https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/transforming-loneliness-anxiety-conflict-and-violence/id1704720010?i=1000648615554

The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

Hillary Clinton writes for the Atlantic Monthly this week: The Weaponization of Loneliness https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/?paymeter=hard-gate-email-test-1&referral=FB_PAID An excerpt: The rate of young adults who report suffering from loneliness went up every single year from 1976 to 2019. From 2003 to 2020, the average time that young people spent in person with friends declined by nearly 70 percent. Then the pandemic...

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2023-09-26/youth/wa-group-brings-alternatives-to-violence-to-secondary-students/a86466-1

Our little nonprofit did first week of school workshops for about 95 staff and teachers and about 320 High School students in two schools! https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/white-center-high-school-begins-year-with-anti-violence-workshops/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_inset_1.1 Leanr more about us at https://www.projectsforacivilsociety.org

I was doing some writing and research and found this study I thought should be shared here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5949a1.htm#tab2

More press coverage on our veterans work in jail: https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2019/12/09/veterans-jail-workshop-anti-violence/

Some press coverage of our Incarcerated Veterans PTSD/ACEs work: thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article129943994.html#

For the last five years I have been doing trauma recovery workshops with veterans incarcerated in a county jail. We've served some 600 men. Virtually all have PTSD. Surprisingly a large portion of the source of this trauma predates their enlistment, that is they have substantial ACEs. In writing about this experience I have come across the following study to share in hopes it will be valuable to others here: Disparities in Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Individuals With a History of...

UCSF News Services: California Selects UCSFTrauma Screening Tool for Statewide Initiative to Combat Adverse Childhood Experiences.http://ucsf.edu/news/2019/12/416111/california-selects-ucsf-trauma-screening-tool-statewide-initiative-combat

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/201909/how-adverse-childhood-experiences-cost-133-trillion-year

. . . our biggest problem in our work is that people can’t believe the changes we make in people’s neural patterns in just 24 hours over 3 days. “I don’t see why,” he said. “Trauma can totally rewire your brain in five minutes.”

Found this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMjTzCnbNQ

Playing the mirror neurons like a harp . . .

I am sitting on it. Really. Not just me, but a corps of some 5000 people around the world. We have been fostering recovery from ACEs and Trauma for over 40 years – long before the ACEs study developed the term. We have served over half a million people worldwide – but almost no one knows we are here. Like you, many of us have been angry and frustrated that it has taken decision makers and policy setters over 20 years to learn about ACEs and incorporate trauma informed care into practice and...

http://www.philly.com/philly/h...se__Study_Finds.html

A Philadelphia School's Big Bet on Nonviolence Last year when American Paradigm Schools took over Philadelphia's infamous, failing John Paul Jones Middle School, they did something a lot of people would find inconceivable. The school was known as...

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/childinmind/2013/05/to_cdc_on_childrens_mental_hea_2.html

http://www.psmag.com/health/what-does-it-take-for-traumatized-kids-to-thrive-56488

The first-ever national survey of youth in juvenile custody found that 30% of confined young people had experienced sexual, physical, or emotional abuse, 67% had seen someone killed or severely injured, and 70% reported that something bad or terrible...