May 2022

By Catherine Pearson, Photo: Getty Images, The New York Times, May 7, 2022 An ongoing argument my husband and I have — which has become more contentious during the pandemic — is about how many friends we should have. We both have one or two close friends and siblings we like to spend time with. Plus, we are busy parenting two young boys who sap most of our energy. As a textbook introvert, this feels like plenty of friends to me. Excessive, even. But my husband is an extrovert who comes alive...

By Oliver Laughland, Photo: Annie Flanagan, Illustration: Mark Harris, The Guardian, May 7, 2022 As Maurice Lewis was granted his freedom at the end of last year, he wept before a judge. “God bless you,” he told her. “I’ll never do this again. Thank you for putting me back with my family.” Lewis, a 57-year-old man, had been sentenced to life without parole in 1998. He had spent the last 23 years at Angola prison, serving his punishment by laboring on the fields, sweeping the prison hospital...

By Danielle Torain and Julia Baez, Photo: Ian Harpool/Open Society Institute-Baltimore, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, May 5, 2022 Since George Floyd’s murder two years ago this month, and the national racial reckoning that followed, many grant makers have embraced the notion that to be truly transformative they must give up their power and work in partnership with the communities they aim to serve. Few, however, have successfully shifted from good intentions to genuine action. Three...

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What is emotional intelligence? How does it help us cope in the present and heal the hidden wounds from childhood that continue to disturb us?

Join 16 Strong Project co-founder, Samantha Wettje, and ACEs educator, Dr. Torie Williams, as we lead the fight against the youth mental health crisis. This event will be a fully youth-led peer-to-peer discussion. This is an initiative to talk about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), the biggest public health threat facing our nation’s youth and a major contributor to the stark rise in mental health challenges among young people. When: May 22, 2022, 4-5:30pm EST Where: Zoom - Youth can...

Risking Connection , the landmark trauma training curriculum used since 2000 to train tens of thousand human service professions globally, has now been adapted for organizations and systems supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The Traumatic Stress Institute will be offering this freestanding, 2-day virtual training for the first time, June 14-15, 2022. A central part of TSI's Whole-System Change Model to TIC , the Risking Connection IDD model can be...

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Ukrainian Child Refugees Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine over 5.6 millions refugees have fled the fighting with over 3M going to Poland and another 800K to Romania. In Poland 50% of these refugees are children and in Romania it is 35%. This community at PACEs Connection knows all about trauma and the effects ACEs can have on child development so I will focus on describing what we are doing about it. OpSAFE International has been working with mass trauma for the last fourteen years...

By Ashley Judd, Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage, USA TODAY, May 6, 2022 This Sunday is abruptly, shockingly, my first Mother’s Day without my mama . She died just hours before her peers at the Country Music Hall of Fame could demonstrate to her how much they esteem her. She died just days before my sister and I could show her again how much we love and honor her. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was supposed to visit her on Sunday, to give her a box of old-fashioned candy, our family...

By David Nakamura and Darryl Fears, Photo: Wayne Parry/AP, The Washington Post, May 5, 2022 The Justice Department is ramping up enforcement of environmental cases that officials say disproportionately harm poor and marginalized communities, creating an office to help coordinate investigations and expanding the breadth of litigation against companies and local or state governments that appear to violate federal laws or commit civil infractions. Appearing at a joint news conference Thursday,...

By Catherine Pearson, Photo: Getty Images, The New York Times, May 5, 2022 For two years, working parents in America have been running on fumes, hammered by the stress of remote schooling, day care closures, economic instability and social isolation. Now, a new report says that 66 percent of working parents meet the criteria for parental burnout — a nonclinical term that means they are so exhausted by the pressure of caring for their children, they feel they have nothing left to give. The...