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Making his encore appearance with us, join us in welcoming Matt Bennett in his second feature with our Growing as a Community series. Building upon the foundations set during his prior event, he will lead a dynamic workshop tailored for healthcare leaders at UC Davis Health introducing a variety of personal and organizational strategies for cultivating wellness and resilience within the healthcare industry. He will offer a refresher on key points made during his original presentation, but we...

Emotional neglect. It’s a quiet relationship killer, slowly dimming the light between two people. Before you know it, you feel alone even when your partner is right there. I’ve been there. I remember that gnawing loneliness, the constant ache for a real emotional connection. It’s debilitating. My goal is to help anyone experiencing emotional neglect feel less alone. Consider this a safe space to find hope, gain clarity, and remember your worth. This comes from a place of empathy — not...

The National Prevention Science Coalition (NPSC) is excited to offer a growing collection of continuing education (CE) courses designed to equip psychologists and professionals with essential prevention-oriented knowledge and skills. While psychology doctoral programs traditionally emphasize treatment over prevention, NPSC’s CE courses fill this critical gap by providing a strong foundation in prevention science—a field dedicated to reducing adverse psychological and social outcomes before...

Music & Thoughts To Share - Feel Like A Man by Michael Skinner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ebrsp9PkfY&t=33s – written for someone who touched my heart and soul. “To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.” - Lao Tzu “Where there is love there is life.” - Mahatma Gandhi “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” - Victor Hugo Please subscribe...

Positive Childhood and Adult Experiences protect against the effects of trauma in individuals. Using trauma-informed approaches, positive experiences can also help organizations build resilience, foster connection, and thrive when faced with trauma. ACEs in Review Many of you are likely familiar with the concept of Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs . These are overwhelming or traumatic experiences that occur in childhood and can profoundly shape physical health, behavior, and mental...

Image: Source Since April, 2024, Dana Brown and I have been working as volunteers to keep your social networking site – PACEs Connection – up and running. Gratefully, your donations supported raising $14,859 to pay CrowdStack, the learning management system platform on which PACEs Connection operates, in November, 2024. We are deeply grateful that a longtime PACEs Connection member was able to direct the Langeloth Foundation to make a $10,000 tax-deductible donation toward the total. That...

Your engagement, opinions, and ideas matter. We need to know what you’re thinking; whether or not you would miss PACEs Connection if it ceased to exist. We really want to know what you’d love to have happen with your social networking site if money were not, as it is presently, a day-to-day struggle. To this end, we are hoping to make PACEs Connection more of a two-way conversation between our members and the volunteers who are now working to revitalize the site. With that thought in mind,...

For nearly 25 years, Risking Connection has been at the forefront of the trauma-informed care movement. Over the past decade, the Risking Connection foundational trauma training has evolved into the Risking Connection Change Model , a multi-stage intervention that supports trauma-informed, organizational culture change. In recent years, our hearts and minds have grown to embrace a more socially just view of the world. Now, we are pleased to announce the Risking Connection Change Model...

After a difficult childhood, many effective strategies can facilitate recovery and elevate mood and brain health.

Defining trust can be tricky. We often know when it’s there, and we definitely feel its absence when it’s not. In the workplace, trust is more than just a nice-to-have—it’s the foundation for collaboration, innovation, and resilience in the face of challenges. Without trust, teams falter; with it, they thrive. Trust Supports Safety Trauma-competent spaces are safe spaces. Trust and safety work together. No trauma-informed practice can thrive without safety, and feeling safe occurs in...

*Editors note: Below, please find two new articles featured in JAMA. They are open access and fully available to the public. These will be available soon in our ever growing Resource Center. Thank you - Rafael Maravilla Food Insecurity in Pregnancy, Receipt of Food Assistance, and Perinatal Complications By Rana F. Chehab, Lisa A. Croen, Barbara A. Laraia, et al., January 23, 2025 Key Points Question Is food insecurity in pregnancy associated with perinatal complications and do these...

By Judy George, MedPage Today, Image: screenshot from article , January 24, 2025 Mothers with multiple sclerosis (MS) had a higher risk of peripartum mental illness than comparator mothers, administrative health data from Canada showed. Incident mental illness -- most commonly, depression and anxiety -- affected 8.4% of mothers with MS prenatally and 14.2% during the first postpartum year, reported Ruth Ann Marrie, MD, PhD, of Dalhousie University in Halifax, and co-authors. The incidence of...