Les presentamos las mini series acerca de salud mental y trauma por nuestra pasante del verano Ximena Chafloque. Si deseas más información relacionada con la salud mental y el trauma nos encantaría ayudarte, contáctanos a srqstronenespanol@gmail.com
Please enjoy and share this new 8 part mini-series on mental health and trauma-awareness by our summer intern, Ximena Chafloque, which will be posted weekly with updates. If there are other trauma-related issues you want to hear about, contact sarasotastrong@gmail.com
In our diverse country, immigration (past or recent) is an almost universal experience. This event featured personal stories from people who have recently arrived in the United States. They shared the challenges they left behind, the difficulties experienced on their journey, and their experiences raising a family in a new culture. The focus was on Spanish-speaking newcomers and highlighted the positive impact of Hispanics in our community. Leaders from community agencies also discussed how...
TRENTON, N.J. (Sept. 1, 2021) – Actions 4 ACEs , a statewide campaign to expand public awareness of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), is launching a new back-to-school campaign to help children returning to school and in-person learning this fall readjust to day-to-day life and approach the new challenges and stressors posed by the pandemic. The campaign, #TraumaTools: Promoting Healing, Recovery, and Wellness this School Year, will build awareness among educators, school staff, and law...
PACEs Connection members are encouraged to join as many communities as they are interested in. Keep scrolling to find our list of geographic communities to join your local, state, or country community! Interest Based: PACEs Connection Community Champions, Facilitators, and Managers (for Community Managers only) PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities (for coop affiliates only) 16 Strong Project ACEs Connection for Birth Workers ACEs in the Criminal Justice System ACEs in Youth Justice...
This is an amazing interview about childhood trauma by Ezra Klein with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. and was published recently in the New York Times. Bessel van der Kolk Interview, New York Times
By Amanda Winn, 9/01/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Pediatrician, Dr. Gretchen Pianka, had already created Resilience University when she first heard about HOPE. When Dr. Pianka met with Drs. Sege and Burstein, she realized that her vision to help foster family resilience fit perfectly within the HOPE Framework. At that time, her program focused primarily on promoting emotional growth and fostering the parent-child attachment to help build resilience in children. By doing Plan-Do-Study-Act...
" M illions of Americans are returning back to work after being home during the pandemic. While this has been exciting for many, some are feeling burned out by their work. What do you do if you are feeling burned out by your work? How do you reverse it? How can you “get your mojo back”? What can employers do to help their staff reverse burnout? [Read More here ]
In case you didn’t see the announcement, Prevent Child Abuse America's back-to-school campaign launched this month. We are encouraging people to go to https://share.preventchildabuse.org/ to add their photo and show how they are growing a better tomorrow for all children. You’ll have the option to leave the default caption or add your own content. After the photo and caption are added you can easily share it on any social platform and get your network to do the same. This campaign will run...
https://psychcentral.com/ptsd/adverse-childhood-experiences-post-traumatic-stress-disorder
By Anna Flagg, The New York Times, August 30, 2021 Black Americans die at higher rates than white Americans at nearly every age. In 2019, the most recent year with available mortality data, there were about 62,000 such earlier deaths — or one out of every five African American deaths. The age group most affected by the inequality was infants. Black babies were more than twice as likely as white babies to die before their first birthday. [ Please click here to read more .]
By Deanna Hoskins and Zöe Towns, The Washington Post, August 25, 2021 These days there is more reporting on the harms of mass incarceration and mass criminalization than ever before. More journalists are on these beats . Stories about conditions in police stations, jails and prisons are getting more space on the page. Entire journalism outlets are dedicated to critically tracking the criminal justice system. Yet when we scroll through our news feeds and Twitter, or turn on the radio or news...
By Elizabeth Cohen, John Bonifield, and Justin Lape, CNN Health, August 28, 2021 For the first time in decades, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the nation's top public health agency -- is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America, calling it a "serious public health threat." "Something has to be done about this," CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in an exclusive interview with CNN. "Now is the time -- it's pedal to the metal time." This...
By Juan Carlos Castillo and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, August 25, 2021 Damali Flippin, a mother of a 6-year-old girl, had been living in Washington, D.C., for years not knowing where to find emotional and social support. With her family living far away, the pandemic deepened those needs. “To be candid, I’d been feeling very depressed and just, you know, anxious and not motivated,” she said in a recent public meeting held over videoconference. Her desolation continued until the day an...
By Tyler Kepner, The New York Times, August 29, 2021 Roberto Clemente won two championships with the Pittsburgh Pirates, one when he was young and the other near the end of his brief life. For the first, in 1960, everyone else on the World Series roster was white, except for two teammates at the end of the bench. The second roster, in 1971, was much different. Fifty years ago on Wednesday — about a month before the start of a postseason he would make his own — Clemente found himself batting...