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Online ARTIC 30% COVID-19 Recovery Discount

The ARTIC (Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care) Scale is the most widely used and cited psychometrically validated measure of trauma-informed care. To-date, there has been an estimated 50,000 administrations of the ARTIC worldwide that include more than 90 studies launched using the Online ARTIC , the automated online platform for the ARTIC. The ARTIC scales measures staff attitudes toward trauma-informed care. Globally, there are signs of COVID-19 recovery, though we have a long way...

Why We Need "Now Jobs" in Workforce Development [aspeninstitute.org]

By Amy Blair & Ranita Jain, Aspen Institute, June 13, 2018 Years into the economic recovery, young adults still face difficulty connecting to the labor market. For young people of color, the Great Recession has had long-lasting effects and has compounded systemic obstacles. Living in communities without a strong employment base, attending low-performing schools, and lacking networks of people who can help them get a start make it difficult for young people to get a firm footing in...

How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And Wealth In Chicago [npr.org]

By Terry Gross, National Public Radio, May 6, 2021 There is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. On average, residents of the Streeterville neighborhood, which is 73% white , live to be 90 years old. Nine miles south, the residents of Englewood, which is nearly 95% Black , have a life expectancy of 60. Journalist Linda Villarosa says the disparity in life expectancies has its roots in government-sanctioned policies that...

Black America's Neglected Origin Stories [theatlantic.com]

By Annette Gordon-Reed, The Atlantic, May 4, 2021 when i was growing up in Conroe, Texas, about 40 miles north of Houston, my classmates and I took Texas history twice, in the fourth and seventh grades. We learned about Texas’s history in the United States, its previous existence as a republic, and its time as a province of Mexico. Among other things, we were exhorted to “remember the Alamo” and “remember Goliad,” famous events in Texas’s fight for independence from Mexico. Some other...

Human infants can override possessive tendencies to share valued items with others [nature.com]

By Rodolfo Cortes Barragan and Andrew N. Meltzoff, Nature, May 5, 2021 Abstract Possessiveness toward objects and sharing are competing tendencies that influence dyadic and group interactions within the primate lineage. A distinctive form of sharing in adult Homo sapiens involves active giving of high-valued possessions to others, without an immediate reciprocal benefit. In two Experiments with 19-month-old human infants ( N  = 96), we found that despite measurable possessive behavior toward...

What to remember as we reconnect post-pandemic with student families [edsource.org]

By Thomas Courtney, EdSource, May 3, 2021 If you asked me two years ago which student owned a guinea pig named Max or eight dogs, I am certain I could not have told you. But now I can. It’s strange to be in a position where we see so much of our students’ lives through a computer screen, and yet also feel so disconnected from the students and the families we serve. Now, as schools and their communities seek to re-establish these relationships, state and district leaders are considering how...

OK25by25 Five Year Update Presentation Video Streaming Links [pottsfamilyfoundation.org]

We are excited that the Ok25by25 Early Childhood Coalition 5 Year Update is just around the corner. The presentation will "go live" on Monday, May 10th at 10:00 a.m. Our keynote speaker is Rob Grunewald, economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, who will be introduced by Secretary of Human Services Justin Brown. Four interactive discussions take place between two service providers in each of four topic areas (and OK25by25 metrics) including Child Poverty, Teen Pregnancy, Food...

Brené with Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce D. Perry on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing [brenebrown.com]

From Brené Brown, May 5, 2021 This week I’m talking to Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry about their new book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing . We define trauma and talk about why big and small traumas activate our stress response systems and create emotional, physical, and social consequences, and how we can find the path to healing. [ Please click here to listen to the podcast .]

CPP's Fritzi Horstman interviews Jason Hernandez

Jason Hernandez is an advocate for clemency, process reform, and serves on the board of the Buried Alive Project, which works to eliminate life without parole sentences handed down under federal drug law. Hernandez is known as one of Obama’s eight – the first wave of low level nonviolent drug offenders to be granted clemency by President Barack Obama. While in prison, Hernandez became a respected jailhouse attorney and was paid to work on other prisoners cases.

Conflict at School: Recognize, Extinguish and Avoid

Tension in a child's or parent's school team is painful and unpleasant. Therefore, you should read this article if you or your child were unable to come to a consensus with someone from the school. How conflict differs from bullying Bullying is a deep and systematic problem, and it manifests itself in the form of aggression by some children against others. In bullying, there is always an inequality of power. However, bullying does not always translate into physical attacks - violence can...

Let’s Talk About the Fear Response and Fighting the COVID-19 Virus

The COVID-19 virus has become something that people are terrified of getting. In response to this fear, people are hoarding everything from meat to toilet paper. However, being so afraid has an unexpected consequence, the lowering of the immune system’s ability to fight off disease. This article will focus on the effects of fear on the human body and ways we can mitigate the danger that stress causes when there is a potentially fatal virus floating around. Stress Hormones and the Human...

Let's Get ACEs Science into our Classrooms with PJI Teachers Academy! [Peace and Justice Institute]

Participate in the summer PJI Teachers Academy! The PJI Teachers Academy is a week-long intensive program designed for educators by educators. This immersive cohort-based program supports teachers in reflecting on their lives and current practices and with an eye to deepening equity in their hearts, minds, and classrooms. Based on the latest neuroscience and teaching literature, participants will explore topics such as privilege, race, gender, trauma informed classrooms, ACEs, resilience,...

The Other Side of Languishing Is Flourishing. Here's How To Get There. [nytimes.com]

By Dani Blum, The New York Times, May 4, 2021 With vaccination rates on the rise, hope is in the air. But after a year of trauma, isolation and grief, how long will it take before life finally — finally — feels good? Post-pandemic, the answer to that question may be in your own hands. A growing body of research shows that there are simple steps you can take to recharge your emotional batteries and spark a sense of fulfillment, purpose and happiness. The psychology community calls this lofty...

Joe Biden wants to fix America's school funding gaps. It won't be easy. [chalkbeat.org]

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat, April 29, 2021 President Joe Biden and his education secretary Miguel Cardona have been clear: they want to close America’s school funding gaps. “Across the nation, schools with the most students of color received, on average, dramatically less funding than majority-white schools,” Cardona tweeted last week. Biden has already proposed increasing federal spending on schools by doubling funding for Title I. Now, the White House is indicating it wants to go further,...

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