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Now more than ever is the time for connection, kindness, and action. We are all in this together and together #WeHealUS ! #menatlhealth #mentalhealthawareness #bekind #connectedworld #changetheworld Film Directed by Laurent Witz (director & producer of Mr Hublot Short movie) #WeHealUS 1h • 1 hour ago If we want to change the world we have to change how it works!

City Voices Interview with Jessica Nathanson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYHlsNGG1g https://www.thegloriousbothand.com/ I hope I can help others by sharing how I freed myself from a de-humanizing, non-relational non-dual paradigm and offering an alternative to liberation through self-negation. I hope to experience "divine immanence" together, when the spiritual is the material and vice versa, and holiness radiates from everything nihilistic paths degrade. Something extraordinary happens...

Caroline Hickman will discuss developing a climate & bio-diversity crisis lens through which therapy can respond to these emerging concerns as well as how dreams and the imaginal are increasingly revealing what is under the surface of people’s climate distress.

Music can be medicine. The award winning song "Lift You Up" is meant to be heard and shared. It's also raising funds for Backline, the not-for-profit organization that offers mental health services and resources for musicians and their families. I am a child psychiatrist, poet, and artist. I was inspired to write the poem, "Lift You Up," upon hearing of the suicide death of beloved country music singer Naomi Judd, so I thought it only right that the song it became also be used on behalf of...

By Jason Wu, Illustration: Celia Jacobs/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 6, 2022 Researchers have found that pandemic experiences of racial discrimination were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression . This was certainly true for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during the past few years, who endured bigotry and racist attacks after President Donald Trump labeled the coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” As an Asian therapist, I witnessed firsthand the effect...

By Julian Agyeman, Photo: The Guardian, The Guardian, October 6, 2022 “Equity is not an issue for us. We’re here to save the world.” From 1986 to 1990, I worked in an inner London borough as an environmental policy adviser. I worked on raising awareness of local environmental issues, paying special attention to those affecting the borough’s lower-income residents. There were very few jobs such as this in local government, and I was the only Black person employed in one. Unlike the US, in...

By Laura Gallant, 10/6/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is now accepting applications for the third round of our HOPE Innovation Network (HIN). The HOPE Innovation Network is an opportunity for organizations to work with the HOPE National Resource Center to make HOPE-informed changes in their organizations. At least one person will represent their organization to work on implementing the changes. Our third HIN cohort will take place from...

Note - We're reposting this PACEs Science Champion feature by Laurie Udesky, from November 16, 2021, to share more about the life and work of Dan Press, who died yesterday. He was our remarkable friend and partner in preventing and healing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promoting healthier, more compassionate, more resilient communities. Please see this post by Jesse Kohler for more information about Press, his life and legacy. In 1964, Dan Press was in his first year of law school...

Join us on October 7th at 1:00 est for a preview of James Moffett will present at the upcoming Compliance to Compassion event on 14th. This will be broadcast live on Facebook YouTuber and LinkedIn.

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is saddened to announce that our co-founder and counsel Daniel Press passed away yesterday after a long battle with lung cancer. Dan fought hard and never stopped working, despite his declining health. His love and passion for the trauma-informed movement inspired so many lives. He was fiercely dedicated to supporting advocates across the country, working tirelessly to promote healing and resilience. Over 40 years of advocacy and...

October's See Us, Support Us (SUSU) month of awareness raising about and for children of incarcerated parents began October 1, 2022. This October, SUSU focuses on supporting children of incarcerated parents’ physical health and emotional wellbeing. Anyone who works with children and families in health settings and beyond is encouraged to follow SUSU on Twitter / Instagram and to sign up for the SUSU Network newsletter to learn how to support children of incarcerated parents, connect with...

By Roni Caryn Rabin, Photo: Brian L. Frank/The New York Times, The New York Times, October 5, 2022 Over the past 50 years, medical advances have led to a more sophisticated understanding of the causes of Type 2 diabetes and to an abundance of new tools for managing it. But better treatments have done little to stem the rise of the disease. One in seven American adults has Type 2 diabetes now, up from one in 20 in the 1970s. Many teenagers are developing what was once considered to be a...