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Instruction about race may be under siege across the US, but this course is empowering students at a Southern high school [cnn.com]

By Brandon Tensley, Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images, CNN US, October 2, 2022 In the early 2000s, when I was a student at Ridge View High School, in Columbia, South Carolina, I loved to parse the legacies of certain historical figures: W.E.B. Du Bois, in AP US History; Malcolm X, in AP English Language and Composition. At the same time, I wanted more. Too often, Advanced Placement curricula seemed to give attention to just a handful of Black heavyweights and, as a result, neglect the...

I Make Video Games. I Won’t Let My Daughters Play Them. [nytimes.com]

By William Siu, Illustration: Irene Suosalo, The New York Times, October 2, 2022 Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has just signed legislation that would require social media companies to make sure new products won’t be harmful to minors. The focus is on Big Tech and social media apps like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Flying under the radar are video games even though kids in the United States spend much more time playing video games than engaging in social media, according to a recent...

How to vet mental health advice on TikTok and Instagram [washingtonpost.com]

By Tatum Hunter, Illustration: Emma Kumer/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 3, 2022 Mental health tips on social media are a mixed bag. Your favorite online creator might give valid advice on managing anxiety symptoms or drawing boundaries with family members. They also might spread wrong information or use their platform to promote dubious products. Not only did mentions of mental health on social media increase during the pandemic , many influencers shifted their focus from...

2022 Handle With Care Conference to run Oct. 12-14 in Charleston, WV; Register by 10.1.22 to save $50!

In-person and Virtual Conference starts Wednesday, October 12th at 10:00 a.m. and ends Friday, October 14th at 1:00 p.m. at the Charleston Civic Center, Charleston, WV The West Virginia Center for Children's Justice Handle with Care Conference will focus on a trauma informed response to child maltreatment and children's exposure to violence. "Our goal is to provide you with current information to better help you serve those in our communities who experience child abuse neglect and violence,"...

Register NOW for Flourishing Families, Centering Justice: Policy solutions for prevention-focused, trauma-informed supports for children and families on 11/1

The California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA) invites you to join us for a discussion on Flourishing Families, Centering Justice: Policy Solutions for Prevention-focused, Trauma-informed Supports for Children and Families . This webinar will explore trauma-informed primary, secondary, and tertiary approaches to supporting struggling families and keeping them together. Our expert panelists will: Reframe our understanding of neglect Provide a brief overview of historical and...

Register now! Oct. 12, 2022—Connecting Communities One Book at a Time webinar with Donna Jackson Nakazawa on “Girls on the Brink: Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media”

October 12, 2022, from 3-4:30 p.m. ET Register now! Meet longtime friend of PACEs Connection and award-winning author, science journalist, and international speaker Donna Jackson Nakazawa as she shares insights and findings from her newest book, “ Girls on the Brink: Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media ”. Her seven books explore the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, and are in 12 languages. Register now to join...

Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline Using a Trauma-Informed Lens

Event Title: Interrupting the School to Prison Pipeline Using a Trauma Informed Lens Event Date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 Event Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm PST Event Facilitators: Porter Jennings-McGarity & Lara Kain Special Guest: Tia Martinez Join PACEs Connection’s trauma-informed education consultant (Lara Kain) and trauma-informed criminal justice consultant (Dr. Porter Jennings-McGarity) and special guest Tia Martinez for our first ever interdisciplinary collaborative event...

PACEs Connection's Collective Grief, Collective Healing Conference Nov. 1 - 3, 2022

Grief is inevitable, essential, and universal. Like many of you, we at PACEs Connection have experienced a multitude of losses through the past several years. As a team, we have experienced financial instability, we have lost family and friends, and we have mourned our pre-Covid lives. We recognize that we are not alone. In the spirit of collective healing, PACEs Connection invites you to attend the Collective Trauma, Grief & Healing Conference. This unique and interactive conference...

Emotional neglect in marriages

This is a topic I'm extremely passionate about. Those who know me, know that any form of mistreatment/harm to a human being, especially women and children, I'm deeply passionate about. Unfortunately, going by people's responses when you bring it up and even just how women are taught generally about marriage, it's a topic our Zambian society doesn't see as anything serious, yet it is a HUGE SILENT KILLER! To make it worse, even some professional and Christian counselors dismiss the reality of...

This Week! Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn presents: Creating Therapeutic Spaces in Schools

Please join us for our series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn. This series features a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection education consultant, with special guests on education-related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science-aware lens to examine what's going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system. October session,...

The Case for Leaving America to Escape Racism [washingtonpost.com]

By DeNeen L. Brown, Illustration: Diana Ejaita/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, September 26, 2022 T he mouth of the Volta River in Ghana seems to be swelling with the stories of my people. By day, the river, black and thick, runs south, dumping its fresh water into the Gulf of Guinea and eventually the Atlantic Ocean, where it churns in a powerful vortex. By night, I swear I see the river reverse itself, running inland, as if an invisible force were swallowing it whole. The pink...

This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage [cnn.com]

By Rachel Ramirez, Photo: Jeff Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, CNN US, October 2, 2022 Anthony Grande moved away from Fort Myers three years ago in large part because of the hurricane risk . He has lived in southwest Florida for nearly 19 years, had experienced Hurricanes Charley in 2004 and Irma in 2017 and saw what stronger storms could do to the coast. Grande told CNN he wanted to find a new home where developers prioritized climate resiliency in a state...

What’s Prison For? Concise diagnosis of a huge American problem [theguardian.com]

By Charles Kaiser, Photo: thawornnurak/Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Guardian, October 1, 2022 T he statistics are familiar but remain startling: America’s incarceration rate per 100,000 is “roughly twice that of Russia’s and Iran’s, four times that of Mexico’s, five times of England’s, six times Canada’s” and nine times that of Germany. In addition, “parole and probation regulate the lives of 4.5 million Americans” – more than twice as many as are confined in prison. These numbers come at...

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