January 2022

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a set of trauma-informed skills that can help people monitor their bodily sensations and ground themselves towards their Resilient Zone. CRM is supporting individuals towards resilience in Georgia and across the nation. To read more about the basis of CRM and how it's being used today, check out our newest blog post here .

By Carl Romer and Andre Perry, Photo: David McNew/Getty Images, Bloomberg Opinion, January 18, 2022 When people debate whether to forgive some or all of the $1.75 trillion in student debt weighing on millions of American families, opponents often argue that it would be wasteful and unfair: Too many relatively well-off, well-educated people would benefit at the expense of all taxpayers, many of whom never had the desire or opportunity to attend college. Reasonable as this might sound, it’s...

By Christie Aschwanden, Photo: Keith E. Morrison, The New York Times, January 19, 2022 I was so tempted to skip the run. It was a Thursday afternoon in early December, and by the time my five Zoom meetings were done, it was getting dark and the sky was spitting sleet. Still, I headed out the door, because my last call of the day had been with a couple of professional runners, each with multiple national championship titles in distance running under their belt. Physician Megan Roche and her...

By Angela Roberts, Image: Frederickcountymd.gov, The Frederick News-Post, January 19, 2022 Close to 150 policy makers, health care providers, nonprofit leaders, advocates and other community members in Frederick County met Wednesday afternoon to learn about local public health concerns and discuss potential interventions. The forum, which took place over Zoom, represented the latest step in the current iteration of Frederick County’s health improvement process — a triennial project led by...

By Kia Darling-Hammond, Image: Amir Khadar/amirkhadar.com, Non Profit Quarterly, January 20, 2022 In order for me to thrive as a person I need to be doing something that I love and be surrounded by people that I love and have a community that I can call my own. —Lara Thriving means having your identity supported, your identity affirmed . . . being in a situation where you can learn, fail, make mistakes, and still understand yourself as someone who will be capable of greatness and is worth...

Alcohol use disorder, which includes alcoholism, is a pattern of behavior where the person cannot control their drinking and is preoccupied with drinking even when it causes them problems. For many alcoholics, what starts as having a few drinks for reasons that are not fully understood balloons into an out-of-control compellation to drink more and more to get the same effect. This article will focus on alcoholism , its causes, including genetic links that cause a person to be more...

Spring registration is now open for Trauma-Informed Education & Supporting Marginalized Students courses! NYC teachers may earn A+ credits.

Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter Hi Folks, The latest edition of the Surviving Spirit Newsletter - sharing Hope and Healing Resources for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is posted at the website -...

By Niraj Warikoo, Photo: 31st District Court, USA TODAY, January 21, 2022 Michigan Judge Alexis Krot has apologized to an elderly cancer patient she berated and threatened with jail time over some unkempt weeds outside his home. And she said she's reporting herself to a state commission that probes judicial misbehavior. "I made a mistake," Krot said in a statement shared with the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, by the court Thursday. "I acted intemperately. I'm very...

In Canada, 1/6 youth are exposed to a parent's addiction, and stigma prevents many parents from recovery. This stigma has detrimental consequences on the health and well-being of impacted youth. As such, we are excited to introduce Starlings Community Youth Advisory Committee . Vision: It is the vision of the Starlings Community Youth council to represent the voices of youth who have been impacted by the stigma of a parent’s substance use within the provincial and federal supports and...

By Julie Wertheimer and Tracy Velázquez, Photo: Getty Images, The Pew Charitable Trusts, January 12, 2022 With many jurisdictions nationwide facing large backlogs of court cases because of COVID-related shutdowns, counties are taking a fresh look at ways to manage jail populations. Although much of the focus in recent years has been on reducing admissions, the average amount of time that people spend in jail has been steadily increasing over the past decade. Just-released national data for...

By Alex Daniels, Photo: Elias Williams, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, January 20, 2022 Before Joe Scantlebury became chief executive of Living Cities in September, he knew had a daunting task ahead. An unnamed group of employees who had fled the nonprofit made it clear that they thought the organization needed a radical overhaul focused on removing racial bias from its operations. In essays posted on the internet, the former employees excoriated Ben Hecht, the organization’s longtime CEO,...