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Direct Cash Transfers Can Deliver Housing Assistance More Efficiently and Equitably [housingmatters.urban.org]

By Abby Boshart, Photo: Ryan DeBerardinis/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, May 25, 2022 There have long been gaps in America’s complex web of social programs, but the pandemic highlighted just how limited our social safety net is . This was especially true for the country’s renters, with more than 11 million households already rent burdened , and many working in industries hit hard by layoffs (PDF). But federal housing assistance lacked the funding to stabilize these households before or...

New HOPE Training Videos - ACEs Screen Results [positiveexperience.org/category/blog]

By Laura Gallant, 5/26/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) released a new set of training videos! In the videos, Dr. Sege shares the results of an ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) screening to a parent and child, who are played by Courtney and her son, Henry. The videos show what this conversation can look like without the HOPE framework and with the HOPE framework. They give a side by side look at the difference that the HOPE...

Whole-Person Care and the Impact of Social Determinants of Health By Unite Us on March 29, 2022

https://blog.uniteus.com/impact-of-social-determinants-of-health Social determinants of health (SDoH) are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—and these conditions shape health. Research shows strong connections between the social and economic needs of patients and their health challenges. A new white paper, written by Spencer Pratt, Vice President of Sales Solutions at Unite Us, discusses how health organizations can measurably improve health outcomes, and...

Resilient AF: Rising To The Occasion

Kamakshi Hart, solo artist, trauma-informed coach and award-winning creator of ‘Wild At Hart’ (HFF ’18) presents a timely call to action to build the superpower of resilience as a means to navigate a world in trauma. Award-winning creative team Kamakshi Hart, playwright/performer and Jessica Lynn Johnson, director/developer bring Resilient AF: Rising To The Occasion! to The Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Ave., on June 4, 645p, June 12, 745p and June 19, 7p. FOR TICKETS, SHOW TRAILER AND MORE:...

How countries around the world have responded to mass shootings [washingtonpost.com]

By Adam Taylor, Amanda Coletta, and Jennifer Hassan, Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Images/Getty Images, The Washington Post, May 26, 2022 A mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., claimed the lives of at least 19 children and two teachers Tuesday in the deadliest school shooting in the United States in almost a decade. The killings came less than two weeks after a mass shooting left 10 people dead at a busy supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo. Tuesday’s school...

The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations [khn.org]

By Aaron Bolton, Photo: Tony Bynum/KHN, Kaiser Health News, May 25, 2022 As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson, and son. They moved in with his mom, Marla Ollinger, on a 300-acre ranch on the rolling prairie outside Browning and had what Ollinger remembers as the best summer of her life. “That was the first time I’ve...

An Age-by-Age Guide to Talking to Children About Mass Shootings [nytimes.com]

By Catherine Pearson, Photo: Getty Images, The New York Times, May 25, 2022 A devastating reality of raising children in America today is that parents must be prepared to talk to their kids about mass shootings. It’s a wrenching task, and experts say there are some universal best practices — like avoiding graphic details. Or doing your best to actively listen, rather than trying to take away children’s pain. But the particulars of what families discuss — and how parents respond to questions...

Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre [washingtonpost.com]

By Robert Klemko, Silvia Foster-Frau, and Shawn Boburg, Image: Screenshot from video by Hadley Green/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 25, 2022 The gunman in Tuesday’s elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a fraught home life and lashed out violently against peers and strangers recently and over the years, friends and relatives said. And in the days after his May 16 birthday, he legally bought the...

I was a kid when a classmate was shot and killed. That trauma lasts. [Washington Post]

Police block off the road leading to the scene of a school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday. (Sergio Flores for The Washington Post) Her killing occurred in Texas three decades before a school shooting in Uvalde claimed 19 children and two teachers. I am shaking as I write this. I am thinking of them. I am thinking of her. I am grieving for their parents. I am grieving again for hers. I am a mother of two trying to make sense of the elementary school shooting that...

National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources in Response to the Robb Elementary School Shooting

With tremendous gratitude to the TIC (Trauma-Informed Community) Team, I pass along these wonderful resources they have shared from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and other sources. This has been and continues to be a really hard day. Please do what is necessary for your own well-being, so that with renewed hope and energy we can continue our work to create trauma-sensitive communities together. National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources in Response to the Robb Elementary...

Statement of Mourning from PACEs Connection Team

Today, all too soon, we find ourselves again in the midst of yet another tragedy following yesterday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas where the lives of at least 19 children and 2 adults were lost. I am writing this blog after dropping off my two-year-old and two-month-old sons at preschool this morning, where I struggled to make the drive to the daycare and to pull out of the parking lot after they were in their classrooms for fear of their safety. All of this to...

New Report Highlights Role of Masculinity on Wellbeing of Men and All Genders

To view the full report, click here. Authors: Henny Slegh, Warren Spielberg, and Cody Ragonese In 2021, Promundo released a report titled Masculinities and Male Trauma: Making the Connections. Here is an excerpt summary of the report: Apart from what it means in their own lives, men’s exposure to violence, trauma and adversity are key risk factors for men’s self-inflicted harm and their use of violence against others. Promundo-US’s new report, Making the Connections: Masculinities and Male...

Join ex-NFL athlete Caleb Campbell this Thursday on our podcast History. Culture. Trauma.

Caleb Campbell, ex-NFL player, is a mental health advocate and consultant on trauma-informed leadership. Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental health struggles. The collective trauma of COVID-19 has exasperated our country’s mental health crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In honor of this designation, History. Culture. Trauma. podcast co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, have spoken with...

Judge Sheila Calloway integrates PACEs science into juvenile justice

Judge Sheila Calloway says she had “absolutely no idea that I wanted to become a lawyer” when she was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. But looking back over her fourth-grade papers, which her mother had proudly saved, she found an essay she wrote in which she said she wanted to be a lawyer and help people. And she has. After stints in the Metro Public Defender’s Office and the Juvenile Court in Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County, TN, she was elected juvenile court judge in 2014.

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