June 2022

By Fiona Harvey , Wed 1 June, 2022, the Guardian The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy in the US and professor at Texas Tech University, said the world was heading for dangers unseen in the 10,000 years of human civilisation, and efforts to make the world more resilient were...

In its 15th year, the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) is the national LGBTQ+ benchmarking tool that evaluates healthcare facilities' policies and practices related to the equity and inclusion of their LGBTQ+ patients, visitors and employees. The HEI 2022 evaluates more than 2,200 healthcare facilities nationwide. A record 906 healthcare facilities actively participated in the HEI 2022 survey. [ Please click here to read more. ]

To use a medical paradigm, mass shootings are the symptom, not the disease and considerations of mental illness are largely diversionary, not diagnostic. Or to use a political economy paradigm: Among the basic functions of society are protecting the lives and security of its citizens and a foundational way to do this is to give the government monopoly control over violence. Currently in the USA a political party seeking absolute power has used all kinds of strategies to acquire it, from...

I'm grateful for the awareness on post traumatic stress - but I hope someday they drop "disorder" from the language and use "injury" or some other word - just feels stigmatizing, like we are defective and lends credence to the stigma & discrimination we face when trying to heal from things that were done to us, experienced or that we observed. Take care, Michael. Support Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month & Learn the Signs of PTSD - ...

By Bev Van den Bossche, 6/2/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Often when we think of hope, we think about it as a response to hardships or challenges that either we are facing or that we are seeing in the world around us. For example, we hope that no one got hurt in the car accident that we saw on the way to work. We hope that we do well on our final exams. We hope that war and hunger will end in our lifetime. As a HOPE Trained Facilitator , I look at hope from multiple...

By WSKG, May 23, 2022 An estimated 100 million people around the world are forcibly displaced, the highest number on record, according to the United Nations. The figure represents 1% of the world’s population and would be equivalent to the 14th most populous country, the U.N. said in its statement . At the end of 2021, 90 million had been displaced from their countries, including 14.4 million people displaced within their countries’ borders due to violence. An estimated 23.7 million people,...

By Michael Segalov, Photo: Netflix, The Guardian, May 31, 2022 Barely three minutes into the first episode of Heartstopper – Netflix’s new LGBTQ+ coming-of-age romcom series, which has been a knockout success with critics and viewers – I turned to my boyfriend, curled up next to me on the sofa. Aimed primarily at a younger audience, the show is about an openly gay male sixth former at an English comprehensive (played by 18-year-old Joe Locke) who falls in love with the school’s most popular...

By Brooke Baldwin, Photo: Chandan Khanna/AFP/Getty, The Atlantic, May 31, 2022 T his week, for the first time in my career, I found out about a mass shooting in America just like most of you: not from a TV producer breaking into my earpiece on live TV, or a CNN internal email alert, or from someone shouting in the newsroom, but from a friend. And I’m processing it with something new: a feeling of deep cynicism. Before, when I was in it, I believed something would change. At CNN, where I...

By Choose Love, Image: Screenshot from interview, Choose Love, May 25, 2022 Scarlett Lewis, mother of Sandy Hook victim Jesse, shares her frustration with MSNBC anchor Katy Tur after the recent elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. My reaction is too little too late. We need to have a plan. Every school shooting is preventable. The fact that I’m talking to you today, 10 years after Sandy Hook, 20 years after Columbine, and we’re still having the same narrative. We’re doing the same...

Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, welcomes Rev. Deanna Hollas , the nation’s first known “minister of gun violence prevention,” for this week’s episode of "History. Culture. Trauma." on Thursday, June 2, at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET. They will discuss the more than 60 mass shootings in the United States during the month of May 2022 — including the shooting of 10 Black adults and one White adult in Buffalo, New York, and last week’s killing of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.

The collective trauma of the past two years has accelerated America's already dire gun violence epidemic. Recent shootings in Buffalo, NY , Uvalde, TX and Tulsa, OK have put 2022 on track to have a record number of mass shootings in a single year. The trauma of gun violence in our country ripples far beyond the individuals lost or injured and greatly impacts their families , loved ones and our society, as a whole. How can we, as a country, address this epidemic of violence? How can we use...

In a wonderful step towards ensuring better care for postpartum parents, Oregon joins three other states in expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage to one year. Please head to https://www.forbes.com/sites/erinspencer1/2022/05/31/four-new-states-expand-postpartum-medicaid-coverage-to-one-year/?sh=32a132e923d0&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=forbeswomen&cdlcid=5d0105691802c8c524b7f679 to read the full article. This is thrilling and a significant step forward...