February 2021

Chaplin Xavier Justice and Jenny Brackman speak with Lisseth London about how Forward-Facing Trauma Therapy can assist BIPOC in dealing with trauma. In a conversation about the impact of trauma, Justice brings an enlighten perspective on how religion and spirituality are more intertwined into the concept of healing one's trauma and explores some basic concepts that he gleaned from Dr. J. Eric Gentry. Justice shares how he incorporates the principles in his work and continues to study data on...

The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) , a leading organization in the trauma-informed care movement, is expanding its staff and hiring two new positions . Program Coordinator . This position entails managing a portfolio of client agencies implementing TSI's Whole System Change Model to Trauma-Informed Care . The person in this role does sales, contracting, training, consultation, and coaching with client agencies. Operations Support Specialist. This position entails supporting all operations...

CYW WEBINAR Cultural and Racial Differences in Understanding and Responding to Adversity, Trauma, Resilience and Healing Wednesday, February 24th 12:00-1:00pm PT/3:00-4:00 ET The Center for Youth Wellness is excited to announce our third ACEs Aware webinar on February 24 at Noon PT/3pm ET. Gatanya Arnic, CYW's Chief Executive Officer, will discuss how cultural and racial differences can impact ACEs screening and response. Gatanya will lead a discussion of how the biases inherent in the...

Early Childhood Educator, Trauma Support Specialist, Emotional Intelligence Consultant, Child & Family Advocate Jameelah Hanif brings serious weekly discussions to the public through Facebook Live. Her purpose to raise ACEs Awareness and the importance of early care and learning. This week discussion is about “Child in Adult Body”. Science tells us that the brain doesn’t fully develop until 25 years old or so. But yet we have so many unrealistic expectations for children who has a...

During COA Awareness Week - February 14 - 20th, here is a great opportunity to learn more about parental addiction: Children at the Center of Addiction, A Voice for the Voiceless, tomorrow at 1 pm ET. Register here >> Presenters: Judge Robert Rancourt , Appointed as a Minnesota District Court Judge and assigned to serve statewide as Senior Judge; served on the Advisory Council for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health. Judge Rancourt will provide...

Scarlett, JT, and Jesse

February 2021 · By Adriana Ramos-Yamamoto and Monica Davalos The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the depths and reach of racism on the health of children, families, and individuals, with communities of color in California experiencing higher rates of illness, death, and overall hardship due to the virus. This devastation must be the catalyst for California policymakers to acknowledge that racism has caused lasting and negative impacts on communities of color. While some local policymakers...

T ransforming Trauma Episode 035: The Spiritual Elements of Trauma Healing with Drs. Dick Schwartz and Laurence Heller In this powerful episode of Transforming Trauma, we have another opportunity to listen to a conversation between authors and therapeutic pioneers Drs. Dick Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Laurence Heller, founder of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM). Joined by our host, Sarah, the two authors come together for a second time to continue their...

Over 80% of students feel disconnected from schools (official) and 100% of support staff are overwhelmed and exhausted (unofficial). Emote is launching a free app aimed at facilitating closer connections between schools and students - making it easier for staff and teachers to understand and support students' emotional needs. [Learn More] We worked with a team of high schoolers and interventionists to build the only check-in tool that actively supports students and you. Emote Connect works...

Overview Using the science of adverse childhood experiences, ACEs Connection helps communities solve their most intractable problems. We do this by creating and connecting networks of people, organizations and communities to prevent ACEs, heal trauma, and build resilience. For more information, visit ACEsConnection.com and ACEsTooHigh.com. ACEs Connection is a fiscally sponsored project of TSNE (www.tsne.org). Responsibilities Joining a team of regional community facilitators, the new...

In this podcast episode, we explore the nature of the stress response and what it can teach us about trauma. Heart Rate Variability as a measure of the nervous system's ability to handle or recover from stress helps us measure the stress response and learn new insights into behaviors. https://optimalhrv.com/podcast/heart-rate-variability-anxiety-the-stress-response/

The APA Journal Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy recently published a special issue on “Complementary Medicine and Integrative Approaches to Trauma Therapy and Recovery.” Along with articles on the use of yoga, mindfulness and Healing Touch to treat PTSD is an article on EFT: “Reexamining the effect of emotional freedom techniques on stress biochemistry: A randomized controlled trial” by Peta Stapleton and colleagues. This research study replicated an earlier...