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The very best remedy for climate anxiety is knowing that this a collective experience, not an individual experience. This is a 12-month learning community to build understanding, resiliency and togetherness amidst the ecological crisis we and our planet are facing.

Learn! Connect! Discover! Friends, it's time for a good ol’ resource share out. There are so many excellent opportunities coming up in the next few months, from PACEs Connection and beyond, both no-cost and paid. I know we are tired…but these are too good not to check out! I invite you to add things I have missed in the comment section. Events PACEs Connection Virtual Trauma-Informed Schools Summer Leadership Institute June 21-24 https://www.pacesconnection.co...leadership-institute Join us...

Details and registration - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/301625769797 You can create a classroom and school environment where students feel connected and encouraged. Imagine a room filled with young people who are engaged in learning, contribute to problem-solving, and help build their own community. Introducing our 5-week Rooted Relationships series , which brings together the most helpful and practical tools from the latest brain science research, culturally responsive teaching, trauma and...

On Monday morning, Adrianne Haslet will step to the starting line in the Para Division at the Boston Marathon, ready to begin another 26.2-mile journey that will end at the spot where, nine years ago, she lost her left foot and very nearly her life.

By Jackie Mader, Photo: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report, The Hechinger Report, April 13, 2022 In a dimly-lit classroom in downtown Milwaukee, nine aspiring early childhood teachers scribbled notes as they watched a video about the capabilities of 4-month-olds. Babies at that age “can now follow an object 180 degrees,” the narrator explained, as a baby on screen watched a small toy move from side to side. After a few more scenes showing babies cooing, screeching and batting at objects,...

By Maya Yang, Photo: REX/Shutterstock, The Guardian, April 13, 2022 An “insidious and coordinated” effort between lawmakers and extremist groups is under way to undermine American democracy, according to a new report. On Tuesday, the nonpartisan civil rights organization National Urban League released the annual report in its analysis series The State of Black America. The report, called Under Siege: The Plot to Destroy Democracy, outlines the “conspiracy and the urgent case for a national...

By The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board, Photo: Eduardo Contreras/San Diego Union-Tribune, The San Diego Union-Tribune, April 14, 2022 Editors note: Godwin Higa was principal of the first trauma-informed elementary school in San Diego County. There are three candidates on the June 7 ballot for the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education race in District B to represent the northeastern part of the city — early education commissioner Shana Hazan, retired principal/teacher...

By Ray Levy Uyeda, Photo: Our Children's Trust, The Guardian, April 13, 2022 W hen Grace Gibson-Snyder was 13, she launched an independent project in her home town of Missoula, Montana , to encourage restaurants not to use single-use plastic containers. She found that youth activism enabled her to press the adults in her life to take the climate crisis seriously. Even if she was too young to vote, she could still be heard. Three years later Gibson-Snyder upped the ante by teaming up with 15...

View short excerpts of prior webinars on an inspiring success story on transformation of the foster care system in Arkansas--and learn about a new, in-depth webinar that will share more about how the transformation is being accomplished.

It has been hard to ignore the overflow of grief, insults, in-sensitivities, demands and counter demands during the last months. Between January 1 and April 15, over 50 women have been murdered in the confines of intimate relationships. These >50, are the cases that have been reported in the media. If we know Kenya, there are many other cases that never reach the mainstream media, because families, relatives, and friends of the families collude to hide the real reason a woman died. Aren’t...

Kolor with KLBRI is a healing-centered coloring book and therapeutic tool for leaders, advocates, and practitioners.

Dr. Karyn Harvey , noted expert on trauma with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) argues, “Trauma in people with IDD is the elephant in the room.” The statistics are harrowing: People with IDD are 2.5 times more likely to be victims of violent crime compared to people who are not disabled (Harrell, 2017) 31% of children with IDD suffer child abuse compared to 9% of non-disabled children (Sullivan & Knudson, 2000) 14% of direct care staff admitted to acts of...