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Good Morning- I'm wondering if other are familiar with this program, offered by Vyne Education as a workshop on Trauma, Attachment & NeuroScience- Informed Treatment. I'm curious and interested in finding curriculums and approaches that benefit our many children who have high ACEs in K-12 education. Thanks!

In recent years unauthorized immigrants known as “dreamers” have captured nationwide attention and become a force in American politics. Brought to the United States as children, these young adults came forward to ask for the right to give back to the country they call home. With protection from deportation, they say, comes the ability to pursue higher education and forge careers, to move from fear and uncertainty to planning a future with purpose. In 2012 their call was answered with...

Results from Canada's first national survey looking at operational stress injuries among first responders such as police, paramedics, firefighters and 911 operators suggest they are much more likely to develop a mental disorder than the general population. The research was conducted online between September 2016 and January 2017 by a group of mental health experts from across the country. It is published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Of the 5,813 participants, 44.5 per cent...

Many of us don’t really know what makes a relationship healthy. Which is understandable, because many of us simply never learned. We look to our families to teach us, and depending on your childhood experiences, you might’ve seen a very different picture. A picture that was anything but healthy (though you assumed, again understandably, that it was totally normal and common). Maybe you regularly heard screaming and slammed doors. Maybe you regularly saw conflict go unaddressed, put away in a...

One often neglected theme is the fear of somehow being unmasked or shown up to be fraudulent in some important way that many adult daughters experience; that irrational but powerful fear is a direct consequence of not having their emotional needs met in childhood. Some of that feeling of faking it seems to emanate from the shame they feel—of being excluded from the magic circle of being loved and still wondering whether they are somehow to blame. This is an unconscious pattern of thought...

When you're the black guy in the building, certain tasks fall to you. "They would call me in to have talks with certain young men," said Robert Parker, a high school history teacher in Philadelphia. "Students who wouldn't do their work in class." The same thing happened to Jovan Weaver. "Teachers would just send them to my room because I built a connection with them," said Weaver, who taught sixth- and eighth-grade math and is now a school principal. "Sometimes I wouldn't even know. I'd just...

The new unemployment numbers are out and despite a significant slowdown in hiring in August, the U.S. is nearing a state of “full employment.” After reaching a 16-year record low unemployment rate of 4.3 percent, we moved up a tenth of a percent. If you live in certain cities and if you’re black you probably missed the good news. Nevertheless, there’s an emergent discourse around our below-5 percent unemployment rate, which economists deem as full employment . A recent Reuters article citing...

More than 65 million Americans toil in precarious, low-wage service class jobs, preparing and serving us our food, assisting us in stores, supporting our office and professional work, and taking care of our kids and aging parents. The service class is the largest class of Americans by far, making up about 45% of the entire workforce. In terms of the jobs they do and the economic functions they serve, in many ways, its members represent the 21st century analog of the old blue-collar working...

Resilience is defined as the ability to bounce back. But in our experience at Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona , resilience is much more intricate. At Free Arts, we define resilience as the ability to encounter trauma or disruption, allow that experience to shake you, process and learn from that experience, return to your own sense of identity and belonging, and move forward in a positive direction. This is a lengthy process and how, might you ask, do we get there? We know that art,...

College isn't all fun and games. Loneliness is prevalent, especially for students with high ACEs/

Housing is a person's single most important expense. While a roof over someone's head is something too often taken for granted, a roof and four walls imbue people with a sense of stability, one that allows them to turn their attention to other priorities, like finding a better job or helping their kids with school. And so, when housing is uncertain, or when so much of a paycheck goes to rent that it keeps someone from basic necessities, it's impossible to think about anything else. In this,...

Every fall, college freshmen begin the familiar tradition of establishing friendships with classmates in their dormitories. But little do they realize how much choosing the right friends—notably, ones with empathy —could be beneficial during stressful times, says a new Stanford study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “The transition to college can be tumultuous,” said Jamil Zaki , an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford and co-author of the study. “Whom...