauma, NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer, is joined by Tina Sacks, PhD. an associate professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Her fields of interest include racial inequities in health, social determinants of health, and poverty and inequality; in other words, how people’s experience of being othered affects their well-being overall. Tina’s professional work emerges from her own experience of being othered as a...

Together with The Child Welfare Education Institute at Stockton University, Postpartum Support International- New Jersey Chapter, and Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative, Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey will be hosting a conference on March 15 th 8:30am to 3:30pm at Stockton University in Galloway. The conference is titled Uniting a Community for Birth Equity: Reshaping Birth Outcomes & Experiences in South Jersey . This conference hopes to present a day full of research and...

By Amanda Ripley, Image: Screenshot from article, The Washington Post, February 9, 2023 We hear a lot about the shocking dysfunction in Congress. By my count, this paper has published 90 articles on the GOP’s many tortured attempts to elect a speaker and another 84 (and counting) on the debt ceiling. But what about stories of shocking function? Lately, I find those stories even more captivating. For example, if any congressional committee were set up to fail, it was the Select Committee on...

By Claire Cain Miller, Sarah Kliff, and Larry Buchannan, Image: From article, The New York Times, February 12, 2023 In the United States, the richest mothers and their newborns are the most likely to survive the year after childbirth — except when the family is Black, according to a groundbreaking new study of two million California births. The richest Black mothers and their babies are twice as likely to die as the richest white mothers and their babies. Research has repeatedly shown that...

By V (formerly Eve Ensler) and V-Day Activists, Photo: Edgar Kanayko Xakriaba, The Guardian, February 14, 2023 The pushback against women in this moment is terrifying and vast. When we started the global V-Day women’s movement after the publication of The Vagina Monologues, saying the word “vagina” out loud was taboo. It’s not any more, but our work remains as pressing as ever. Although we may not have ended violence against all women, trans and non-binary people, we have made a mark. We...

By Lindsey Tanner, Photo: Getty Images, PBS News Hour, February 13, 2023 The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls’ mental health, with almost 60 percent reporting feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness, according to a government survey released Monday that bolsters earlier data. Sexual violence, suicidal thoughts, suicidal behavior and other mental health woes affected many teens regardless of race or ethnicity, but girls and LGBTQ youth fared the worst on most measures,...

This month's CTIPP CAN call will help demystify meeting with your elected representatives and explain trauma-informed approaches to working with people with learning differences. Minnie Whalen from the Clallam Resilience Project of United Way of Clallam County will present her recent experience developing a relationship with her Congressman, Rep. Kilmer (D-WA), through a meeting with his staff. Minnie hopes to demystify the process of meeting with your representative. Steve Brown from the...

Note: Due to a weather emergency, our podcast hosts have postponed this week’s interview with Mary Giuliani until next Thursday, February 23 at 1 p.m. PT. We apologize for any inconvenience. "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD", a new book by PACEs Connection member Mary Giuiliani, launches next week. For a preview of what the longtime student of ACEs science, now PACEs science, shares in her revealing “teaching memoir”, tune into our ‘History. Culture.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his economic agenda at a training center run by the Laborers' International Union of North America, February 8, 2023, in Deforest, Wisconsin. Photo: Morry Gash/AP Photo In the opening paragraphs of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Biden declared , “I ran for president to fundamentally change things, to make sure the economy works for everyone so we can all feel pride in what we do. To build an economy from the bottom up and the...

By Tara L. Conley, Photo: Tara L. Conley, Bloomberg City Lab, February 10, 2023 Who is listening to Black women—our bodies and our families? This question brought me back home. I recently moved back to Ohio, a place characterized by Toni Morrison as neither plantation nor ghetto. I’m a comebacker trying to manage work-life balance in a post-2020 society. Ohio is not the place with cities that show up at the top of “ most livable ” lists; in fact, quite the opposite , particularly for Black...