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The California Department of Technology (CDT) is creating our state’s digital equity plan and needs input from government agencies, nonprofits, experts, practitioners, funders, researchers, community organizers and California residents from every corner of the state. Once complete, the plan will support programs to help give Californians the access they need. Join the Health Outcome Area Working Group meeting to help close the digital divide in your community. Working groups will help...

Join us to hear how historical trauma impacts American society, including the socio-political landscape of today as well as the health of Americans. Ingrid will show us the links between historical trauma and the current mental health crisis, social determinants of health, and the disparities and inequities present in our communities today. Thursday, February 16th, 2023 12:00-1:00 PM ET >> Register Here<< Event is free and open to the public. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs...

(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...

I Never Knew I Had Trauma. The driving force behind writing my book "It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD" was that I mistakenly believed that I had to have been sexually or physically abused to be considered a trauma survivor. My main types of trauma were being raised in a crazy, alcoholic home where I witnessed ongoing tension and emotional abuse between my parents, and being bullied as an overweight kid. Interestingly, of the many therapists and...

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the racial reckoning of 2020 pushed America's already strained workforce to the brink, evoking a mass exodus of American workers looking to escape job dissatisfaction, microaggressions, unsafe work conditions and low wages. It was coined the " Great Resignation ". Join History. Culture. Trauma. co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of outreach and education, this Thursday at 1 p.m. PT as they discuss the role of...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Domestic Violence – Effects on Children Ahmad SI, Rudd KL, LeWinn KZ, et. al. Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child...

Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy Hope, Healing & Help for Trauma, Abuse & Mental Health “ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”. Kahlil Gibran The Surviving Spirit Newsletter February 2023 It can be read online via this - http://ml.survivingspirit.com/dada/mail.cgi/archive/newsletter/20230206162036/ or this -...

I'm not going to waste any time in this month's post - let's get right to the heart of the matter. “How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive ourselves. How easily the life we didn’t live becomes the only life we prize. How easily we are seduced by the fantasy that we are in control, that we were ever in control, that the things we could or should have done or said have the power, if only we had...

By Angela Colón-Rentas, Illustration: Angela Colón-Rentas, Mad in America, February 4, 2023 When I was 3 years young, I saw my dad hit my mom. It was the first time but not the last—one of many traumatic moments I witnessed growing up, and one of many reasons why I’ve devoted my life to healing. And helping others heal, too. We were living in Puerto Rico, where I spent the first years of my life. I was born there in 1993 and raised from age 5 in Rochester, New York, to mostly Latin culture...

By Vinita Mehta, Photo: Unsplash, Psychology Today, January 23, 2023 What is it like to grow up in an alcoholic family, in which one or both parents are dependent on or misuse alcohol? This was the question of a study conducted by Swedish researchers Anneli Silvén Hagströma and Ulla Forinder. Because children who experience parental alcoholism tend not to disclose their circumstances for fear of shame and stigma, their urgent need for help often goes undetected—and their voices go unheard.

By Nehemiah Frank and Ezekiel J. Walker, Illustration: Alfred Waud, The Black Wall Street Times, February 1, 2023 During the Civil Rights Movement, Black Americans made lots of progress, but today many of those gains are being reversed. Ever increasing since the 2016 Presidential Election, right-wing extremism threatens the foundation of America’s civil society. The GOP’s newest target is an AP program, a college level course on African American studies offered to high school students by the...

By Allison Kelliher (The Conversation), Photo: Donovan Quintero/Reuters, PBS New Hour, February 3, 2023 Six and one-half years. That’s the decline in life expectancy that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought upon American Indians and Alaska Natives, based on an August 2022 report from the National Center for Health Statistics . This astounding figure translates to an overall drop in average living years from 71.8 years in 2019 to 65.2 by the end of 2021. [ Please click here to read more .]