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By Kristin Toussaint, Image: iStock/Getty Images Plus, Fast Company, February 8, 2022 For many Americans, benefits like expanded unemployment, stimulus checks, and child tax credits were crucial for staying afloat during the pandemic. But those benefits weren’t available to everyone: Undocumented and mixed immigration status families were often excluded from that assistance, or failed to receive the benefits even when they were eligible . Now, a new guaranteed basic income pilot and study in...

Has the pandemic stressed you out? Want to learn the self-soothing skills of Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience directly from the author, Dr. Carolyn Curtis? Good news! The Dibble Institute has received generous funding for scholarships to the online, full 12-lesson series, Mind Matters Now . The course helps teachers, social workers, medical professionals, and others manage their stress by building resilience skills and practices for mental well-being. (CEU’s are...

Thanksgiving is upon us and with it comes people sharing a meal and discussing how grateful they are for their lives and their loved ones. However, it is vital to understand that not everyone is grateful, but they feel pain in its place. This article will explore a different approach to gratitude that is trauma-sensitive. Thanksgiving Rubbish Too often survivors of complex trauma are bombarded during the Thanksgiving season with advertisements and other media about how they should be...

By Abigail Higgins, Image: iStock/Washington Post Illustration, The Washington Post, February 8, 2022 Ahead of Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, the city of Los Angeles has been taking the usual steps to prepare to host the event: painting the field at SoFi Stadium, setting up equipment for the halftime show. As part of that effort, there have been campaigns to stop human trafficking: Last month, signs started popping up in hundreds of Los Angeles airport bathrooms ; and solemn video messages from...

By Jeremy Loudenback, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, February 1, 2022 F or decades, social workers investigating Los Angeles County parents accused of child abuse and neglect have relied on training, in-person interviews, consultations with supervisors and a straightforward, 16-item risk assessment to decide how cases should proceed. But in recent months, county workers who decide whether or not kids should be removed from their homes have begun using a new, more high-powered...

By Ariel Wittenberg, Photo: Chris Linder, All About Birds, December 21, 2021 It’s a busy morning on Capitol Hill when the gaggle of congressional staffers and their boss, U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal, gather on the back lawn. At this moment in early October, Congress is locked in negotiations over the biggest-ever boost in federal funding to fight climate change. But this morning’s meeting isn’t about legislation in the House of Representatives. It’s about three visitors perched atop the...

By Elizabeth Blair, Image: William Still's The Underground Railroad , 1872, National Public Radio, February 8, 2022 He has been compared to James Bond and Malcolm X, though his name has largely been left out of the history books. Abraham Galloway was an African American who escaped enslavement in North Carolina, became a Union spy during the Civil War and recruited Black soldiers to fight with the North. That's the short version. The fuller picture would include his work as a revolutionary...

Welcome to Virtual Healing Circles! At UC Davis Health we are working to realize Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of the Beloved Community . We invite you to join us in a session of compassionate listening and intentional sharing to foster understanding, love, and unity. Join us Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Please register here: bit.ly/healingcircle2-23

Based on decades of asking people young and old this question, I’ve found that there are seven keys to a happy and stress-free relationship. Learn them here!

“Introduction to ACEs, Using Trauma-Informed Approaches, and Fostering Resilience — Level 1,” an online, asynchronous training course, is now free and available to the public. This course is offered by the East Tennessee State University Ballad Health Strong BRAIN (Building Resilience through ACEs-Informed Networking) Institute. It offers an overview of what is meant by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how these may impact lifelong physical and mental health. Participants will learn...

By Anderson Cooper, Image: CBS News, CBS News, February 6, 2022 Last year, when archeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation's history. Starting in the 1880's and for much of the 20th century, more than 150,000 children from hundreds of indigenous communities across Canada were forcibly taken from their parents by the government and sent to what were called...

By Peter T. Coleman, Greater Good Magazine, February 8, 2022 In 2006, I joined a group of about 40 peace experts in a small remote village in Poland called Kazimierz, a historic haven for Jews in a predominantly Catholic region of the world. There Andrea Bartoli, an accomplished peacemaker and devout Catholic who works tirelessly around the world to reduce deadly conflict, made an hour-long presentation arguing that because highly contentious conflicts can become so constricting—in terms of...