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By Liz Seegert, Photo: SHVETS/Pexels, Association of Health Journalists, August 30, 2022 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is funding five additional states and territories to expand access to home and community-based services through Medicaid’s Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration program. Awards of up to $5 million each were announced for Illinois, Kansas, and New Hampshire, as well as for American Samoa and Puerto Rico — the first time MFP grants have been made available to...

By Kari Paul, Photo: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images/Tetra images RF, The Guardian, August 30, 2022 California lawmakers passed first-of-its-kind legislation on Monday designed to improve the online safety and privacy protections for children. The bill, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, will require firms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to install guardrails for users under the age of 18, including defaulting to higher privacy settings for minors and refraining from...

By Simon Romero, Roni Caryn Rabin and Mark Walker, Photo: Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, The New York Times, August 31, 2022 Carol Schumacher, 56, who was raised in the remote community of Chilchinbeto in the Navajo Nation, has lost 42 family members to Covid-19 over the last two years. The dead included two brothers aged 55 and 54, and cousins as young as 18 and 19. Ms. Schumacher returned to the Navajo Nation from her home in Wisconsin this summer to grieve with family. She knew what to...

By C.J. Ciaramella, Photo: Motortion/Dreamstime.com, Reason, August 31, 2022 Of the more than 11,000 federal inmates who were released to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic, 17 were returned to prison for committing new crimes, according to the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). In response to a query from Keri Blakinger, a reporter for The Marshall Project , the Bureau of Prisons said that of the 17, 10 committed drug crimes, while the rest of the charges included smuggling non-citizens,...

If you look at history, it’s evident that cultural change happens slowly. Many of the changes we experience hardly feel like changes at all. They happen gradually over the course of a lifetime, and they elude our attention. But when we shift our perspectives and take an intentional, measurable, and trauma-informed approach to cultural change, we discover that it is not only larger and faster than we initially believed—it is also more impactful, more achievable, and more essential. If you’re...

In this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily facilitates a discussion between NARM creator Dr. Laurence Heller and Dr. Stephen Porges PhD, the originator of the Polyvagal Theory. Dr. Porges is a distinguished neuroscientist, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, and author. He is also creator of the Safe and Sound Protocol™, a music-based intervention which is a “distilled essence of trust in...

“The insidious effects of childhood poverty disrupt nearly every aspect of child development. The Adaptation to Poverty-related Stress Model posits that one of the key mechanisms through which poverty disrupts healthy development is a combination of heightened exposure to poverty-related stress and reliance on specific coping strategies to manage stressors that may contribute directly to symptomologies….”

FREE Interactive Webinar - September 13 through November 1, 2022 (Tuesday nights from 5:00 - 7:30 PM CST) Training Objectives for your child or children you work with: 1) Take care of yourself. 2) Recognize the impact trauma has had on your child. 3) Help your child feel safe. 4) Help your child to understand and manage overwhelming emotions. 5) Help your child to understand and modify problem behaviors. 6) Respect and support positive, stable, and enduring relationships in the life of your...

By Damian Carrington, Photo: Kerem Yücel/AFP/Getty Images, The Guardian, August 29, 2022 Major sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice cap is now inevitable, scientists have found, even if the fossil fuel burning that is driving the climate crisis were to end overnight. The research shows the global heating to date will cause an absolute minimum sea-level rise of 27cm (10.6in) from Greenland alone as 110tn tonnes of ice melt. With continued carbon emissions, the melting of other...

By Matt Richtel, Photo: Anastasiia Sapon/The New York Times, The New York Times, August 27, 2022 Parents seeking therapy for teenagers who self-harm or suffer from anxiety, depression or suicidal thoughts face an imposing thicket of treatment options and acronyms: cognitive behavioral therapy (C.B.T.), parent management training (P.M.T.), collaborative assessment and management of suicidality (CAMS), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and others. Each approach can benefit a particular...

By Tatum Hunter, Photo: Hao Nguyen/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, August 29, 2022 Issey Moloney signed up for therapy through Britain’s National Health Service when she was just 12 years old. She was on a waiting list for four years. In the meantime, social media helped her feel less alone, says the now 17-year-old who lives in London. She connected with people online as the pandemic isolated her from real-life friends. Eventually, she started making her own content. Now, she has...

By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Erik McGregor/Lightrocket/Getty Images, The Marshall Project, August 27, 2022 Odds are it’s been a while — tobacco ads on television, radio, billboards, transit and event sponsorships have all been banned by federal law for decades. It’s an approach that some gun control groups and lawmakers are now seeking to deploy in response to the nation’s mass shooting crisis . “The gun industry at some point recognized there was money to be made by appealing to and...