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By Katherine Kam, Image: iStock, The Washington Post, July 19, 2022 Scapegoating — the projecting of unwarranted blame — can crop up often in everyday life. It happens in troubled homes where members shame a family scapegoat rather than look at the true nature of their frustrations. Political leaders can direct constituents’ fears toward a single target: immigrants. Scapegoating also can take a hateful, violent turn. Witness the attacks on Asian Americans during the pandemic and the recent...

By Ellen S. Alberding, Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, July 20, 2022 Ten years ago, 20 children and six of their teachers were murdered in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. The nation was horrified. Congress debated. But nothing happened. Year after year, month after month, the shootings continued. More people died. And still nothing happened. This past May, 19 children and two of their teachers were murdered in an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex.

By Janie Har, Photo: Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo, Associated Press, July 15, 2022 San Francisco Bay Area high school teacher Lisa Raskin moved out of a cramped apartment she was sharing with a roommate and into her own place this month, paying a deeply discounted $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom with expansive views within walking distance to work. It was once an impossible dream in an exorbitantly priced region hostile to new housing. But her employer, a 4,000-student school district...

Health begins with mental health, and the United States is currently experiencing a mental health crisis. This problem has been highlighted by national and local leaders and elected officials. For example, on December 7th, 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy, issued an advisory highlighting the mental health needs of young adults . Then earlier this year on February 1st the U.S. Congress held a hearing on the growing crisis of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders . Looking...

July marks the end of the second HOPE Innovation Network (HIN) cohort. The HIN review committee selected the twelve participating organizations through a competitive application process last fall. The final group included direct service providers, K-12 schools, and community coalitions. Over the past 6 months, the organizations attended trainings and joined activities about how to make their intake processes HOPE-informed. Now, these organizations have implementation plans specifically...

While the scientific community has come to unprecedented international scientific agreement on the causes of climate change and what needs to be done to stop it, there remains significant contention about the issue.

Want to build and support empathy in the workplace to help prevent and mitigate trauma on the job? Please join CTIPP’s next Community Action Network (CAN) call (free!) on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT: REGISTER https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 ; +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations The call will feature Katherine Manning , author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a...

BJ (Betty) Adkins shares her passion for helping communities overcome trauma as coleader of a team that is seeding PACEs throughout Kentucky. Starting with a planning grant from the Foundation for Healthy Kentucky in 2012, her team of community stakeholders initiated the Bounce Coalition . Bounce reaches educators, administrators, service providers, and parents throughout Kentucky counties who are adopting the Bounce trauma-informed model. More than 16,000 people have been trained in ACEs...

The horror of a child maltreatment case being mishandled or overlooked compelled this week’s guest on “History. Culture. Trauma.” to create a national, education-based solution. Dr. Tyler Counsil is the director of Child Advocacy Studies (CAST), part of the Zero Abuse Project . He uses his passion for prevention, healing, education, and justice to the benefit of students at almost every level of education after high school. “Today’s students in community colleges, technical schools and...

Attend this webinar to learn how to strengthen your coalition by partnering with your local health department and using the new Public Health Infrastructure funding to build their workforce and partnerships.

By Giles Bruce, Photo: Giles Bruce/Kaiser Health News, National Public Radio, June 10, 2022 Linnea Sorensen falls into a funk whenever her girlfriend of four years leaves for her six-month stints with the Marines, and the high school junior has trouble concentrating on her classwork. "I'm somebody who struggles with my mental health quite a bit," said the 17-year-old, who attends school in Schaumburg, Ill., a suburb of about 77,000 people northwest of Chicago. "When you're in school and not...

By Nicole Sturzenberger, Sustainable America, June 30, 2022 As parents, we teach our children small things each day, with the hope of preparing them for an eventual departure and life on their own. As climate change becomes an increasingly prevalent part of our lives, raising them to protect and care for the earth is imperative. Like many aspects of parenting, creating healthy habits involves repetition and explaining the reason behind why we do things. If we don’t explain why composting...