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Registration and more info on these and other Sound Discipline workshops here. Reimagining Resilience 1: Using a Trauma Lens online, Feb 8 & 15 Reimagining Resilience 2: Developing Firmness Tools online, March 3 & 10 We are all continuing to navigate the stress and impacts of the COVID pandemic. Our school systems and staff are maxed out. Just making it though the day is a lot! Youth-serving organizations and community partners are exhausted from meeting the needs of young people and...

Many patients develop food addictions to cope with the challenging feelings of depression and anxiety, and certain medications work to balance the chemicals in the brain responsible for those ACE-related struggles. Curious to learn more? Join our upcoming FREE webinar!

Hello, I now have 3 training videos to share, as well as a new workbook. The first video is the Ethical Self-Care https://youtu.be/ktkBwFjh5HA The second is Connect All Foundations https://youtu.be/mUUNajxyrJg And the third, after you go through either of the previous is an application workshop, for the self-care framework "Five Through the Filter" https://youtu.be/teL6HmK0VYY The workbook for the application workshop in on the website https://www.connectall.online/ under the 'Materials'...

By Melinda Wenner Moyer, Photo: robbie jack/Corbis/Getty, The Atlantic, January 20, 2022 Last Thursday, a group of 20 mothers in Boston met up outside a local high school. Their goal wasn’t to socialize, drink wine, or even share COVID-related tips. They were there for one reason and one reason only: to stand in a circle—socially distanced, of course—and scream. “I knew that we all needed to come together and support each other in our rage, resistance and disappointment,” Sarah Harmon, the...

From Creating a Family, Image: Join us as Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families. Dr. Bruce Perry, is a child psychiatrist and neuroscientist, the principal of the Neurosequential Network, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy, and adjunct Professor at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. He is the author the numerous books including co-author along with Oprah Winfrey of What Happened to You?:...

By Catherine E. Shoichet, Image: Disney, CNN Health, January 18, 2022 Kadesha Adelakun bought toys from "Encanto" before she even had a chance to see the movie. She knew characters from a multiracial Afro-Latino family would be an important addition to her office in Kennesaw, Georgia, where she holds play therapy sessions and makes a point of finding toys that reflect the diversity of her young patients' lives. When she finally watched the movie on Disney+, Adelakun realized the figurines...

By Chris Kjoljede, Photo: Getty Images, Public Health Post, January 19, 2022 Madison and her mother recently moved into a community with a school-based health center. Madison has had a difficult time fitting in to the middle school; she is quiet and has few friends. At her annual health check-up, she scores high on a depression scale prompting the nurse practitioner to probe further. Madison has lost weight and is cutting. After speaking to her mother, who also registers concern, the nurse...

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Forward-Facing Face to Face: Mission Statement, Vision and Code of Honor Join Dr. Gentry and Jenny Brackman for a opportunity to declare your Mission Statement, Vision and Code of Honor before witnesses in a supportive community. Over the holiday season we finalized our Documents of Intention and are excited to share them, as well as support anyone who would like to share theirs. Open to anyone! Join us Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 5:00pm Arizona Time for Forward-Facing Face to Face: Mission...

On February 24, 2021, Dr. Warren Larkin of the UK and Becky Haas of the US launched the first meeting of the Global Resiliency Accelerator. During 2021, over 60 people from 14 countries joined the event as it met quarterly. Among these in attendance were professionals from Lithuania, Australia, Ukraine, Scotland, France, Canada, New Zealand, the US, Dublin, and Wales. The Participants' enthusiasm and passion was so great, that several of them made a commitment to be up in the middle of the...

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a set of trauma-informed skills that can help people monitor their bodily sensations and ground themselves towards their Resilient Zone. CRM is supporting individuals towards resilience in Georgia and across the nation. To read more about the basis of CRM and how it's being used today, check out our newest blog post here .

By Carl Romer and Andre Perry, Photo: David McNew/Getty Images, Bloomberg Opinion, January 18, 2022 When people debate whether to forgive some or all of the $1.75 trillion in student debt weighing on millions of American families, opponents often argue that it would be wasteful and unfair: Too many relatively well-off, well-educated people would benefit at the expense of all taxpayers, many of whom never had the desire or opportunity to attend college. Reasonable as this might sound, it’s...