April 2023

From University of Nevada, Reno, Photo: From article, University of Nevada, Reno The conversation about protecting the environment is broad in scope: Pollution, climate change and natural resource depletion are all important topics that urgently need to be addressed. Activists taking the initiative to drive change often inspire these discussions. For example, assistant professor Jennifer Willett from the University of Nevada, Reno School of Social Work utilized a grant from the Corporation...

Social worker and PACEs Connection supporter Becky Green hiking with her partner, Kerry Toner (l) and good friend Paul Gerlitz (r). The number of donors giving to PACEs Connection with a monthly gift is increasing. “While we’ve added about 16 new monthly donors recently, and we are grateful for them, it would be good to see more of our members -- and visitors -- supporting our work to prevent and heal trauma," said Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO. With more than 58,000 members of this...

By Laura Gallant, 4/13/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Thank you to everyone who came to the 3 rd Annual HOPE Summit and participated in our Week of HOPE from Monday, March 27 to Friday, March 31. We talked with folks from many diverse sectors of child and family service who shared their experiences with HOPE in their unique community settings. We left the Summit feeling inspired by all of the amazing work people around the world are doing to bring positive childhood...

Stanley Lynch, chief medical officer of United Healthcare Community Plan, Mimi Graham, director of the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy, Jim Clark, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at Florida State University. BY: MARK BLACKWELL THOMAS | PUBLISHED: MARCH 30, 2023 | Mimi Graham, director of the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy (CPEIP) at Florida State University, is the winner of the 2023 Lawton Chiles Advocacy Award. Through 34...

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) has released a new free toolkit to support team members (I.E., defined as employees, staff, workers, interns, fellows, C-suite leadership, human resources and administrative professionals, volunteers, committee and board members, etc.) in advocating for more trauma-informed workplaces.

An aerial view of a waterway destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, can be see from a drone on April 2, 2023 in Violet, La. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) By Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, April 10, 2023 Scientists have documented an abnormal and dramatic surge in sea levels along the U.S. gulf and southeastern coastlines since about 2010, raising new questions about whether New Orleans , Miami, Houston and other coastal communities might be even more at risk from...

By Laurie Udesky, Photo: from article, MindSiteNews, April 7, 2023 On a late afternoon in December, a 22-year-old youth advocate named Rachel is addressing a jury of her peers on Zoom in Marin County, California. Her client: a teen named Leonel, who was caught with two boys after shooting BB guns from a garage. The boys said they were shooting bottles in the driveway, but several BBs hit a neighboring home and passing vehicles, causing damage and broken windows, according to a police report.

Crime scene tape cordons off a street near the Old National Bank in Louisville. Five people were killed in the attack. Photograph: Luke Sharrett/Getty Images By Richard Luscombe, The Guardian, April 11, 2023 One in five Americans has lost a family member to gun violence , an alarming survey published on Tuesday claims. The research came out one day after five people were killed by a gunman at a Louisville bank, at least the 15th mass shooting of the month, and 146th this year, according to...

Nearby homes are in danger of fire after an explosion on the Signal Hill oil field in Long Beach, California, June 1933. Credit: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images By Liza Gross, Inside Climate News, April 5, 2023 Decades before movie moguls produced celluloid heroes, oil claimed the spotlight in Los Angeles. California’s oil industry took off in the mid-1870s just 30 miles north of what would later become Hollywood Boulevard. By the 1920s, the Los Angeles Basin had become the state’s leading...

When Manford’s son Morty came out, in 1968, homosexual acts were criminal in forty-nine states. She never tried to change him; she set out to change the world instead.Photo illustration by Tyler Comrie; Source photographs courtesy Suzanne Swan; Fred W. McDarrah / Getty By Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, April 10, 2023 The crowd along Sixth Avenue was losing its mind. It was Sunday, June 25, 1972, and Dr. Benjamin Spock was walking uptown with the Christopher Street Liberation Day March, the...

As I look forward to the upcoming 67 Annual Conference of the Association of Children's Residential and Community Service in May, there are some aspects that I am extremely excited about. While there are a number of fantastic keynotes and presenters, the work of Lisa Cherry, MA truly resonates. She is one of the keynote presenters kicking off the conference on Wednesday May 17.. Her combination of professional research and personal experience will result in a fantastic experience for all...

Can empathetic, healing centered workplaces change the entire culture of a community? A nation? What would a healing centered workplace look like, offer, and change? Katherine Manning, author of “The Empathetic Workplace - Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job ” joins, PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell, PACEs Connection director of education and outreach, to discuss what it would take to create empathetic, healing-centered...