December 2023

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is delighted to welcome Becky Haas as our guest speaker for the January Resilience Series, presenting “Employing A Trauma-Informed Approach in Justice Systems” . When justice professionals learn about trauma, they can respond in ways more supportive to trauma behaviors by taking action to avoid re-traumatizing, employing de-escalation tools to reduce use-of-force, ensuring safety for all, reducing recidivism and promoting recovery. Mrs. Haas, a...

https://publuu.com/flip-book/325820/751171/page/1 Here is a report on the Children’s Day Celebration sponsored by the Future Leaders Initiative in Sierra Leone. Please read how a focus on celebrating DIGNITY experiences in childhood provided an opportunity for children, parents, teachers all to be discussing the same thing. We were all children first and our childhood experiences stay with us throughout our lives. This realization makes it easier for adults and children to join in common...

The National Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Health Care, Education and Research (TIHCER) presents: Trauma-Informed Competency Set for Undergraduate Medical Education Trauma is nearly universal and a root cause of numerous health and social problems, including 6 of the 10 leading causes of death. Research has substantiated the profound impact of trauma on the brain and body - and why trauma training is critical to the education and practice of health professionals. Yet a critical lag...

Lonely in New York City, as shot by the legendary street photographer Weegee in 1946. While social isolation isn’t new, many experts believe that modern life has made it worse. Photographer: Weegee (Arthur Fellig)/International Center of Photography/Getty Images By Linda Poon, Bloomberg CityLab, December 14, 2023 On a recent afternoon stroll though Baltimore’s Mount Vernon Place, British artist Andy Field surveyed his surroundings. There were lots of people out enjoying the historic park, a...

By Daniel Mollenkamp, Photo: SK_Artist/Shutterstock, EdSurge, December 14, 2023 For homeless students, chronic absenteeism is dismayingly high. The number of students who regularly miss school has risen since the pandemic, but for homeless students, it’s been especially bad . Even though federal law requires states to provide public education to homeless students, delivering on this has proven troublesome. And getting homeless students to show up to school has been an elusive goal for many...

A mother embraces her 5-year-old son, whose school was evacuated during the Route Fire, on Aug. 31, 2022 near Castaic, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) By Jeff Brady, KQED, December 14, 2023 Eighteen California children are suing the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming it violated their constitutional rights by failing to protect them from the effects of climate change. The suit is the latest in a series of climate-related cases filed on behalf of children. According to the...

From The Imprint, Image: from article, The Imprint, December 2023 Who Cares is the nation’s first public resource on foster care capacity. The Imprint collects data directly from each state, and combines that with specially obtained federal reports to shed light on two critical questions: How many kids are in foster care today? And where are they living? This year the data suggests that nationwide, the number of youth in care is going down, and so is the number of licensed foster homes.

By Abigail L. Zeamer, Marie-Claire Salive, Xinming An, et al., Image: from article, Translational Psychiatry, November 18, 2023 Abstract Patients exposed to trauma often experience high rates of adverse post-traumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae (APNS). The biological mechanisms promoting APNS are currently unknown, but the microbiota-gut-brain axis offers an avenue to understanding mechanisms as well as possibilities for intervention. Microbiome composition after trauma exposure has been...

By Laura Gallant, 12/14/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ Whether you are a new or returning Summit attendee, The HOPE National Resource Center welcomes you to register for the Fourth Annual HOPE Summit taking place virtually on March 20 and 21, 2024. This year’s Summit is themed, “The HOPE Transformation,” where the HOPE community will dive into the Six Standards of HOPE . These Standards were created to help organizations align their practices with the HOPE framework. Deep dive into...

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/20231212193838/ Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared...

Community members representing various races, ethnicities, ages, genders, and people with disabilities stand on rectangular bars from a bar graph while holding up a line graph, conveying representative data collection. Photo credit: Gracia Lam By Tina Kauh, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 7, 2023 To advance health equity, the research field and philanthropy must address underlying racism present in data collection. My parents, like so many other immigrants, moved to America with...

By Laura Newberry, Illustration: Patrick Hruby, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2023 Woven throughout most of this newsletter is the understanding that our past informs our present. It shows up in the choices we make, our relationships, our work. No corner of our lives goes untouched by the shadows of our former selves. The concept that personal history plays a key role in our psychology has been formally recognized since the days of Freud . A younger, burgeoning field of study is now...