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On The Brink! As an 18 year old young man in the US Navy in 1965, I was very lucky! Click here … Thanks to the excellent care by US Navy mental health professionals, I'm here today at age 73. I struggle with lifelong symptoms of agitated depression , but with loving support from family, friends and effective clinical therapy, I feel a peace of mind that everything is going to be okay. I know now from receiving my medical records from that time that traumatic experiences from childhood years...

By DJ Wilson, State of Reform, September 10, 2019 Jennifer Kent leads the Dept. of Health Care Services. Today, she sent the following email to employees announcing her resignation from the position. ————————– I have had the privilege and honor of being the Director of the Department of Health Care Services since February 2015. I always said that it was the best job I would ever have – and it’s the hardest job I’ve ever had. And one of the hard things about this job is leaving. However, I...

Ingrid Helander is a Marriage & Family Therapist specializing in Internal Family Systems Therapy and Intimacy from the Inside Out© Couples Therapy. Trained in Polyvagal Theory and Yoga, she brings a holistic approach to client wellness.

Cape May County will have many folks taking part in the presentation of this conference which will include educators and police from our area! Representatives from Cape Assist , Lower Cape May Regional School District, Middle Township Police Department all will be presenting. I am excited to be part of this statewide symposium!!

Do you work with young people who carry into your school toxic levels of stress and trauma?

Having been an educator much of my life and attended a lot of school, there is something powerful in my somatic memory about this time of year. It’s a swirling dervish of anticipation, hope... fear, trepidation. It all collides tightly in my belly. I recall the many years of being up early on the first day of school, staring at my toast and jam as nausea rolled through me like short waves - cresting and breaking. I remember standing at the bus stop with my hair parted strictly down the...

The Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) at Vital Village Network is excited to share the fourth episode of In the Arena with NOW , a podcast series that lifts up the voices of community leaders who are “in the arena” -- in classrooms, playgrounds, Congressional halls, hospitals, and neighborhood streets -- working to make sure that all children and families can live healthy, thriving lives. In our fourth episode, The Power of Peer Learning and Capacity Building , we speak with...

To parent is always about history and healing and love. It is natural to want to protect our children, and ourselves, but our fear does not serve us...Our children need us to be grounded and present and non-judgmental. When they feel safety and strength in us, they will come to know it in themselves. When they feel trust from us, they will be able to trust the

By Derry Journal, September 8, 2019 Oakgrove Integrated College last week became the first school in Northern Ireland to take part in the innovative ‘Trauma Informed Compassionate Schools Initiative’ – a programme designed to help educators better understand how and why Adverse Childhood Experiences can impact a child’s development. Held in the school’s assembly hall on Wednesday last, the event saw over 100 members of staff take part in the programme delivered by a team from Ulster...

By Center for Media & Social Impact, September 9, 2019 Issues of housing security and homelessness in the United States are being grossly under covered, oversimplified and misrepresented by the country’s “most-watched” television programming and “most read” newspaper coverage, according to our new CMSI study, part of our ongoing examinations about portrayals of pressing social issues in news and entertainment. The report, Homelessness & Housing Security in U.S. Culture: How Popular...

By Rowan Walrath, Mother Jones, February 18, 2019 Over the last year, Rebecca, a 35-year-old woman living in Washington, DC, had been losing sleep over the seemingly endless flow of apocalyptic environmental news. She fretted about the Trump administration’s loosening of emissions regulations and the United Nations’ dire predictions about climate change. In October, she sought help from a psychiatrist who put her on an antidepressant. “It sort of saps your emotional reserves,” she says,...

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio, September 8, 2019 LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: We interview a lot of journalists on our program. Here's one that's attempting to reach a coveted audience - teens. Olivia Seltzer is 15, and she's created a daily newsletter that covers the day's top headlines for her peers. It's called The Cramm. Olivia joins us now from Santa Barbara. She's founder and editor-in-chief. Olivia, it's great to speak with you. OLIVIA SELTZER: It's so great to speak...