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By Chandelis Duster and Janie Boschma, Photo: Nitashia Johnson /CNN, CNN Politics, December 15, 2021 T exas cattle rancher Deydra Steans quit her teaching job three years ago to help save her family's farming operations. She was prepared for the strenuous task of herding animals. Steans, 41, usually begins her day at 7 a.m. with her 68-year-old father, Elvin Steans. The pair talk over breakfast and a cup of coffee and then head out onto their ranch to feed cattle. She often drives the skid...

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Traumatic stress causes many problems for survivors and others. We don’t feel well enough to accomplish our life goals or to function in day-to-day routines. There is a new solution to traumatic stress, and it is called Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). This article and those that follow in August will outline traumatic stress and how TRE can change lives. What is traumatic stress? Traumatic stress is a process by which individual’s resources are lost or threatened beyond individuals’...

By Peter Whoriskey, Spencer Woodman, and Margot Gibbs, Illustration: Frank Hulley-Jones, The Washington Post, December 15, 2021 The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren’t fancy. Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago, and for many families in suburban Nashville, they represented a first chance at homeownership. A corrections officer bought one, and so did a housekeeper and an electrician. Then some of the world’s...

By Eden Stiffman, Image: Getty Images, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 15, 2021 In early October, officials at the Latino civil-rights advocacy group UnidosUS announced they would sever ties with Facebook. This meant that the organization, formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, returned or refused $277,272 in grants from the social-media behemoth’s corporate office. UnidosUS was already aware of the harms Latinos face as a result of the platform’s policies and products,...

By Peter Stone, Photo: Nathan Posner/REX/Shutterstock, The Guardian, December 14, 2021 A powerful network of conservative election lawyers and groups with links to Donald Trump have spent millions of dollars promoting new and onerous voting laws that many battleground states such as Georgia and Texas have enacted. The moves have prompted election and voting rights watchdogs in the US to warn about the suppression of non-white voters aimed at providing Republicans an edge in coming elections.

By Allison Morrow, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images, CNN Business, November 17, 2021 A key lesson of the "Great Resignation" is becoming increasingly clear: It's time to shave a day off the workweek. American workers are quitting in record numbers — 4.3 million in August, and another 4.4 million in September. Managers across industries are having trouble hiring , even as they raise wages and offer incentives. But a new survey offers support for a not-so-radical but still uncommon...

By Julia Preston and Ariel Goodman, Photo: Jodi Hilton/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, December 15, 2021 O ne tenant saw an amber glow flickering through her bedroom window. Another, awakened just after midnight by frantic shouts, put his hand on the wall and felt heat. The side of their apartment building was engulfed in flames. They seized their children and fled down darkened stairways. “There was so much smoke we felt like we were drowning,” tenant Lucia Mateo Pérez...

By Chris Crook, Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder, Zanesville Times Recorder, December 7, 2021 Avondale Youth Center became the first children's residential center in the state to be awarded the qualified residential treatment program certification by the federal government. The certification focuses on trauma informed care. "What the federal government wants to see is every child residential center is serving kids in a way that is taking into considering their trauma history," said Gary...

By Dawn McKeen, Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times, The New York Times, December 8, 2021 A year after her mother died from Covid, Fiana Garza Tulip held a small memorial service on a Texas beach that her family had visited countless times when she was a child. As she and her brother dropped a wreath of yellow roses into the waves, she expected to cry. But the tears did not come. She felt only guilt for appearing to be unmoved, heartless even. Ms. Garza Tulip, 41, had endured so many...

By Joe Hernandez, Photo: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images, National Public Radio, December 14, 2021 The Canadian government will set aside $40 billion — more than $30 billion in U.S. currency — to compensate Indigenous people who faced abuses as children in the country's residential schools, officials announced Monday. The funds will also be used to reform the country's troubled child welfare system. The pledge comes amid ongoing negotiations between Canadian authorities and First Nations...

By Janae Jordan, WXXV 25, December 9, 2021 Gulf coast judges and 150 stake holders came together for a two day training event to implement trauma-informed care for children. Professionals working in mental health, schools, law enforcement, church ministries, and child welfare gathered at the u-s-m gulf park campus for a two-day training on “Trust-Based Relational Intervention”– also known as TBRI . TBRI Is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of...