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Community schools have been an effective school improvement strategy for over a century, implemented in both urban and rural areas across the country — yet many people have never heard of this dynamic approach to school design. Whole districts have invested in this model over the past several decades, from Oakland to New York City, from Duluth, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma. California recently approved $2.8 billion in the 2022 fiscal year budget for the implementation of community schools...

October 13, 2021 - October 15, 2021 VIRTUAL ONLY 2021 West Virginia Handle With Care Conference is now VIRTUAL ONLY. This event will be held on October 13-15 and sessions will be streamed for virtual participants. 3 Days | 30+ Sessions | Virtual Exhibits | Networking Opportunities Join us for the 2021 WV Handle with Care VIRTUAL Conference! With over 30 presenters and sessions, this event will focus on a trauma-informed response to child maltreatment and children’s exposure to violence. The...

By Mark Kreidler, California Healthline, October 1, 2021 Phebe Cox grew up in what might seem an unlikely mental health danger zone for a kid: tony Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. But behind its façade of family success and wealth, she said, is an environment of crushing pressure on students to perform. By 2016, when Cox was in middle school, Palo Alto had a teen suicide rate four times the national average . Cox’s family lived by the railroad tracks where many of the...

By Isabella Grullón and Maria Cramer, The New York Times, October 2, 2021 Edha Gupta and Christina Ellis, two high school seniors in York County, Pa., were furious when they read last month in a local paper that their teachers had been effectively banned from using hundreds of books, documentary films and articles in their classrooms. The list , which was created in 2020 by a diversity committee in the Central York School District, was meant to serve as a resource guide for students and...

Through the news media, Americans are served an almost-daily dose of violence caused by guns. This year to date, more than 33,929 people in the United States have been killed and another 30,000+ have been injured by guns. The U.S. homicide rate for firearms is 22 times greater than that of the European Union, even though the European population is 35% larger. But to Dr. Garen Wintemute , the statistics on injuries and deaths are only one part of the story. To reverse those appalling numbers,...

The Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening & Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Demonstration Project ECHO Quality Improvement (QI) Program is an initiative of the Center for Youth Wellness: A Program of Safe and Sound and the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP), with funding from HRSA. We are pleased to open applications for the TASIE Demonstration Project ECHO QI Program. Selected practices will participate in a 9-month Quality Improvement Project ECHO program and receive...

Applications for the Trauma-Informed Care ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Demonstration Project are due next Friday, 10/8! Earn a $10,000 stipend + 25 MOC Part 4 Points + 13 CME/MOC Part 2 Points! More details at https://njaap.org/tasie/

In 2020, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) surveyed hundreds of ACEs, trauma, and resilience (ATR) networks across the country to learn more about their characteristics, goals, and technical assistance needs. Our findings spotlight the power and potential of ATR networks and opportunities to better support the broader movement for creating healthy, equitable, and resilient communities. The Health Federation of Philadelphia collaborated with NORC at the University of Chicago...

Dropping October 11th! Listen to Dr. B and her Co-host Seth Creekmore in conversation with Jane Stevens, Founder and Publisher of PACEs Connection. [ Please click here to access the podcast .]

By The HOPE Team, 10/5/21, positiveexperience.org/blog A year ago, we posted a blog with ten ways to help children have positive experiences during the pandemic. Now, we know that most families have struggled – successfully – to create positive experiences for their young children during this terribly disruptive time. Although we had hoped that the pandemic would be behind us, we are still living with COVID-19. Progress has been stalled by the rise of the more infectious delta variant and...

We are just a few days away from broadcasting our all-new 7-day event October 4‒10 , which includes the Talks on Trauma Series Part 2 , a showing of the Wisdom of Trauma Movie, daily meditations, integration sessions, and artistic performances. Dr. Gabor Maté will be in conversation with 33+ trauma experts, physicians, authors, visionaries and artists. The talks will be exploring how trauma relates to parenting, chronic pain, the medical paradigm, the climate crisis, politics, spirituality,...

By Linda Matchan, The Washington Post, October 2, 2021 Michelle Browder is a Black artist and activist who runs a civil rights tour company called More Than Tours — so named, she says, because "it's an experience." A sobering experience: stops include historical lynching sites, the city’s former slave market and the old Greyhound Bus Station where 21 young Freedom Riders were viciously beaten by an angry mob in 1961. Still, no historic site on the tour riles Browder as much as a statue on...