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By Elizabeth Thompson, Illustration: Elizabeth Thompson, North Carolina Health News, January 13, 2022 Bethany Uhler Thompson didn’t know what to expect when she decided to start a youth string orchestra at Chatham Youth Development Center. She was inspired by her uncle, who was incarcerated and had confided in her how isolating being in prison could be. Thompson used to perform with her cello in a juvenile detention center when she was younger, but she wanted to get incarcerated people...

By Nikki Kay, Photo: LL_studio/Shutterstock, Your Tango, January 11, 2022 “People who go on and on about how messed up they seem like they’re just looking for attention or sympathy.” “At some point, you have to grow up and get over it.” How many times have you heard these arguments used against survivors of childhood trauma? After all my work recovering from my own childhood and speaking out about trauma recovery , it will come as no surprise how close to home these comments hit every time I...

By Nick Romeo, Illustration: Jo Zixuan Zhou, The Washington Post, January 10, 2022 A bout five years ago, Kate Emery, the founder of a successful digital-consulting firm in Farmington, Connecticut, was considering retirement. With nearly fifty employees and annual revenues around ten million dollars, her company, the Walker Group, was quite attractive to potential buyers. If she sold to the highest bidder, she might easily make millions. And yet she didn’t want to sell. Selling, she knew,...

By Elahe Izadi, Photo: Nicole Neri/Reuters, The Washington Post, June 11, 2021 The Pulitzer Prize board awarded a special citation on Friday to Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose cellphone footage of George Floyd’s murder last summer led to massive protests and sparked a racial reckoning in the country. Frazier was 17 at the time she filmed Floyd’s death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and she testified at Chauvin’s trial, where he would eventually be convicted.

Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...

By Laura Gallant, 1/13/22, positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ This year we will be hosting a Week of HOPE, this will take place March 7 – 11, 2022. Throughout the week we will highlight all the amazing work of HOPE featuring the many organizations we have worked with and who use HOPE to support children, families, and communities. The HOPE framework offers a new approach that brings identifying, celebrating, and promoting positive experiences to the forefront of care. To declare this an...

By Linda Poon, Image: Rise Home Stories, Bloomberg City Lab + Equality, January 12, 2022 The U.S. housing system contains a morass of hard-to-understand policies past and present that have delivered injustice to many Americans, particularly people of color. But there’s one simple theme that unites these policies: The narrative that the American dream of homeownership can be achieved by anyone through hard work and smart decision-making is a myth. A new project created by housing and...

By Laura Newberry, Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2021 Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning, 18-year-old Kelly Zamudio grabs her clipboard from the wellness center at Garey High School in Pomona and with a fellow peer counselor — they work in pairs — sets out to meet the first student on her list. The three sit in the quad or lunch area, empty of teens when class is in session. They have about 15 minutes together, so they waste no time. “How are...

By Pedro Toledo, Photo: US Atlas, The Press Democrat, January 9, 2022 Every 10 years, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission creates new district maps for the state Senate, Assembly, Board of Equalization and U.S. House of Representatives to ensure that each district has roughly the same number of people. Given the population shifts over the past 10 years, most districts had to significantly change to ensure equal representation and fair maps across the state. When I applied to...

By Jen Roesch, Photo: Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images, Truthout, January 9, 2022 I n June 2020, when schools across the U.S. remained closed due to the pandemic, Bettina Love, author of We Want to Do More Than Survive , noted how much became possible when the system was forced to prioritize the lives of students, teachers and families. Laptops were distributed and internet access was provided. High-stakes, standardized tests were canceled. In many cases, grades were...

By Lloyd I. Sederer, Image: Discovery Productions/Fair Rights Usage, January 10, 2022 Who stormed the U.S. Capital on January 6, 2021? Who are the members of armed militias? Who sit riveted to the invective coming daily on the world-wide-web? Many have offered their (varied) psychological and demographic profiles. But what seems missing are those people who are under- and unemployed, with limited educations and a childhood littered with toxic, psychological trauma. Recall, the...

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