Providers, practitioners, patients, and their supports have long dealt with public scrutiny over the decision to terminate an unintended, unviable, if not potentially life-threatening pregnancy. Yet, amid the post-Roe v. Wade era, it has become tougher to receive and render necessary care; a new dimension of trauma is being unleashed for all involved.
This course is for you, if you work with youth and want to learn about Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) and Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) in a self-paced, virtual environment. Learn how to support youth who have trauma stories. Whether you have some background on ACEs research or not, this course not only provides the research on ACEs, but also offers research based practical strategies to implement right away. If the thought of taking time off or giving up some of your summer for...
By Jane McMullen, Photo: Getty Images, British Broadcasting Corporation, July 23, 2022 Thirty years ago, a bold plan was cooked up to spread doubt and persuade the public that climate change was not a problem. The little-known meeting - between some of America's biggest industrial players and a PR genius - forged a devastatingly successful strategy that endured for years, and the consequences of which are all around us. On an early autumn day in 1992, E Bruce Harrison, a man widely...
By David A. Taylor, Photo: Hampton University Archives, The Washington Post, July 19, 2022 For several days in June last year, I found myself driving through Virginia on the trail of undercover historians. I was working on a podcast about the Federal Writers’ Project, which had sent researchers across the state during the 1930s to talk with formerly enslaved Virginians. These historians, all of whom were Black, were undercover in the sense that had they been too obvious in their aim to...
By Rhitu Chatterjee, Photo: Saul Martinez/NPR, National Public Radio, July 24, 2022 Shortly after Elizabeth George started her freshman year in high school last fall, her parents tested positive for COVID-19. And Elizabeth stepped up to take care of them. "I was running the house, sort of," says the soft-spoken 15-year-old. "I was giving them medicine, seeing if everyone is OK." Elizabeth's mother recovered, but her father was hospitalized. He died in September of last year. [ Please click...
By Dani Anguiano, Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, The Guardian, July 23, 2022 A t some point in the last two years, Janine Carroll started avoiding certain grocery stores in her hometown of Redding, California . The retired grandmother could hear the taunts people made to those like her who chose to wear a face mask to fend off Covid-19. “You never know anymore what the atmosphere is going to be when you walk into any given place,” she said. Masks are just one symbol of the divisions...
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Podcast - Songs of Life, Love, Loss & Hope - Set 1 - Healing Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health Injuries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sOd1-EvpRI “Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” - Debasish Mridha 1] Songs For The Keys To Your Life 2] The 9:30 Train 3] The Silence That Separates Us 4] By My Side Michael Skinner Music - https://www.mskinnermusic.com/ “Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our...
Hi. While it would be better to do these as individual topic posts and spend more time on each, I am in the process of recovering from Covid, and staying within my healthy limits on effort. Developmental delays or/and disabilities . Caregiver skills training for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities (CST). Released March and April 2022, World Health Organization (WHO) Toolkit providing guidance on caregiver skills training for families of children aged 2–9 years with...
July 30 th is the “World day against trafficking in persons”, #EndHumanTrafficking. This year the UN’s theme for the day is “Use and abuse of technology”, focusing on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. You can read more about that and the day here: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/endht/index.html While I recognize the work of the UN, as child advocates, it’s important we keep all of that is involved and needed in mind, as we simultaneously work...
From the Producers of The Wisdom of Trauma Join Iya Affo for an insightful online community conversation facilitated by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo. Iya's passion is to cultivate intergenerational healing by connecting intuitive ancestral practices with modern neurobiology. As we delve into leveraging our neurobiology to facilitate the healing process, we will also explore re-culturing and the creation of self-harmonizing communities. Please join us and bring your questions! The gathering will...
Event being run by Neuroclastic Event link: https://fb.me/e/3oFKkQ5qY All day Friday, July 22, 2022, we invite the world to join us and family friend Jennifer Meis Abbanat in a candlelight and rocks vigil for Max Benson. Today, a grand jury indicted three people responsible in the restraint death of 13-year-old Autistic Max Benson. His mother, Stacia Benson is on our board of directors. This is a small step on the road to #JusticeForMax that has taken years. We want to take this moment to...
From Legal Defense Fund, Photo: Unsplash, Legal Defense Fund, July 15, 2022 Yesterday, the Southern Prisons Coalition, a group of civil and human rights organizations, submitted a new report to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination on the devastating consequences of incarceration on Black people throughout the southern United States. With the long-term goal of eliminating all forms of racial discrimination in the criminal legal system,...
By Eric Westervelt, Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images, National Public Radio, July 21, 2022 On one level, it's almost impossible to put a dollar figure on lives shattered by gun violence or to try to measure the pain of having a loved one killed or seriously injured. But researchers of two new studies using federal health care and hospital data underscore that the repercussions from firearm deaths and injuries are deeper, wider and far costlier than previously known. In a...
By Bryce Covert, Illustration: Dakarai Akil, Photos: Shutterstock, The New York Times, July 21, 2022 The United States is one of six countries in the world without a national guarantee of paid parental leave. Twenty-three other countries have universal child or family allowances. We spend just 0.2 percent of our gross domestic product on child care for our youngest children, compared with an average of 0.7 percent among countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.