December 2021

This truly is a special time for many of us, but let's also acknowledge that this is a very busy, stressful, and sometimes overwhelming time. This blog post imagines a new kind of holiday tradition, grounded in all the kinds of things that help us in stressful times. We also share newly available resources and exciting news about what's to come in the new year, including a grant-funded project to help lower stress levels in schools!

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By Todd C. Frankel - Dec. 19, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST The Washington Post -- After a catastrophic tornado leveled a third of Joplin, Mo., in 2011, Mark Rohr sat in a fire station surrounded by a sea of FEMA “blue jackets” and was told that temporary-housing trailers for thousands of residents left homeless by the storm would be delivered “by the first frost.” It was May at the time. The first frost was six months away. “I turned around, looked up at them and said, ‘That’s unacceptable. That’s...

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The science in clear. Resiliency is built – and communities play a key role in promoting safe, secure and nurturing environments where all residents can thrive. Like many states, there has been a lot of momentum in North Carolina to develop initiatives addressing trauma and resilience. But how can agencies, service providers, and other organizations leverage that momentum and align this work across systems to holistically address the needs of community members across their lifespans? The...

BY: MIMI GRAHAM | PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 17, 2021 |Florida State University News --Florida State University’s Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy (CPEIP) announced a new partnership with Simply Healthcare Plans (“Simply”) to improve patient outcomes by recognizing the role trauma plays in overall health through specialized training and educational programming for Simply team members. “Recognizing early childhood trauma is an important factor impacting health throughout the...

The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) is a set of trauma-informed skills that can help people monitor their bodily sensations and ground themselves towards their Resilient Zone. CRM is supporting individuals towards resilience in Georgia and across the nation. To read more about the basis of CRM and how it's being used today, check out our newest blog post here .

As the holidays approach, family gatherings are once again possible. It is common to have high expectations when thinking of reuniting with family you haven't seen for a long time. But for adult survivors of adverse childhoood experiences (ACE), you might fear that your worst expectations will be realized if you get together with nuclear and/or extended family members for a holiday celebration.

By John Woodrow Cox, Mark Berman, and Steven Rich, Photo: Oakland County Sheriff's Office/AP, The Washington Post, December 9, 2021 She had seen her grandson’s red, spiral-bound notebook before that night, but now, as Catherine O’Connor sifted through its pages for the first time, what she read astonished her. “School Shootings,” Joshua O’Connor had titled the first page, above a reconstruction of the Columbine High School massacre that left 13 people dead. In the pages that followed,...

By David Ketchum, Photo: Roman Kirienko/Pexels, LA Progressive, December 2021 F or all the effort we put into social change, and all the discouragement we feel with how slow that change often is, sometimes I am amazed at how quickly and how much change is actually happening. And I don’t just mean in all the horrible, unjust ways. I’ll take it as a given that humans will continue to think up horrible ways to hurt one another and destroy the planet; that is disappointing and egregious, but it...

By Rebecca Solnit, Photo: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock, The Guardian, December 10, 2021 A lot of people with a lot of power don’t see why women should have jurisdiction over their own bodies. That’s the anti-abortion argument in a nutshell, in that they claim a foetus, or even an embryo, or in some cases even a fertilised egg too small for the human eye to see, has rights that supersede those of the person inside whose body that egg, embryo or foetus might be. What was clear from...

By Iridian Casarez, Photo: Redwood Pediatrics, North Coast Journal, December 16, 2021 W ithin the past year Mike Mangahas, a pediatrician at Open Door Community Health Clinic in Eureka, has seldom prescribed medications to patients with serious behavioral issues. Instead, he's using information from a survey about patients' childhood traumas — known as adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs — to inform a more holistic model of care. "I have been prescribing a lot less psychotropic...