March 2023

As the 60th anniversary of Medgar Evers' assassination approaches, his widow reflects on the nation's unfinished business. (NOTE: Wednesday night I was at Pomona College in Claremont, California, for the 90th birthday celebration for Mrs. Myrlie Evers Williams, the iconic Civil Rights Leader. She is a powerhouse and I and everyone there was mesmerized by her, her elegance, her passion and her dedication. The evening was full of accolades for her. She has met many of the Presidents: Kennedy,...

Frida Diaz, 21, a member of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, restocks a condom dispenser in a restroom in the Associated Students Union building at San Diego State’s campus in Calexico in May.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, March 22, 2023 A high school student went to a pharmacy to purchase condoms but was turned away because of his age. A student wanting to buy condoms to prevent sexually transmitted diseases was shamed at the store. Another...

#TedLasso "If God would have wanted games to end in a tie, she wouldn't have invented numbers." Find Your Goodness -ACEs Matter https://mailchi.mp/bd8190db8757/find-your-goodness

Its been a year since TISK idea was developed, conceived and actualized. TISK is now registered and licensed to operate in Kenya as a non-profit organization. Visit Website: tis-k.org Twitter: @traumasch_kenya Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090113226174 There has been immense progress since Dr. Marc Hauser PhD came on board as a partner through his organization Risk Eraser LLC, and as a senior consultant. He introduced free virtual training that has birthed Google...

By Sandhya Dirks, B.A. Parker, Dalia Mortada, and Kumari Devarajan "Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history." — Carter G. Woodson There are many things from childhood that Brett Woodson Bailey doesn't remember. Maybe it has to do with his cancer diagnosis at age 4, living in the hospital for almost two years, undergoing intense courses of radiation and chemotherapy. He thinks that plays a...

The Indigenous Wellness Pyramid provides a scalable, positive pathway toward increased well-being in Indigenous communities, and it is the opposite side of the ACEs pyramid. The shift toward resiliency, positive pathways, health promotion, and protective factors is reflected in the seven areas of the model. By Maegan Rides At The Door and Sidney Shaw, Illustration: Screenshot from article, National Library of Medicine, February 25, 2023 Abstract For over two decades, extensive research has...

By Jason Wu, Illustration: Celia Jacobs for The Washington Post, The Washington Post, March 23, 2023 Unresolved trauma from one generation affects the well-being of future generations. While there are many ways intergenerational trauma is passed down, it is often transmitted through the parent-child relationship . In an ideal relationship, the parent is consistently loving, attentive and responsive to the child’s needs, which helps the child feel safe and secure, knowing the parent is...

By Gina Ryder and Taneasha White, Medically reviewed by Matthew Boland, Photo: Lucy Lambriex/Getty Images, Psych Central, April 15, 2022 The trauma responses you experience today can sometimes be rooted in past experiences you may not have been present for orginally. Maybe you weren’t abused growing up, but your parents or grandparents were. Maybe you didn’t face discrimination or live through a war, but your great-grandparents did. We all have different responses to stress and traumatic...

In January, people across the US celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day to mark the achievements of the Civil Rights Movement, which spoke out against racial discrimination in the American legal system. In February, we recognized Black History Month. As we celebrate the leaps and bounds that we have made as a country against racial discrimination and other forms of structural violence, it’s important that we acknowledge the structural violence that still exists in the US. The Civil Rights...

Gizelle Mattingly, a volunteer with the San Francisco Community Health Center, opened her arms in joy at the ribbon cutting for the new home of the agency's Trans Thrive program Tuesday, March 21. Photo: Jane Philomen Cleland By Matthew S. Bajko, The Bay Area Reporter, March 22, 2023 Caught in Tuesday's early morning rainstorm without an umbrella on route to attend the official opening of the first stand-alone facility dedicated exclusively to serving San Francisco's transgender and...

Activists gather near the Hearthside Foods packaging facility on March 6 in Bollingbrook, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) By Helaine Olen, The Washington Post, March 22, 2023 “A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor,” wrote Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937, as he sent the legislation known as the Fair Labor Standards Act to Congress. With the bill, which also established a national minimum wage, lawmakers condemned the ghastly...

By Emi Nietfeld, Illustration: Adam Maida, The Atlantic, March 13, 2023 When I was 17, I won $20,000 from the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans. Named after the prolific 19th-century novelist whose rags-to-riches tales have come to represent the idea of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps,” the scholarship honors youth who have overcome adversity, which, for me, included my parents’ mental illnesses, time in foster care, and stints of homelessness. In April 2010, the...