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PACEs Connection is honored to host guest speaker Lynette Grey Bull at our event: PC Reacts to Gabby Petito and Missing White Woman Syndrome on Tuesday, October 12, 2021. PC Reacts is a new series by PACEs Connection in which we look at current events through a trauma-informed and PACEs science lens. Please register for this event: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 Noon to 1pm Pacific Time >> Register Here<< Please read the full event details here. Lynnette Grey Bull Northern Arapaho -...

I started a Facebook group for people who wish to inform their and other providers. The intention is to share resources, strategies, and success stories. Patients For Trauma Awareness : Uninformed providers inadvertently harm trauma survivors. The medical system doesn't spread trauma awareness or focus on Trauma-Informed Care training fast enough for our safety. Patients for Trauma Awareness is for trauma survivors and others who want to share resources, strategies, and successes to help our...

How does toxic stress in the first eighteen years of life cause such suffering in adulthood? Understanding promotes recovery.

This is the second in a series on how the arts can build resilience in a community. This project, in particular, was one of the top five in my career and still has lasting impact on so many levels.

A difficult divorce is where marriage or the relationship ends and the war begins. The child is then caught in the middle or used as a pawn or battering ram in this high-stakes battle for control. Nothing is more challenging for professionals than to get the child out of the middle and the parents to work together. Family trauma is magnified under these conditions. This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to understand cutting-edge strategies to quickly engage...

By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, October 6, 2021 In a shocking revelation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday released provisional data suggesting that between 2019 and 2020, the country had its biggest increase in the rate of homicides in modern history. Furthermore, The Guardian pointed out , “At least four Black women and girls were murdered per day in the United States in 2020, according to statistics released by the F.B.I. last week, a sharp increase...

I wanted to share a little series about the ways in which the arts can build resilience. For this weekend, I will start at the beginning ... back in the late 1990's and early 2000's with a rock musical that impacted thousands of lives.

By Terry Brooks, Courier-Journal, October 7, 2021 Is that the best we’ve got for our kids? Knee-jerk and wrong-headed proposals. Courageous young people giving voice to the issues at hand in the middle of a school board meeting . Bold leadership from our superintendent. And a puzzling mix of regressive and promising policy proposals from Metro Council leadership. Thus is the landscape of Louisville as we grieve the tragic murder of Tyree Smith . And as we reflect upon the Louisville...

By Lizzie Tribone, Talk Poverty, October 5, 2021 When Jennifer Brown left Minnesota Correctional Facility-Shakopee on a work-release program, it had been six-and-a-half months since she had seen her son, Elijah. The last time they’d been together was when she gave birth to him, under the watch of two prison guards, in a hospital near the prison. Brown had forty-eight hours with her newborn before she had to hand him over to a family chosen by Together for Good, a religious nonprofit that...

By Jesse Wegman, The New York Times, October 7, 2021 Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison. She has been free ever since, but she is still barred from voting by the state until she pays all court fines and fees associated with her conviction. When Ms. Bolden sat to be photographed by The Times earlier this year, she said she had received a letter informing her that her outstanding debt was a few hundred dollars. Then she checked the Volusia County website and...

The pandemic has had a lasting effect on youth mental health. Moved by a desire to reduce youth’s toxic stress and increase their resilience, The Dibble Institute, in partnership with a team of students and alumni from ArtCenter College of Design and author Carolyn Curtis, PhD, is releasing Me & My Emotions —a new, free adaptation of our beloved Mind Matters Curriculum. The mobile-friendly Me & My Emotions website features engaging graphics and bite-sized lessons teens can access and...

If you’re feeling extra anxiety these days, you are not alone. We’re all in a state of uncertainty as we’re facing the ongoing pandemic amidst multiple global crises. None of us are going through this unchanged. Living through times like these can be extremely disorienting and unsettling—and fuel anxiety, especially for those of us already susceptible to it. Anxiety feeds on uncertainty. When under chronic stress, we can get overwhelmed and regress easily, often without even realizing it.