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The two prevention strategies focus on promoting social norms that protect against violence and adversity, and ensuring a strong start for children.

From AmeriCorps, April 6, 2022 AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced more than 80 grant awards to state and local organizations for Public Health AmeriCorps , a partnership to support the recruitment, training, and development of a new generation of public health leaders. The first-year grants , totaling more than $60 million, will allow Public Health AmeriCorps programs to recruit nearly 3,000...

By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, Image: Screenshot from article, CNN Politics, April 10, 2022 Eight-year-old Yana was going to gymnastics class six days a week at home near Odessa, Ukraine. Now, she can only practice by herself on a patch of open floor in a refugee center here in the Polish capital. Yana is one of millions of Ukrainian children coping with change: forced to leave her home, her passions and her father behind in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion...

By Denise-Marie Ordway, Photo: Clarence Alford/Pixabay, The Journalist's Resource, April 6, 2022 When journalists covering elections focus primarily on who’s winning or losing instead of policy issues — what’s known as horse race reporting — voters, candidates and the news industry itself suffer, a growing body of research has found. Media scholars have studied horse race reporting for decades to better understand the impact of news stories that frame elections as a competitive game, relying...

By Jason DeParle, Photo: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 11, 2022 By the time she reached school on a recent Monday morning, Norma Mercado had already driven four homeless children to class, one from 30 miles away, having spent the weekend taking a group of homeless students on a college tour and two homeless siblings to buy clothes. Inside her office, a student was waiting, boiling with rage. Louisa Perez’s ex-best friend was insulting her on Facebook, and Ms.

In this webinar the new PACES Connection CEO, Ingrid Cockhren, will explore the connection between adverse childhood experiences, trauma, attachment styles and various types of abuse in dating and romantic relationships. She will examine the systemic nature of trauma and adversity and how early adversity is a root cause of poor relationship outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood. This webinar will also outline systemic solutions for populations that have experienced historical trauma...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. For the entire month of April, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of communities, will examine America's history of child abuse and neglect and outline how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. In part two of this series of episodes dedicated to the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect in America, Cockhren and Portell will discuss the different layers of...

By Laura Gallant, 4/12/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Over the next year, we will be using the 2022 HOPE Summit event website for table-based networking events. On April 20th at 4 p.m. ET, HOPE will host its second free HOPEful Connections networking event on the website. The event will be a great time to discuss how the practice of HOPE interacts across sectors. You will network with people from health care, education, community engagement, and other organizations.

Recently, I've noticed a plethora of articles written about vulnerability in leadership, empathetic leadership, coaching leadership and on and on. Don't get me wrong, I think there is value in each and everyone of them. In a later blog, I'm going to dive into the rabbit hole about why before we implement a new leadership strategy, what we first need to do is ensure we have the safety to carry it out. But alas, that's for another time. For now, I want to talk about what you should focus on...

By Kaylee Poche, Photo: Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune, Gambit, April 4, 2022 Amanda Schroeder saw a lot during her time as a school counselor in New Orleans. Schroeder, who now works as the president of the nonprofit Communities in Schools, recalls the time a decade ago when she worked in a public school in New Orleans East. A kindergartener at the school would abruptly bolt from their desk, running out of the classroom without warning. Sometimes, he’d run out of the school building...

I am so excited about the panel and day! It’s for all who want to attend, and CEUs for LCSW, LADC, CADC, LPC, LMFT, CM, CDSVRP. Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrf-6przwjHNSJHhnmgnB-jT5iVTFmMqNz

Climate Science for the World’s Worry: a 12-month Series Do you make efforts to comprehend the uncountable impacts of the climate crisis on our beloved earth, and does your mind boggle? Do you worry about the future? Do you struggle with helplessness and overwhelm? Do you sometimes feel so much tenderness for the world that you think you might burst? You are not alone. This collection of feelings is often called climate anxiety, and it’s happening to people all over the world as we face...