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By Turnaround for Children, Photo: Alison Shelly/EDUimages, Turnaround for Children, February 17, 2022 In communities across the country, students and the adults who teach, support, and care for them are struggling under the weight of more than two years of uncertainty, fear, and lack of safety from the COVID-19 pandemic. BIPOC families have disproportionately experienced some of the most disruptive impacts due to the pervasive context of systemic racism, which has been exacerbated by the...

I was thrilled to interview my colleague here at PACEs Connection, @Donielle Prince (PACEs Connection Staff) , for Episode 22 of Latchkey Urchins & Friends Podcast . My podcast co-host Anne Sherry and I interview Dr. Donielle Prince about holidays in the United States like Presidents day and the legacy of historical racial trauma and violence which complicates celebrating said holidays. We talk about the messiness of engaging with social justice and racial equity work and how to stay in...

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your client's traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. Join Dr. Scott Sells, to learn

Awareness to Change February 17, 2022 California and the nation are moving forward with the acceptance of the family court crisis. There has been pushback, but as most know, this means we are making waves in the status quo, that is the culture that dismisses abuse. More are finding the courage to name abuse. More are not accepting the DARVO tactics nor getting distracted with blanket custody laws. More are learning about abuse and trauma. Below is the National Safe Parents Coalition update...

By Mavis Sanders, Chrishana M. Lloyd, and Sara Shaw, Photo: Unsplash, Child Trends, February 17, 2022 This brief is part of a larger effort by Child Trends researchers to expand knowledge about Black children and families. This effort includes continued work on Black family cultural assets and the development of a new multi-year applied research agenda on Black children and families. While sometimes prioritizing adults within Black families and sometimes prioritizing children, the goals of...

By Tonya Mosley, Photo: Wikipedia, National Public Radio, February 16, 2022 In Civil Rights Queen, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin profiles Motley, a Black woman who wrote the original complaint in Brown v. The Board of Education and was on Martin Luther King's legal team. TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we're going to hear about a woman whose biographer says belongs in the pantheon of great American leaders. And the lack of attention she's received is a form of...

By David Robson, Elia Barbieri/The Guardian, The Guardian, February 14, 2022 I n the late 19th-century America, a somewhat bizarre form of abstinence emerged. The vice was not alcohol but anxiety. Citizens of New York began to attend regular “Don’t Worry Clubs” in which they encouraged each other to look on the bright side of life. Their founder, Theodore Seward, argued that Americans were “slaves to the worrying habit”, which was the “enemy which destroys happiness”. It needed to be...

By Brentin Mock, Photo: ilbusca/Digital Vision Vectors, Bloomberg CityLab, February 17, 2022 Like most of metro Atlanta, the suburbs of Cobb County have been becoming more liberal and diverse. So much so that in 2020, Cobb County’s board of commissioners changed from majority-Republican to majority-Democrat for the first time in decades, with the election of three Black women. One of them, Lisa Cupid, is the first African American and woman to chair the board of commissioners in the county’s...

by Laura Gallant, 2/17/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to offer continuing education credits for the HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE. Physicians, nurses, social workers and psychologists will be able to get up to 1.5 hours of continuing education credit. Register here to get your continuing education credits at the HOPE Summit! Please note that these credits only apply to Dr. Wendy Ellis’s Keynote, and not the afternoon workshops. We...

Sufficient, good quality sleep strengthens the brain wounded by ACEs in many ways. Intelligent sleep strategies improve mood, brain (and medical) health, brain function, and the capacity to rewire negative neural pathways imprinted in childhood.

The work to create a kinder world never ends. There is no limit on the amount of goodness we can put into the world, but we need your help! We invite you to join the annual Random Acts of Kindness Day (RAK DAY) celebration on Thursday, February 17, 2022 and help #MakeKindnesstheNorm Random Acts of Kindness Foundation 2022 Coloring Contest DOWNLOAD COLORING PAGE (8.5"X11") Download Coloring Page (A4) You are invited to join our first annual coloring contest! Beginning on February 1st, 2022...

By Kevin Schaul and Jonathan O'Connell, Image: From study, The Washington Post, February 16, 2022 Last year, investors bought nearly one in seven homes sold in America’s top metropolitan areas, the most in at least two decades, according to the realty company Redfin. Those purchases come at a time when would-be buyers across the country are seeing wildly escalating prices, raising the question of what impact investors are having on prices for everyone else. Investors were even more...