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It's mental health month. I've been checking out what lessons we can carry forward from last year. Trauma is a growing field here in Kenya. I feel like more people are becoming aware that it's not all in our minds. We have been hurt by the system, government, and society. Part of this hurt comes from being in a dysfunctional system starting from the home and immediate family. Which then trickles to the different regions and countrywide. This dysfunction I speak of is because of living in...

Despite the growing recognition that ACEs screening of parents of young children is valuable, only a small number of pediatricians routinely screen parents. The Idaho ACEs Learning Collaborative is seeking to connect with people who are screening parents or interested in this topic.

By Damien Cave, Photo: Stephanie Simcox/The New York Times, May 19, 2022 On a cool morning at 5:50 a.m., Allegra Spender prepared to dive into the surf alongside dozens of ocean swimmers at Bondi Beach. She was there not just for exercise. She was there to meet voters. Her name was all over volunteers’ teal T-shirts and swim caps, identifying her as an independent candidate for the Australian federal Parliament. “Takes a lot of courage, what you’re doing,” said Jason Carr, 50, a security...

By Paul Klein, Image: Screen shot from Amazon website, Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 12, 2022 When businesses have serious problems, they find people who have experience in successfully solving similar problems. When it comes to helping to address important social problems, businesses make decisions about how this will be done based on having no experience with the problems they are trying to help solve. In the first chapter I wrote for Change for Good, entitled “Nothing About Us...

By Asher Lehrer-Small, Image: Peter Byrne, The 74, May 18, 2022 E ven at Stuyvesant High School, one of the most academically rigorous and sought-after public schools in New York City, teenage gossip is, well, teenage gossip: who’s crushing on who, who just broke up, who’s the cutest in the grade. But rather than comments whispered in hallways, students frequently share those juicy nuggets through anonymous online “ Stuyvesant Confessions ” accounts on Facebook and Instagram that much of the...

By Jacob Whiton, Theresa Y. Singleton, and Lei Ding, Photo: Window Creative/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, May 18, 2022 Homeownership is widely viewed as one of the primary ways families build wealth in this country, but the racial homeownership gap has been persistently high for decades. Discriminatory housing policies and unique social, economic, and financial barriers are largely responsible for the racial homeownership gap. In this brief, Philadelphia Federal Reserve authors use data...

The Clallam Resilience Project, based on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State - is recruiting a Americorps Member for a Resiliency Outreach and Design Coordinator position lasting from August 2022 - August 2023.

All you educators out there PLEASE know you make a difference. When I emigrated to the USA I was feeling a little lost. After 25 years in UK education what would I do. On my last day as headteacher a parent handed me a letter. A parent by her own admission was not always the easiest to work with! She asked me not to read it until I got to America. Here is what it said: ‘Mrs A I’m not good at this sort of thing. I know I have been avoiding you but that’s because I don’t know what to say. You...

Staggering numbers of children have been subjected to adverse life experiences, leaving a lasting impact on our youngest members of society. This trauma often presents itself in outward behaviors. As numbers continue to increase, our education system has the ability to utilize early intervention to combat this trauma and build resiliency. TWI, The Wordsmith Initiative, is looking for one rural Virginia or North Carolina school district to pilot a whole-child, trauma-sensitive program . Our...

EmpowerSurvivors is currently booking guests for our upcoming EmpowerSurvivor Zooom program, Conversations With Elizabeth. Conversations With Elizabeth is a 90-minute program held on Monday evenings, via Zoom, that supports survivors of childhood sexual trauma, promotes mental health, and covers topics of healing, wellness, recovery, etc. If you are a professional, mental health therapist, holistic health practitioner, attorney for survivors of child abuse, etc. we would love to have you!

Calling all companies, businesses, and organizations! We wanted to personally invite you to our upcoming webinar, Method to The Madness: Mental Health Awareness Made Manageable, May 26, 2022 @ 10 a.m. PST/1:00 p.m. EST. We are passionate about helping organizations manage the emotional and mental health needs of employees in the workforce. We know businesses are struggling to mitigate the effects of mental health and social and civil justice issues we are facing. As mental health...

What are the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, our relationships and our goals, dreams and aspirations? What story are we telling ourselves about the future of the world? Often it is a story from the past. Cause that is all we “know”. We only know what we have experienced. We don’t know what will happen in the future. We think we do… but we really don’t know.