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May 2022

Preventing Child Abuse Through Coordinated Care [UniteUs.com]

Investing in youth and families is one of the most impactful ways we can improve and strengthen community health. The barriers that so many families and children face have resulted in child abuse becoming a growing issue that has serious consequences on children, their families, and the communities in which they live. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month but in reality, child abuse happens every day, of every...

Better Ways to Address the Gun Violence That Threatens Children

The world is heartbroken. When the news about Uvalde broke, my daughter called me in tears, grieving for the children and families and worried for her five-year-old daughter still at school. She talked with my granddaughter about ways to keep her safer from “mean people” if they came to her school. As a grandmother, it is heart-wrenching to even think of the need to have such a conversation with my innocent granddaughter. In the United States, the 19 children murdered in Uvalde now are...

A Balm for Psyches Scarred by War [nytimes.com]

By Rachel Nuwer, Photo: Amanda Lucier/The New York Times, The New York Times, May 29, 2022 Nigel McCourry removed his shoes and settled back on the daybed in the office of Dr. Michael Mithoefer, a psychiatrist in Charleston, S.C. “I hadn’t been really anxious about this at all, but I think this morning it started to make me a little bit anxious,” Mr. McCourry said as Annie Mithoefer, a registered nurse and Dr. Mithoefer’s colleague and spouse, wrapped a blood pressure cuff around his arm.

Resources & Tools for School Crisis Response [turnaroundusa.org]

By Turnaround For Children, May 2022 Again this week we have been faced with a horrific reminder that the schools we send our children to each day, the schools where the educators and support staff we depend on show up every morning, are not safe. The impact will spread far beyond the immediate communities where they occurred. Students, educators, families, and entire school communities across the country are feeling the stress and fear. Moving forward is not going to be easy, and we won’t...

Rewards For Staying In Drug Treatment Work, Now Oregon Is Poised To Pay For Them [thelundreport.org]

By Emily Green, Photo: Emily Green/The Lund Report, The Lund Report, May 24, 2022 For most of her adult life, Crystal Johnson was, as she puts it, a minivan-driving soccer mom. A life-long resident of Newport, the affable 49-year-old thought the meth addiction she battled in her early 20s was behind her. But when the youngest of her four children was in high school, a family crisis sent her reeling. Knowing meth would take the pain away, she dove back in. The only way to explain how she went...

Indigenous activists among Goldman environmental prize winners [theguardian.com]

By Nina Lakhani, Photo: Goldman Prize, The Guardian, May 25, 2022 Indigenous activists and lawyers who took on transnational corporations and their own governments to force climate action are among the 2022 winners of the world’s pre-eminent environmental award. Taking on powerful vested interests is a risky business, and the recipients of this year’s Goldman prize demonstrate the power of unified community action, perseverance and the courts in the battle to save the planet from...

Leader of Heal PA says its 'beautiful and ingenious' design will sustain the movement to create a trauma-informed state

Maryann McEvoy, executive director of the Pennsylvania Office of Advocacy and Reform (OAR) and Child advocate, says one of the favorite things for her to talk about is “the beautiful and ingenious design of Heal PA.” She describes Heal PA as “a coalition of trauma experts who create materials and resources and provide the knowledge that we need to get out into our communities.” The path to get trauma and resilience knowledge into communities is provided by a second entity— Resilient PA —that...

Free online class on mindfulness for health coaches

Are you a health coach with a mindfulness practice? Would you like to share some easy mindfulness strategies with your clients? Perhaps you're a health coach that hasn't added mindfulness to your self-care yet, but wants to learn more about it? Having a mindfulness practice can improve resilience for both health coaches and their clients.

An Evening Walk to Feed the Horses

After three days of working with the mothers on post-traumatic stress, they invited me to take a walk with them to feed the horses. We climbed a hill behind the center in Romania where they have been staying since they evacuated from the region around Odessa.

Memorial Day Thoughts

Thoughts and prayers on this Memorial Day to all who have served in the military and sadness for those whose lives were lost. And thoughts, prayers and action to the day that we learn how to end wars...and end the madness of the destruction of so many souls. And for me, this is also a time to advocate for children who are the victims of cruelty, abuse and suffering that shouldn't be happening. It is my belief that if we end child abuse and neglect we can put an end to violence, hate and...

Dysfunctional Romantic Relationships

In my previous blog I focused on how a fragmented society looks like. Today I feel like it's important to shed light on how dysfunctional relationships affect us. Human beings are social beings. Social bonds help us build our community. Family is part of this community. All this to say that romantic relationships are important. We often see happy couples then years later learn that they were surviving abuse. Then wonder how we missed the signs. However, we forget that it's part of human...

Just Get Over It - Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood

Hey folks, Please take a listen. I talk, share resources & a song about the hurtful statement too many trauma & abuse survivors hear & the impact of trauma & abuse upon the mind, body & spirit. Just Get Over It - Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKraLrAwKo&t=2s “Get over it” is a cruel phrase. It means, “Not only do I not care about how you feel, if you were smarter, you wouldn’t care either.” “ Just get over it” places all of...

EPIGENETIC TRAUMA ON MEMORIAL DAY

When she was 47, my grandmother, Symcha Goldberg, was murdered by Nazis either on the cattle cars transporting Jews from the Lodz ghetto to Treblinka, Poland, or in the gas chambers inside the extermination camp itself. We have no reports from those who might have survived the hundreds of thousands who were killed at Treblinka. I have welcomed the addition of historical email signatures designating the Native American tribe that used to occupy the physical space where the emailer now...

Free Resource: Tools for Hope

Tools for Hope will show you how to put your focus and energy where you have control and power— yourself! You will learn how to change your physical, emotional, perceptual and behavioral reactions into intentional efficient responses conducted inside a comfortable body. Sounds like magic? Well, it’s not. The resiliency skills you will learn are grounded in good science and are evidence-based. With these videos you will: Identify the true causes of stress in your personal and professional...

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