January 2022

***TRIGGER WARNING*** Being a child in a dysfunctional home has long-lasting effects on their lives clear into adulthood. The secrecy and pain that accompany growing up in such a home leave permanent scars, plus behaviors that can be changed. This article will tackle what it means to be an adult child of an alcoholic with the intention that everything said also covers adults who grew up in other types of dysfunctional families. This article may be triggering for some, but there is no way to...

Global data emphasizes the impact of chronic and recurrent COVID-waves for front-line physicians and nurses; no doubt these disciplines have endured, and continue to take a powerful hit; >80% ready to leave the industry. Concern exists whether there will be enough practitioners to render care. However, what of other disciplines? Disregard for the health, mental health, and well-being of all members of the workforce is a grave concern.

Inside the visitor center at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site at 450 Auburn Ave. in 2017. JOHN SPINK /JSPINK@AJC.COM Whether it’s a day of volunteering or quiet reflection, Atlantans honor King. By Mary Welch for the AJC January 7, 2022 -- “The Martin Luther King holiday is not a day to ‘take off’ but to ‘take on’,” says Jay Cranman, president and CEO of Hands On Atlanta. “Dr. King believed in serving and uplifting the community, and a project day of service certainly honors...

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After a successful pilot launch, the Foster Care Supply Drive is set to expand throughout SW Washington State in the Spring of 2022. During the pilot phase, which began in Washougal/Camas we were able to procure enough donations from 6 businesses to create 110 welcome bags for youth entering foster care. Donation bins and marketing materials are scheduled to be delivered between March 1st, 2022, and March 4th, 2022. The Foster Care Supply Drive was created based on first-hand experiences of...

By Elizabeth Thompson, Illustration: Elizabeth Thompson, North Carolina Health News, January 13, 2022 Bethany Uhler Thompson didn’t know what to expect when she decided to start a youth string orchestra at Chatham Youth Development Center. She was inspired by her uncle, who was incarcerated and had confided in her how isolating being in prison could be. Thompson used to perform with her cello in a juvenile detention center when she was younger, but she wanted to get incarcerated people...

By Nikki Kay, Photo: LL_studio/Shutterstock, Your Tango, January 11, 2022 “People who go on and on about how messed up they seem like they’re just looking for attention or sympathy.” “At some point, you have to grow up and get over it.” How many times have you heard these arguments used against survivors of childhood trauma? After all my work recovering from my own childhood and speaking out about trauma recovery , it will come as no surprise how close to home these comments hit every time I...

By Nick Romeo, Illustration: Jo Zixuan Zhou, The Washington Post, January 10, 2022 A bout five years ago, Kate Emery, the founder of a successful digital-consulting firm in Farmington, Connecticut, was considering retirement. With nearly fifty employees and annual revenues around ten million dollars, her company, the Walker Group, was quite attractive to potential buyers. If she sold to the highest bidder, she might easily make millions. And yet she didn’t want to sell. Selling, she knew,...

By Elahe Izadi, Photo: Nicole Neri/Reuters, The Washington Post, June 11, 2021 The Pulitzer Prize board awarded a special citation on Friday to Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose cellphone footage of George Floyd’s murder last summer led to massive protests and sparked a racial reckoning in the country. Frazier was 17 at the time she filmed Floyd’s death under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and she testified at Chauvin’s trial, where he would eventually be convicted.

Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...

By Laura Gallant, 1/13/22, positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ This year we will be hosting a Week of HOPE, this will take place March 7 – 11, 2022. Throughout the week we will highlight all the amazing work of HOPE featuring the many organizations we have worked with and who use HOPE to support children, families, and communities. The HOPE framework offers a new approach that brings identifying, celebrating, and promoting positive experiences to the forefront of care. To declare this an...

By Linda Poon, Image: Rise Home Stories, Bloomberg City Lab + Equality, January 12, 2022 The U.S. housing system contains a morass of hard-to-understand policies past and present that have delivered injustice to many Americans, particularly people of color. But there’s one simple theme that unites these policies: The narrative that the American dream of homeownership can be achieved by anyone through hard work and smart decision-making is a myth. A new project created by housing and...