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By Rebecca Johnson, Katie Hannon Michel, Greg Miao, Tina Yuen, and Sabrina Adler, Change Lab Solutions, April 30, 2020 Over the last several weeks, leaders in communities across the United States have taken steps to protect the health and financial security of their residents by stopping evictions, improving tenant protections, and halting utility shutoffs. Many of these protections are set to expire soon, especially given that some states are allowing businesses to re-open. For communities...

By Rick Jervis, USA Today, May 3, 2020 There's the COVID-unit nurse whose sister got infected and became a patient. The staffer who works 12-hour shifts, only to come home to unruly and frustrated children. The nurse who felt the added pressure of supporting an unemployed brother. Dr. Jay Kaplan listens as each staffer shares their fears and problems. He tells them it’s OK to get sad or angry over the coronavirus that has sickened so many and upended their lives. He reads them his poems. He...

Problem Solving is extremely important in the resilience process. It can help move us beyond our fear brain and begin working toward healing from trauma. In the resilience narratives I have collected (e.g. Madsen Thompson, 2010) people from very young children in foster care group homes and hospitals to parents living in poverty have told me that taking time to think about a problem helps them through really hard times. Feel free to distribute these as you see fit, but please do not alter...

By Thomas Hubl, May 2020 The at-home workday during this pandemic might go something like this: Move from your laptop on the couch to perhaps the computer in your home office. In there, Zoom meetings fill the nine-to-five workday. Once you join a meeting, the screen fills with multiple video images of co-workers.Where before you sat in a conference room and could see others sitting nearby, now you are looking at a video image of yourself as well as the rest of the group. What effect does...

Note: You may receive an unsolicited invite to a class when downloading the article. By Gabor Mate, PESI, May 2, 2020 Have you ever wondered, as I have, how someone with an addiction could go through 21 detox centers and 5 treatment facilities, yet continue to relapse? It wasn’t until I started working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside—one of the most concentrated areas of drug use, mental illness, and poverty in North America—that I realized... The reason these treatments do NOT work is...

By Great Resilience Summit, Heart Mind Institute and Engaged Mindfulness Institute, May 2, 2020 Resilience is no longer a luxury. Making the Individual and Collective Shift to Becoming more Deeply Embodied, Heart-Centered, Resilient and Earth Connected. At this time, resilience is actually critical to our very survival. In this Summit we will explore how to develop and sustain the individual and collective resilience we need to meet our increasingly complex global challenges with wisdom,...

From Prevention Institute, April 30, 2020 Prevention Institute’s community and government partners around the country are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic—addressing basic needs, exposing inequities, advocating for policies that support the communities that are most vulnerable, and keeping people connected with each other. In collaboration with them, we’ve created a new social media video and podcast that feature stories about what their work looks like on the ground. We hope...

Published by Knox Village Soup, May 4th 2020 Maine Kids Count reports that Maine has a higher than average percentage on nearly all measured youth mental health indicators including high rates of diagnosed anxiety, depression, behavioral and conduct problems, and exposure to two or more adverse childhood experiences. A $10,000 grant awarded by the Maine Community Foundation to Northern Light Acadia Hospital will be used this summer to train and certify two clinicians in Parent Child...

Written by Nina Jacobs, Friday, May 1 2020 - Police officers should be trained in understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on young people in order to tackle an increase in child to parent violence, new research suggests. The study was commissioned by Northumbria Police. A report commissioned by Northumbria Police, Policing Childhood Challenging Violent or Aggressive Behaviour: responding to vulnerable families , makes the recommendation as part of a wider strategy to...

We hope you are participating in and enjoying the first annual #ResilienceWeekVA! Trauma-Informed Community Networks (TICNs) across Virginia are engaging their communities through a variety of resilience-building activities, events, and trainings! Today, we are spotlighting the Alexandria TICN: Resilience Alexandria: Inform Support Elevate (RAISE) , one of the 26 TICNs across Virginia participating in Resilience Week VA, and the many ways they are connecting and collaborating to build...

Recovering from trauma takes hard work, and often survivors wish the recovery process could go faster. A new client recently asked me, “Should I be exercising? Doing yoga? Meditating? What can I be doing physically to help me heal or recover more quickly? What else can I do to get through all of this?” It was a great question, so today, I’m going to address it in case you’ve been wondering too. Trauma impacts everything from how we think to how our body responds to the things around and...

All families have their squabbles and days when one member might not speak to another. However, there is one type of painful situation where the communication between family members stops; this is family estrangement. Often, family estrangement occurs when an adult child is learning to cope with and get rid of harmful people in their lives, but it can happen under other circumstances as well.