July 2023

Members of an Indian national disaster response team evacuate people Wednesday after the Yamuna River flooded in New Delhi. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) By Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post, July 13, 2023 The world is hotter than it’s been in thousands of years, and it’s as if every alarm bell on Earth were ringing. The warnings are echoing through the drenched mountains of Vermont, where two months of rain just fell in only two days. India and Japan were deluged by extreme flooding. They’re...

By Jeremy Loudenback and Sara Tiano, Illustration: Christine Ongjoco, The Imprint, July 7, 2023 Amid historic reforms to California’s youth justice system, the state’s newly signed budget funnels investments into higher education for young people in lockups, while strengthening oversight of juvenile court schools, educational institutions inside of youth detention facilities . Due to a budget shortfall, the investment is modest and the funding is among the few spending proposals focused on...

Register HERE for the free audio. Many discussions and debates around race claim to adopt a color-blind approach, intending to treat everyone equally. But equality is not the same as equity. And many claims to color-blindness nevertheless subtly reinforce the central tenet of white-body supremacy: that the white body is the norm, and the standard against which all other bodies are to be measured. In this eye-opening audio session, renowned expert on race and trauma Resmaa Menakem shares why...

By Center on the Developing Child, Image: Unsplash, Center on the Developing Child, Harvard Univeristy Healthy development in the early years (particularly birth to three) provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation. What can we do during this incredibly important period to ensure that children have a strong foundation for future development? The...

Trauma-informed, disordered eating prevention training for physicians launches in South Carolina after 13 years of collaborative efforts.

The ETSU Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute is delighted to welcome Chris Moynihan and Nic Shields as our guest speakers for the August Resilience Speaker Series, presenting “ Implementing a Trauma Informed Approach: The Attachment Regulation and Competency Framework. ” Implementing trauma informed care into an organizational culture can be a challenging endeavor. Mr. Moynihan and Mr. Shields will share the lessons learned from one organization's multiyear efforts to implement the...

From Montefiore Health System, Image: from article, July 11, 2023 The Bronx Health Collective at Montefiore Health System and the Mama Glow Foundation have been awarded a $2 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant to address trauma and advance treatment options for birthing people at clinics located in the South Bronx . The partnership, historic in nature, addresses structural racism, which makes exposure to violence particularly common in birthing communities. When...

By Petrous Levounis, Photo: from article, Washington Blade, July 5, 2023 Over the years, I have seen Pride month evolve from tolerance, to acceptance, to a celebration of the accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ people and our place in history. What an empowering and joyous affirmation of our community! This year is no different, and yet I cannot help but have mixed feelings in light of what I view as a palpable regression into the hate, bigotry, and ignorance of the past. This regression in our...

Uncle Alex Munro says creating a painting of Mother Earth nurtured him.(ABC New England: Lani Oataway) By Lani Oataway, ABC New England, July 10, 2023 Orange flames, thick smoke, and the sound of choppers had turned Ngoorumba elder Uncle Alex Munro's home of 58 years, Tingha, into a "war scene". It was the summer of 2019, and the fire burnt more than 17,000 hectares around the NSW Northern Tablelands town. But returning to the scorched land was worse. "It was just sticks of black, and the...

A packed dorm at the Fred C. Nelles Correctional Facility in the 1990s, an era when California’s youth prisons held roughly 10,000 teens and adolescents. Photo by Joseph Rodriguez. By Nell Bernstein, The Imprint, June 30, 2023 California’s three remaining youth prisons closed their reinforced steel doors for good today, marking the demise of what was once the nation’s largest network of youth prisons. The closure of the state’s youth prison system , resulting from decades of activism,...

Students in NYC’s Summer Rising program at a school in the West Bronx. Many schools have attempted to use summer programs to make up for learning loss, but new data suggests that students are still behind. Christina Veiga/Chalkbeat By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat, July 10, 2023 There’s been little, if any, progress making up large learning gaps that have emerged since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new analysis of data from the testing group NWEA. In the 2022-23 school year, students...

By The HOPE Team, 7/13/23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ Over the past year, the HOPE National Resource Center (NRC) has been working on a set of standards to help organizations align their practices with the HOPE framework. These standards have been identified as crucial pieces of practicing the HOPE framework. As you work through each standard you will develop a strong foundation for your organization, with each standard building on the next. HOPE Director of Training and Technical...