February 2021

Dr. Robert Sege, 2/23/21, positiveexperiences.org/blog I met Dr. Bell at an American Academy of Pediatrics committee meeting, convened to develop strategies to address the epidemic of youth violence. Our charge was to develop ways that pediatricians could adapt their practice and counseling to reduce the risk of violence. Dr. Carl Bell spoke plainly about the need to build up the inherent strengths and community connections of urban teens. Compassion and understanding drove his work. In her...

Hi education disrupters! We will be meeting every 2nd and 4th Thursday at a NEW TIME, 4pm PST. We are going to try this new time through April in the hopes of allowing more teachers and administrators to attend so please share! Each week our discussion will explore the following: How do we create physical and psychological safety, especially in the face of so much uncertainty? What strategies can we use to create a culture of collective care? How do we implement peer support structures for...

The pandemic has hit its one year milestone. The mental health of the health and behavioral health workforce is among the loudest adverse effects of these times. Life and the healthcare industry are fraught with stress; these dynamics are not new. But the horrific events of this year have eclipsed in a new dimension of trauma for every discipline to contend with. New Dimensions of Trauma Collective occupational trauma (Fink-Samnick, 2020) is front and center. In this space, practitioners,...

By Crispin Long, The New Yorker, February 17, 2021 For a project in film school, Carol Nguyen set out to make a fictional short film about three generations of a family as they experience assimilation after immigration, but the process revealed a different story, one closer to home. Nguyen’s parents each moved at different times during the nineteen-eighties from Vietnam to Canada, where they met, got married, and raised two daughters, with Nguyen’s father’s parents as part of the household.

By CVS Health, February 8, 2021 Aetna Better Health, the Medicaid managed care business of Aetna, a CVS Health company, today announced the launch of the Trauma Informed Care Center of Excellence (Center). Aetna will stand up Centers in California and Oklahoma to address secondary trauma – the emotional duress that results when an individual is exposed to the firsthand trauma experience of another – in the workforce. Aetna plans to extend the model to Ohio and Nevada in the coming months.

By Sarah Holder, Bloomberg City Lab, March 14, 2018 “For most of human history, maps have been very exclusive,” said Marie Price, the first woman president of the American Geographical Society , appointed 165 years into its 167-year history. “Only a few people got to make maps, and they were carefully guarded, and they were not participatory.” That’s slowly changing, she said, thanks to democratizing projects like OpenStreetMap (OSM). OSM is the self-proclaimed Wikipedia of maps : It’s a...

By Tom Morton and Jess McDonald, The Imprint, February 15, 2021 The child welfare system plays a conflicted role in our society’s history. It exists in a world of competing values and basic societal assumptions. Was it developed as a way to “save” children from abuse and neglect or as a means to “control families?” We chose to serve in this system to help children live safely with their families in safer communities. We believed it was possible to make a positive difference for children and...

I sat down with Jered Odegard for his podcast where on, "Each episode we talk to senior leaders to uncover the powerful yet counterintuitive ways to be a high performer. Learn to build a better career and company." Trauma-informed Leadership definitely fits that mission! I encourage you to subscribe to his podcast and to also give a listen to our conversation.

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In a study published by Muenzenmaier, et.al.1, men were interviewed to see what types of child abuse they had experienced and found: 9% experienced physical abuse 9% experienced sexual abuse 4% witnessed sexual abuse 35% witnessed physical abuse Men are not stoic stones that do not waver and cannot be harmed. If someone like this family member states he gets suicidal when going to work due to his trauma history, he should receive the same consideration and care as a woman would.

Often labeled rivalry and ignored, sibling bullying and abuse cause real trauma by Darlene Lancer, JD, LMFT from PSYCHOLOGY TODAY (Posted Feb 03, 2020) Sibling abuse is the most common but least reported abuse in the family. Prevalence is higher than spousal or child abuse combined with consequences well into adulthood similar to parent-child abuse. Up to 80 percent of youth experience some form of sibling maltreatment; yet, it’s been called the “forgotten abuse.” [1] Therapists also...