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Something amazing keeps happening in our CRC Accelerator program that we want to shout out from the rooftops this December. Thanks to our committed participants, the number of CRC graduates keeps increasing! The number of graduates has increased by 15x this year. As we head into a new year, w e are grateful for the unique role CRC Accelerator participants have played in expanding the PACEs movement through the willingness to explore healing-centered practices through a PACEs science lens.

As the world sees an increased need for trauma-informed interventions and systems transformation, PACEs Connection proudly announces the launch of the Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Fellowship program created to empower graduates of the CRC Accelerator program.

Calling all advertisers, PACEs Connection is excited to announce advertising opportunities in our newly launched History. Culture. Trauma. podcast media kit.

As we wind down the year, let's reflect on the success of our podcast. In the last year, HCT has reached over 30,000 people. We are grateful! Here is an encore of our very first episode. Long-time health, science and technology journalist and PACEs Connection founder Jane Stevens joins PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren to do a deep dive into why people aren’t getting an accurate picture about violence in their communities in this encore episode — our first episode, in fact — which was...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: From Screening to True Healing April 20th, 2024 Unresolved childhood trauma underlies some of the most pressing social issues of our day including homelessness, drug overdoses, obesity, loneliness, falling lifespan and crime. GOAL The goal of this conference is to bring together medical professionals, mental health professionals, faith leaders, community leaders, and government leaders to provide actionable solutions that result in true healing for those with...

By Columbia University, Photo: freestocks/Unsplash, Technology Networks Neuroscience News & Research, December 11, 2023 Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children. These stressful experiences also appear to be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy, altering the strength of infants’ brain circuits, according to a new study from researchers at Columbia, Yale, and Children’s Hospital of Los...

Elderly people sit on a bench in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg By Sarah Holder, Bloomberg CityLab, December 7, 2023 In a brick rowhouse in Baltimore County live unlikely roommates, born half a century apart. Lena Wilson is 81 years old and has owned her three-bedroom home for over four decades. Her tenant is in his 20s; before moving in with Wilson, he was homeless. Since 2021, Wilson has welcomed young people for...

By Nina E. Cerfolio and Ira D. Glick,Photo: Unsplash, MDedge Psychiatry, December 5, 2023 Our psychiatric research, which found a high incidence of undiagnosed mental illness in mass shooters, was recently awarded the esteemed Psychodynamic Psychiatry Journal Prize for best paper published in the last 2 years (2022-2023). The editors noted our integrity in using quantitative data to argue against the common, careless assumption that mass shooters are not mentally ill. Some of the mass...

Patients in the study were examined using an fMRI machine such as this one. fMRI is a noninvasive way to measure and map activity in the brain. Getty Images By Laura Baisas, Popular Science, November 30, 2023 New research indicates that the traumatic memories of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder are represented very differently in the brain than “regular” sad autobiographical memories . A small study published November 30 in the journal Nature Neuroscience supports the idea that...

Mental Health Professionals are continuously working with individuals who have several traumatic events that may have occurred in their lives. A perfect example would be the disastrous event of Hurricane Katrina that occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana. There were several Mental Health Professionals who worked numerous amounts of hours to assist these individuals in healing post-Katrina. These Mental Health Professionals also began to encounter negative mental health problems from counseling...

By Dara Mathis, Photo Illustration: Alanna Fields; Photo: Spelman College Archives, The New York Times, November 11, 2023 On June 24, 1983, Byllye Avery welcomed busloads of Black women to the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta. She was in a state of disbelief. The women had traveled from Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania — even as far away as California — for a three-day event billed as the First National Conference on Black Women’s Health Issues. She had hoped that 200 women would...

By Jillian McKoy, Photo: KATE_SEPT2004/iStock, The Brink, October 31, 2023 Charlene Coyne often thinks back to how her mother, Donna, struggled with severe hypertension for most of her life, battling complications that led to a heart attack and stroke by the time Donna was in her thirties. She also recalls the dismissive response from a doctor when her mother voiced concerns about the severe side effects—blurry vision, severe headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue—of her blood pressure...