Do I just assume this is something I already knew? Do I assume that something bad has happened and I need to be afraid and hide? Or do I want to be curious and explore?” When I read those questions, I couldn’t help but think of the one thing that would allow me to “be curious” when it came to overcoming my fears and embracing new encounters, new people, and new ideas: trust.
By Amanda Winn, 5/24/2021, positiveexperience.org/blog The HOPE team is growing. We are grateful to report that the past year has been an incredibly busy time for us at the HOPE National Resource Center. We’ve conducted over 50 trainings and the requests keep rolling in! Providers across sectors, from the medical community to home visiting, early childhood, juvenile justice, substance use prevention, and K-12 education, want to learn more about HOPE. We have some exciting new technical...
By Good New Network, May 14, 2021 Literacy skills have actually improved in the pandemic, with children reportedly picking up more challenging books and getting lost in fiction to combat isolation, a study from the UK has shown. With schools often closed, many more pupils began to enjoy reading again—with 56 percent of young people saying they enjoyed reading either very much (24 percent) or quite a lot (32 percent). During the first British lockdown, One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus...
By Sara Mar, May 18, 2021 Colonization is not merely stealing land. It is a robbery of autonomy. An erasure of identity. And an oppression of culture. Native Pacific Islanders have endured centuries of colonization. In 1521, the Spanish began colonizing the island of Guam, which led to the near complete genocide of the indigenous Chamorro population. Those who did survive had their culture forcibly stripped away. The Spanish suppressed the Chamorro language and replaced the native religion...
By Betty Marquez Rosales, EdSource, May 20, 2021 Los Angeles Unified on Friday plans to launch a student college savings program that will give thousands of first-graders their own college fund. The program, called Opportunity L.A. , is set to become the largest school district college savings program in the nation once it enrolls all first-grade students attending district schools. L.A. Unified, the state’s largest school district and the nation’s second-largest, enrolled over 35,000...
By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report, May 13, 2021 W hat if one of the answers to reducing inequality and addressing mental health concerns among young children is as simple as providing more opportunities to play? A growing body of research and several experts are making the case for play to boost the well-being of young children as the pandemic drags on—even as concerns over lost learning time and the pressure to catch kids up grow stronger. Play is so powerful, according to a recent...
Whether of our true free will or not, what we and others are doing or not doing right now affects our and others’ safety and possibilities. For the most safety and hope possible, every moment truly matters.
Our creative and spiritual energies come together in healing to restore the whole self, over time.
Medical Advocacy in the Face of Discrimination | May 27, 2021| 12:00pm - 1:30pm PT Live presentation with Dr. Sharon Cooper. Free CME/CEu Link for 30 second summary by Dr. Cooper : https://www.avahealth.org/resources/california-aces-academy/sharon-cooper.html Registration: https://www.avahealth.org/
Sarah Peyton, author of the new Your Resonant Self Workbook, is a neuroscience educator, Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication, and author. Her work focuses on a compassionate understanding of relational trauma on the brain, and using resonance for change and healing.
Positive mental health is essential to a child's healthy development from birth. It promotes positive youth development, resiliency during difficult times, and recovery. Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, children have faced unprecedented challenges, including making sudden and significant changes to their daily routines and dealing with the separation or sudden death of a loved one from afar. The NCTSN has resources to help parents, caregivers, child welfare workers, and providers support the...
Resilient Georgia is dedicated to healing adversity and promoting resiliency in children and families. We do this through the prevention and early intervention of ACEs and by sharing best practices with our 500+ stakeholders and 80+ partners. As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, we’d like to invite you to join the Resilient Georgia conversation on social media. Our Facebook and Instagram accounts are filled with ongoing content on children’s mental health at the intersection of...
Reopening schools/organizations/non-profits/governments/businesses come fall will not be easy. Some take-away strategies for successful reopenings are addressed in a webinar June 19th at noon (EST). Powerpoints available after attendance to serve a a go-forward guide. Join us. Sponsored by DKG International (altho donations graciously accepted). While the focus is educational settings, the import is broader. Here is link to register; it is also embedded in the flyer. See you there I hope. ...
By Oriya Cohen and Maya Brennan, Housing Matters, May 8, 2021 Suburban communities across the United States are rapidly diversifying. As suburbia becomes less white, new residents have reshaped its form and use, expanding a particular version of the American dream to include their diverse histories and cultures. Asian Americans have been central to this process, overcoming a long history of exclusionary immigration policies and racially restrictive housing policies to stake their claim in...
By Melissa Borja and Jacob Gibson, Virulent Hate Project,, May 2021 ABSTRACT To understand trends in coronavirus-related, anti-Asian racism, the Virulent Hate Project at the University of Michigan reviewed 4,337 news articles published between January 1 and December 31, 2020. We identified 1,023 incidents of anti-Asian racism, which included 679 incidents of anti-Asian harassment and vandalism and 344 incidents of stigmatizing and discriminatory statements, images, policies, and proposals.