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In this episode of Transforming Trauma, we hear from our guest Prashant Goel. Prashant works in service of healthy cultures and systems. He specializes in leadership development, drawing on both scientific research and global wisdom traditions to advance renewed practices of attention, execution, collaboration, and innovation. Prashant began exploring NARM while taking the Level 1 Online NARM Basics Training. Having studied and practiced with world-renowned teachers, Prashant brings over a...

During Child Abuse Prevention (CAP) Month the Office of Child Abuse Prevention encourages counties to participate in events to increase awareness of child abuse and neglect statewide. One such event is Children’s Memorial Flag Day on April 22, 2022. The OCAP’s vision is for each county to host a Children’s Memorial Flag Day event and to conduct a flag raising ceremony to honor the young lives lost due to senseless violence in the past year. In addition to a statewide raising of the...

Three relatively recent studies from different parts of the U.S. show that only a tiny percentage of physicians, medical school faculty and other healthcare providers are integrating practices and policies based on the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs). Why it matters: For people in the PACEs community, the following is news that’s 20 years old: Adverse childhood experiences are common, preventable and linked to six out of the top ten leading causes of death in...

Thirteen years ago, I was hired as a trauma specialist at a domestic violence/sexual assault coalition. The primary objective of my job was to assist domestic violence programs in enhancing services to women and children who had been impacted by substance abuse and mental health issues. I had been working for domestic violence and mental health programs for several years and felt prepared to jump into the work and help others provide support to survivors of trauma. What I did not know,...

It took eight years for Mathew Portell to get an undergraduate degree. Not sure what to major in, the self-described, “free-spirited vagabond” matriculated at more than a handful of colleges and universities throughout the Midwest while working low-paying jobs to support himself. Yet this month, Portell was hired as director of communities for PACEsConnection, where he will help our Growing Resilient Communities and Cooperative of Communities programs find the resources our network provides...

Early childhood trauma or adverse events in the absence of natural supports or a nurturing caregiver may interrupt and negatively impact brain development and affect behavior and long-term emotional and mental health. Early experiences in life that are positive and negative shape the architecture of the brain. When a an infant or young child is exposed to chronic stress or traumatic events, the brain's emotional center, the amygdala, reacts. In a state of constant fight, flight or freeze,...

In consideration of Women's History month, the entire month of March will be dedicated to the women creating a legacy in the worldwide PACEs movement. In this episode, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, the organization's new director of communities, will talk with Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, an author, lecturer, consultant, radio show host, internationally recognized trauma therapist and social entrepreneur. Miller-Karas is the co-founder and director of...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) “ Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences: Data to Action (PACE-D2A) ” has been underway for about a year and a half (announced September 4, 2020), adding two awardees to the original four to participate in the three-year, $6-million project. PACE-D2A is a major addition to CDC’s already robust portfolio addressing the prevention of ACEs and building resilience in individuals, families, and communities. The initial awards were made to...

By Lenore Palladino, Photo: Unsplash, Roosevelt Institute, March 16, 2022 Chairman Beyer, Ranking Member Lee, Members of the Joint Economic Committee, thank you so much for the invitation. I am honored to be here today. My name is Lenore Palladino, and I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research focuses on large corporations and their critical role in generating innovation, as well as how public policy can enable...

By Ben Steverman, Photo: Myesha Evon Gardner/Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Businessweek + Equality, March 17, 2022 Darrick Hamilton grew up shuttling between two worlds. Each morning during the 1970s and ’80s he and his sister would travel three miles to Brooklyn Friends , the elite private Quaker school that their parents had scrimped, saved, and sacrificed to afford. Then the kids would return from downtown Brooklyn to Bedford-Stuyvesant, which was overwhelmingly Black, largely poor,...

By Taylor Lorenz, Photo: Courtesy of loveyoustepan, The Washington Post, March 17, 2022 For the past week, fans of Stepan , a 13-year-old black-and-brown-striped rescue cat based in Kharkiv, Ukraine, have been in anguish. They’ve refreshed the cat’s Instagram and TikTok feeds and begged for updates in the comments since the accounts went quiet on March 3, as Russia continued its invasion of Ukraine. On Wednesday, nearly two weeks later, Stepan’s more than 1 million followers breathed a...