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By Lisa Marsh Ryerson, Image: Screenshot from article, NationSwell, April 1, 2022 Older workers are a ready, willing, and able talent pool — but many feel the workplace isn’t an accommodating place for them. According to an AARP report, more than 78% of older workers have seen or directly experienced age discrimination in the workplace. On top of that, 64% of workers 50 years of age and older believe employers see their age as a disadvantage in getting hired, and 79% of those 65 and older...

By Zoe Sottile, Photo: Steve Helber/AP, CNN US, April 2, 2022 The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrated the tribe's reacquisiton of the land Friday, according to a press release from the Department of the Interior . "We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place to the Tribe," said Rappahannock Tribe Chief...

By Hallie Golden, Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, April 1, 2022 O ne month after Ranelle Rose Bennett disappeared, agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services’ newly created missing and murdered unit (MMU) arrived at her house on the Navajo Reservation. Her mother, Rose Yazzie, had initially reported the 33-year-old missing to Navajo Nation police after Bennett hadn’t shown up to her daughter’s 10th birthday party...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ian Austen, Image: Amber Bracken/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 1, 2022 Pope Francis apologized on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church’s involvement in a system of Canadian boarding schools that abused Indigenous children for 100 years, and said he would travel to Canada as part of a process of healing and reconciliation. His apology comes after Canada was jolted last year by the discovery of evidence that more than 1,000 people, most of them...

Lyra Walsh Fuchs | DissentMagazine.org Over 630,000 children, who are disproportionately Black and Indigenous, were “served by the foster care system” in 2020, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. That number doesn’t account for the many families placed under informal supervisory plans, or who received surprise knocks on their doors from caseworkers, often accompanied by police. Dorothy Roberts and a growing number of activists across the country have another...

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This is what the result of unresolved trauma looks like. What we witnessed Will Smith do in assaulting Chris Rock during the Academy Award ceremony was a trauma response. While I am in no way condoning violence, this is a very public and important opportunity for us to understand what a trauma response can look like. A trauma response can take many forms and look like: Slapping someone for saying “the wrong” thing. Yelling at someone for not doing something “fast enough” or “up to your...

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Note: A CDC update provided a link to a new page on the CDC website on Creating Positive Childhood Experiences. It includes sections on "What are ACEs" and "Everyone has a role to play" (parents and caregivers, coworkers, and everyone) in creating safe and healthy conditions for all children, including community programs and policies. It includes a 3-minute video and Resources section. Healthy and happy childhoods start now. Learn how you can help! Children and families thrive when they have...

The issue is not only the vulnerable falling through the cracks. The absence of trauma-informed organizations is pushing the workforce, a population of vulnerable individuals as well, to the point of breaking.

By Simon Romero, Photo: Cengiz Yar/The New York Times, The New York Times, March 31, 2022 As universities across the United States face steep enrollment declines , New Mexico’s government is embarking on a pioneering experiment to fight that trend: tuition-free higher education for all state residents. After President Biden’s plan for universal free community college failed to gain traction in Congress, New Mexico, one of the nation’s poorest states, has emerged with perhaps the most...