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The December 2020 CTIPP-CAN call began with an update by a representative from the Office of Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) to provide an overview on trauma-informed legislation and additional highlights in the policy landscape for engaging race, trauma, and wellness. The next presenter, Father Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project and CTIPP board member, explores the ways in which anti-racist and trauma-informed work may find synergy. This session examined ways in which...

Resilience, which is defined as the capacity to recover from difficulties, is a vital tool in building a strong child welfare system, but what does that really mean? It is easy to say that resiliency is important, but effectively utilizing systems and tools for children and families as well as the employees who serve them is a different challenge. Through the latest research, we know resilience is made up of many different factors, from one’s genetics to their environment and support...

Thanks to the generous support of the more than 130 people who donated, we are more than half-way to our goal to raise $50,000. And we have no doubt that we’ll get there! To recap, we began this campaign in November with a challenge from an anonymous donor, who told us that if we could raise $50,000, there would be another $50,000 coming. Our original deadline was December 31, but we closed our doors during the last part of December and the beginning of January to give our very tired staff a...

In this episode of "Delusional Optimism," Dr. B explains the need to trace back earlier patterns of unresolved emotional conflict in our past, understand trauma in our present life and work towards breaking the cycle of trauma transmission through generations. Understand how unresolved reminiscence from the past affects your relationships in the present. “This is at the heart of how intergenerational trauma works, it's about the reminiscence of the past that impacts the relationships in the...

By Child and Family Blog, The Good Men Project, January 18, 2021 New research from Romania has demonstrated a clear correlation between adverse childhood experiences in fathers’ lives and their children’s development, including sleep disruption, inattention, anger, and anxiety. Fathers’ symptoms of depression partially accounted for the correlation between their early experiences and their children’s inattention and anger. Fathers’ negative parenting practices partially accounted for the...

By Center for Care Innovations, January 15, 2021 The Resilient Beginnings Network at CCI recently screened Resilience : Resilience: The Biology of Stress and The Science of Hope a documentary by the late James Redford, a film that traces the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and resilience. As the makers of Resilience explain, “Toxic stress can trigger hormones that weak havoc on the brains and bodies of children, putting them at a greater risk for disease, homelessness,...

By Lisa Wilcox, Kim Larson, & Robin Bartlett, Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, January 2021 Abstract Adverse childhood experiences and health disparities profoundly affect the health of ethnic minority adolescents and influence their overall well-being. In light of current health disparities and civil unrest, this secondary analysis sought to better understand resilience among ethnic minority adolescents living in rural eastern North Carolina (NC). Using Ungar’s ( 2013 ) Theory...

According to the Office of Early Childhood Development under the US Department of Health and Human Services, early exposure to intense and prolonged adversity may trigger toxic stress in children. The early activation of a child’s stress response system without adult support may cause irreversible changes in brain development, causing physical and psychological damage (1) . Thanks to recent scientific research advances, medical professionals may now use advanced medical imaging technology to...

In this blog you can read 2 articles that discuss a reimaging of how police function in our communities and 1 on statistical disparities by race of police stops in California. BART’s push to reinvent its police force: Doubling down on social workers, unarmed Ambassadors [mercurynews.com] Growing staff of unarmed civilians will respond to drug, mental health problems What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like [theappeal.org] Because traffic stops all too often escalate into...

A potential resolution is on the horizon, but for COVID-19 vaccination to work, people need to be willing to take the vaccines. Like many social scientists working in the fields of vaccine uptake and disaster response and recovery, we anticipated that widespread acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines would be a critical issue—an issue upon which the success of the vaccination campaign, and the solution to the pandemic, would hinge. That is what we are now seeing today.

I dream a world where man No other man will scorn, Where love will bless the earth And peace its paths adorn I dream a world where all Will know sweet freedom's way, Where greed no longer saps the soul Nor avarice blights our day. A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the earth And every man is free, Where wretchedness will hang its head And joy, like a pearl, Attends the needs of all mankind- Of such I dream, my world! Langston Hughes...

Here are 17 inspiring quotes from MLK's famous speeches and writings about education, justice, hope, perseverance and freedom: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Strength to Love, 1963 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all...