July 2021

Last week I attended the Lisa Project in Stockton Ca. and it was an interesting and indelible experience. From a person with lived experiences of ACEs and childhood trauma, I would say it was both visceral and real as well as informing and educational. Check out the Lisa Project… https://thelisaproject.org

Speakers and Seminars are set for the USBG Foundation's Social Responsibility Symposium!

By Kim Severson, The New York Times, July 4, 2021 Just before people started to take the pandemic seriously, Stacie Marshall slipped into the back of a conference room in Athens, Ga., and joined two dozen Black farmers in a marketing seminar called “Collards Aren’t the New Kale.” She stood out, and not just because she was one of only two white people in the room. Ms. Marshall, 41, still had the long blond hair and good looks that won her the Miss Chattooga County title in 1998. The win came...

This summer, the HOPE team welcomes several talented students to assist us with our many projects and presentations. Each one of them adds their unique perspective and expertise to our team, and brings a hardworking, equity-focused mindset that directly represents HOPE in action. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with each and every one of them! We asked each of them to introduce themselves to our readers. Sydney Grob I was born and raised in a small town outside of Denver,...

By Paulina Villegas and Hannah Knowles, The Washington Post, July 7, 2021 Several large-scale trials of a four-day workweek in Iceland were an “overwhelming success,” with many workers shifting to shorter hours without affecting their productivity, and in some cases improving it, in what researchers called “groundbreaking evidence for the efficacy of working time reduction.” Some of the trials’ key findings showed that a shorter week translated into increased well-being of employees among a...

By Laura Bliss and Hadriana Lowenkron, Bloomberg City Lab + Equality, July 1, 2021 U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has spoken often about the injustices created by federal highways built over the last 70 years, raising interest in the idea of tearing some of them down. “It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects plowing through them because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” then secretary-nominee Buttigieg told...

By Artemis Moshtaghian and Steve Almasy, CNN US, July 6, 2021 New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he had signed an executive order declaring a gun violence emergency and told an audience in New York City he was going to sign legislation that allows for civil lawsuits against gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers for how they market and sell firearms. The new law would close what he said was a "Trump-backed federal loophole" that allowed people with active warrants to purchase...

By Darryl Fears, The Washington Post, June 28, 2021 A heavy snow was falling here in the Taconic Mountain Range outside Albany when Leah Penniman moved to the farm she bought with her husband. It was the day after Christmas, Penniman recalled, “and I cried.” They were not tears of joy. Penniman was having second thoughts. “I was, like, can we just stay in Albany?” Her family had left that city’s impoverished South End community because it was a food desert — devoid of grocery stores with...

By Cecily Sailer and Kelly West, Resolve Magazine, July 1, 2021 Karen Evans is executive director of the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board (CYPB), a coalition of adults and youth who work together to improve outcomes for children and youth in New Orleans Parish. Evans left a career in corporate training and development to work in child welfare, helping develop family centers in public schools and assisting nonprofits refining their programs to meet children and family’s needs.

Good morning, I am the director of EmpowerSurvivors ( www.EmpowerSurvivors.net ) which is a nonprofit located in Stillwater, MN that serves survivors of childhood sexual abuse through peer support groups, programs, and classes. We are currently looking for volunteer mental health professionals, holistic health providers, drug and alcohol counselors, psychiatrists, advocates, survivors of childhood sexual abuse, etc to come to be our guests on our Monday evening Zoom program, Conversations...

Transforming Trauma Episode 46: NARM Inner Circle Presents: Working with Anxiety, Anger and Rage with Dr. Laurence Heller and Brad Kammer In this special episode of Transforming Trauma, the NARM Training Institute presents a summertime gift to Transforming Trauma listeners: a special topic webinar from the NARM Inner Circle online program. This webinar provides a window into the Inner Circle learning community where helping professionals from around the world come together to learn more...

Surviving not only Auschwitz but also a difficult childhood, this courageous woman's story reveals much about healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences.