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Our world is full of challenges and issues that demand our attention. Whether it's poverty, climate change, discrimination, or mental health, there are countless global issues that require a lot of attention. We may feel overwhelmed and find ourselves grappling with how to channel our energies for positive change. Fortunately, one important avenue is open to all of us: volunteering. Volunteering means offering one's time, skills, and resources selflessly without expecting monetary...

Adolescent girls are experiencing extreme levels of trauma and adversity, especially African American, Hispanic/Latina and Indigenous girls, as we discussed with author Donna Jackson Nakazawa last year when her book “ Girls on the Brink—Helping our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression and Social Media. ” launched. This week host Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, will touch on those topics and more with guest Vernisha Crawford, who discusses the lives of girls...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Baab SM, Lawsing JF, Macalino CS, Springer JH, Cline DM. Nonaccidental Pediatric Trauma: Which Traditional Clues Predict Abuse? Pediatr Emerg...

Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.

La Maida Project (LMP) is hosting three upcoming experiential workshops aimed to create a trauma-responsive and ACEs-aware culture in the organizational settings where you engage. A few spots remain and we are inviting the PACEs community to sign up free of charge using the promo code PACEsTogether . LMP is working to address the mental health crisis by healing our connection to self, community, purpose, and the natural world. Our experiential education workshops emphasize the participant's...

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20231022172231/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-10-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_October_2023.pdf The Surviving Spirit Newsletter October 2023 Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education &...

This isn’t your usual article about domestic violence, the one that’s pretty much been repeating itself since the 1980s: that there’s too much of it, the lifelong pain it causes (mostly) women and their children, that there’s not nearly enough support for them. All that is true. This article focuses on a remarkable solution to family violence: Programs that expand the focus on healing to the abuser.

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges Raj Chetty, David J. Deming, John Friedman NBER Working Paper NO. 31492 July 2023 Leadership positions in the U.S. are disproportionately held by graduates of a few highly selective private colleges. Could such colleges — which currently have many more students from high-income families than low-income families — increase the socioeconomic diversity of America’s leaders by...

By Carly Mellenbaum, Illustration: Lindsey Bailey/Axios, Axios, Ocotober 23, 2023 A new, more expansive definition of " infertility " could lead to more help for hopeful LGBTQ+ or single parents. Why it matters: The decision by an influential organization of reproductive health providers to redefine the condition could lead to broader insurance coverage of fertility services like egg freezing and in vitro fertilization for all people who need help starting families — not just those in...

Jacqueline Herrera struggled to pay $120 a week in fees for classes and counseling so that her kids wouldn’t end up in foster care. “Without support, the whole thing feels more like a punishment than a helping hand,” she said. Photo by Jeremy Loudenback By Jeremy Loudenback, The Imprint, October 18, 2023 The cost of drug treatment, anger management sessions and counseling has long been the responsibility of parents accused of child maltreatment in California’s most populous county. The...

Study: Social media and e-cigarette use: The mediating role of mental health conditions. Image Credit: Diego Cervo / Shutterstock By Dr. Sushama R. Chaphalkar, News Medical & Life Sciences, October 17, 2023 In a recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders , researchers from Pennsylvania investigated the role of indicators of mental health conditions in the relationship between the use of social media and e-cigarette use among the youth. They found that the symptoms of...

A girl tries to collect usable belongings amid the wreckage of vehicles after the explosion at Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images By Linah Mohammad, National Public Radio (NPR), October 19, 2023 When Fidaa Al-Araj received the pre-recorded message last week telling her to evacuate her home because the area was about to be bombed, she first thought of her children. To her surprise, they had actually beaten her to the street. The day before, an Israeli...