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Hello PACES Community!!! Xinachtli (Nahuatl for germinating seed) Youth Rites of Passage is a gender-responsive, culturally-based rites of passage philosophy, process, and curriculum that promotes healing, resilience, and leadership capacity of Chicana, Latina and Indigenous girls and gender expansive youth. The Xinachtli Facilitator Certification Training prepares new facilitators with the skills to provide a supportive process for young girls and gender expansive youth to develop a...

Hey Friends, check out this conversation I was lucky to have with Leslie from For Goodness Cakes. As I reflected with Leslie, on my career in Child Welfare and Health & Human Services, a renewed sense of pride emerged. It’s been a crazy, anxious, difficult, fulfilling journey, for sure. In reflecting, I know the work I have directly done, the relationships made with the staff and organizations I have led, have made a huge impact on me (and hopefully those I've had the privilege to lead!)...

Committing to trauma-informed work can be a real challenge. Most trauma-informed practices involve cultural changes and large-scale perspective shifts. On the individual level, that means changing your behaviors and thought patterns—which is a lot easier said than done. Trauma-informed work is inside-out work, which means most of the “work” you’ll do is not task-based, but behavior-based. It’s incredibly challenging, and it’s okay to feel like you’re struggling on this journey. This stuff...

By Donna Pisacano Brown https://www.liherald.com/stories/understanding-trauma-related-dissociation,138758? There was a time in my 30s, when I thought of myself as an “Ice Princess.” A nickname I had given myself in believing I was stronger than the early childhood abandonment wound I inherited — stronger than the devastating, tragic death of my young husband, leaving me alone to literally fight for my own life at age 23. An emotion that I now understand decades later was me living in...

The California Department of Technology (CDT) is creating our state’s digital equity plan and needs input from government agencies, nonprofits, experts, practitioners, funders, researchers, community organizers and California residents from every corner of the state. Once complete, the plan will support programs to help give Californians the access they need. Join the Health Outcome Area Working Group meeting to help close the digital divide in your community. Working groups will help...

Join us to hear how historical trauma impacts American society, including the socio-political landscape of today as well as the health of Americans. Ingrid will show us the links between historical trauma and the current mental health crisis, social determinants of health, and the disparities and inequities present in our communities today. Thursday, February 16th, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET >> Register Here<< Event is free and open to the public. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs...

(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...

I Never Knew I Had Trauma. The driving force behind writing my book "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD" was that I mistakenly believed that I had to have been sexually or physically abused to be considered a trauma survivor. My main types of trauma were being raised in a crazy, alcoholic home where I witnessed ongoing tension and emotional abuse between my parents, and being bullied as an overweight kid. Interestingly, of the many therapists and...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning of 2020 pushed America's already strained workforce to the brink, evoking a mass exodus of American workers looking to escape job dissatisfaction, microaggressions, unsafe work conditions and low wages. It was coined the " Great Resignation ". Join History. Culture. Trauma. co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of outreach and education, this Thursday at 1 p.m. PT as they discuss the role of...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Ahmad SI, Rudd KL, LeWinn KZ, et. al. Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child...

Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2023 It can be read online via this - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230206162036/ or this -...