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It hit 120 degrees in this California town. For the homeless, ‘it’s a miserable life out here’ [latimes.com]

Charles Johnson, 52, gulps down a third bottle of water on an extremely hot day in Blythe, Calif. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By Ruben Vives and Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2032 At a homeless encampment dubbed the Lost City, hidden behind a cluster of pine trees off Highway 95, Charles Johnson was sweltering. He was drenched in sweat, worsening the heat rash on his back and arms. His sunburned skin ached. He was hungry. He was desperate for water. And he yearned for ice —...

Housing First Is a Promising Approach to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Attain Stability and Safety [housingmatters.urban.org]

By Cris M. Sullivan, Cortney Simmons, Mayra Guerrero, et. al., Photo: iStock/Kobus Louw, Housing Matters, July 26, 2023 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of homelessness and can harm physical and mental health and financial outcomes. But little evidence exists on how to effectively help IPV survivors obtain housing stability and safety. To fill the gap, a group of researchers from Michigan State University, in collaboration with the Washington State Coalition Against...

When Empathy Switches Off [psychologytoday.com]

By Steve Taylor, Image: Prachatai/from Flickr and Wikipedia, Psychology Today, July 26, 2023 After studying children brought up in orphanages and other institutions in the 1930s and 1940s, the British psychologist John Bowlby developed his maternal deprivation hypothesis . He suggested that if a young child’s attachment to a mother figure is broken, this is likely to severely damage their social, emotional, and intellectual development. A lack of attachment could result in what he called...

Bring HOPE to the Classroom [positiveexperience.org/blog]

By Laura Gallant, 7/27/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ For many educators, the end of July is a time to start brainstorming about the set up of your classroom. When thinking about how to decorate your classroom and how to get to know your students, consider doing this in a HOPEful way. Below are 10 tips to add HOPE and the Four Building Blocks to your classroom before students even arrive. The environment building block is a large focus for these tips, but educators can practice...

Men's Work

Hi folks, Just wanted to compile a list of resources for those wanting to help men with their trauma. Documentary - The Work The Wisdom of Trauma The Mankind Project - retreat programs Please feel free to add more suggestions. Having worked in jails & rehab centres I gained a great deal of insight into how unprocessed trauma influences a life. It influenced me to create a men's retreat to help men work through trauma and heal.

Defamation Cases Increasingly Target Victims Who Can’t Afford to Speak Out

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/22/metoo-defamation-lawsuits-slapp/ Bryce Covert , THE INTERCEPT, July 22 2023, 6:00 a.m. Elise Aubuchon felt she owed it to other women to speak out. It was 2020, and #MeToo had prompted countless people to publicly expose those who had harassed and abused them. Years after she says she was raped, and once she realized the police weren’t going to pursue her case, she decided to make a public post on Facebook naming the alleged rapist. “MY VOICE WILL BE...

New Transforming Trauma Episode: Somatic Equine Therapy for Emotional Balance and Post-Traumatic Growth with Isabelle Shook

Can the art of horse whispering, a perceptive communication technique, work to heal complex trauma in humans? Isabelle Shook, the founder of Equine Guidance in Sedona, AZ, believes that horses possess an empathetic energy––telegraphed via non-verbal cues––that can resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma in those seeking support. In this episode of Transforming Trauma , Emily discovers how Belle fosters this unique therapeutic experience and the approaches she and her herd of...

Review of “First 60 Days” booklet: Leveraging author’s work and movement could spark revolution to prevent and heal trauma, one precious baby, child, and caregiver at a time.

(This is a review of what I believe is an important new resource for the PACEs [for positive and adverse childhood experiences] science movement. Opinions expressed are my own, and are shared as a parent, advocate, author, and longtime student of trauma, healing, and prevention. Thoughts are also shared through my lens as someone who believes, deeply, in the incredible importance of and value in building healthier, more compassionate communities to support and nurture pregnant and new...

Creating Protective Environments Web Conference

In case it is of interest to you or your networks, please see information below from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program and VALOR regarding an upcoming web conference: Creating Protective Environments Web Conference (Part One and Two) September 6th and 7th, 2023 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PT Audience: Open to all California Preventionists Description: This training will identify specific community, organizational, and societal level change...

'America's Culture of Child Abuse Part 2'—Encore episode of 'History. Culture. Trauma. podcast Thursday

America's culture of child abuse and neglect negatively impacts every aspect of American life. During April 2022, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell examined America's history of child abuse and neglect and outlined how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. This week they share an encore episode of the Part 2 of the series. According to Cockhren, "This episode is dedicated to illuminating the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect in America." Cockhren and...

New ACEs Aware Webinar Series: ACEs and Trauma-Informed Care in Reproductive Health

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can affect health outcomes throughout life and across generations. Sexual and reproductive health care teams have a unique opportunity to partner with patients to provide support and improve outcomes. Recognizing the impact of ACEs and cumulative adversity on reproductive and perinatal health, ACEs Aware is launching a three-part webinar series, led by Sara Johnson, MD , an OB/GYN and adviser to the ACEs Aware initiative. The series will provide the...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter July 2023

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230724161930/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2023-07-The_Surviving_Spirit_Newsletter_July_2023.pdf “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran Contents List :...

Join us on July 27 for a Virtual Opportunity to Reconnect with the DCF Office of Resilience

Dear PACEs Community Members, In 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, DCF launched the Office of Resilience to lead our work in responding to and raising awareness around Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences (PACEs). Since then, the office has continued to make progress supporting healing-engaged communities through local partnerships with law enforcement, educators, public officials, and non-profit organizations, with the intention to build up the capacity for...

Meet the ‘sandwich generation’: Gen Xers are burnt out and stressed about money [bankrate.com]

By Alex Gailey and Tori Rubloff, Photo: FG Trade/Getty Images; Illustration: Hunter Newton/Bankrate, Bankrate, July 24, 2023 Eric Broussard-Bueno, a 47-year-old property manager in Lake Charles, Louisiana, knows financial anxiety all too well. In 2007, Broussard-Bueno left his 9 to 5 government job to become a part-time caregiver for his mom, who was on a double lung transplant list. He said he walked away from a stable job with a “great salary and retirement benefits” because he believed...

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