November 2020

By Matt Driscoll, The News Tribune, November 15, 2020 It can be challenging, and often overwhelming, Desiree White said. A foster parent for the last eight years, the former pediatric trauma nurse at Mary Bridge Children’s hospital told The News Tribune she knows exactly how difficult it can be to find the medical care that’s necessary when you bring a child into your home. White has provided temporary care to medically fragile foster children and has two adopted kids, both with special...

Please join us in celebrating the launch of our newest interest-based community: Addiction & Recovery! We appreciate your celebratory vibes in the form of the party cone emoji react below this blog post. 🎉 This community is open for anyone to join: https://www.acesconnection.com/g/addiction-and-recovery In this community, we will explore the root causes of addiction while focusing on recovery and human resilience. We invite you to post relevant articles, studies, resources, videos, and...

Google search is more sophisticated than the search bar we have on ACEsConnection.com so this can be a quicker and easier way to find things. To learn how to use our own native search tool follow these separate guides: How-To: Search ACEs Connection General Site How-To: Search ACEs Connection Members How to Search Within Our or Any Site Using Google Go to Google.com or the top search bar in Google Chrome Enter site:www.website.com search term into the search box Example:...

356 pounds?! Are you kidding me, Michael? What the fuck are you doing to yourself? Every morning I would wake up and watch the number on the scale tick up as I slowly allowed obesity to run wild and consume my body. Fat . I was always the chubby kid. I shopped in the boy's husky section at Walmart as a preteen. Husky for the unware is the polite nomenclature for fat kids. I spent summers running around with my shirt on. I ate entire boxes of gummy bears for dinner. I never ordered just one...

You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday , December 2 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy To register for the webinar go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Need for a New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy? Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes...

N'dea Yancey-Bragg USA TODAY Nov. 5, 2020 A group of medical students at the University of Pittsburgh wrote their own version of the Hippocratic oath which acknowledges system racism in medicine, the coronavirus pandemic and several high profile police killings of African Americans. During their orientation, a group of first-year medical students created a new class oath that the class recited ahead of the symbolic white coat ceremony in August which marked the beginning of their medical...

At Ready4K , we talk and write a lot about parental self-care. It’s absolutely key that every caregiver find time and strategies to de-stress and relax even if it’s just for a few minutes. But did you know that kids need self-care too? So how do we help kids learn to care for themselves? In this article, Ready4K content manager Fran Lartigue provides specific ideas for helping kids learn simple self-care strategies that can last for a lifetime. Read the article >>

These times have been ROUGH for our schools, but we've noticed it's especially challenging for our female school leaders. They are crispy and fried with burnout and struggling to muster the energy to face each new day. For this reason, WE created something to help RIGHT NOW! HERE this NOW is proud to announce its COVID Crisis Leadership Development Program that is designed for female school leaders (though we welcome equity-minded men and those that identify as gender non-conforming) that...

Join me for a 6 week digital discussion group about Laura van Dernoot Lipsky’s amazing book, Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others . This book has been a game changer for me throughout my social work career. Impactful, funny, and practical, I have use this book to not only support my own selfcare but also to support teams that I’ve worked with. As I’ve revisited this book, I often find myself wanting to share what I'm learning with others, dive...

An opportunity to learn about trauma -- its impact on youth and on you! Holiday trauma addressed too. CAEOP conference on Dec. 11th (virtual) -- day long. Registration includes a copy of Trauma Doesn't Stop at the School Door (paperback or ebook). Join us. Register here: https://forms.gle/fMA13aPL4SBrWrZy8.

By Elizabeth Amon, The Imprint, November 15, 2020 She had been homeless and struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts over three difficult years, when Elsa St Clair was released in January from an Idaho psychiatric hospital. Today, the 24-year-old enjoys a reliable internet connection in a Spokane apartment that she’s decorated with the flag of Eastern Washington University, where she hopes to study nursing. In preparation for her future career, she is about to start an online...

By Carolyn Jones, EdSource, November 17, 2020 Student misbehavior hasn’t vanished during distance learning, but schools are finding that imposing discipline in a virtual environment is a complicated and often murky process, and that current laws don’t neatly apply to online behavior. The California Department of Education has not yet released suspension and expulsion data from the 2019-20 school year, but teachers and advocates interviewed by EdSource say school discipline, such as...