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(UPDATE: Webinar moved to July 7th 11-12 PST) In this webinar, we’ll discuss the unique importance of school mental health at this time, what schools can do to support it, and how these efforts can be funded (including accessing ARPA funds). Join experts in school mental health/trauma-informed program design, implementation, and funding streams to explore how schools committed to supporting student wellbeing can find a path that considers both your school capacity and the needs of your...

The early summer has seen a slew of high-impact state legislation on child welfare and youth justice. Last week, New York lawmakers moved several landmark bills while punting a few to next year’s legislative session. Among the biggest moves: The state will now give parents whose rights have been terminated a path to court-ordered contact with their children, even those who have been adopted from foster care. Children below the age of 12 can no longer be arrested and processed in New York’s...

Conference Speakers Announced, New Physical Punishment Report & More We are excited to announce our opening and closing plenary speakers for "Transforming Our Tomorrow: 2021 Prevent Child Abuse America Virtual Conference": Dr. Nadine Burke Harris: Surgeon General of California and long-time advocate for the prevention of ACEs. Vu Le: writer, speaker, and former Executive Director of RVC, known for his no-BS approach, irreverent sense of humor, and love of unicorns. Additionally, Lisseth...

By Businesswire, June 16, 2021 Today, JPMorgan Chase announced new steps to address the housing affordability gap as part of its $30 billion commitment to help advance racial equity and drive an inclusive recovery. By combining its unique set of business, data, policy and philanthropic resources, the firm aims to improve housing affordability and stability as well as homeownership opportunities for Black and Latinx households. This includes: Addressing housing stability, affordability and...

Empowerment Peer support group for individual's impacted by a parent's substance use: Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/empowerment-in-community-with-fritzi-horstman-tickets-159897328213 Join us on June 29, 2021 @ 6:00pm MST as we listen to Fritzi Horstman, founder of Compassion Prison Project , share how she has used the wisdom from her own experiences with a parent's substance use to advocate for compassionate prisons and communities. We will talk shame, healing, and advocacy work and...

By Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, June 11, 2021 Upending laws on the books since at least 1909, the New York Legislature passed a historic justice reform this week that bars the arrest and prosecution of children who are 11 years old and as young as 7. More than a hundred young children are arrested and prosecuted in New York each year, overwhelmingly Black and Latino children who face off with law enforcement in their earliest years of life. If signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D),...

By Dennis S. Charney, STAT, June 15, 2021 O ne morning almost five years ago, a disgruntled former employee tried to kill me with a shotgun as I walked out of my local deli. The buckshot pellets from the blast pierced my right shoulder and chest; blood gushed from the wound. I learned later that the shot would have killed me had it landed a few inches to the left. I had studied trauma victims for decades to understand resilience and find new treatments for mood and anxiety disorders like...

By Ezra Klein, The New York Times, June 13, 2021 I’m not going to pretend that I know how to interpret the jobs and inflation data of the past few months. My view is that this is still an economy warped by the pandemic, and that the dynamics are so strange and so unstable that it will be some time before we know its true state. But the reaction to the early numbers and anecdotes has revealed something deeper and more constant in our politics. The American economy runs on poverty, or at least...

From Mount Sinai Parenting Center, June 16, 2021 The Science of Fatherhood As we approach Father's Day, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the role that fathers play and how important they are to their child's development. Beyond general praise, here are a few fun facts you can share with the (newest) fathers in your practice! 1. Similar to the hormonal changes that a mother experiences after childbirth, fathers experience an increase in oxytocin after interacting with their children. [...

By The Editorial Board, The Boston Globe, June 15, 2021 Law enforcement agencies have historically been ill-prepared to respond effectively to emergency incidents involving behavioral health — that is, when a person suffering from a serious mental illness or substance use disorder behaves in a threatening manner, endangering themselves or the public. That’s starting to change, albeit slowly. As calls for police reform have heightened in recent years, police departments across the country...

By Heather Tirado Gilligan, California Health Care Foundation, June 14, 2021 A record 31 million Americans enrolled in Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace or Medicaid expansion coverage nationally this year — nearly 4 million more than signed up in 2020, according to new data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The total includes about 15 million adults who were covered as of December 2020 through the ACA’s Medicaid expansion . The ACA enrollment record is likely an...

T ransforming Trauma Episode 044: The Connection Between Complex Trauma and Chronic Pain with Dave Berger In this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Sarah is joined by Dave Berger, MFT, PT, LCMHC, MA, SEP. Dave is a somatic psychotherapist, physical therapist, bodyworker and educator. He owns and runs a training program for trauma practitioners called BASE: Relational Bodywork and Somatic Education Training. Dave is also a Trainer for Somatic Experiencing International and Legacy...