April 2022

By Diana Marcum, Photo: Nic Coury/Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2022 It began as a whimsical notion that occurred to Angelica Glass during a bubble bath: She would walk every street in Santa Cruz County. She had no idea it would unearth her past and change how she experienced life. She started each walk from her home in this beach town where she has lived all her life. She noticed spiraling vines of wild cucumber dripping down fences and how they would bounce back like a spring if she pulled...

By Emily Bader, Photo: Unsplash, Yahoo!, April 24, 2022 Generational trauma and the cycle of addiction is something that deeply concerns Jeremy Hiltz, the founder and CEO of Recovery Connections of Maine, located in Lewiston. The opioid crisis is getting "worse and worse and worse," he said. But to focus only on the drugs — the opioids — alone is shortsighted "when what we're really dealing with is a trauma epidemic. This is generational trauma that is spreading the substance use issue."...

This week marks the end of April, child abuse prevention month. During the pandemic, we have learned a lot about how to prevent child abuse. Data from the pandemic show a story of hope for children and families. Let’s put this new knowledge into action. At the beginning of the pandemic, I and many others in the field worried that child abuse would skyrocket. Children were at home with their parents, with no one at school to keep a watchful eye on them. Parents faced isolation, unemployment,...

Podcast with Shawn Welty on refelctive parenting: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-reflective-parenting/id1526716278?i=1000495527066

On Thursday, April 28, Donna Jackson Nakazawa, an award-winning science journalist, joins the podcast "History. Culture. Trauma." Jackson Nakazawa is the author of seven books, and an internationally-recognized speaker whose work explores the intersection of neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion. This podcast is our final episode to acknowledge April as National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Throughout the month, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell,...

Join Education Upended April 28th and May 17th, 2022 for a 2-part conversation about a SAMHSA funded project which explores the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal process through a trauma-informed lens. April 28th join guests Leora Wolf-Prusan and Yesmina Luchsinger from the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) team. We will discuss the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal concept and framework through a lens of systems change, policy, and school mental health crisis leadership. May 17th...

By Shraddha Chakradhar, Photo: David Shankbone/Creative Commons, NiemanLab, April 20, 2022 From Alden Global Capital to Sinclair Media, tales of corporate media takeovers of local news outlets — and their chilling effects — are everywhere. A new study published late last month in New Media & Society journal provides further evidence of the devastating consequences of corporate ownership. The authors of the study looked at a sample of 31 corporate-owned papers and 130,000 articles...

From The Authors Guild, April 2022 The Authors Guild is excited to launch our new virtual Banned Books Club on social reading app Fable. Each month the Authors Guild Banned Books Club will present a different work of fiction or nonfiction recently barred in one or more U.S. school districts or states. Participating readers can log on to Fable anytime during that month to access the moderated book discussion, including valuable resources to help them get the most out of the reading...

By Mashable SEA, Mashable Southeast Asia, April 22, 2022 Not too long ago, social-emotional learning (SEL) brought people on the left and right together in pursuit of teaching children skills for thriving in the classroom and beyond. Now it may sound familiar because it's become a flashpoint in the battle over children's education . Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a process designed to support young students' well-being and academic performance in five key areas: self-awareness,...

By Elissa Strauss, Photo: Steve Pfost/ Newsday RM/Getty Images, CNN Health, April 22, 2022 It has become harder for children to experience childhood as a time of blissful ignorance about the state of our planet. Climate change, racism, discrimination, poverty and gun violence are affecting their daily lives, giving them plenty to be upset about it and often inspiring them to fight for change. Role models such as Greta Thunberg and Malala Yousafzai prove that sometimes when kids take action,...

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the New York Foundling are sponsoring a FREE ZOOM CHAT to discuss and answer questions about NO HIT ZONES, a primary prevention strategy to help change norms and behavior related to a very common ACE (the hitting of children). The Chat features Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff (leading global researcher on impacts of corporal punishment) and Stacie LeBlanc, President of APSAC and co- founder of the primary prevention oriented UP...

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