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If you read the following seventeen excerpts from the brief they give the impression that child abuse only happens in low income and marginalized communities. I don't think this is helpful. Doesn't unsupportive and harmful parenting happen at all income levels? Consider Dr. Gregory Williams' book, Shattered by the Darkness, and Marilyn Van Derbur's book, Miss America by Day, and Mary Trump's book about the former president.

Understanding the need for fresh, powerful framing strategies, Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) and the newly merged Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and Council on Accreditation asked the FrameWorks Institute to update framing recommendations that have served our field well since 2004. The result is a new strategic brief, Reframing Childhood Adversity: Promoting Upstream Approaches . This actionable guide takes recent science and current communications contexts into...

Coping with family estrangement, especially during the holidays, is tough for survivors to face alone. This is why it is vital to find and form a family of choice (FOC). A family of choice offers welcome support to help from people who have your wellbeing at heart.

By Dr. Bob Sege, 3/15/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Our first annual summit is just a month away, and we are thrilled to announce that our afternoon breakout sessions are now open to the public! Please register at this link , which you can also find on the Summit landing page . Our virtual summit seeks to inspire a group of leaders who will, together, champion a movement to shift how we support children and families, creating systems of care based on understanding, equity, and trust. The...

By The Annie E. Casey Foundation, March 8, 2021 A year after the coronavirus pandemic began, the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that a historic drop in the size of the youth detention population at the beginning of 2020 did nothing to reduce the already huge racial and ethnic disparities in who gets detained, despite the health concerns of confinement during the pandemic and a national reckoning about racial justice. In fact, the overrepresentation of Black and Latino youth in detention was...

By Miriam Jordan, The New York Times, March 1, 2021 The sun-baked desert valley tucked behind the San Jacinto Mountains is best known for an annual music festival that draws 100,000 fans a day and a series of lush, oasis resort towns where well-heeled snowbirds go to golf, sunbathe and party. But just beyond the turquoise swimming pools of Palm Springs, more than 10,000 farmworkers harvest some of the country’s largest crops of date palms, vegetables and fruits. Mainly undocumented...

By Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, March 12, 2021 I n the early 1970s, a psychoanalyst named Herbert J. Freudenberger opened a free clinic to treat poor patients in New York City. It was a bit of a passion project: Freudenberger would work 10 to 12 hours during the day in his private practice, then head over to the free clinic to work until midnight or later. He seemed to realize that he was overcommitting. “You start your second job when most people go home,” Freudenberger wrote at one point.

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, The Washington Post, March 10, 2021 President Biden is slated to sign into law this week a $1.9 trillion stimulus package that clears one hurdle for broad student debt cancellation and tightens federal regulation of for-profit colleges. Congressional leaders seized an opportunity to accomplish some long-standing objectives through the latest pandemic relief bill, which passed the House on Wednesday . Chief among them is eliminating the tax burden many student...

Here are two talks that I gave for first responders in Mississippi...they explain the free download I have posted Maintaining Emotional Sobriety during COVID WORKBOOK It you go to tiandayton.com, you can also find short videos introducing each chapter in the workbook.....the workbook is good for personal growth, peer healing groups, or for therapists to use with clients......it focuses the issues that we need to work through in order to heal some of the COVID pain we may be carrying so that...

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If you aren't Zoomed out, consider joining us on March 20th at noon for a conversation on whether schools can be a place for healing trauma. Three educators engage with each other and with you. Learn some trauma responsive strategies. Free (with request for $3 donation to go to Nu Zeta Chapter of DKG -- women educators honor society). Here's the link. More info on the attached document. See you there I hope. ...

Join us on Monday, March 15, 2021, at 6:00 pm Central for Conversations With Evey & Elizabeth Join us on Monday Evenings for Comfortable Conversations on Uncomfortable Topics. Each week we will introduce conversation starters and discuss issues of interest for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. This relaxed, informal, interactive group will meet Mondays from 6-7:30 over Zoom for a conversation about the topic of the evening. This week's special guest is Lizzie Hershberger...