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By Quil Lawrence, Photo: John J. Kruzel/Department of Defense, National Public Radio, October 20, 2022 William Dabney never liked to talk much about his time fighting in World War II. "He didn't keep his uniform or any of those things. In other words, he was through with the service," says Beulah Dabney, who married him in 1951. It wasn't just the horrors of war — which he had seen up close at Omaha Beach in France on D-Day. What bothered Dabney was the treatment he and his fellow Black...

By Rachel Bluth, Photo: Irfan Khan/The Los Angeles Times/Getty Images, California Healthline, October 20, 2022 A class of health care facility support staff, including nursing assistants, security guards, and janitors, has worked alongside doctors and nurses throughout the covid-19 pandemic keeping patients and medical buildings safe and clean. It’s an unassuming line of work that some people consider a calling. Tony Ramirez, 39, a critical care technician at Garfield Medical Center in...

By David Smith, Photo: Peacock, The Guardian, October 20, 2022 To Tell the Truth is a long-running TV show in which a panel of celebrities is presented with three contestants who all claim to be the same person with an unusual occupation of experience. The panel grills each of them and must decide which two are imposters and which one is telling the truth about their identity. In 1980, three bespectacled African American women appeared on the show , each stating: “My name is Rosa Parks.”...

Is there such a thing as false hope? Recently, a friend suggested that the Peanuts comic strip hero, Charlie Brown, had a high level of false hope because Lucy kept pulling the football away at the last minute. I disagreed. I suggested Charlie Brown didn’t have false hope, he was simply overly optimistic because he put his success in Lucy’s hands when he should have sought a new pathway around the barrier (i.e., Lucy). Of course, Charlie Brown may also be a low-hope person because he didn’t...

PACEs Connection is pleased and grateful to announce Hilary Marine as our Fall Graduate Intern. She joins us this fall for an internship as part of her journey to earn her Master of Public Health! Learn a bit more about Hilary and her work below: What made you want to intern with PACEs Connection? What makes a person resilient through adversities has fascinated me for a long time. Many children encounter adverse experiences, yet the outcomes can be vastly different. Aside from all of this,...

Our World Mental Health Day episode is a conversation with Philip Butler, Ph.D., about the future of mental health care: one that puts healing in each person's own hands. We talk about the barriers to accessing healing and mental health care, especially for Black people. Dr. Butler's solution is to put the Internal Family Systems therapy methodology in everyone's hands through his Seekr Bot app so that we can access healing anytime anywhere. “The Seekr Project is part of a larger plan to...

Zero Abuse Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to ending child maltreatment. One of Zero Abuse Project’s flagship programs, Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) , is an educational curriculum designed to better prepare college learners for the realities of working in child protection. Zero Abuse Project has been funded through the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Building the Capacity of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs to Train Child...

FREE WEBINAR ON NPEIV YOUTUBE CHANNEL Preventing Future Harm: Concrete Action Steps to Prevent Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan – Thompson, LeBlanc, Gotch, & Berman 90 minutes (excluding the Q & A) This following contains four presentations that build on each other to help you learn how you could take action to make safety at home, in the community, and within the institutions of society through building resilience skills. The first presentation provides a definition of...

By The HOPE Team, 10/20/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE framework centers on the importance of positive experiences during childhood. Of course, children and their parents can do a great job in creating these opportunities – but social policies can make this easier or harder for families. The HOPE National Resource Center intends to help policymakers know more about Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) – and how public policy can support access to the Four...

By Gina Siddiqui, Illustration: Lucy Jones, The New York Times, October 18, 2022 Sal was 58 when I was assigned his case. Sal had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in the 1960s and was considered an old survivor; all his friends who had been diagnosed at the same time, including his younger brother, were dead. I was 21, a few weeks out of college and one of the youngest students in my medical school class. Our assignment, to follow patients with chronic diseases to their clinic...

By Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Image: Javier Hirschfeld/Getty Images, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), October 18, 2022 When my son was born with a congenital heart condition, like any parent, I felt lost. He required open-heart surgery and I felt overwhelming uncertainty for what the future might hold. I understood that the outcome might not be good, but I also knew that a positive outcome was possible if I could provide the best care for him. At a time like that, it was hard to focus on...