March 2023

A memorial to Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., in 2020. Credit... Xavier Burrell for The New York Times By Glenn Thrush, The New York Times, March 8, 2023 The police department in Louisville, Ky., engaged in a far-ranging pattern of discriminatory and abusive law enforcement practices, the Justice Department said on Wednesday after conducting a two-year investigation prompted by the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor by the police in 2020. In a damning 90-page report , investigators painted...

Psychiatrist and trauma specialist Bessel Van Der Kolk Photo: Supplied From Saturday Morning, RNZ, March 4, 2023 Trauma occurs when a threatening experience causes our brains and bodies to "lock into" a state of high alert and stay there, says pioneering psychiatrist and researcher Bessel van der Kolk . To heal from trauma, we need treatments and practices that instil a sense of physical and psychological safety, he tells Kim Hill. When a child experiences a disturbing event, they may not...

If you look around the news and social media, you’ll find that many discussions on climate change and mental health have focused on eco-anxiety , and the problem with doom-and-gloom rhetoric . Defined as "a chronic fear of environmental doom," eco-anxiety or climate anxiety has been documented to be on the rise, particularly among young people. As a result, “A growing number of researchers, activists and mental health professionals are now urging those in the climate movement to embrace more...

Teens from Local Circles, a Detroit youth organization, surveyed their peers about mental health and wrote about what they learned. File photo from 2019. | Anthony Lanzilote for Chalkbeat By Lori Higgins, Chalkbeat Detroit, March 2, 2023 About 20 Detroit teens last summer set out to answer some important questions about how their peers are dealing with mental health struggles. These high school students, part of a city youth organization called Local Circles, wanted to know two things about...

Didi and Peter Watts at the site in Los Angeles which they hope to turn into an affordable housing development for Black male teachers Tuesday, February 28, 2023. They want to encourage black men to go into the teaching profession by providing a first-of-its-kind affordable housing development in their 2-year fellowship program. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) By Clara Harter, Los Angeles Daily News, March 4, 2023 For now it’s a grassy plot of land nestled on the border...

Sara Baldwin’s job was to mine James Bernard Belcher’s past for information that might sway a jury towards mercy after he killed Jennifer Embry. Photograph: Melanie Garcia/The Marshall Project By Maurice Chammah, The Guardian (co-published by the Marshall Project), March 2, 2023 The first mystery was who could have done such a thing, who could leave someone like that. Jennifer Embry was found in her bathtub in January 1996. She was 29. Her younger brother Ricky had come looking for her after...

Santa Clara County has maintained near-zero rates of incarceration for girls and young women for several years. Soon, four new counties will follow suit. Photo: Santa Clara Probation Department By Betty Marquez Rosales, EdSource, March 3, 2023 Four California counties will soon be offering girls and young women in youth jails more community-based alternatives to being detained. The initiative follows a pilot in Santa Clara County, established in 2018, which found that most incarcerated youth...

By Jennifer Breheny Wallace, Photo: Arin Yoon, The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2023 Until a few decades ago, American parents generally fell into specific gender roles, with fathers as providers and mothers as nurturers. Though many more mothers are also providers today, research suggests that fathers still lag behind as responsive caregivers. A soon-to-be published survey of more than 1,600 teenagers by the Harvard Education School’s Making Caring Common project found that almost twice as...

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In February of 2020 while working for a regional healthcare system as the Trauma Informed Administrator, the last in-person training session I conducted before COVID 19 impacted public gatherings, was for all of the staff of the Sullivan County Regional Health Department (SCRHD). In the winter of 2022, as organization doors began reopening from the pandemic, SCRHD Director Gary Mayes learned I was now doing this work as a national trainer, organizational coach and consultant, so he reached...

Parents often enter treatment with a “just fix my kid” mindset and refuse to engage or change their behavior. When this happens relapse rates skyrocket as the child returns to or remains in an unchanged family. Join Dr. Scott Sells, the author of the FST| Family Systems Trauma model for this free webinar that shares a 5-question FST Motivational script handout that you can immediately use the next day at work. DATE: March 8 TIME: 12 - 1 pm ET Click HERE to register to watch live or receive...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Arthur L, Schiro S, Tumin D, et al. Shelter in Place and an Alarming Increase in Penetrating Trauma in Children and Concerning Decrease in Child...