April 2022

In this episode of Transforming Trauma we hear from Jacqueline Russell and Dexter Ellis. Jacqueline is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Chicago Children’s Theatre, and founded The Chicago Children’s theatre seventeen years ago with the goal of creating the best quality children’s theatre. She also started the Red Kite Project in order to support children on the Autism Spectrum, providing them and their families with theatrical and educational programs. Dexter has been with the Chicago...

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a traumatic experience for our youth, and the isolation, toxic stress, loss, and instability it has caused have led to persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, an increase in suicidality, and overall poor mental health. It is imperative that schools support students’ mental health as it is the one place that nearly all youth in our country are served regularly. The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) is encouraging individuals,...

Hello PACES community, My first biobehavioral manuscript was just published in the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. Its findings correlate history of physical abuse with worsened chronic pain experiences in a group of people receiving MAT/MOUD treatment for Opioid Use Disorder. Here is the abstract link: Comorbidity of Lifetime History of Abuse and Trauma With Opioid Use Disorder: Implications for Nursing Assessment and Care . I hope you enjoy it! As a nurse, I am...

The two prevention strategies focus on promoting social norms that protect against violence and adversity, and ensuring a strong start for children.

From AmeriCorps, April 6, 2022 AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced more than 80 grant awards to state and local organizations for Public Health AmeriCorps , a partnership to support the recruitment, training, and development of a new generation of public health leaders. The first-year grants , totaling more than $60 million, will allow Public Health AmeriCorps programs to recruit nearly 3,000...

By Dana Bash and Abbie Sharpe, Image: Screenshot from article, CNN Politics, April 10, 2022 Eight-year-old Yana was going to gymnastics class six days a week at home near Odessa, Ukraine. Now, she can only practice by herself on a patch of open floor in a refugee center here in the Polish capital. Yana is one of millions of Ukrainian children coping with change: forced to leave her home, her passions and her father behind in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion...

By Denise-Marie Ordway, Photo: Clarence Alford/Pixabay, The Journalist's Resource, April 6, 2022 When journalists covering elections focus primarily on who’s winning or losing instead of policy issues — what’s known as horse race reporting — voters, candidates and the news industry itself suffer, a growing body of research has found. Media scholars have studied horse race reporting for decades to better understand the impact of news stories that frame elections as a competitive game, relying...

By Jason DeParle, Photo: Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times, The New York Times, April 11, 2022 By the time she reached school on a recent Monday morning, Norma Mercado had already driven four homeless children to class, one from 30 miles away, having spent the weekend taking a group of homeless students on a college tour and two homeless siblings to buy clothes. Inside her office, a student was waiting, boiling with rage. Louisa Perez’s ex-best friend was insulting her on Facebook, and Ms.

In this webinar the new PACES Connection CEO, Ingrid Cockhren, will explore the connection between adverse childhood experiences, trauma, attachment styles and various types of abuse in dating and romantic relationships. She will examine the systemic nature of trauma and adversity and how early adversity is a root cause of poor relationship outcomes in adolescence and early adulthood. This webinar will also outline systemic solutions for populations that have experienced historical trauma...

April is National Child Abuse Prevention month. For the entire month of April, co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection 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 two 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...

By Laura Gallant, 4/12/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Over the next year, we will be using the 2022 HOPE Summit event website for table-based networking events. On April 20th at 4 p.m. ET, HOPE will host its second free HOPEful Connections networking event on the website. The event will be a great time to discuss how the practice of HOPE interacts across sectors. You will network with people from health care, education, community engagement, and other organizations.

Recently, I've noticed a plethora of articles written about vulnerability in leadership, empathetic leadership, coaching leadership and on and on. Don't get me wrong, I think there is value in each and everyone of them. In a later blog, I'm going to dive into the rabbit hole about why before we implement a new leadership strategy, what we first need to do is ensure we have the safety to carry it out. But alas, that's for another time. For now, I want to talk about what you should focus on...