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Alameda County Library staff covers over any writing that students make on the books they check out of the juvenile hall library. CREDIT: BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES/EDSOURCE By Betty Márquez Rosales and Daniel J. Willis, EdSource, June 6, 2023 Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention facilities get high school diplomas with grade-school reading skills. During a five-year span beginning in 2018, 85% of these students who graduated from high school and took a 12th-grade...

Elizabethton City Schools in Tennessee provided English tutoring this year for 404 elementary and middle school students with the increased funding. Credit... Travis Dove for The New York Times By Madeleine Ngo, The New York Times, June 5, 2023 When the pandemic shut down schools across the country, the federal government responded with billions of dollars to help districts support remote learning, serve free meals to students and safely reopen schools. In 2021, the Biden administration gave...

A syringe and a vial with vaccine against COVID-19 are seen at the Masaka hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana By Cameron J. Sabet, Alessandro Hammond, Simar S. Bajaj, and Belson Rugwizangoga, Think Global Health, May 17, 2023 T he people of Rwanda have been tested by tragedy. Nearly thirty years ago, when ethnic Hutu extremists sought to exterminate the country’s Tutsi minority, more than one million lives were lost. The violence strained the nation’s fragile...

Melanie Snyder, Consultant for Reentry, Trauma, Resilience and Trauma-Informed Care, leads Chester County’s Reentry Coalition kick-off meeting. (Submitted Photo) By Michael P. Rellahan, Daily Local News, June 2, 2023 There is a scene in director Martin Scorsese’s classic gangster film, “Goodfellas,” where Henry Hill, the lead character, is released from prison after spending years behind bars. As he walks free, he looks outward and sees the figure of his wife, Karen, standing by a car,...

By Jillian McKoy, Boston University, School of Public Health, June 2, 2023 From Florida to Idaho, anti-LGBTQ+ legislation has swept across the country at an alarming rate this year, largely targeted towards limiting the rights of transgender people. Over 550 anti-trans bills —more than triple the amount in all of 2022—have been proposed or passed in Republican-led state legislatures. While many of these bills limit access to or representation in sports , bathroom use , and education , a...

It was a Thursday evening around 6pm, and the youth center at UrbanPromise Ministries in Camden, NJ was a hive of activity. Kids buzzed with energy as parents signed in at the greeter table, while down the hall a line of eager possibly people were being served a hot meal before finding seats in the main room. Further down the hall was the childcare room bright with colors and activities awaiting little hands to use them. Welcome to the Be Inc. Collective Family Café! Brainchild of Siomara...

There is a common saying that you've probably seen in meme form that's been going around for awhile ... might look something like this ... I searched and searched for an attribution of this, and the closest I got was Norm Kelly on Twitter back in 2017. I did a quick Google search and discovered he is a retired Canadian politician (but lets not hold that against him! :) ) It's amazing how much traction this got, but not surprising in some ways. It really speaks to the hope that comes with...

The Pan-Indigenous Neuro Healing & Wellness Program is the perfect opportunity to take the next step in our personal journey or guide clients/community members through Collective Healing from a multi-ideology indigenous perspective merged with 21st century neuroscience. In the context of our healing and wellness program, indigenous refers to people all over the world whose way of life, and attachment or claims to land have resulted in their substantial marginalization within modern...

We are the only entity offering a comprehensive, 48-hour Historical Trauma Specialist Certification Program. The Program is broken into 6 levels and is built on a foundation of BIPOC cultures and neurobiology. It is taught from a multicultural perspective, injecting traditions and ideology from various cultures from around the world. In this inclusive study we rely on the ancient tradition of storytelling, visual art and interconnected relationships to intentionally explore difficult topics.

Could a workplace actually help prevent trauma and help people heal? If you are burned out, tired of a toxic workplace, looking to join the Great Resignation, or, if you’re an employer, if looking for ways to prevent a mass exodus and retain valued employees, you are not alone. The last three years have seen the pandemic, racial unrest, environmental traumas, increases in poverty, major policy and political shifts, and the effect these existential threats have on our stress levels. These...

[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] Child Abuse Wood JN, Campbell KA, Anderst JD, et al. Child Abuse Pediatrics Research Network: The CAPNET Core Data Project. Acad Pediatr. 2023...

A headline earlier this year said it simply: Social Media is Devastating Girls Mental Health. Donna Jackson Nakazawa, an award-winning science journalist and the author of seven books exploring the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, is featured in this week’s episode of History Culture. Trauma, and explains the crisis facing today’s girls as being a biologically rooted phenomenon, and more, and offers solutions to the crisis that has many parents wondering what they...