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May 2022

The Blackfeet Nation’s Plight Underscores the Fentanyl Crisis on Reservations [khn.org]

By Aaron Bolton, Photo: Tony Bynum/KHN, Kaiser Health News, May 25, 2022 As the pandemic was setting in during summer 2020, Justin Lee Littledog called his mom to tell her he was moving from Texas back home to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana with his girlfriend, stepson, and son. They moved in with his mom, Marla Ollinger, on a 300-acre ranch on the rolling prairie outside Browning and had what Ollinger remembers as the best summer of her life. “That was the first time I’ve...

An Age-by-Age Guide to Talking to Children About Mass Shootings [nytimes.com]

By Catherine Pearson, Photo: Getty Images, The New York Times, May 25, 2022 A devastating reality of raising children in America today is that parents must be prepared to talk to their kids about mass shootings. It’s a wrenching task, and experts say there are some universal best practices — like avoiding graphic details. Or doing your best to actively listen, rather than trying to take away children’s pain. But the particulars of what families discuss — and how parents respond to questions...

Gunman bought two rifles, hundreds of rounds in days before massacre [washingtonpost.com]

By Robert Klemko, Silvia Foster-Frau, and Shawn Boburg, Image: Screenshot from video by Hadley Green/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 25, 2022 The gunman in Tuesday’s elementary school massacre was a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered from a fraught home life and lashed out violently against peers and strangers recently and over the years, friends and relatives said. And in the days after his May 16 birthday, he legally bought the...

I was a kid when a classmate was shot and killed. That trauma lasts. [Washington Post]

Police block off the road leading to the scene of a school shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Tex., on Tuesday. (Sergio Flores for The Washington Post) Her killing occurred in Texas three decades before a school shooting in Uvalde claimed 19 children and two teachers. I am shaking as I write this. I am thinking of them. I am thinking of her. I am grieving for their parents. I am grieving again for hers. I am a mother of two trying to make sense of the elementary school shooting that...

National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources in Response to the Robb Elementary School Shooting

With tremendous gratitude to the TIC (Trauma-Informed Community) Team, I pass along these wonderful resources they have shared from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and other sources. This has been and continues to be a really hard day. Please do what is necessary for your own well-being, so that with renewed hope and energy we can continue our work to create trauma-sensitive communities together. National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources in Response to the Robb Elementary...

Statement of Mourning from PACEs Connection Team

Today, all too soon, we find ourselves again in the midst of yet another tragedy following yesterday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas where the lives of at least 19 children and 2 adults were lost. I am writing this blog after dropping off my two-year-old and two-month-old sons at preschool this morning, where I struggled to make the drive to the daycare and to pull out of the parking lot after they were in their classrooms for fear of their safety. All of this to...

New Report Highlights Role of Masculinity on Wellbeing of Men and All Genders

To view the full report, click here. Authors: Henny Slegh, Warren Spielberg, and Cody Ragonese In 2021, Promundo released a report titled Masculinities and Male Trauma: Making the Connections. Here is an excerpt summary of the report: Apart from what it means in their own lives, men’s exposure to violence, trauma and adversity are key risk factors for men’s self-inflicted harm and their use of violence against others. Promundo-US’s new report, Making the Connections: Masculinities and Male...

Join ex-NFL athlete Caleb Campbell this Thursday on our podcast History. Culture. Trauma.

Caleb Campbell, ex-NFL player, is a mental health advocate and consultant on trauma-informed leadership. Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental health struggles. The collective trauma of COVID-19 has exasperated our country’s mental health crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. In honor of this designation, History. Culture. Trauma. podcast co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, have spoken with...

Judge Sheila Calloway integrates PACEs science into juvenile justice

Judge Sheila Calloway says she had “absolutely no idea that I wanted to become a lawyer” when she was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. But looking back over her fourth-grade papers, which her mother had proudly saved, she found an essay she wrote in which she said she wanted to be a lawyer and help people. And she has. After stints in the Metro Public Defender’s Office and the Juvenile Court in Metropolitan Nashville & Davidson County, TN, she was elected juvenile court judge in 2014.

7 Organizational Strategies for Resilience

No matter what type of organization you help run, if you are a leader, you should be promoting resilience and agility in the workplace. Why? When the individuals that make up an organization are better able to face challenges, the entire system is strengthened. Resilience mitigated risks, ensuring that challenges won’t set your business back as far they could. Organizations improve their overall resilience when they can: · anticipate disruptions · prepare for roadblocks · respond to sudden...

A Cry for Help from Teen Boys in Austin is Answered [the74million.org]

By Bekah McNeel, The 74, May 22, 2022 As teenage boys in Austin, Texas, returned to school last fall after more than a year learning remotely at home, counselors were alarmed to see how many were talking about suicide. “We’ve definitely seen an increase in suicidal ideation,” said Roxie Frederick, a counselor at Austin Independent School District’s Alternative Learning Center who often meets the boys after their emotions have boiled over into an angry confrontation resulting in disciplinary...

Meet the cool 62-year-old Kenyan on first all-Black team to summit Everest [npr.org]

By Ari Daniel, Photo: Amrit Ale/Himalayan Quests, National Public Radio, May 21, 2022 When James "KG" Kagambi was 23, he climbed Mount Kenya in his homeland, the second tallest peak in Africa — and swore he'd never do it again. "I hated it," he recalls. "By the time I got to 15,000 feet, I had headaches." But then he encountered a magical substance for the first time. "I just loved snow. I touched it and knew that I like this. I was looking back [at the summit] and saying, 'You know what? I...

A Billionaire’s Gift Expands Reach of ‘Unapologetic’ Oakland Parent’s Group [the74million.org]

By Greg Toppo, Photo: Courtesy of The Oakland REACH, The 74, May 23, 2022 I n the two years since COVID-19 sent thousands of Oakland children to learn online at home, a parent-led group known as The Oakland REACH has made a name for itself by quickly building and expanding an innovative online resource known as the Virtual Family Hub, or simply the Hub . Now that effort has drawn the attention of one of the world’s wealthiest people, who happens to be giving her money away at a rapid clip.

The reinvention of a ‘real man’ [washingtonpost.com]

By Jose A. Del Real, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, May 23, 2022 B ill Hawley believes too many men are unwilling or unable to talk about their feelings, and he approaches each day as an opportunity to show them how. “There’s my smile,” he says to a leathered cowboy in the rural northeast Wyoming town where he lives. “I could cry right now thinking about how beautiful your heart is,” he says to a middle-aged male friend at work. “After our conversation last...

Peer Support is Risky But Worth It - Healing Childhood Trauma in Adulthood

The trauma in our lives disconnects from ourselves, others and community – peer support is an elixir to help us reconnect. Take care, Michael. “It is only when you learn to be present and available with non-judgment and compassionately hold space for the wounded and broken fragments of yourself, that you are able to truly hold space for another.” - Markus William Kasunich PS Peer Support resources are shared in the video's text section Peer Support is Risky But Worth It - Healing Childhood...

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