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The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes [theatlantic.com]

By Julian Brave NoiseCat, The Atlantic, July 12, 2020 Mari Hulbutta, my friend and suitemate from college—we were both members of the Native American student group—couldn’t sleep Wednesday, the night before the Supreme Court issued its decision in the landmark Native-treaty-rights case, McGirt v. Oklahoma . Hulbutta is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a descendant of the Muscogee Creek and Seminole Nations, all in present-day Oklahoma. The McGirt case centered on whether Jimcy McGirt, a...

To Leave Racist Roots Behind, Child Welfare Needs a Great Reimagining [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

By Charity Chandler-Cole, The Chronicle of Social Change, July 1, 2020 The plight of Black children in the child welfare system is one plagued with failure after failure from those who have been put in place to protect them. As activist, sociologist and historian, W.E.B. DuBois, so accurately stated, “A system cannot fail those it was never designed to protect.” Our foster care system was not designed to protect our Black children, but rather mirrors the oppression, discrimination and...

Denver School Principal On How Black Students Led Swift Changes To History Curriculum [npr.org]

By Ailsa Chang and Jonaki Mehta, National Public Radio, July 10, 2020 Across the country, students of color have been demanding change from their schools. At one Denver school, the push for a more inclusive and diverse curriculum came last year, from a group of African American high school students at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College. Black students at the joint middle school and high school say they didn't see their history and culture reflected in the curriculum at a school that's...

We Can Learn How To Cope from Trauma Professionals [thriveglobal.com]

By Sylvia Paull, Thrive Global, July 10, 2020 Recognizing one’s own traumatic childhood experiences can help us develop resilience for the current global traumas we are facing. I work with Jane Stevens, founder and publisher of ACEsConnection.com , to write profiles of professionals who have integrated what’s known as ACEs science (adverse childhood experiences) into their professional and often their personal lives as well. Since March 2020, ever since the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns...

The Curative Power of Cows

Just one of nature's many sanctuaries, where C-PTSD survivors (like me or those you know and love) can find beneficial grounding - for healing during these prolonged rumblings of isolation and instability.

A Zoom Course on How to Create Trauma Responsive Institutions

I am teaching at three hour affordable Zoom course at Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work on how to create trauma response schools, organizations and businesses. It is July 31 and it is easy to enroll and you get a discount code for my new book (which ties in) titled: Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door (just released from Teachers College Press, June 2020). Here's a link to the course: https://ssw-web.rutgers.edu/ssw/ce/index.php?m=catalog&f=4 I cannot think of a time in which we...

One school, 25 bereavements: Essex head fears emotional impact of Covid-19 [theguardian.com]

Vic Goddard is one of many school leaders daunted by the burden of supporting pupils and staff through their grief. By Donna Ferguson, July 4, 2020 V ic Goddard is trying not to cry. The headteacher of Passmores academy in Harlow and star of the 2011 TV series Educating Essex is thinking about the 23 pupils and two staff at his school who have been bereaved during the coronavirus pandemic. His greatest fear, a fear that keeps him awake at night and is making his voice tremble, is what could...

Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond [MDedge]

https://www.mdedge.com/fedprac/article/225184/coronavirus-updates/trauma-informed-telehealth-covid-19-era-and-beyond Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) entered the COVID-19 pandemic crisis with an existing and robust telehealth program, but it still faces a fundamental paradigm shift as most routine outpatient in-person care was converted to telehealth visits. Veterans are a highly trauma-exposed population, and VHA has long offered effective telemental health services.

What it means to defund the police -- and why journalists should follow the money [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

By Marc Philpart, Center for Health Journalism, July 1, 2020 The United States spends twice as much on policing and prisons as on social services. There’s a better way to keep communities healthy and safe, and people closest to the pain of police brutality are showing the way. In Oakland, California, with leadership from the Black Organizing Project, the school board passed the George Floyd Resolution to Eliminate the School Polic e Department . In Minneapolis, the majority of the city...

The Debate Over Reopening Schools

In a recent New York Times article, the discussion over when and how to reopen schools is beginning to include emerging data from reopening strategies abroad. While this is a hotly contested issue, the debate over how to reopen schools or whether to reopen at all has been a topic of conversation since the first school closure. In all areas of our lives we have begun to ask the hard questions, “when will it be safe enough to resume our normal daily activities?” and “what precautions are...

How I used engagement journalism to report on local air pollution [centerforhealthjournalism.org]

By Monica Vaughan, Center for Health Journalism, July 2020 Sitting in a living room in a neighborhood with the worst air quality in this region of the California Central Coast, a woman told me her adult daughter had a constant cough since moving back home. She said she couldn’t keep the house clean, everything was always covered in dust inside and out. She had read my stories about the dust from the dunes in the local newspaper, The Tribune, and I asked if she thought her daughter’s...

‘Cries for help’: Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic [washingtonpost.com]

Suspected overdoses nationally jumped 18 percent in March, 29 percent in April and 42 percent in May, data from ambulance teams, hospitals and police shows. By William Wan and Heather Long, July 1, 2020 The bodies have been arriving at Anahi Ortiz’s office in frantic spurts — as many as nine overdose deaths in 36 hours. “We’ve literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on,” said Ortiz, a coroner in Columbus, Ohio. In Roanoke County, Va., police have responded to twice as many fatal...

Even those with disabilities should have a safe place to go: A family's crisis during a wildfire [calmatters.org]

By Diana Pastora Carson, Cal Matters, July 8, 2020 Recently, my family had a scare. We had a fire threaten our property, our home in the mountains of Jamul, an unincorporated town in San Diego County. Contrary to most assumptions, potentially losing our houses on the property was not the actual scare. The scare was that my brother, Joaquin, who experiences severe autism and epilepsy, had no place to go. With people with disabilities moving out of institutions and Gov. Gavin Newsom...

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