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Trends in the Incidence and Lethality of Suicidal Acts in the United States, 2006 to 2015 [jamanetwork.com]

By Jing Wang, Steven A. Summer, and Thomas R. Simon, JAMA Psychiatry, April 22, 2020 Key Points Question Are increases in suicide rates associated with more suicidal acts, suicidal acts becoming more lethal, or a combination of both? Findings In this cross-sectional study based on national representative data of 1 222 419 suicidal acts, increased suicide rates were associated with an increase in both incidence rates and lethality of suicidal acts from 2006 to 2015. In subgroup analyses,...

Perspective | Walking the Resilience Road: From Overwhelmed to Compassion-in-Action [ednc.org]

By Elizabeth DeKonty, April 14 2020 When asked what she is struggling with the most right now, first grade teacher Katherine Semenek focused not only on her students’ academic needs, but their basic needs to feel emotionally and physically safe and supported during this difficult time. We know she is not alone in her concerns as teachers all across our state, and our country, are stuck at home wondering if their students are safe, being fed, and being cared for after an abrupt closing of...

Kathryn Keller Is an Unorthodox Pioneer in Religious Trauma Therapy [dallasobserver.com]

By Eva Raggio, April 23, 2020 Thanks to Netflix series Unorthodox, religious trauma is a topic that’s fresh on people’s minds, even if we haven't identified the show's takeaway message in that exact term. The drama details a young bride's life and subsequent escape from a deeply orthodox Hasidic community in Brooklyn. The show became a hit in part for its main character’s gripping story arc — based on a true tale — and because of the profound interest in the curiously foreign ways of the...

Navajo Nation, hit hard by COVID-19, comes together to protect its most vulnerable [pbs.org]

By Stephanie Sy, Lena L Jackson, and Casey Kuhn, PBS News Hour April 24, 2020 COVID-19 is ripping through the Navajo Nation, infecting and killing people at rates that are above U.S. averages. Located across three states, the Navajo population is already vulnerable, with a high prevalence of underlying disease, a lack of infrastructure and limited access to care and supplies. Stephanie Sy reports on how the Navajo community has taken on the challenge of caring for its own. Read the Full...

The Healing Place Podcast: Barbara Rubel, MA, BCETS, D.A.A.E.T.S. - How to Help Suicide Loss Survivors & the Traumatic Impact of Suicide

Barbara Rubel is a suicide loss survivor and leading thanatologist. Thanatology is the scientific study of death. As a thanatologist, Barbara Rubel specializes in suicide loss survivor grief and educating professionals about traumatic loss. The third updated and revised edition of her book, But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping families after a suicide, just launched on Amazon.

The Emptiness You Feel is Trying to Tell You Something

I read a short story last week that was about emptiness and love. That funny thing that happens sometimes, happened, and three different people wrote to me within about 24 hours about… emptiness and love. They were feeling -- and I think a lot of us are feeling it -- a harsh, empty, loveless feeling that keeps swooping into their consciousness during this quarantined period, sounding the alarm that something HUGE is missing from our lives. One woman even said “I know you’ll think I’m crazy...

Video: Bringing the Power of Optimism and Play to Children who Have Endured Trauma & Adverse Experiences

By Trauma Informed Parent Steve Gross is a clinical social worker and a pioneer in the field of using playful engagement and relationships to overcome the devastating impact of early childhood trauma. He is the founder and Chief Playmaker of Life is Good Playmakers; a foundation that works to "harness the power of optimism to create healing, life changing relationships for kids in need." For more information, visit: h ttps://www.lifeisgood.com/kidsfoundation/about-playmakers.html

9 Ways Schools Will Look Different When (And If) They Reopen [texaspublicradio.org]

By ANYA KAMENETZ , April 24th ,2020 Three-quarters of U.S. states have now officially closed their schools for the rest of the academic year. While remote learning continues, summer is a question mark, and attention is already starting to turn to next fall. Recently, governors including California's Gavin Newsom and New York's Andrew Cuomo have started to talk about what school reopening might look like. And a federal government plan for reopening, according to The Washington Post, says that...

New Study on Special Ed & Child Welfare-Involved Youth

Dear ACEs Connection Community, Wanted to share some of my new work out in Children and Youth Services Review on the factors predicting whether Child Welfare Services-involved youth receive special education. I find that foster youth have a higher probability of receiving special ed vs. children in the care of an adoptive/biological parent. Given current school closures, supporting foster families educating kids with special needs will be critical. You can access the article for free (until...

Protect our Future by Protecting our Children [galvnews.com]

By CONNIE RICKETTS, Apr 14, 2020 Each year April marks Child Abuse Awareness/Prevention month and proclamations are read and adopted throughout our county to ask members of our communities to take a stand — to stand up for the rights of children to live free of abuse and neglect. In Texas, more than 50,000 children are in the temporary managing conservatorship of the state child protection system. Every eight minutes in Texas a child is a victim of abuse and neglect. In 2019, 708 children...

Can Renovations Improve the Health and Well-Being of Public Housing Residents [housingmatters.urban.org]

By Ingrid Gould Ellen, Kacie L. Dragan, and Sherry Glied, Housing Matters, April 22, 2020 In 2015, the New York City Housing Authority transferred six public housing properties to private developers for rehabilitation and operation as subsidized housing. The repairs and improvements included fixing elevators, installing new lighting, fixing stairway handrails, upgrading heat and hot water systems, installing emergency generators, repairing roofs, renovating bathrooms, and installing new...

Coronavirus becomes unprecedented test for teacher-student relationships [hechingerreport.org]

By Liz Willen, The Hechinger Report, April 20, 2020 Social studies teacher Karen Rose stepped out of New Rochelle High School last month for what will likely be the last time. And while that makes her sad, it’s not what bothers her most after 34 years in the classroom. “My biggest worry is the kids I’ve gotten no response from,” said Rose, who is retiring in June and never expected to end her career struggling with online teaching. “I’m calling and emailing them constantly. Maybe their...

LETTER: Dealing with Adverse Childhood Experiences [mainstreetnews.com]

By Chuck Taylor, April 23,2020 Dear Editor: In the late nineties, the Kaiser institute completed a study called the ACE (Adverse Childhood Experience) study. The findings of the study demonstrated an association between physical, mental, and emotional health problems over a lifespan with childhood trauma such as abuse, witnessing domestic violence and neglect. The study showed that the more ACEs a person endured, the higher their probability of heart disease, cancer, lung disease and...

Ruin and Resilience: How My South Georgia Home is Fighting Through Coronavirus Trauma [rollcall.com]

By Clyde McGrady , Posted April 23, 2020 at 6:30am Brooks Robinson got a phone call from his cousin Jennifer. She couldn’t stop screaming. “She’s gone. She’s gone,” she yelled into the phone. Jennifer was calling to tell him their 34-year-old cousin Santayana Harris had just died of pneumonia, a symptom of COVID-19. He couldn’t believe it. Just a day earlier, he’d lost another cousin, Flora Robinson, to the same virus. It was a second blow, but not the last. Brooks comes from a close-knit...

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