March 2023

In January, Resilient Georgia and the Center for Interrelational Science and Pediatrics received a Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning Community Transformation Grant to launch an Infant and Early Childhood Professional Development Course and Guidebook. Across Resilient Georgia’s 16 regional coalitions , there is a documented need to support the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce. Leveraging statewide support for training Georgia’s workforce in the Community...

March 15, 2023 For Immediate Release - The Neighborhood Resilience Project Launches the Inaugural Trauma Informed Community Development Foundations Course. After years of collaborative work in addressing community trauma, the Neighborhood Resilience Project celebrates the announcement of "Foundations of Trauma Informed Community Development", an online course in partnership with Linfield University. This course has enabled the organization to put years of research, practice, learning and...

By Leana S. Wen, The Washington Post, March 21, 2023 If we are serious about addressing the alarming worsening of teens’ mental health, we must reduce their social media use. The connection is well-established. Abundant research has linked depression and self-harm to frequency of social media use. And a new study from the American Psychological Association shows that cutting back helps teens feel better. Companies are aware of this; Facebook executive-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen...

By Angela D. Thomas and Lucy B. Schulson, Photo: iStock, California Health Report, February 28, 2023 Kira Johnson died 10 hours after a routine C-section in 2016 at a Los Angeles hospital. The medical cause — and the subject of her family’s ongoing wrongful death lawsuit — was hemorrhagic shock due to massive internal bleeding. But there was another contributing factor, according to Kira’s husband: Racism. Charles Johnson filed a civil rights lawsuit last year alleging that his late wife...

By Mike Lahiff, Photo: STOATPHOTO/Adobe Stock, Campus Safety, March 20, 2023 Recent tragedies such as the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, ensure we cannot forget the ever-present and harrowing threat of mass shootings in the United States. The Gun Violence Archive recorded over 625 mass shooting incidents in 2022 , proving that shootings will continue on an upward trajectory if measures are not taken immediately. When these violent attacks occur, the burning...

1.5C above pre-industrial levels is the threshold beyond which our damage to the climate will rapidly become irreversible. Photograph: Janez Volmajer/Alamy By Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, March 20, 2023 Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate...

Mazzy, age 9, and Ransom, age 6, were adopted by Gary and Cassie Walker after their biological parents got caught up in the opioid epidemic. The Walkers have adopted or fostered nine Cherokee kids during the drug crisis. Brian Mann/NPR By Brian Mann, National Public Radio (NPR), March 19, 2023 Late one afternoon, Mazzy Walker gives a tour of her family's farm near Tahlequah, Okla., capital of the Cherokee Nation. "Cows are walking, turkeys, a dog," she said, giggling at her role as...

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute invites you to join us as we welcome April Scott, M.A., Ed.S, IMH-E , Rachel Hanson, M.S. , IMH-E, and Kimberly Ladd, C.P.S. as our speakers for the April Resilience Speaker Series. Ms. Scott is the Prenatal, Infant, and Early Childhood Program Manager at Centerstone Nashville. Ms. Hanson is Project Manager at Centerstone, and Ms. Ladd is the Executive Director of Align Hope. The topic for the presentation will be “HOPE- Healthy Outcomes from...

By Laura Gallant, 3/22/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ We are one week away from the 3 rd Annual HOPE Summit – Practicing HOPE , and there is still time to register ! The summit starts Wednesday, March 29, and we will be kicking off activities with a HOPE around the Globe discussion panel the night before, Tuesday March 28, at 6pm EST. You need to register for this panel discussion separately. HOPE around the Globe is a part of the Week of HOPE , the week of the Summit.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month Sexual abuse awareness month is a campaign to raise public awareness about sexual assault and educate communities and individuals on how to prevent sexual violence. It is observed in April. Each year during the month of April, state, territory, tribal and community-based organizations, rape crisis centers, government agencies, businesses, campuses, and individuals plan events and activities to highlight sexual violence as a public health, human rights,...

[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 Wilson RF, Fortson BL, Zhou H, et al. Trends in Homicide Rates for US Children Aged 0 to 17 Years, 1999 to 2020. JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Feb...

In consideration of Women's History month, the History. Culture. Trauma. podcasts for entire month of March are dedicated to the women creating a legacy in the worldwide PACEs movement. In this episode, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of education and outreach, talk with Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW, an author, lecturer, consultant, radio show host, internationally recognized trauma therapist and social entrepreneur. Miller-Karas is the co-founder...