April 2022

Hi. I'm not a marketing whiz, so I thank you for understanding as I simply share some of the challenges around promoting this training, along with some of the need for this training. Challenge: It has on the promo "For all who want to attend!". The reasoning behind that is, what is going to be shared is for "general public" and those working in the fields; and for those working in the fields, it's for all fields. Trying to find a simple way to bridge: for many people, when they see CEUs, and...

The third annual Resilience Week Virginia will take place May 1-7, 2022. Resilience Week Virginia has been celebrated during the first week in May since 2020, led by Virginia's Trauma-Informed Community Networks . In past years, local libraries have created collections of books related to resilience, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts created a shareable art activity , organizations hosted virtual and community film screenings and trainings, and much more. The Governor of Virginia has signed a...

By Stephen Hinshaw and Jeremy Adam Smith, Greater Good Magazine, April 27, 2022 Today, people in the United States know far more about mental illness than did previous generations. They might know what it looks like: changes in emotions, thinking, or behavior that make function in daily life difficult, if not impossible. They’re much more likely to understand that most of us will experience some form of mental illness in our lifetimes, like depression or anxiety. And they know that smaller...

By Betty Márquez Rosales, Photo: Josie Lepe, EdSource, April 28, 2022 J udge Katherine Lucero is tasked with leading California’s massive transformation of its juvenile justice system by June 2023, a change prompted by the signing of Senate Bill 823 in 2020. The state’s Division of Juvenile Justice will effectively shut down, and any youth who would have previously been sent to one of its four facilities will now be placed in juvenile facilities within their own counties. There are about 600...

By Gabrielle Frackman, Photo: Anna Malgina/Stocksy United, Women's Health, April 28, 2022 I followed a nurse into an exam room at a fertility clinic in New York. As a psychologist in her mid-thirties who provides mental health care to women throughout the transitions of their reproductive life cycle—many of whom are pregnant or trying to conceive—I’ve been acutely aware of my dwindling fertility and long deliberated about freezing my eggs. After losing a year to COVID, I decided to finally...

By Charley Locke, Photo: Djeneba Aduayom/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 22, 2022 One day last spring, Jett Hawkins, 5, asked his mom to braid his hair for him. He loved the way it looked: “I was so proud and happy,” says Jett, who lives in Chicago. But when he got to school, his mother says, an administrator called her and told her that his hairstyle had broken a school policy that banned students from wearing braids, locs and twists. Jett is not the only kid who has been...

The Global Resiliency Accelerator co-founded in 2020 by Dr. Warren Larkin of the UK and Becky Haas of the US will be meeting on May 17. Information on this upcoming event and how to register are provided below. Becoming a Trauma Informed organization or system: Reflections on the successes and challenges of implementation About this event Please join us for the fourth Global Resiliency Accelerator event on Tuesday 17th May (5pm - 7pm GMT/ 12pm - 2pm EST) Format: Presentation by Dr Warren...

By Alyssa Lukpat, Photo: Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, The New York Times, April 27, 2022 For generations, the Cherokee had gathered plants along the Buffalo River in Arkansas. The flora could be used to make a wide variety of things: blow guns, baskets, medicine and even ganatsi, a hickory nut soup. Then, in 1972, the National Park Service took over the river and made it illegal to remove plants there without permission from the authorities. The move cut off a...

By Nick Hanauer, Pitchfork Economics, April 26, 2022 In 2019, a group of business leaders signed a high-profile pledge promising that they would voluntarily move toward a more inclusive stakeholder-focused version of capitalism. But throughout the pandemic, those same companies reported record profits while workers were left behind. Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Katie Bach walks us through her new report examining the pandemic labor practices of 22 companies, spanning nearly every...

By Monica Potts, Photo: Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images, FiveThirtyEight, April 25, 2022 By September 2021, the scientists and staffers at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission had gathered enough data to know that the trees in its green-tree reservoirs — a type of hardwood wetland ecosystem — were dying. At Hurricane Lake, a wildlife management area of 17,000 acres , the level of severe illness and death in the timber population was up to 42 percent, especially for certain species of oak,...

By Giles Bruce, Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images, Center for Health Journalism, April 25, 2022 California is embarking on a potentially transformative shift in the way it delivers health care, using its Medicaid program to help meet the social needs of many of its most vulnerable residents. Under the CalAIM initiative, $6 billion will be spent over the next five years to address the social forces shaping health, in such unique ways as paying for housing, cleaning up asthma triggers in the...

The hard parts of life happen every day. Sometimes everything feels like a hard part — especially for trauma survivors. Being in traffic Arguing with partner Running late A dog growling Rising gas prices A certain smell Someone’s tone of voice An interaction that feels uncomfortable The news / war / lack of safety / COVID The list goes on… Hard parts could be anything, really. And finding a healthy coping strategy can be challenging. For people without trauma in their history, they know that...