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Since late 2021 and into 2022, the Georgia Essentials for Childhood Initiative has been encouraging parents, caregivers, professionals, all those who work with or around young people, and all those who may have experienced their own trauma to read the book "What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing" , coauthored by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD. The inaugural Georgia Reads initiative was launched in November 2021 with a webinar hosted by the Georgia...

Long-time health, science and technology journalist and PACEs Connection publisher Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren to do a deep dive into why people aren’t getting an accurate picture about violence in their communities. In fact, the state of violence reporting boils down to this: the news media are unintentionally providing misinformation about violence. Remarkably, the basics of crime reporting haven’t changed much since the late 1890s. Essentially, it’s the...

If you are a survivor of trauma, you have a ton of terrible memories of what happened to you. These memories are haunting apparitions that have controlled how you handle your life. Currently, your life is probably full of flashbacks, self-loathing, and pain. This new series of articles is dedicated to trauma survivors learning how to create new healthy memories for themselves so they can live in a better future. Tips for Letting Go of the Past Letting go of the past is one of the hardest...

Hello survivors, advocates, policy-makers, social workers, teachers, principles, business owners, parents, and community members. Here are some resourceful articles which are published by medical, health and legal institutions about child abuse, sexual assault and neglect. Keep in mind that you are not a statistic, you are a person with lived experience, and you are a survivor who is empowered to learn and to grow. You are in control of your fate. You have the power to heal. The journey of...

I can envision an end to the ACEs epidemic. The current loneliness epidemic and the current family estrangement epidemic are also rooted in ACEs. Relying on professional therapy alone will never do it. Most of us either don’t need professional therapy or can’t afford it; and there will never be enough good therapists to meet the need - over half the people in the US (approximately 60%) have experienced ACEs. Key to the strategy is broad based self-analysis, supported by therapists as needed.

Dr. Melissa Merrick, CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America. Photo by Steven Gross. By Dr. Melissa Merrick, Imprint News, February 15, 2022 — As a researcher and policy advocate who has dedicated her career to the prevention of child abuse and neglect, I was thrilled to see the House of Representatives pass the Build Back Better Act late last year. Now it’s up to the Senate to provide the necessary economic and social supports American families need to thrive as our country continues to grapple...

By Jeff Stein, Photo: Brittany Greeson/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 17, 2022 The number of American children in poverty spiked dramatically in January after the expiration of President Biden’s expanded child benefit at the end of last year, according to new research released on Thursday. The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University said that the child poverty rate rose from 12 percent in December 2021 to 17 percent last month, an approximately 41...

By Melinda Wenner Moyer, Illustration: Alva Skog, The New York Times, February 15, 2022 Dr. Jessi Gold, a psychiatrist at Washington University in St. Louis, knows she’s edging toward burnout when she wakes up, feels instantly angry at her email inbox and doesn’t want to get out of bed. It’s perhaps not surprising that a mental health professional who is trying to stem the rising tide of burnout could burn out sometimes, too. After all, the phenomenon has practically become ubiquitous in our...

By Atiya Jordan, Photo: Brandon Harris, Black Enterprise, February 16, 2022 A North Carolina college student turned an independent advocacy study into a life-changing battle for his childhood friend to be released from prison 12 years early. Maryland natives Brandon Harris and Sura Sohna grew up together in Annapolis, attending the same elementary and middle schools. By 12, Sohna’s troubles with the law began after he was arrested for stealing a bike. By 2018, he was facing 15 years in...

By Don Lee, Photo: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, February 17, 2022 At first, it was just a few things in the meat and produce sections that caught Gayle Stafford’s eye. But soon she noticed that prices were rising for soup and cereal. And it wasn’t just in the supermarket. With overall inflation now running at a 40-year high of 7.5% , Stafford, a schoolteacher who lives outside Cincinnati, suddenly finds herself worrying about the family’s financial future, especially...

By Naomi Zewde, Raz Edwards, and Erinn Bacchus, Photo: Unsplash, Roosevelt Institute, February 16, 2022 Most household wealth (particularly for low- and middle-income Americans) is held in home equity. Federal policies during the early 20th century helped open new avenues to homeownership for middle-class Americans—but these policies were explicitly racially exclusionary, employing a system of “redlining” to delineate the desirability of neighborhoods based on their racial makeup. Though the...