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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...

By Laura Gallant, 6/8/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ June is Pride month, and at the HOPE National Resource Center we are reflecting on the ways that the Four Building Blocks of HOPE helps promote safe, and stable environments for LGBTQ+ families and youth. Providing safe relationships, environments, and opportunities for engagement where children and youth can be themselves is key to the HOPE framework. The HOPE National Resource Center has several resources to help break...

Are you looking to earn CEUs this summer? Check out a newly released Creating Trauma Informed Resilient Focused Schools - A Toolkit for School Professionals from Emory & Henry College. With this Professional Certificate you earn 15 CEUs while watching 8 modules (from your treadmill if you’d like 😉) that cover everything from understanding trauma/ACEs and resilience, practical classroom strategies, creating healing environments, regulate, relate and reason, workplace wellness, addressing...

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...