The complications of historical trauma have played a major role in harming relationships in Black/African-American families for generations. History was spoken about as an attempt to heal, but in a world that refused to see Black/African American people as whole people deserving of human rights, very little was spoken about the grieving process that accompanies knowing our story.
June 8, 2023: Today we welcomed new members, reviewed the 5 Protective Factors and the new Resilient NC website, shared upcoming community events and stakeholder training opportunities, and discussed updating the Environmental Scan. Please use the passcode below to access the recording of today's meeting. Passcode : ROARjune20@# 2023 COMMITMENTS TO ROAR EVERY stakeholder is encouraged and invited to COMPLETE the 2023 Commitments Document . This will help the steering committee begin to...
Country music artist Allen Karl (Sterner) endured unspeakable childhood cruelty and chaos, yet turned into a caring, competent adult. His story provides many useful insights that can help and inspire others who have endured multiple ACEs.
Juneteenth marks the day—June 19, 1865—when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, led by Union Army general Gordon Granger. He announced General Order No. 3 that proclaimed freedom for all enslaved people in Texas, two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The state was the last of the Confederacy that had institutional slavery. Black communities began celebrating Juneteenth in Galveston in 1866, and since then the commemoration spread across the...
[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Makris G, Eleftheriades A, Pervanidou P. Early Life Stress, Hormones, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Horm Res...
Join us for our June CCWT Speaker Series event! Inclusive Child Wellness With panelists Justice Roe Williams, Kanoelani Patterson, and John Bridger Join us for a discussion with the contributors to the newly published book, Deconstructing the Fitness-Industrial Complex: How to Resist, Disrupt, and Reclaim What it Means to Be Fit in American Culture. The authors explore their diverse experiences as trainers, educators, and movement instructors who hold BIPOC, trans, queer, fat, neurodiverse,...
Ben David, co-chair of the North Carolina Chief Justice's Task Force on ACEs-Informed Courts, shares plans to sustain the work done during the two-year term of the Task Force, to "care for our own" speaking of North Carolina's children, youth, families, communities, victims of crimes, members of law enforcement, the judiciary and court officers and staffers. He also shared Chief Justice Paul Newby's hopes of "getting ACEs-informed courts" into the culture, and said a national conference for...
Amy Read of Coastal Horizons introduces the panel following a viewing of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress, The Science of Hope", at the Pender Resiliency Task Force Mini Conference Thursday, June 8 ,at Heide Trask High School in Rocky Point. A "dream team" of subject-matter expert panelists (L-R) were Ryan Estes of Coastal Horizons, Ben David, district attorney for Pender and New Hanover counties, Judge J. H. Corpening, district court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties, Taylor...
Hate crimes in the U.S. have been rising for years and white supremacist organizations represent by far the biggest domestic terror threat, according to the FBI and organizations who track the activities of organizations espousing hate and violence. So what leads people to get involved in violent hate groups, and – perhaps more importantly – how can they be helped to get out? That was the question posed by MindSite News writer Laurie Udesky in a story, Breaking Away from Hate , recently...
🔧 IT Technician 💻 Programmer 📱 App Developer 🎥 Videographer 🎓 Student Interns 🌿 Healers 💪 Somatic-Based and Polyvagal-Based Trauma and Resilience Practitioners ❤️ HeartMath Practitioners 🧠 Brain Coherence Experts 🔊 Safe and Sound Protocol Trained Professionals 🧘 Occupational Therapists 🤝 Social Workers 🎓 Social Justice Healthcare Educators Together, we will create the Learn Your Value, Outreach Program and Sankofa Center of Excellence for Healing, focusing on Seniors, Blacks,...
The water crisis is maintained by an economic system that has made water bills and infrastructure exponentially more expensive; all while Black Americans’ trust in the water running through their homes has increasingly faltered. Credit: Adam Mahoney/Capital B By Adam Mahoney and Aallyah Wright, Inside Climate News, June 8, 2023 Gwendolyn Reed-Davis recalls living without running water during the holiday season last year, merely months after a water crisis left Jackson, Mississippi, residents...
Youth Voices Rising writer Daniel Bisuano. Courtesy of Bisuano. By Daniel Bisuano, The Imprint, May 24, 2023 Growing up, very few things existed outside of the couple blocks I knew by my home, or the prison’s four walls and metal door that often seemed like a nightmare. I do not know how often people like me grow up in circumstances where fight or flight response is not constant or the cops were the good guys . I felt it was always a “us vs. them” situation. See, the cops always oppressed...
By Abby Boshart, Photo: jenlo8/Shutterstock, Housing Matters, June 7, 2023 Eviction is a result of poverty, but it can also cause it. It significantly affects a family’s mental and physical health, employment, and future housing stability and financial well-being . Housing instability is often seen as an isolated incident that only harms the affected family, but we are beginning to understand its far-reaching effects on the broader community—including crime, neighborhood quality, and local...
By NYU Silver Communications Office, Photo: from article, New York University Silver School of Social Work, June 5, 2023 In spring 2018, as a newly minted NYU Silver MSW graduate entering New York City’s non-for-profit mental health workforce, Fatima Mabrouk was disheartened to find herself and other social workers of color overlooked for job promotions, given unequal pay, unrecognized for their achievements, and chastised for their communication style. Now, as a rising third-year NYU Silver...
Murray Still (centre) with knowledge keeper Archdeacon Val Kerr (second from left) and members of the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund youth council. Photo: Contributed By Matthew Puddister, Anglican Journal, June 2023 The Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples (ACIP) is partnering with a Manitoba mental health organization and other groups in the hope of providing trauma response to people in the province’s northern communities. ACIP co-chair Canon Murray Still says ACIP is...