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From Niagara Frontier Publications, February 26, 2021 The Osborne Association and the Buffalo Police Department announced the Safeguarding Children of Arrested Parents Project to develop and enact a child-sensitive policing policy, protocols, and training to minimize the potential trauma for children from parental arrest and other police enforcement activities. A new consortium of WNY youth-serving agencies is advising the project and working to provide trauma-informed follow-up services to...

By Idaho Youth Ranch, May 1, 2020 Just as there are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that play a role in the future success of kids, there are also 7 positive childhood experiences (PCEs) that can offset their damage. This recent discovery comes from a John Hopkin’s study published in 2019. Researchers were looking to determine if any “protective childhood experiences” could be linked with positive outcomes as adults—increasing resiliency and offsetting some of the trauma or damage...

By Catalyst Life Services, Richland Source, March 15, 2021 The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is looking for more Richland County teens and young adults ages 14-24 to join this youth program. WIOA is a collaboration between Catalyst Life Services and Richland County Job & Family Services that provides job seekers with assistance in finding their path to employment and education while also helping businesses find qualified workers to strengthen local workforce...

By Ashira Prossack, Forbes, March 16, 2021 The leaders of tomorrow are in school right now. Imagine the possibilities that could exist if they were provided with a foundation of skills that would not only serve them well in their studies, but also stick with them as they enter the workforce. This foundation of skills can be developed via after school education programs. While these programs are often tied to one skill such as math or writing, in reality kids are learning more than just...

By Alisha Haridasani Gupta and Alexandra E. Petri, The New York Times, March 4, 2021 Congress is considering a new bill that could provide women across the country who face pregnancy discrimination a clear channel for recourse. It took only eight years, six legislative sessions and thousands of lawsuits — including one that made it to the Supreme Court — to get to this point. And now it might finally pass. The new bill , known as the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, or PWFA, was first...

By Rachel L. Swarns, The New York Times, March 15, 2021 In one of the largest efforts by an institution to atone for slavery, a prominent order of Catholic priests has vowed to raise $100 million to benefit the descendants of the enslaved people it once owned and to promote racial reconciliation initiatives across the United States. The move by the leaders of the Jesuit conference of priests represents the largest effort by the Roman Catholic Church to make amends for the buying, selling and...

By Dylan B. Jackson, Alexander Testa, Michael G. Vaughn, and Daniel C. Semenza, National Library of Medicine, April 16, 2020 Abstract Objectives: To examine the association between exposure to police stops and sleep behaviors and explore whether social stigma and post-traumatic stress might inform this association. Methods: A sample of 3,444 U.S. youth from the most recent wave (2014-2017) of the Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) was employed. Youth reported their sleep...

By Monica Lewinsky, Vanity Fair, February 18, 2021 "We are walking wounds, but I am not sure any of us know quite how to talk about it,” writes Roxane Gay in her new essay, “Writing Into the Wound,” published on Scribd. The piece, inspired by an undergraduate workshop Gay taught at Yale on writing trauma, describes Gay’s experience attempting to write about being gang-raped at age 12, first in fictional stories written as a teenager, “melodramatic and overwrought and dark and graphic,” and...

In this webinar from Miss Kendra Programs, we will discuss the research on stress hormones and the immune response, and what to expect from our students and ourselves as the pressure from the pandemic is released.

By Richard E. Besser, The Hill, March 16, 2021 For much of the past year, most every American has been looking forward to the day when optimism can replace dread. With vaccination numbers climbing , COVID cases and deaths declining , the economy showing signs of healing and winter ending, many might feel that day has come. And while I am truly optimistic, my optimism is for the vision of what our nation could be, not for what it was before the pandemic or what it is now. A large swath of the...

By Joe Parks, MD - Medical Director, National Council for Behavioral Health The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the health and welfare of so many people, and it seems no one is immune from the fear, isolation or economic anxiety caused by this historic public health crisis. The mental health of young people represents a unique concern that requires attention. In a recent survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 63% of 18- to-24-year-olds...

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