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November 2022

Register and join the November 16th CTIPP CAN Call

This month’s CTIPP CAN call will pilot a new tool – Airmeet – to further the movement’s ability to network and connect with other passionate advocates and practitioners. Airmeet enhances our ability to provide more interactive and engaging presentations, breakout sessions, polling, and more. Join us to help test out the new platform’s features and networking capabilities, as well as join important discussions and provide feedback about CTIPP to help us continue to better propel the movement...

Mark Your Calendar! In 2022, Children's Grief Awareness Day will be Thursday, November 17! [highmarkcaringplace.com]

On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, the Highmark Caring Place will host the Third Annual VIRTUAL Children's Grief Awareness Day. The schedule of the day's presentations and activities is shown below. No registration is required for any of the Children's Grief Awareness Day presentations, either beforehand or on November 17. All the events will be live on the Children's Grief Awareness Day Facebook page and on the Highmark Caring Place YouTube page. New videos will be released throughout the day from...

‘History. Culture.Trauma.’ encore with ‘minister of gun violence prevention’, Rev. Deanna Hollas

In light of the recent college shootings, including Sunday’s shooting deaths of three football players at the University of Virginia , PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren will revisit her discussion with the Rev. Deanna Hollas for the History. Culture. Trauma. podcast Thursday, November 17 from at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET.. Rev. Hollas is the gun violence prevention ministry coordinator with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a founding member of the Everytown for Gun Safety Interfaith Advisory...

‘We cannot let this shining star die,’ says Peter Chiavetta, volunteer emergency medical technician and PACEs Connection donor.

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We need you, our 57,651 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Unfortunately, pay and hours have had to be cut for our staff. Most of us will be laid-off for the month of December. The good news is that, since sounding the alarm this Summer, we’ve raised $46,000 ! Thank you to all who’ve donated. To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please read...

Mayday at the Bottom of the World

Photo: Fred Olivier / Alamy [Personal note: People often ask what prompted me to found PACEs Connection, which began as ACEs Connection in 2012. There are two parts to this answer: the professional part—how ACEs Connection grew out of my reporting on violence epidemiology. And the personal one, which I haven't written about in great detail until now. It appears on HiddenCompass.net , a remarkable travel site that calls itself "the antidote to clickbait".] CONTENT WARNING: This story contains...

This farm offers turkey cuddling. No, really. [washingtonpost.com]

By Cathy Free, Photo: Gentle Barn, The Washington Post, November 14, 2022 Turkeys have sharp claws, pointy beaks and red saggy bits on their necks. Snuggle might not be the first word that comes to mind when seeing a feathered turkey waddling across a farm. But Barbara Slaine was sitting on the ground at a California farm last year when a turkey named Sun shambled over and climbed into her lap. Slaine, 63, was visiting the Gentle Barn animal sanctuary from New York and had never had an...

‘If I could buy freedom, I would’: LA residents who can’t afford bail sue to change system [theguardian.com]

By Sam Levin, Étienne Laurent/EPA, The Guardian, November 14, 2022 Los Angeles residents jailed because they can’t afford to pay bail have filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the system that often keeps low-income people behind bars before they’ve been charged. The complaint was filed on Monday on behalf of six people in LA jails who were recently arrested but have not yet seen a judge, been arraigned or assigned a public defender. The case is the first to challenge LA’s “ bail schedule...

It's harder to buy a house. This city fought back by outbidding corporate landlords [npr.org]

By Jennifer Ludden, Photo: Jeff Dean/National Public Radio, National Public Radio, November 3, 2022 Demetrius Harper-Edwards and his girlfriend, Sarai Yisrael, spent the pandemic lockdown dreaming of owning a home. They saved for a down payment, and worked to repair their credit. "I was literally on that couch just going crazy with the paperwork," says Yisrael, who was pregnant with their now 2-year-old son. Harper-Edwards also has twin 8-year-old daughters. She's a seamstress and sells her...

PACEs Research Corner — October 2022, Part 1

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Iob E, Lacey R, Giunchiglia V, Steptoe A. Adverse childhood experiences and severity levels of inflammation and depression from childhood to...

NEW Report: Federal Funding is Available for the Trauma-Informed Movement

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) wants to help our network access the government funding available for states, localities, and community-based organizations to address trauma. As a start, we looked at the federal grants open and posted on grants.gov throughout October 2022. We discovered 24 grants aligned with trauma-informed work. While our scope was short (October 2022), we were pleased to find eleven of the 24 grants start at $100,000, meaning that smaller...

The Surviving Spirit Newsletter November 2022

The latest Surviving Spirit Newsletter - Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health is out - It can be read online via this & you can also subscribe - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20221113191424/ or this - http://newsletters.survivingspirit.com/pdfs/2022-11-The_%20Surviving%20_Spirit%20_Newsletter%20_November_2022.pdf Newsletter Content : 1] Trauma During Childhood Triples the Risk of Suffering a Serious Mental Disorder in Adulthood –...

Keeping Hope Alive Through Leadership

“The first and last task of a leader is to keep hope alive.” You might be familiar with that saying from John W. Gardner which was first published in No Easy Victories (1968) and repeated in his popular book, On Leadership (1993). As someone who promotes Hope-Centered Leadership, I gotta say, I really like that quote! But would Gardner agree with how I view Hope-Centered Leadership? I think so; allow me to explain. Dr. Rick Snyder, the father of Hope Theory, defined hope as a positive...

Staying Sane During The Holidays

Staying Sane During The Holidays 11/14/2022 Staying Sane During The Holidays EmpowerSurvivors is a 501(C)(3). All Rights Reserved. © 2022 www.EmpowerSurvivors.net ****Trigger Warning ***** Holidays can be a hard time for survivors of childhood sexual trauma and abuse. For many, it may mean reminders of past childhood abuse or knowing that the person that perpetrated them will be gathered alongside family members. This may leave you feeling a sense of loss and thoughts of why, why would my...

Thousands of kids lost loved ones to the pandemic. Psychologists are teaching them how to grieve, and then thrive [apa.org]

By Tori DeAngelis, American Psychological Association, October 1, 2022 At least 204,000 U.S. children and teens have lost parents and other in-home caregivers to COVID -19—more than 1 in every 360 youth, according to COVID Collaborative , an interdisciplinary group of experts that is raising awareness and support for COVID -bereaved children. The growing number of children facing these tragedies highlights the pressing need for clinicians to become versed in helping them cope and ultimately...

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