March 2021

By Chrishana M. Lloyd, Julianna Carlson, and Marta Alvira-Hammond, Child Trends, March 5, 2021 As we wrote in the first brief of this series, Black Americans’ social standing in the United States has been shaped by a long history of racism in laws, policies, and practices that has built racist institutions and created and exacerbated inequality. This inequality is built into the infrastructure of our country and has formed the foundation for structural racism—a system that privileges White...

Combined 2018-2019 National Survey of Children’s Health Downloadable Data sets and Codebooks are now available on CAHMI’s Data Resource Center The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), under a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of the combined 2018-2019 National Survey...

A curated collection of over 75 lesson plans, writing prompts, short films and graphs relating to racism and racial justice. By Nicole Daniels , Michael Gonchar and Natalie Proulx March 4, 2021 The summer of 2020 was not the first time that urgent conversations about race and racism were happening in homes, classrooms and workplaces. But the energy of the Black Lives Matter protests, believed by many to be the largest in U.S. history , was unparalleled. Though the demands and chants may have...

Does a New Administration Mean Better Policies for Kids? Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 from 8:30 to 9:30 PM EST Ahora con traducción en vivo y en español (lea más abajo) 2021 marks the beginning of a new decade and a new administration in Washington DC. President Biden and Vice President Harris have said that under their watch racial equity will be central to the federal government’s policies, programs, and operations. What might that mean for the 74 million children in the US, half of them...

Amanda Winn, 3/8/21, positiveexperience.org/blog The team at HOPE National Resource Center is excited to release our “HOPE as an Anti-Racist Framework in Action” fact sheet (which can be found on our Resources and Handouts & Worksheets pages). We know that Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs) from the 4 Building Blocks of HOPE (relationships, environments, social and civic engagement, and social and emotional growth) support child development and buffer against the long-term health...

Honored to be part of the Survivor Stories event hosted by Michael Broussard of Ask a Survivor. Performing two songs of mine and sharing the back story to their creation - "Songs For The Keys To Your Life"and "When Your Heart Follows A Lie" “ Go to where the silence is and say something.” - Amy Goodman Survivor Stories- Michael Skinner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehkz2kkkIa4&t=40s Take care and share as you wish...Michael Skinner A diagnosis is not a destiny “ Our lives begin to...

ACEs Connection , the CTIPP (The Campaign for Trauma -Informed Policy & Practice), and the Relentless School Nurse , are co-hosing the Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences Film Festival and Zoom discussion series. These are our next two events and we hope you will join us: 1. Weekend Streaming of Whole People from March 12th - March 14th, 2021): We will be streaming of parts 4 and 5 of the Whole People documentary series on the weekend of M arch 12th through March 14th, 2021 in the...

This week at EmpowerSurvivors 1940 Greeley Street, South Suite 210 Stillwater, MN 55082 www.EmpowerSurvivors.net ** Supporting Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Since 2014*** Join us weekly at EmpwowerSurvivors for peer support programs, meetings, and more! ________________________________________ Conversations With Evey & Elizabeth 6:00 pm ( Central) Monday 3/8/21 via Zoom Special Guest: Suzanne Isaza Topic: Surviving Incest Register in advance for this meeting:...

Photo Description and credit: Otsuchi Town, Japan Photography by Issei Kato . E xcerpts below from reporting by Mari Saito published in www. reuters.com:

These are some of the requests that came in this week for sets of Advancing Parenting's fifty-one bumper stickers. Because we haven't any funding none were printed and none were shipped. Everyone was placed on a waiting list that was started in 2016. Visit www.advancingparenting.org. **************************************************************************** Hello, I'd love to order some bumper stickers for our agency. Our address is listed below. Thank you so much for all that you do.

Rene Howitt, founder of Cope24, offers professional development workshops to school districts across the nation. She also provides presentations and key note speaking at universities, teacher conferences, advocacy events and churches.

March 5 is DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) Awareness Day. Given the correlation between ACEs and Dissociative Disorders, I want to bring this day and some resources to your attention. Even the most trauma-informed and competent practitioners often have difficulty diagnosing and treating the spectrum of dissociative disorders (DDs), especially DID. But we are learning that this elegant way of coping with chronic, severe childhood trauma is more prevalent than previously thought. Current...