After watching the excellent webinar Episode 6 of Cracked Up, the Evolving Conversation: Healing Trauma, I thought it was timely that CNN posted this piece: Former White supremacist: This is how to tackle hate and bigotry In the piece, the author makes the connection between his own ACEs and other trauma and his, as he puts it, addiction to hate. Here is a link to the piece: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/12/opinions/former-white-supremacist-how-to-tackle-hate-buckley/index.html

Gateway Mountain Center in Truckee, California provides nature-based therapeutic mentoring for youth. Gateway's program, ‘ Whole Hearts, Minds and Bodies ’ is the first nature-based therapeutic program in California to achieve full-service partner contracts with County behavioral health departments and certification as a MediCal provider. Peter Mayfield, founder and Executive Director, spoke with James Moore of Mad In America. To read the interview or listen to the podcast, go to ...

Gateway Mountain Center's Whole Hearts, Minds, and Bodies program is a nature-based therapeutic mentoring program in Truckee, California serving youth who are receiving or could benefit from services related to mental health, including behavioral, and/or substance abuse issues. A partnership with UCSF researcher Dr. Kathleen Tebb showed that the innovative treatment model “ The Gateway Method” has measurable positive outcomes for... high-risk youth." For more information, see ...

In this excellent free webinar, Chandra Ghosh Ippen, PhD, Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at University of California, San Francisco, and Director of Dissemination and Implementation for Child-Parent Psychotherapy, talks about how to use her picture story book Once I Was Very Very Scared to help children and families heal from acute and chronic trauma. The webinar will be available in Spanish soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcAPbDpgoso

This morning I was moved to write a letter to the editors of the New York Times, after reading the opinion piece "Schools That Work" in the Sunday Review section. The article begins with the story of a now high-school age African American student, Alanna Clark, who has a reading disability. Alanna's mother managed to find her a spot in a charter school "outside her neighborhood," after she "repeatedly asked the school for help, without success."