April 2022

By Usha Lee McFarling, Photo: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, STAT, April 11, 2022 A year after the prestigious medical journal JAMA was embroiled in controversy over a podcast seen as racist by critics, the American Medical Association has appointed a prominent health-equity researcher as the publication’s new editor-in-chief — the first person of color to hold the position. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, a Black internist, epidemiologist, and health-equity researcher from the University of California,...

By isabellazavarise, Photo: Randy Vazquez/BuzzFeed News, BuzzFeed News, April 16, 2022 Theo Henderson was in a hurry. He was walking through Little Tokyo in Los Angeles and recognized a fellow person experiencing homelessness whom he knew, but in his haste, he didn’t say hi. The next day, Henderson watched the man’s body be zipped into a bag. But it wasn’t the death that most disturbed Henderson; it was the reaction from people who continued to go about their day, ignoring what was happening...

By Olga Khazan, Photo: Oskar Poss/ullstein bild/Getty, The Atlantic, April 14, 2022 If you ask some ( okay, many ) conservative pundits , Democrats are “ grooming ” children . As in, grooming them to be abused by pedophiles. Some Republicans have even accused Democrats of being pedophiles themselves . The grooming charges lump together concerns that kids are being introduced too early to sexually explicit material, to the existence of transgender people, and to non-heterosexual sexual...

By Katrina vaden Heuvel, Photo: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post, February 19, 2022 American media’s approach to war coverage needs to be fundamentally reimagined. We need more reporting on forgotten conflicts — and more stories that spotlight how war ravages people and leads to atrocities. Last month, the big three U.S. television networks spent as much or more time covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as any other conflict during any month of the past three decades — including the...

By Christian Caron, Photo: Cheriss May/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 12, 2022 The worsening state of mental health among children has prompted an influential group of experts to recommend for the first time screening all children ages 8 to 18 for anxiety, one of the most common mental health disorders of childhood . A draft of the new guidelines, which is open to public comment , will most likely be finalized later this year. It was issued on Tuesday by the U.S. Preventive...

This year, in an effort to make this conference more accessible to those working with foster youth and those at risk of entering foster care, The majority of sessions in this conference are based on Title IV-E billable topics. The full agenda is attached with Title IV-E topics highlighted in green.

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) reflects on progress made in the recently-passed Fiscal Year 2022 budget and the fight ahead in FY23. Congress passes appropriations legislation annually to fund the federal government, including federal agencies and their programs for businesses and local governments. Each year, funding levels are subject to change: while new programs begin and others grow, some shrink or are cut altogether. CTIPP is working toward a society that...

On this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily is joined by Judge Abby Abinati. Judge Abby is the Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe, which is the largest surviving Native American Tribe in the state of California. Judge Abby shares about what she and her people have learned directly about cultural and intergenerational trauma, and how this trauma-informed understanding provides the context for her work within her community. Judge Abby presides over what is called a wellness court, which...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked to mental health illnesses such as anxiety and depression. In Hispanic culture, mental illness is largely stigmatized which greatly affects individuals from seeking the help they need. This further perpetuates mental illnesses due to ACEs. Miami-Dade County has a large Hispanic population that experiences high levels of poverty. Miami Dade has high rates of violence, domestic and gun violence which are factors that contribute to ACEs. To...

Refugees around the world are particularly vulnerable to various forms of trauma and toxic stress — from persecution in their home country, process of transport, to resettling to their host-country. The same is true for more than 75,000 Afghan refugees in the United States who have been displaced after the Taliban return to power in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic last year (Wang & Rodriguez-Delgado, 2022). Thus, considering the cumulative experiences of threat and stress of Afghan...

In the spirit of community and bridge building, PACEs Connection is partnering for the second year with America Talks 2022 , and invites YOU to participate! America Talks (April 21 & 23) invites Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs to connect one-on-one or in small groups, face-to-face on video (like zoom). The event begins with a livestream that will welcome you and thousands of other Americans to the next phase of the bridging movement and will provide you all you need to know to...

By Michael Lee, Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images, The Washington Post, April 19, 2022 For DeMar DeRozan to have a season that was once part of his childhood imagination, he had to first be honest as an adult about what was going on in his head. Career years don’t often arrive for 32-year-olds at the tail end of their prime, but DeRozan credits his renaissance in Chicago to the freedom created once he helped shatter the facade of the invincible athlete. Freedom that can be found in tattoos...