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From Poor People's Campaign, March 2020 Perhaps we were born for such a time as this. A moment like this makes us question: what kind of world would you be fighting for if you knew that tomorrow you’d draw your last breath? And, this moment is forcing everybody to adjust in small and big ways. Our strategy for building a long-term moral fusion movement has not changed. Indeed, this global pandemic makes our work ever more urgent. We must bring together poor and low-wealth people, religious...

Mental Health First Aid for Older Adults from NYC Health…City of New York… “Mental illness and aging can often be a double stigma. According to the National Council on Aging, the number of Americans 85 and older will triple by the year 2050. Older adults and care partners are less likely to identify a problem as a symptom of a mental health disorder. Furthermore, older adults have high rates of late onset mental health disorders (anxiety/depression) and low rates of identification and...

Our brains are hardwired to react viscerally to traumatic events. They then store those emotions in our central nervous, so that when we feel and experience similar future events, we will be alerted to new potential dangers. Emotional flashbacks, experienced by those living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, are sudden and horrific, often prolonged, attacks from past highly traumatic events.

As we begin to navigate and find a new normal over the next few days with both our families and co-workers, we need to remember to be trauma responsive. The definition of trauma often includes the words “overwhelming sense of loss of control.” With the uncertainty the next few days or weeks may hold, we all may feel a loss of control. So, it is important to remember a few things to help us all respond rather than react to what is going on around us and inside us. If you haven’t heard of the...

By Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, September 22, 1997 On September 24, 1918, three days after setting sail from Norway’s northern coast, the Forsete arrived in Longyearbyen, a tiny mining town on one of the Norwegian islands north of the Arctic Circle. It was the last ship of the year, before ice made the Arctic fjords impassable, and it carried among its passengers a number of fishermen and farmers going north for the winter to earn extra money in Longyearbyen’s coal mines. During the...

Greetings Trauma-Informed Care/ACE Science Colleagues and Friends, We hope that you, your families, your staff, and your clients remain well. We are all under significantly increased stress in this time of the COVID-19 virus changing our lives. We have many things to attend to, from the practical to the personal to the emotional. Our organizations are confronting immediate and longer term challenges from closed programs, potential layoffs, and financial uncertainty. Where does...

Check out this podcast from the Trauma-Informed Educators Network Podcast ( https://soundcloud.com/mathew-portell-93233744/episode-14-dr-eric-rossen ) - focused on applying the 6 Principles of Compassionate, Trauma-Informed Schools, including during the current school closures from COVID.

By Suzanne Hirt, Andrea Ball, and Katie Wedell, USA Today, March 21, 2020 Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable U.S. children could face a heightened risk of abuse and neglect as coronavirus-related school closures keep them at home and away from the nation’s biggest group of hotline tipsters: educators. Teachers, administrators, school counselors and other educational professionals report one in every five child-mistreatment claims in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Health and...

By Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, March 21, 2020 James is 3 years old and presents with chronic asthma, allergies, and eczema. Lola is five and overweight. Emma is 11 and struggles to focus on her homework, often gets into fights at school, and has trouble sleeping. These (fictional) children may seem like they have little in common—but that’s because you don’t have all the information. You don’t know, for example, that James’ father has bipolar disorder and misuses his prescription medication.

By Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology, March 20, 2020 As of March 20, more than 8,700 people worldwide had died of COVID-19, the disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Caltech trustee David Ho (BS '74) of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Columbia University, says that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Ho, an expert on viral epidemics, has spent decades researching HIV/AIDS, having begun his career in Los Angeles, "ground...

By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian, March 21, 2020 Coronavirus is fuelling domestic violence Home is supposed to be the safest place any of us could be right now. However, for people experiencing domestic violence, social distancing means being trapped inside with an abuser. As more cities go under lockdown, activists are worried that attempts to curb the coronavirus will inadvertently lead to an increase in domestic violence. Domestic violence is already a deadly epidemic. One in three women...

One advice for public in this period of lock down, every family / company / businessman’s and head of the villages should make themselves responsible to provide basic food to their worker maids and servants /drivers Gardner’s / guards / daily wage labour etc. Make this your responsibility if you do this, all countries can take care of big percentage of peoples. I know you are already doing it on daily basis but this advice is during lock-down period while they cannot come to work.