July 2021

By Anna Deen, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, July 16, 2021 Since being released from New York City’s Rikers Island jail — where he’d been sentenced to four months for not being where his parole officer expected him to be on a certain day and time — Dakem Roberts has been living in a Brooklyn homeless shelter. It was his latest incarceration since, in the late 1970s, when he was 16, he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He’d been arrested for his involvement in a robbery...

By Kerry Whigham, Yes!, July 15, 2021 F rom 1904 to 1908, German soldiers and settler colonists killed about half of all Nama people and over 80% of the Herero ethnic group. On May 28, 2021, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas acknowledged that Germany committed genocide in what is today Namibia . Maas’ statement was Germany’s first official description of these events as “genocide.” Maas also announced that Germany would pay Namibia roughly $1.3 billion to answer for these crimes. Many refer...

By Sara Tiano, The Imprint, July 13, 2021 Los Angeles County leaders committed on Tuesday to test out “ colorblind removals ” in child welfare cases — an attempt to correct long-standing patterns that draw disproportionately more Black and brown children into foster care than their white peers. Beginning in November, one of the county’s 20 regional offices will operate a pilot program relying on the method, which was developed on New York’s Long Island more than a decade ago. In colorblind...

PACES Connection and CTIPP invite you to join us on a Zoom call for statewide coordinators and community managers from around the country on Wednesday July 28th from 1:00-2:00pm ET/10-11am PT The call will cover several important and urgent issues coming out of Washington. First, a bipartisan group of four Senators has introduced the RISE from Trauma Act ( one-page summary attached ). This is the most powerful bill that Congress has ever introduced to address childhood and familial trauma in...

As Congress heads toward the August recess, President Biden’s major domestic priorities are included in the framework announced on July 14 along with Democratic congressional leaders. Biden and party leaders agreed on a top-level number of $3.5 trillion for major programs including an extension of the child tax credit, universal pre-K, two years of free community college, child care support, climate provisions, expansion of the Affordable Care Act, and more. The path to enactment is far from...

From First Nations, July 2021 APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 19, 2021 5pm MT GENERAL INFORMATION For more than 40 years, First Nations Development Institute (First Nations), a Native American-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has worked to strengthen American Indian economies to support healthy Native communities by investing in and creating innovative institutions and models that strengthen asset control and support economic development for American Indian people and their communities.

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. So many research papers were published over the last month that we divided Research Corner into two parts. Thank you, Harise!! — Jane Stevens] PACEs (positive and adverse childhood experiences) Zhang L,...

The Ballad Health ETSU Strong BRAIN Institute ( SBI ) seeks a junior-level researcher interested in conducting innovative multidisciplinary research on the prevention and mitigation of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), broadly defined. The Research Assistant Professor is a nontenure-track and nonconvertible faculty position. The initial appointment of this position is for one year and is expected to be renewable for at least three more years, depending on the availability of continued...

Thursday, July 29 from 5:00 – 6:00pm (Arizona Time) Forward-Facing Face-to-Face: Optimizing Our Relationships (and Healing Our Attachment Trauma) This free short intensive webinar will give you the insight and tools to begin to gain traction in becoming the person you choose to be in all the relationships in your life. The more you are able to achieve and sustain intentional behavior in these relationships, the more you are diminishing the power that past trauma and painful experiences have...

Orange County’s cross-sector community resilience initiative, Orange County ACEs Connection , has officially joined the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities. The PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities is a program of PACEs Connection that provides special tools and services for ACEs initiatives in towns, cities, and counties. It’s designed for initiatives that need efficient and sophisticated ways to measure their progress to becoming a trauma-informed community; that want...

Good Morning PACEs Connection "How to Ease Your Stress Webinar" will begin soon: Stress & New Techniques! Dream Journals Mind-Body Communication as utilized alongside ACE Study (group treatment). One of Dr. Milton Erickson’s Favorites Date Time: Jul 20, 2021 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device: Click Here to Join: www.truesage.com Or join by phone: US: +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 346...

By Matt Fuchs, The Washington Post, July 13, 2021 If you’re interested in staying healthy as you age — and living longer — you might want to add a different set of muscles to your workout routine: your creative ones. Ongoing research suggests that creativity may be key to healthy aging. Studies show that participating in activities such as singing, theater performance and visual artistry could support the well-being of older adults, and that creativity, which is related to the personality...