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By Shira Ovide, The New York Times, September 10, 2020 We’ve all seen social media used to shame people we disagree with . Those milliseconds of tsk-tsking might feel good, but I doubt they’re helpful. Then my colleague Natasha Singer told me about pandemic shaming I can get behind. College students are using TikTok, Twitter and other apps to embarrass their universities when they fail to care for people who have been isolated in special Covid-19 dorms or are in quarantine units because of a...

From Education Week, September 14, 2020 The education field has been criticized for focusing too narrowly on a set of academic skills and disciplines, reinforced through standardized assessments, accountability measures, and other policy levers, but with the rise of the pandemic this spring and the national fight for racial justice, schools were forced to evolve quickly. At the same time, young people have been encountering death, food insecurity, trauma, and unemployment in their own homes...

By Emily Dixon, September 14, 2020, Marieclaire.com. Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer , spoke to the Sunday Times about the trauma he and his sister experienced following their parents' separation in 1969. "Our father was a quiet and constant source of love, but our mother wasn’t cut out for maternity," he said. Charles, 9th Earl Spencer, said Diana would wait on the doorstep for her mom to visit—"but she never came." Princess Diana's brother, Charles Spencer, opened up about the...

Self-care is the stuff you should do to ensure you're healthy, happy, and strong. But for me, it became for me a chore. It was one more thing on the endless list of "to do's" I had to get done before falling exhausted into bed for a fitful night's sleep. As a caregiver, my responsibilities kept me busy every available moment. The only alone time I found was in the bathroom, door locked until someone needed me and realized that's where I went (usually within 5 minutes). Professionally I...

(far left - Margaret Feierabend attends the Johnson City, SAMHSA Forum, September 2018) The following interviews tell the story of innovative work being done to mitigate the impact of ACEs across generations in a unique community that bridges two states. Bristol’s iconic State Street in Historic Downtown is the “Main Street” and is the official state line for Tennessee and Virginia. Q: How did you become involved in ACEs and Trauma Informed Care? A: Becky Haas is a national presenter on...

September 10, 2020 Resilient Santa Barbara County is proud to support the efforts of the statewide ACEs Aware initiative, led by the California Department of Health Care Services and the Office of the California Surgeon General. This initiative seeks to change health outcomes and save lives by helping Medi-Cal providers understand the importance of screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and responding to patients with trauma-informed care. ACEs Aware offers Medi-Cal providers...

From ASTHO, September 14, 2020 In this session, Anthony Iton, senior vice president for healthy communities at the California Endowment, will speak on the intersection of public health and social justice and the importance of equity-driven solutions in the COVID-19 response. Iton is a lecturer of health policy and management at University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health and serves on the board of directors of several major public health institutions. Throughout his career,...

We hope you and your loved ones are safe and that you have found some peace and happiness this year despite all the turmoil and sadness. We are making plans for ResilienceCon 2021, which will be April 11-13. Given this time of uncertainty, we are making flexible plans. It is our hope that we will be able to hold a hybrid conference, with some people attending in person in Nashville at the Scarritt Bennett Center, our usual venue, and some people attending virtually. We are also making plans...

By Nick Huntington , Mikyung Baek 12.17.2019 Child Opportunity Index maps for the 100 largest metropolitan areas are avail­able below. You can explore the geography of child opportunity within a metro and where children of different racial/ethnic groups live in relation to opportunity. Use the pull down menu below the map to select a metro area. The small areas in the map represent all neighbor­hoods (census tracts) in that metro. Each neighborhood is shaded a color ranging from very light...

While repressing core parts of ourselves that are deemed unacceptable by those caring for us may in fact be necessary for our survival while we are dependent children, this can contribute to a variety of mental and emotional difficulties, both in childhood and as an adult, that may eventually need to be examined and addressed with a mental health professional...

September 2020 The health impacts of policing and incarceration are well documented. On average, 1,000 people are killed by police in the US each year, with Black and Indigenous people being 2 to 3 times more likely to be killed by police than White people. Even in the absence of physical violence, stops by police — or the constant threat of stops by police — are associated with adverse mental health outcomes , including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, especially for...

Do you remember the moment that ACEs Science clicked for you? Was it at a training? In a conversation with a peer or friend? Did you read an article? Each one of us has had the Aha! moment: we became aware, started shifting towards understanding and away from judgment. This approach to our fellow humans, the one that not only improves longevity but also the quality of life, is an unraveling of traumatized responses at the individual, relational, and systemic levels. That can be overwhelming...