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NYC Schools Reported Over 9,600 Students to Child Protective Services Since Aug. 2020. Is It the ‘Wrong Tool’ for Families Traumatized by COVID? [the74million.org]

By Asher Lehrer-Small, Photo: Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74 Million, January 27, 2022 P aullette Healy can tick off the ways her family’s life has been plunged into uncertainty and fear over the last three months: Her younger child’s repeated nightmares and increased anxiety, the hours she’s poured into collecting forms from her kids’ doctor and psychiatrist to prove she’s a fit parent and an arduous and probably costly legal process that still looms to clear her name. From early November...

Roy Choi’s ‘Broken Bread’ is a food show that’s really about gentrification and other social issues [thewashingtonpost.com]

By Rachel Hatzipanagos, Randall Michelson, The Washington Post, January 20, 2022 The typical celebrity chef food show follows a familiar formula: chef visits a new locale each week, shepherded by a local to restaurants where they eat mouthwatering dishes over a good conversation. Los Angeles chef Roy Choi wanted to do something different with his show “Broken Bread.” “People love looking at food on TV, and so it’s kind of weirdly disguised as a food show,” Choi said. Each episode, Choi...

Childcare spending not your responsibility, senator? What fine Republican hypocrisy [theguardian.com]

By Poppy Noor, Photo: Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, January 27, 2022 Ron Johnson, the US senator for hot takes, famed for such hits as “[the Capitol riot] seemed like a peaceful protest to me” and “mouthwash has been proven to kill the coronavirus ”, is at it again. On Wednesday, Johnson, the senior Republican senator from Wisconsin, told local news station WKBT: “People decide to have families and become parents. That’s something they need to consider when they make that choice.” He...

Why would anything be wrong? I'm tooooooootally fine 😖

This past Sunday, I had one of those most glorious and luxurious of days. It started with breakfast in bed with my girlfriend brought to us by my sweet guy. Then he wandered off, and she and I were left with hours of time to fill with all of our luscious feminine energy. Next up was a 90 minute Healing in Motion movement class, during which we got to embody different types of weather and did some mirroring movement exercises as well. This led to our bodies opening up, stretching, and...

NH Invests in State-Wide Program to Heal Educator Burnout

CONCORD, NH — The New Hampshire Department of Education is partnering with The Regulated Classroom to assist educators throughout the state in preparing their students for learning and equipping educators with resources to reduce stress and dysregulation in the classroom. “This new collaboration is aimed to support teachers who may be experiencing disruptions in their school environments, who today, are struggling with dysregulated students that have had inconsistent and disrupted...

Shared-Equity Homeownership Offers an Alternative Path to Wealth Building for Renters with Low Incomes [housingmatters.urban.org]

By Arthur Acolin, Alex Ramiller, et al., Photo: Imagenet/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, January 26, 2022 Homeownership is a key tool for wealth building, particularly for households with low and moderate incomes, for whom homeownership is often their primary means of asset building. Yet barriers to entry, including down payments and other borrowing constraints, prevent many households from accessing and equitably benefiting from homeownership. Shared-equity homeownership (SEH) programs are...

No, America is not on the brink of a civil war [theguardian.com]

By Musa al-Gharbi, Photo: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, January 27, 2022 A ccording to a number of polls and surveys , significant majorities of Republican-aligned voters seem to believe the big lie that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 US presidential election and, consequently, the Biden administration is illegitimate. Taking these data at face value, a growing chorus insists that we’re living in a “post-truth” era, where members of one political party, the Republican...

5 U.S. Cities Where Bike Commuting Is Booming [bloomberg.com]

By Laura Bliss, Photo: Lane Turner/The Boston Globe via Getty Images, Bloomberg City Lab, January 26, 2022 In 2019, just 0.5% of U.S. commuters rode a bike to work, the smallest share of any mode. But tiny shifts can make a big difference. Data-driven bike plans, safety improvements and supportive political leadership helped boost bike commute rates in several cities in recent years, according to a new report from the League of American Bicyclists. In “ Benchmarking Bike Networks ,” the...

Reducing child poverty is a no-brainer — but not because of effects on children’s brains [thewashingtonpost.com]

By Mical Raz, Photo: Michael Blackshire/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, January 28, 2022 A new study has found that babies of poor mothers who received cash stipends last year had changes in their brain activity patterns. As the expanded, refundable child tax credit (CTC) has expired and key politicians, in particular Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), have been withholding their support for reviving this important anti-poverty program, its supporters have expressed hope that this...

Catastrophic Thinking

Have you ever believed the worst about a situation that may or may not have happened? For instance, you call home from work, and your partner doesn’t answer. Immediately, you believe that there has been a horrible accident, and you just don’t know about it yet. That is called catastrophic thinking. This article will focus on this phenomenon and how to overcome this rumination of doom. What is Catastrophic Thinking? Catastrophic thinking is an anxious behavior that may be part of the symptoms...

Register now! Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems February 4, 2022

February 4th, 2022 - 1pm-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT - Building the Movement in the Child Welfare and Justice Systems Making these sectors trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered You’re invited to participate in the third of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience”. This half-day workshop will occur virtually and focus on promising practices in the child welfare and justice systems, as well as teach...

A Trauma Informed Focus On Employee Well-Being

Organizations, agencies, departments, businesses, and industries, the list goes on and on. They all seem to be struggling with employee retention, recruitment, and issues of burnout. If we were to take a peek into the organizational cultures of these organizations I'm wondering if we would find a culture that is thriving or surviving? Do they care for their employees through a human lens, or as just a number? Do they employ compassion or authority when managing employees? A trauma-informed...

Experts Call The Pandemic A Collective Trauma. Why Don't We Talk About It That Way? [npr.org]

A customer rests their head down while speaking with a Delta Airlines employee at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport on January 13, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images [Editor's note: Bessel van der Kolk's book mentioned below, has been on the New York Times paperback nonfiction bestseller list for 170 weeks.] When we talk about the pandemic, we talk about stress. Burnout. Uncertainty. Isolation. We don't talk as much about trauma. But a growing number of mental health...

February 2022 trainings by PA Care Partnership and Lakeside Global Institute - FREE!

The following four trauma trainings are available in February. Trainings provided by PA Care Partnership and taught by Lakeside Global Institu te. Register for any or all trainings: https://lakesidelink.com/training/pa-care-partnership-training-winter-2022/ Training Descriptions: Trauma 105: An Introduction to Trauma for Parents & Caregivers Parents and Caregivers can play an important role in helping children recover from traumatic events. This workshop is designed to provide parents...

Opinion: Online Learning Doesn’t Work for Low-Income Students Like Me. Here’s How We Can Do Better [calhealthreport.org]

By Jessica Nunez, Photo: Diego Cervo/iStock, California Health Report, January 11, 2022 For the past two years, student life has been different. The university I attend, UCLA, transitioned to virtual learning, which meant students couldn’t see a single professor or classmate in person. For students from low-income families, like me, this change was extremely challenging. More than 70 percent of students attended school remotely during the first year of the pandemic, statistics show . This...

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