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In the trauma-informed care space, we often reference trauma-informed values. While we can refer to values within the TIC space broadly, there are specific models that we teach our clients, including SAMSHA’s 6 Guiding Principles and the Sanctuary 7 Commitments. The values outlined in these guides provide structure for organizations new to trauma-informed care, and they’re an essential piece of the work for any trauma-informed leader. So, we’re going to explore these values in-depth today.

America's culture of child abuse and neglect negatively impacts every aspect of American life. During April 2022, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell examined America's history of child abuse and neglect and outlined how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. Please join our hosts for an encore of part one of this series. This episode is dedicated to illuminating the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect in America. Cockhren and Portell discussed the different...

Here are some of today’s requests to be put on the waiting list for our parenting norms bumper stickers. There are now almost nine hundred schools and organizations on the waiting list and no hope of ever printing and shipping them. When you realize that just one bumper sticker would be read thousands of times it becomes apparent that this is a colossal and tragic lost opportunity to prevent the aces associated with unsupportive and harmful parenting. Visit www.advancingparenting.org. Ideas...

Strengthening the wounded soul can improve psychological and physical wellbeing and help to complete the recovery process. Although ACEs, understandably, can numb feelings, including spiritual feelings, once healing has progressed, spiritual feelings can often be successfully cultivated.

In this episode, hosts Anne and Alison interview Cynthia Perez, LCSW, a Chicana therapist, author, public speaker, and Inner Child Hype Woman. We learn how she came to do this work of hyping up our inner child, how to do the work, and why acknowledging our inner child is so important (the pain is not too great! We can do it!). We discuss social justice-informed therapy and healing, the work of feeling self and historical pain, and Cynthia’s Chicana identity. Click here for episode show...

New!! 48-HOUR HISTORICAL TRAUMA SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION in collaboration with THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL TRAUMA ASSOCIATION We are the only entity offering a comprehensive, 48-hour Historical Trauma Specialist Certification Program. The Program is broken into 6 levels and is built on a foundation of BIPOC cultures and neurobiology. It is taught from a multicultural perspective, injecting traditions and ideology from various cultures from around the world. In this inclusive study we rely...

By Emma Goldberg, Photo: Hannah Yoon/The New York Times, November 28, 2022 At Harvard Business School, inside a seminar room with a smattering of button-down shirts and puffy fall jackets, a group of future corporate managers were talking about capitalism. What makes capitalism truly and purely capitalism? What are its essential components? Property rights. Financial markets. “Maybe this is almost so foundational that it’s too much to put on the board — but scarcity?” said Andrew Gibbs, 32,...

By Renuka Rayasam and Fred Clasen-Kelly, Photo: Andy Miller/KHN, CNN Health, November 30, 2022 When Louana Joseph’s son had a seizure because of an upper respiratory infection in July, she abandoned the apartment her family had called home for nearly three years. She suspected the gray and brown splotches spreading through the apartment were mold and had caused her son’s illness. Mold can trigger and exacerbate lung diseases such as asthma and has been linked to upper respiratory tract...

By Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Photo: Shutterstock, December 1, 2022 The stress of pandemic lockdowns prematurely aged the brains of teenagers by at least three years and in ways similar to changes observed in children who have faced chronic stress and adversity, a study has found. The study, published Thursday in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science , was the first to compare scans of the physical structures of teenagers’ brains from before and after the pandemic started, and to...

We have witnessed courage, optimism, hope and our common humanity during war. Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma - Psychology Today, December 1, 2022 KEY POINTS Our common humanity inspires us to continue to support our Ukrainian colleagues. The human toll of the Ukrainian war challenges civilians with the loss of electricity, water, and heat. The stresses and tensions of the holiday season can be eased by strategies to boost well-being. It has been nine months since...

By Aimee Zeitz, 12/1/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Aimee Zeitz is the regional director of strategic advancement at the YMCA San Diego County. She and her team have been implementing the HOPE framework into their practice and organizational structure. Aimee was a member of the first cohort of the HOPE Innovation Network and has worked closely with the HOPE National Resource Center on many projects. Below Aimee shares the strengths, barriers, and successes to her HOPE...

Children Deserve Recovery Too! selected nonprofits will receive a FREE NACoA’s Children's Program Kit & on-demand training. Bring recovery to kids in your underserved community w/a high rate of AUD &/or OUD! Criteria to be selected: Must be a 501(c)(3), serving youth in your community The community must be historically under-resourced and underrepresented The community must be documented with high rates of alcohol and/or opioid use disorder Children living with a parent or caregiver...