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October 2021

Social, Emotional and Mental Health Literacy in Schools

Building SEL and MHL are both critical to improving school mental health. According to recent discussions with thought-leaders at PBIS, it is recommended that SEL is integrated following school mental health and school wide positive behavior supports (Weist et al, 2018). We are missing the boat if we are excluding Mental Health Literacy (MHL) and mental health education training.

Building Emotional Resilience: A 4-week iRest Meditation Series

This is COLLABORATION! Since 2015, Healing Within Studio and EmpowerSurvivors have collaborated on a number of projects. EmpowerSurvivors is a local 501c3 nonprofit t that supports adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Collaboration is an effective tool for reaching more of those in need in our community. It also allows for developing programs that better meet very specific needs. Plus we truly enjoy working with each other. Building Emotional Resilience led by Liz Stoeckmann is our...

Juleus Ghunta aims to make the Caribbean nations PACEs-informed

If Jamaican poet, children’s book author, and appointee to the nation’s Task Force on Character Education, Juleus Ghunta had his way, all 44 million people living in the Caribbean—from Barbados to Guyana to Grenada—would become PACEs-informed in the near future. To start off, everyone—including children, parents, teachers, social workers, doctors, and policymakers—needs to read his new book, Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows: A Story about ACEs and Hope , due out this December, just in time for...

Book Review: Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows—A Story about ACEs and Hope

Juleus Ghunta’s empowering book Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows—A Story about ACEs and Hope , vibrantly illustrated by Rachel Moss, is a much-needed story of a boy who experiences Shadows that interfere with his ability to read because they make his mind “flicker like a hurricane,” go blank, and sometimes race and “refuse to shut down.” This is an affirming, normalizing contextualization of how bad events and scary experiences, now understood from the science of adverse childhood experiences...

Resilience Circle for Educators starting next week (October 13)

No doubt about it, things are tough for all of us, and educators need a place and space to humanize and normalize what we are all experiencing. Dovetail Learning is hosting another Educator Resilience Circle starting Wednesday Oct. 13th (3:30pm PST/6:30 EST) each week for 55minutes to support you with non-evaluative coaching in our We Are Resilient™ framework. We invite you to jump in and join this opportunity to meet colleagues and get time with me, Coach Bryan :) Educator Resilience Circle...

Now is the time for community schools for all

Community schools have been an effective school improvement strategy for over a century, implemented in both urban and rural areas across the country — yet many people have never heard of this dynamic approach to school design. Whole districts have invested in this model over the past several decades, from Oakland to New York City, from Duluth, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma. California recently approved $2.8 billion in the 2022 fiscal year budget for the implementation of community schools...

2021 WV Handle With Care Conference [handlewithcarewv.org]

October 13, 2021 - October 15, 2021 VIRTUAL ONLY 2021 West Virginia Handle With Care Conference is now VIRTUAL ONLY. This event will be held on October 13-15 and sessions will be streamed for virtual participants. 3 Days | 30+ Sessions | Virtual Exhibits | Networking Opportunities Join us for the 2021 WV Handle with Care VIRTUAL Conference! With over 30 presenters and sessions, this event will focus on a trauma-informed response to child maltreatment and children’s exposure to violence. The...

Youthful Advisers Help Shape a Mental Health Program for Their Peers [californiahealthline.org]

By Mark Kreidler, California Healthline, October 1, 2021 Phebe Cox grew up in what might seem an unlikely mental health danger zone for a kid: tony Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. But behind its façade of family success and wealth, she said, is an environment of crushing pressure on students to perform. By 2016, when Cox was in middle school, Palo Alto had a teen suicide rate four times the national average . Cox’s family lived by the railroad tracks where many of the...

How Students Fought a Book Ban and Won, for Now [nytimes.com]

By Isabella Grullón and Maria Cramer, The New York Times, October 2, 2021 Edha Gupta and Christina Ellis, two high school seniors in York County, Pa., were furious when they read last month in a local paper that their teachers had been effectively banned from using hundreds of books, documentary films and articles in their classrooms. The list , which was created in 2020 by a diversity committee in the Central York School District, was meant to serve as a resource guide for students and...

Gun violence expert says tackling underlying inequities key to prevention

Through the news media, Americans are served an almost-daily dose of violence caused by guns. This year to date, more than 33,929 people in the United States have been killed and another 30,000+ have been injured by guns. The U.S. homicide rate for firearms is 22 times greater than that of the European Union, even though the European population is 35% larger. But to Dr. Garen Wintemute , the statistics on injuries and deaths are only one part of the story. To reverse those appalling numbers,...

TRAUMA-INFORMED ACES SCREENING & INTERVENTION EVALUATION (TASIE) DEMONSTRATION PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening & Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Demonstration Project ECHO Quality Improvement (QI) Program is an initiative of the Center for Youth Wellness: A Program of Safe and Sound and the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP), with funding from HRSA. We are pleased to open applications for the TASIE Demonstration Project ECHO QI Program. Selected practices will participate in a 9-month Quality Improvement Project ECHO program and receive...

National ACEs, Trauma, and Resilience Network Survey Findings Now Available from MARC

In 2020, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) surveyed hundreds of ACEs, trauma, and resilience (ATR) networks across the country to learn more about their characteristics, goals, and technical assistance needs. Our findings spotlight the power and potential of ATR networks and opportunities to better support the broader movement for creating healthy, equitable, and resilient communities. The Health Federation of Philadelphia collaborated with NORC at the University of Chicago...

Updated Resource: Ten Ways to Promote PCEs [positiveexperience.org/blog]

By The HOPE Team, 10/5/21, positiveexperience.org/blog A year ago, we posted a blog with ten ways to help children have positive experiences during the pandemic. Now, we know that most families have struggled – successfully – to create positive experiences for their young children during this terribly disruptive time. Although we had hoped that the pandemic would be behind us, we are still living with COVID-19. Progress has been stalled by the rise of the more infectious delta variant and...

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