November 2020

By Juliet Sims and Manal J. Aboelata, Prevention Institute, October 2020 Summary California’s state government can play a vital role in facilitating and supporting efforts to improve community-wide health, safety, and wellbeing, by reducing exposure to trauma, and increasing individual and community resilience. Beyond Screening: Achieving California's Bold Goal of Reducing Exposure to Childhood Trauma explores prevention and healing approaches that strengthen mental health and wellbeing,...

By Amanda Rosa, The New York Times, November 11, 2020 A teenage girl from Brooklyn bounced to four foster homes before she trusted a family enough to come out as bisexual. In Queens, a 21-year-old transgender man said he no longer spoke to his parents. Another teenager, who is transgender, remembered the day he climbed to the roof of his apartment building in Queens and contemplated jumping to his death. Soon after, he was placed into a foster home. Some advocacy groups have long believed...

I am currently conducting a research study on the experiences of Black emerging adults as it relates to adversity or possible trauma, ethnic identity, sense of community, and mental health outcomes. I am currently recruiting participants for an online research survey . The requirements to participate in this study are: You identify as Black (e.g., African descended, African American, Afro Latinx, Afro Caribbean, Caribbean American) That you are 18-29 years of age. That you live in the United...

The Healing Foundation, November 11, 2020. The Healing Foundation has today launched a new podcast series on intergenerational trauma from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective to tell the story of the healing needed for all Australian communities. The Healing Our Way podcast touches on sensitive and confronting themes around trauma and gives young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a chance to share their thoughts about intergenerational healing and the concept of...

Social justice and human rights leaders are then told to practice self-care to cope with the impact of the trauma and stress they experience only to return to the work, organizations, and movements where trauma and oppression are often re-enacted.

By Kazu Haga, October 27, 2020, Waging Nonviolence. As we head into what may be the most chaotic election in our lifetime, many people on all sides of the political aisle are reeling from anxiety and responding from a place of panic. With many of us on the left organizing for mass mobilizations and actions in the post-election season, we must make sure that we are doing so from a grounded place to ensure that we are not adding more panic to the world. To ensure this, we have to have some...

Join us for a FREE workshop exploring the Protective Factors Framework Introduction. The Strengthening Families Framework helps ensure optimal outcomes for children and their families by implementing strategies that strengthen families, build protective factors, promote individual growth, help systems be more responsive to families and children, and strengthen communities’ capacities as safe and healthy environments. The workshop will cover: Introduction to the 5 Protective Factors that help...

By Hannah Nelson, November 16, 2020, PatientEngagementHIT. In the next ten years, the state government will invest in programs to improve access to care, minimize health disparities, and promote health equity. Ochsner Health and Louisiana elected officials announced a ten-year plan to improve the state’s overall health by investing in comprehensive projects that will enhance healthcare access and health equity. Over the next five years, the state will make an initial investment of $100...

It’s not always going to be like this. I hope that’s true. Some morning I wake up and have t o remind myself to be grateful and have gratitude for the fact that maybe one day I won’t have to do the work anymore. There is something so burdensome about having to fix all of the issues that other people caused. I constantly think about the fact that there is nothing that I can do about the past. In one way, this understanding inspires me to continue to move forward no matter what, and the other...

Eleven years ago my friend Sally was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, the degenerative motor-neuron disease which gradually renders you unable to move, to eat, to talk, and in the end to breathe. She had just turned 40, two kids, happily married to a prince of a guy, so much to look forward to, for all of them. And then this horrible suffering. This “very slow car crash” was her husband’s description and I can’t get that image out of my head. The wreckage, the...

By Jared Brey, Next City, November 10, 2020 The presidential election was still far from being decided last week when Ruy Arango, chair of the “No Eviction Without Representation” (NEWR) campaign in Boulder, Colorado, told Boulder Beat that he’d seen enough. Ballot measure 2B, which would levy a tax on landlords to fund legal representation for tenants facing eviction, was ahead by a healthy margin. Arango and the NEWR campaign were “pretty confident” it would pass, and he was going to bed,...

By Chandra Bozelko, Center for Health Journalism, November 9, 2020 During the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett, the newest Supreme Court Justice, Democratic senators displayed poster-size photos of people who could lose their health insurance if the Supreme Court rules the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional in Texas v. California. One of those photos could have been my release mugshot, taken on March 18, 2014 as I left prison after more than six years inside. When I came home,...