April 2022

April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. For the entire month of April, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren , PACEs Connection CEO, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, will examine America's history of child abuse and neglect and outline how this history connects to our current child abuse crisis. In Part one of this series of episodes dedicated to the systemic nature of child abuse and neglect in America, Cockhren and Portell will discuss the different layers of influence embedded...

Please join us in honoring the Trauma Resource Institute's 2021 Ambassadors of the Year, Magdalena Sunshine Serrano, LCSW, and New Hanover County, North Carolina!

Join me for the upcoming Facebook Live event where I present the rationale for Canada to repeal section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada, to embed in our legislation the bodily autonomy of children, protected from the use of force as a means of discipline. 63 countries around the world have banned corporal punishment. Canada is NOT one of them. I believe if we are to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences and Increase Positive Childhood Experiences, embedding the protection of the bodily...

By Lisa Marsh Ryerson, Image: Screenshot from article, NationSwell, April 1, 2022 Older workers are a ready, willing, and able talent pool — but many feel the workplace isn’t an accommodating place for them. According to an AARP report, more than 78% of older workers have seen or directly experienced age discrimination in the workplace. On top of that, 64% of workers 50 years of age and older believe employers see their age as a disadvantage in getting hired, and 79% of those 65 and older...

By Zoe Sottile, Photo: Steve Helber/AP, CNN US, April 2, 2022 The Rappahannock Tribe, a Native Tribe in Virginia, has reacquired 465 acres of sacred land at Fones Cliff. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and US Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams celebrated the tribe's reacquisiton of the land Friday, according to a press release from the Department of the Interior . "We have worked for many years to restore this sacred place to the Tribe," said Rappahannock Tribe Chief...

By Hallie Golden, Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, April 1, 2022 O ne month after Ranelle Rose Bennett disappeared, agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services’ newly created missing and murdered unit (MMU) arrived at her house on the Navajo Reservation. Her mother, Rose Yazzie, had initially reported the 33-year-old missing to Navajo Nation police after Bennett hadn’t shown up to her daughter’s 10th birthday party...

Before the coronavirus appeared in early 2020, according to data released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2017, 46% of American children experienced at least one traumatic event before the age of 18. According to a team of researchers from Oklahoma State University, they project that the global pandemic will drastically increase that number. Eastern Shore Community Services Board hosts free trainings to explain the impacts of childhood trauma and explore ways to reduce those...

By Elisabetta Povoledo and Ian Austen, Image: Amber Bracken/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 1, 2022 Pope Francis apologized on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church’s involvement in a system of Canadian boarding schools that abused Indigenous children for 100 years, and said he would travel to Canada as part of a process of healing and reconciliation. His apology comes after Canada was jolted last year by the discovery of evidence that more than 1,000 people, most of them...

Lyra Walsh Fuchs | DissentMagazine.org Over 630,000 children, who are disproportionately Black and Indigenous, were “served by the foster care system” in 2020, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. That number doesn’t account for the many families placed under informal supervisory plans, or who received surprise knocks on their doors from caseworkers, often accompanied by police. Dorothy Roberts and a growing number of activists across the country have another...

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This is what the result of unresolved trauma looks like. What we witnessed Will Smith do in assaulting Chris Rock during the Academy Award ceremony was a trauma response. While I am in no way condoning violence, this is a very public and important opportunity for us to understand what a trauma response can look like. A trauma response can take many forms and look like: Slapping someone for saying “the wrong” thing. Yelling at someone for not doing something “fast enough” or “up to your...