July 2023

🚨📰 NEWS RELEASE: The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen Issues Four Calls-to-Action in Open Letter to College Presidents Demanding Lineage-Based Affirmative Action for Descendants of U.S. Slaves/Free Negroes Pamela Denise Long, National Coordinator for The Coalition of Concerned Freedmen stated, "Historians largely frame 1960's Affirmative Action as a response to Negroes' sustained resistance to the unconstitutional Jim Crow era that began after the sabotage of Reconstruction (via the...

By Courtney Wise, Photo: from article, MindSiteNews, July 27, 2023 Hello, MindSite News parenting newsletter readers! We had a pleasant surprise when we got back from our summer break – this newsletter, “Spotlight on Kids, Youth and Family,” had won a 2023 silver award in the National Health Information Awards competition. We’re honored to be in the company of other NHIA winners, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and Daniel Tiger. And today we take a look at how boys may be...

By Jasmine Mithani, Illustration: Jelena Živković/GETTY IMAGES, The 19th*, July 26, 2023 Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu began doing disability doula work long before they ever heard the term. From the time they were in middle school, they remember “being responsible for big, intense crisis situations” with their friends. Throughout high school, a close friend self-injured. Kaufman-Mthimkhulu would drive to her house and listen. They would also take care of their friend’s wounds, spend time...

Charles Johnson, 52, gulps down a third bottle of water on an extremely hot day in Blythe, Calif. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) By Ruben Vives and Akiya Dillon, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2032 At a homeless encampment dubbed the Lost City, hidden behind a cluster of pine trees off Highway 95, Charles Johnson was sweltering. He was drenched in sweat, worsening the heat rash on his back and arms. His sunburned skin ached. He was hungry. He was desperate for water. And he yearned for ice —...

By Cris M. Sullivan, Cortney Simmons, Mayra Guerrero, et. al., Photo: iStock/Kobus Louw, Housing Matters, July 26, 2023 Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of homelessness and can harm physical and mental health and financial outcomes. But little evidence exists on how to effectively help IPV survivors obtain housing stability and safety. To fill the gap, a group of researchers from Michigan State University, in collaboration with the Washington State Coalition Against...

By Steve Taylor, Image: Prachatai/from Flickr and Wikipedia, Psychology Today, July 26, 2023 After studying children brought up in orphanages and other institutions in the 1930s and 1940s, the British psychologist John Bowlby developed his maternal deprivation hypothesis . He suggested that if a young child’s attachment to a mother figure is broken, this is likely to severely damage their social, emotional, and intellectual development. A lack of attachment could result in what he called...

By Laura Gallant, 7/27/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ For many educators, the end of July is a time to start brainstorming about the set up of your classroom. When thinking about how to decorate your classroom and how to get to know your students, consider doing this in a HOPEful way. Below are 10 tips to add HOPE and the Four Building Blocks to your classroom before students even arrive. The environment building block is a large focus for these tips, but educators can practice...

Hi folks, Just wanted to compile a list of resources for those wanting to help men with their trauma. Documentary - The Work The Wisdom of Trauma The Mankind Project - retreat programs Please feel free to add more suggestions. Having worked in jails & rehab centres I gained a great deal of insight into how unprocessed trauma influences a life. It influenced me to create a men's retreat to help men work through trauma and heal.

https://theintercept.com/2023/07/22/metoo-defamation-lawsuits-slapp/ Bryce Covert , THE INTERCEPT, July 22 2023, 6:00 a.m. Elise Aubuchon felt she owed it to other women to speak out. It was 2020, and #MeToo had prompted countless people to publicly expose those who had harassed and abused them. Years after she says she was raped, and once she realized the police weren’t going to pursue her case, she decided to make a public post on Facebook naming the alleged rapist. “MY VOICE WILL BE...

Can the art of horse whispering, a perceptive communication technique, work to heal complex trauma in humans? Isabelle Shook, the founder of Equine Guidance in Sedona, AZ, believes that horses possess an empathetic energy––telegraphed via non-verbal cues––that can resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma in those seeking support. In this episode of Transforming Trauma , Emily discovers how Belle fosters this unique therapeutic experience and the approaches she and her herd of...

(This is a review of what I believe is an important new resource for the PACEs [for positive and adverse childhood experiences] science movement. Opinions expressed are my own, and are shared as a parent, advocate, author, and longtime student of trauma, healing, and prevention. Thoughts are also shared through my lens as someone who believes, deeply, in the incredible importance of and value in building healthier, more compassionate communities to support and nurture pregnant and new...

In case it is of interest to you or your networks, please see information below from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) Program and VALOR regarding an upcoming web conference: Creating Protective Environments Web Conference (Part One and Two) September 6th and 7th, 2023 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm PT Audience: Open to all California Preventionists Description: This training will identify specific community, organizational, and societal level change...