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ACEs Connection , the CTIPP (The Campaign for Trauma -Informed Policy & Practice), and the Relentless School Nurse , are co-hosing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival and Zoom discussion series. These are our next two events and we hope you will join us: 1. Weekend Streaming of Whole People from March 12th - March 14th, 2021): We will be streaming of parts 4 and 5 of the Whole People documentary series on the weekend of M arch 12th through March 14th, 2021 in the...

This week at EmpowerSurvivors 1940 Greeley Street, South Suite 210 Stillwater, MN 55082 www.EmpowerSurvivors.net ** Supporting Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Since 2014*** Join us weekly at EmpwowerSurvivors for peer support programs, meetings, and more! ________________________________________ Conversations With Evey & Elizabeth 6:00 pm ( Central) Monday 3/8/21 via Zoom Special Guest: Suzanne Isaza Topic: Surviving Incest Register in advance for this meeting:...

Photo Description and credit: Otsuchi Town, Japan Photography by Issei Kato . E xcerpts below from reporting by Mari Saito published in www. reuters.com:

These are some of the requests that came in this week for sets of Advancing Parenting's fifty-one bumper stickers. Because we haven't any funding none were printed and none were shipped. Everyone was placed on a waiting list that was started in 2016. Visit www.advancingparenting.org. **************************************************************************** Hello, I'd love to order some bumper stickers for our agency. Our address is listed below. Thank you so much for all that you do.

Rene Howitt, founder of Cope24, offers professional development workshops to school districts across the nation. She also provides presentations and key note speaking at universities, teacher conferences, advocacy events and churches.

March 5 is DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) Awareness Day. Given the correlation between ACEs and Dissociative Disorders, I want to bring this day and some resources to your attention. Even the most trauma-informed and competent practitioners often have difficulty diagnosing and treating the spectrum of dissociative disorders (DDs), especially DID. But we are learning that this elegant way of coping with chronic, severe childhood trauma is more prevalent than previously thought. Current...

Fritzi Horstman sits down with Rick Raemisch, former Executive Director of Colorado Department of Corrections, who, during his term, ended long-term solitary confinement in Colorado.

Fritzi Horstman sits down with Thomas Hübl, author of "Healing Collective Trauma" for a discussion about how, as a society, we are experiencing and dealing with the traumas of our collective past.

This article was originally posted on the Forward-Facing Institute Blog March 4, 2021 Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I thought I was safe. At four years old, I believed if I couldn’t see you, you couldn’t see me. I had secreted myself away in a nice little spot between the couch and the wall and eagerly stuck my thumb in my mouth. As I closed my eyes, the delicious feeling of numb...

Interview with Dr. John Kelly from the Prevention Technology Transfer Center Network (March 5, 2021) In the following email interview, Dr. Kelly responded to questions posed by Chuck Klevgaard, Prevention Manager for the Great Lakes PTTC. Meet the Researcher: Dr. John Kelly, Harvard Medical School Expert on stigma in addiction treatment and recovery Interview with Great Lakes PTTC Photo credit: Recovery Answers Dr. John F. Kelly is the Elizabeth R. Spallin Professor of Psychiatry in the...

By N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, March 2, 2021 On Wednesday, an official at a Mississippi middle school apologized after eighth graders were asked to pretend they were enslaved people, including writing letters discussing their "journey to America" and the family they "live with/work for." During Black History Month, a Florida high school teacher was suspended with pay after allegedly telling students slaves were not whipped by white people and that the N-word, a racist slur, “just means...

By Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, March 1, 2021 On the evening of April 28, 1997, Kuan Chung Kao, a thirty-three-year-old Taiwan-born engineer, went to the Cotati Yacht Club near Rohnert Park, a quiet suburb in Sonoma County, California, where he lived with his wife and three children. Kao went to the bar a couple of times a week for an after-work glass of red wine; on this evening, he was celebrating a new job. According to a bartender working that night, Kao got in an argument with a customer,...