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(Note: I was looking through some old essays and found this one I wrote for a wellness website exactly 10 years ago. With a couple of updates, it still rings true to my decades-long commitment to breaking cycles of addiction and abuse.) It’s as omnipresent as bad Christmas music: that vague sense of dread for people who are related to an active addict at holiday time. “I don’t know when he’ll do it, but I know it’s a matter of time before he’ll drink too much and make an ass out of himself.”...

Why is there so much emphasis on healing from the effects of unsupportive and harmful parenting and so little emphasis on the prevention of unsupportive and harmful parenting? Is it a money issue? Is there money to be made in intervention, treatment, healing, and rehabilitation? Is there money to be made in primary prevention?

Image via Rubén Moreno Montolíu/Flickr Our home, from space. Author: To read more of Tod Perry's article, please click here. Sixty-one years ago, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to make it into space and probably the first to experience what scientists now call the "overview effect." This change occurs when people see the world from far above and notice that it’s a place where “borders are invisible, where racial, religious and economic strife are nowhere to be seen.” The overview effect...

First, here is an opinion published in CALMATTERS by Richard Wexler who is Executive Director of NCCPR. His interest in child welfare grew out of 19 years of work as a reporter for newspapers, public radio and public television, often doing stories about child abuse and foster care. He is the author of Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse (Prometheus Books: 1990, 1995). Wexler is a graduate of Richmond College of the City University of New York and the Columbia...

By Laura Gallant, 12/15/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Registration is now open for the HOPE National Resource Center’s 3 rd Annual HOPE Summit – Practicing HOPE. Register before January 15th to get the early bird special worth $50 off the full registration price. The Keynote speaker will be Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD, MPA-URP, Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, and Director of the Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy...

Action Alert: Contact Your Senators and Representatives About CAPTA on December 15! Contact your members of Congress to tell them to reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is a critically important federal program that funds interventions to help children when they have been seriously harmed, as well as family support services which prevent child abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. It is essential that...

Greek philosopher and physician Hippocrates of Kos is considered the father of modern medicine. An influential physician and scholar, Hippocrates was adamant about effective healthcare practices. During his career, Hippocrates implemented an essential policy for future physicians to follow. To establish consent to heal, doctors should ask patients if they are willing to give up the things that cause them to be sick (Hippocrates & Asulanus, 1526). Hippocrates believed physicians needed...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We need you, our almost 58,000 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through . Unfortunately, staff pay and hours have had to be cut for December. The good news is that, since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised more than $52,000. Thank you to all who’ve donated. To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please read and share this seventh in a series...

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This January 2023, U.S. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives will begin a new two-year session, which starts with Congress members setting their policy priorities. We must urge Congress to prioritize addressing trauma and passing bills like the RISE from Trauma Act , which funds trauma-responsive work across the country. Make your voice heard. View and sign the powerful and concise call to action . We need as many people as possible to sign this letter and show support for...

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Ring in the new year with a conversation about potential pathways for implementing trauma-responsive policies and programs at the state and federal levels.