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Emotion has an enormous impact on imprinting memory in our brains. I had an experience when I was 6 years old that included emotion and I have the memory of it all of these many years later. It was a 6 year old birthday sleepover party. There were 7 girls invited that lived near each other and played together most days. A girl new to the neighborhood was invited only due to the requirement of the birthday girl’s mother. I was also invited. I lived a block away but did play with these girls...

Program Coordinator – Trauma-Informed Care The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) of Klingberg Family Centers is seeking a highly skilled trainer/consultant/coach who will add value to our team and organizational clients. Join a collaborative team that promotes professional development and success through thoughtful onboarding, mentoring, supervision, and work-life balance. The position may be remote, in-person, or hybrid. Learn more and apply at https://lnkd.in/g6KNQjGY

The bipartisan and bicameral Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (H.R. 3073 & S. 1452) is a landmark bill that will fund community-led initiatives that use a public health approach to prevent and heal mental health problems caused by toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters. On September 21, 2023, experts and leading members of Congress from across the United States came together for a briefing on the importance of this bill. With over 1,000 registrants and several hundred...

Clinics in San Mateo County - one of the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties - have been working to identify and provide support to protect against the Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, that our families are facing. ACEs are traumas experienced during childhood and if they are experienced continuously can result in toxic stress which can damage a child’s developing brain and their overall health. In 2020, Fair Oaks Health Center (FOHC) became the latest clinic in San Mateo County to...

Engaging with partners and resources within and beyond the clinic is key to providing trauma-informed care and a robust response to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening. This webinar will explore the concept of a trauma-informed network of care to support reproductive and sexual care teams’ response to ACE screening. REGISTER NOW! Participants will consider potential collaborators and resources to address immediate stressors and support healing and thriving, including in situations...

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Earlier this year, the Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the "Doctrine of Discovery," which has its origins in 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees. Gregorio Borgia/AP By Jason DeRose, National Public Radio (NPR), October 6, 2023 Each Sunday, Culver City Presbyterian Church Pastor Frances Wattman Rosenau begins the worship service with these words: "As we gather for worship this day, we acknowledge that the land on which we gather was for many generations...

By Laura Newberry, Illustration: Jim Cooke/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2023 I’ve written quite a bit about disconnection in this space: the loneliness of being immunocompromised , the dearth of intergenerational relationships in Western culture, and why the need to belong is so human (and what can happen when we feel like we don’t). What I haven’t acknowledged fully, though, is that how we relate to others is profoundly shaped by our social conditioning, or what we’re...

Springfield High School Mariachi Del Sol performed at the Siuslaw High School football game on Sept. 23, 2022. Will Yurman via Mariachi del Sol, Springfield High School By Jilian Fama, Danielle Librizzo, Kandis Mascall, and Laura Machuca Pacheco, ABC News, October 6, 2023 Mariachi has always been an instrumental part of Hispanic culture, and now a new generation is discovering the joys of the music at school, thanks to the growth of specialized mariachi music programs. At KIPP Sol Academy in...

High school students in Chicago head down the stairs between classes, June 2023. (Getty/Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service) By Paige Shoemaker DeMio, Center for American Progress, October 4, 2023 Across the country, students, parents, and teachers face the realities of a student mental health crisis. Many look to schools for solutions, yet on their own, schools often do not have the resources necessary to provide comprehensive mental health services. This issue brief outlines...

Three burdensome happens learned in trying to cope with adverse childhood experiences can be changed. Efforts to drop and replace these troubling habits can be extremely liberating.

John Briere, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California wrote, “If we could somehow end child abuse and neglect, the eight hundred pages of the DSM would be shrunk to a pamphlet in two generations.” I wonder why leading figures in psychology and psychiatry haven’t proposed an entirely new kind of parenting education that reaches everyone, everywhere? It seems like such an obvious way forward.