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A mother embraces her 5-year-old son, whose school was evacuated during the Route Fire, on Aug. 31, 2022 near Castaic, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Jeff Brady, KQED, December 14, 2023 Eighteen California children are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it violated their constitutional rights by failing to protect them from the effects of climate change. The suit is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of children. According to the...

From The Imprint, Image: from article, The Imprint, December 2023 Who Cares is the nation’s first public resource on foster care capacity. The Imprint collects data directly from each state, and combines that with specially obtained federal reports to shed light on two critical questions: How many kids are in foster care today? And where are they living? This year the data suggests that nationwide, the number of youth in care is going down, and so is the number of licensed foster homes.

By Abigail L. Zeamer, Marie-Claire Salive, Xinming An, et al., Image: from article, Translational Psychiatry, November 18, 2023 Abstract Patients exposed to trauma often experience high rates of adverse post-traumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS). The biological mechanisms promoting APNS are currently unknown, but the microbiota-gut-brain axis offers an avenue to understanding mechanisms as well as possibilities for intervention. Microbiome composition after trauma exposure has been...

By Laura Gallant, 12/14/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ Whether you are a new or returning Summit attendee, The HOPE National Resource Center welcomes you to register for the Fourth Annual HOPE Summit taking place virtually on March 20 and 21, 2024. This year’s Summit is themed, “The HOPE Transformation,” where the HOPE community will dive into the Six Standards of HOPE . These Standards were created to help organizations align their practices with the HOPE framework. Deep dive into...

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20231212193838/ Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared...

Community members representing various races, ethnicities, ages, genders, and people with disabilities stand on rectangular bars from a bar graph while holding up a line graph, conveying representative data collection. Photo credit: Gracia Lam By Tina Kauh, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 7, 2023 To advance health equity, the research field and philanthropy must address underlying racism present in data collection. My parents, like so many other immigrants, moved to America with...

By Laura Newberry, Illustration: Patrick Hruby, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2023 Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched by the shadows of our former selves. The concept that personal history plays a key role in our psychology has been formally recognized since the days of Freud . A younger, burgeoning field of study is now...

By Alexa Spencer, Photo: South_agency/Getty, Word In Black, December 6, 2023 Being locked away in a prison cell for years on end can be devastatingly lonely for people behind bars. Aside from mail, TV, radio, and guest visitation, their access to the outside world is limited. Perhaps, lesser known is how loneliness impacts the loved ones of incarcerated people. A 2018 report by Essie Justice Group found that 1 in 4 women in the United States, and nearly 1 in 2 Black women, have a loved one...

Left: On Dec. 7, 2022, family and friends released pink balloons in remembrance of Andreae Lloyd, whose boyfriend has been charged in her 2021 death. Right: Andreae Lloyd. Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem that disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous women, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. States are encouraging more use of lethality risk assessments by law enforcement. Courtesy of Alfreda Lyons By Nada Hassanein, Stateline,...

The impacts of childhood trauma can follow people into adulthood causing what the CDC has determined is a 14 trillion dollar impact. Kira/RooM RF/Getty Images By Sujata Srinivasan, Photo: Kira/RooM RF/Getty Images, Connecticut Public, December 12, 2023 The U.S. economy could be $14 trillion larger if adult health conditions caused by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are prevented, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers at the Centers for...

To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.

Ariel Clinical Services , a Colorado agency that provides services across the state, participated in the Traumatic Stress Institute's IDD-centered Learning Collaborative (LC) in 2021 with three other client agencies. Ariel saw this LC as an opportunity to cement, deepen, and embed previous TIC efforts into the very fabric of their organization. Jesse Padilla-Goryl, the BCBA Program Manager for Ariel, was an essential leader of Ariel’s TIC change effort and has written a blog post about his...