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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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/maternal-and-child-health-inequities-emerge-even-before-birth This is a very good resource. They have a Hispanic Institute as well. https://www.childtrends.org/about-us

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...

Petia Kolibova is a women’s transformation coach who helps women who have been pushed down and been playing it small due to toxic relationships or unhealed childhood trauma to create a life that is true to them and their soul purpose.

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...

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...

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...