August 2022

By Rebecca Greenwald, Photo: Stephanie Alvarez-Ewens, Bloomberg City Lab, August 4, 2022 In fall of 2019, Haus of Glitter — a queer BIPOC art collective and performance lab based in Providence, Rhode Island — moved into a nearly three-century-old homestead tucked into an easy-to-miss park tucked between a freeway and an electrical substation in the city’s Oakland Avenue neighborhood. The 1756 Esek Hopkins House had been built by the naval commander commemorated locally for his role in the...

By Keri Blakinger, Photo: Evelyn Hockstein, The Marshall Project, August 4, 2022 When the embattled head of the federal Bureau of Prisons stepped down earlier this year, many hoped his replacement would be someone able to overhaul the scandal-plagued federal system . The final pick — Oregon prison director Colette Peters — seemed to fit the bill. During her 10 years at the helm of the state corrections department, Peters burnished a reputation as a reformer, vowing to reduce the use of...

By Pathways to Resilience, Photo: Unsplash extension, Pathways to Resilience, August 5, 2022 In addition to being a place where people can discover new books, libraries are a community resource that offer a place to do homework, hold kids’ story time, access the internet, and provide individuals without homes an escape from the elements. However, the combination of these important responsibilities can mean that libraries are not always a safe place for library staff or patrons. The Urban...

By Arielle Zionts, Photo: Arielle Zionts/KHN, August 8, 2022 In a growing number of U.S. states, people can both drink alcohol and legally smoke recreational marijuana. In others, they can use alcohol but not pot. But on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the opposite is true: Marijuana is legal, but booze is banned. Citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe overwhelmingly voted in 2020 to legalize recreational and medical marijuana on their sprawling reservation, which has...

In this episode of Transforming Trauma, our host Emily is joined by Crystle Lampitt, LMSW. Crystle owns her own private practice, CL Wellness LLC, and is a former TV Journalist and model that has lived all over the world. Crystle has a unique perspective of coming into the field of trauma from a background in media and modeling, and bringing a wealth of lived experience from her international experiences and biracial background. Crystle brings a first-hand understanding to living a...

It's not too late to lead your own book study of What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry, MD PhD, and Oprah Winfrey in your community! Register NOW to attend the Book Study Leader Check-In with Children’s Trust Fund Alliance on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 3-4:30 p.m. ET This is an opportunity to share your experiences as a book study leader, raise questions, make recommendations, and celebrate with us. Open to all book study leaders and those who may want to facilitate a study! This event is part of...

By The HOPE Team, 8/9/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Going back to school can bring up a lot of feelings for students, parents, and even teachers. Happiness at being back together with friends, excitement about the new school year, and, of course, anxiety about the challenges ahead. The Four Building Blocks of HOPE can help focus on PCEs (positive childhood experiences). Here are 12 ways to practice PCEs as children return to school. [ Click here to read the full blog .]

By Jamiles Lartey, Photo: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images, The Marshall Project, August 6, 2022 A Black man in Massachusetts alleges that police tackled him in a case of mistaken identity in 2021, pinning him down with a knee to the neck . According to a lawsuit filed this week, Donovan Johnson cried “I can’t breathe!” but the officer “continued to pin Mr. Johnson to the ground with his knee.” In Houston, another Black man was fatally shot in the back of the head and neck by an...

By Elizabeth D. Steiner, Heather Schwartz, and Melissa Kay Diliberti, The 74, August 8, 2022 Schools have been trying to return to normal after three years of closures, disruption and setbacks, so it’s no surprise that the pandemic has taken a toll on educators’ morale. Yet, thus far, public school educators nationally have not left their jobs at notably higher rates than before the pandemic began. Even so, poor morale among educators is concerning. Given how many teachers enter the...

By Lee Lawrence, Photo: Nikos Frazier/Journal & Courier/AP/File, The Christian Science Monitor, August 8, 2022 P resident Joe Biden is expected to decide this month whether there will be mass student debt cancellation. And while Americans are at loggerheads over that, they are in almost full agreement about fixing the root cause: the high cost of a college education. Asked to choose between the government forgiving student debt or making college more affordable for current and future...

By Aydali Campa, Photo: Lynsey Weatherspoon/Deep Indigo Collective, Inside Climate News, August 7, 2022 Cosmopolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church has long been a place of trust, a hive of social justice activity on Atlanta’s west side. A week after church members held an abortion rights march, volunteers gathered outside the stately house of worship, located in Vine City on a leafy corner near Martin Luther King Jr.’s home, to set up an event with a dual purpose: giving back-to-school...