June 2020

By John Blake, CNN, June 12, 2020 The activist with the salt and pepper goatee who stood before me couldn't contain his euphoria. He had watched a video of four police officers brutalizing a black man pinned to the ground. The video had grabbed headlines and sparked widespread protests. Police departments vowed reform. Sure, these types of protests had happened before, he said, but this one felt different. "The balance of the power has shifted from the police to the populace," Donald Bakeer...

By Elizabeth Hlavinka, MedPage Today, June 15, 2020 LGBTQ students attending schools with gay-straight alliance programs in place reported experiencing less bullying and better health outcomes than their LGBTQ peers whose schools lacked such programs, according to a national survey. Among 17,112 LGBTQ high school respondents, 91% reported at least one experience with bullying of any type, and in fact most bullying was for "stigmatized identities" unrelated to gender identity or sexual...

Register Now for This Free Trauma Awareness and Trauma Responsive Care Symposium The Collaboration As neighboring Healthy Start partners providing maternal and child health services for Metro Atlanta, the Atlanta Healthy Start Initiative (AHSI) of the Center for Black Women’s Wellness, Inc. and the Healthier Generations Project (HGP) of the Clayton County Health District collaborate on several initiatives to improve perinatal outcomes in the region. The “A Call to Action, A Call to Heal:...

Explore the Resilient Wisconsin website! Understanding resilience Trauma-informed practices Trauma and toxic stress Risk and protective factors Social determinants of health Adverse childhood experiences Promote the Resilient Wisconsin initiative! Visit the Resilient Wisconsin: Partner Resources webpage for social media posts and more. ACEs, adversity's impact American Academy of Pediatrics says racism is a threat to kids of all ages The association between exposure to childhood maltreatment...

Supporting Black LGBTQ Mental Health via the Trevor Project - also comes in a printable PDF . 32 Black-Led Queer & Trans Organizations to Support from the Audre Lorde Project to the Trans Women of Color Collective . Organization Development for Social Change: An Integrated Approach to Community Transformation via Racial Equity Tools includes information for sustainability when doing this long-term work. Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice; in partnership with...

By Austin R. Ramsey and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post, June 15, 2020 As calls to defund law enforcement reach a fever pitch nationwide, New Mexico’s largest city is answering concerns about its police department by forming an alternative. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller (D) announced on Monday the formation of a new public safety department designed to relieve stress on the city’s police. Instead of the police or fire departments responding to 911 calls related to inebriation,...

photo courtesy of EJUSA/Ron Holtz Studio Forty-seven-year-old Al-Tariq Best, founder and executive director of the HUBB , an arts and healing organization for youth, recalls the rage, humiliation and fear he felt as a 17-year-old when he and three other Black friends were pulled over by police in Newark, N.J. Al-Tariq Best “[There were] all these people around us. They search the car. They strip the car down. They make us pull our pants down in broad daylight. And I'm, I'm upset. And I'm...

Educators and parents don’t all support the move. The school board’s decision was unanimous. Jun. 11, 2020, 9:32 p.m. Denver’s public school system will part ways with in-school police officers who have monitored students and campuses for 22 years. After four hours of heated comment from the public Thursday evening, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously to order Denver Police Department officers out of school hallways and classrooms. The resolution , sponsored by...

Thursday, June 18, 2020 Education Upended, Special Guest Ingrid Cockhren Please join us for the ongoing community discussion of "A Better Normal — Education Upended". This week special guest and ACEsConnection staff member Ingrid Cockhren will join us to discuss facilitating conversations about racism, equity, and racial trauma through a trauma-informed lens with staff and students. Weekly themes include: How do we create physical and psychological safety, especially in the face of so much...

Recently a family doc published a "Viewpoint" in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggesting restraint and caution in using the ACEs screening tool (Campbell TL. Viewpoint, Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Primary Care: A Cautionary Note , JAMA Published Online: May 28, 2020, doi:10.1001/jama.2020.4365) because (1) there were no evidenced-based treatments, (2) asking the questions would offend patients and parents, and (3) risk of labeling people with such...

Please welcome the following communities to ACEs Connection. Midwest Region (USA) on ACEs Connection: This group is dedicated to fostering resilience and building community in the US Midwest. @Ingrid Cockhren (ACEs Connection Staff)

If you're wondering where you can find past episodes of our 'A Better Normal' Community Discussion Series, or other ACEs Connection videos, then check out our Youtube Channel . We have curated playlists so all the videos you're looking for are in one place: 'A Better Normal' Community Discussion Series Trauma-informed Ted Talks We Love Community Resilience Model with Elaine Miller-Karas Starting & Growing Resilient Communities How to Series Here's an episode from our 'A Better Normal'...