April 2021

Visit www.starlings.ca to register or register directly here: https://starlingscommunity.webinarninja.com/live-webinars/739363/register Today, we know that approximately: 1/10 individuals will be challenged by their substance use 4 people will be directly impacted by an individuals substance use 1/6 children are challenged by a parent's active addiction. As health professionals and first responders, we are ideally positioned to provide the compassionate and trauma-informed care needed to...

HERE this NOW founder, Emily Read Daniels was thrilled when Jane Stevens agreed to have PACES Connection endorse and sponsor HTN's 3rd Annual Trauma-Responsive Schools Conference. The conference will address the application of The Polyvagal Theory (science behind how we process trauma in our bodies) in schools for the safe return to in-person learning. The virtual conference, June 1-4, 2021, will host teachers, school administrators, and school specialists from across the U.S. and...

Debbie Emick's book, The Other Side of Perfect, is a brutally honest and revealing peek into the life of a woman whose multiple diagnoses and bleak prognosis would be the surprising source of her ultimate liberation.

I am proud/relieved/gratified at finally being able to share a labor of love with the "PACES" community. It has been a struggle, the book project--yes, but just life and ministry in general have been hard over the past year. My family and I, personally, continue to walk the path of navigating all the complexities that come from trauma and working through that trauma in the context of ministry. I understand that many of you are in the same situation and can understand. The book, Hope for...

By Tracy Brower, Forbes, April 12, 2021 Chances are, you had a little red wagon (and specifically a Radio Flyer wagon) when you were a child—and that your mom or dad did—and the child in your life does as well. Shared experience is one of the elements of happiness—and through the pandemic we’ve had to regroup, redefine and reimagine how to create joy and fulfillment despite limits and lockdowns. Radio flyer has brought happy moments to families for a hundred years and the iconic little red...

By Alex Zimmerman, Chalkbeat New York, April 9, 2021 The education department is launching a training program next month for parents, paying them $500 to become “wellness ambassadors” addressing mental health needs in their school communities. The initiative will pay the stipend to parent leaders from roughly 950 schools in neighborhoods hardest hit by the coronavirus, according to Adrienne Austin, an acting deputy chancellor who oversees parent outreach. She revealed a “sneak peek” of the...

By Judith Warner, The New York Times, April 11, 2021 They’re calling it a “lost year.” On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground. “It’s really hard to put my finger on what happened exactly,” said Jorge Gallegos, whose son, Eyan, is in the seventh grade in Washington, D.C. [ Please click here to read more .]

By Jarrell Dillard, Bloomberg Equality, April 9, 2021 A bill to study paying reparations to descendants of slaves will be considered in the House Judiciary Committee next week, paving the way for a possible vote on an issue that has become increasingly mainstream in recent years of racial reckoning. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will mark up and vote on a bill from Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee that would establish a commission to examine the role of federal and state...

By Matthew L. Edwards, The New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2021 A mericans protesting violent policing of Black communities are calling for law-enforcement budgets to be reallocated to community health services. Although such proposals are sometimes dismissed as naive or unrealistic, history provides an example of a transfer of power and resources from police to health services that benefited Black communities enormously. Pittsburgh’s Freedom House Enterprises (FHE) Ambulance...

At last week’s fabulous HOPE Summit, one person told me that they didn’t realize all the things that PACEs Connection does.

When you hail a cab or Uber in a foreign country, do you trust the driver to take you to your destination? When you place a first-time order from a third party residing across the country (or world), do you trust them to send you the item you purchased? When we start dissecting trust and how it informs our relationships, it becomes obvious that we place a lot of trust in people we barely know or don’t know at all.

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