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Traumatic Stress, and Tension and Trauma Releasing Exercises
Traumatic stress causes many problems for survivors and others. We don’t feel well enough to accomplish our life goals or to function in day-to-day routines. There is a new solution to traumatic stress, and it is called Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE). This article and those that follow in August will outline traumatic stress and how TRE can change lives. What is traumatic stress? Traumatic stress is a process by which individual’s resources are lost or threatened beyond individuals’...
This Block Used To Be For First-Time Homebuyers. Then Global Investors Bought In. [washingtonpost.com]
By Peter Whoriskey, Spencer Woodman, and Margot Gibbs, Illustration: Frank Hulley-Jones, The Washington Post, December 15, 2021 The homes on Tammy Sue Lane aren’t fancy. Modest in size and clad in vinyl siding, the houses were priced below $200,000 when most were built about 15 years ago, and for many families in suburban Nashville, they represented a first chance at homeownership. A corrections officer bought one, and so did a housekeeper and an electrician. Then some of the world’s...
What to Do About Facebook? Nonprofits Weigh Benefits Against Ethical Concerns [philanthropy.com]
By Eden Stiffman, Image: Getty Images, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, December 15, 2021 In early October, officials at the Latino civil-rights advocacy group UnidosUS announced they would sever ties with Facebook. This meant that the organization, formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, returned or refused $277,272 in grants from the social-media behemoth’s corporate office. UnidosUS was already aware of the harms Latinos face as a result of the platform’s policies and products,...
The network of election lawyers who are making it harder for Americans to vote [theguardian.com]
By Peter Stone, Photo: Nathan Posner/REX/Shutterstock, The Guardian, December 14, 2021 A powerful network of conservative election lawyers and groups with links to Donald Trump have spent millions of dollars promoting new and onerous voting laws that many battleground states such as Georgia and Texas have enacted. The moves have prompted election and voting rights watchdogs in the US to warn about the suppression of non-white voters aimed at providing Republicans an edge in coming elections.
Workers are crying out for a four-day week. It's time for their bosses to pay attention [cnn.com]
By Allison Morrow, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images, CNN Business, November 17, 2021 A key lesson of the "Great Resignation" is becoming increasingly clear: It's time to shave a day off the workweek. American workers are quitting in record numbers — 4.3 million in August, and another 4.4 million in September. Managers across industries are having trouble hiring , even as they raise wages and offer incentives. But a new survey offers support for a not-so-radical but still uncommon...
Essential but Excluded [themarshallproject.org]
By Julia Preston and Ariel Goodman, Photo: Jodi Hilton/The Marshall Project, The Marshall Project, December 15, 2021 O ne tenant saw an amber glow flickering through her bedroom window. Another, awakened just after midnight by frantic shouts, put his hand on the wall and felt heat. The side of their apartment building was engulfed in flames. They seized their children and fled down darkened stairways. “There was so much smoke we felt like we were drowning,” tenant Lucia Mateo Pérez...
Helping children move beyond the trauma [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com]
By Chris Crook, Photo: Chris Crook/Times Recorder, Zanesville Times Recorder, December 7, 2021 Avondale Youth Center became the first children's residential center in the state to be awarded the qualified residential treatment program certification by the federal government. The certification focuses on trauma informed care. "What the federal government wants to see is every child residential center is serving kids in a way that is taking into considering their trauma history," said Gary...
As Covid Deaths Rise, Lingering Grief Gets a New Name [nytimes.com]
By Dawn McKeen, Photo: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times, The New York Times, December 8, 2021 A year after her mother died from Covid, Fiana Garza Tulip held a small memorial service on a Texas beach that her family had visited countless times when she was a child. As she and her brother dropped a wreath of yellow roses into the waves, she expected to cry. But the tears did not come. She felt only guilt for appearing to be unmoved, heartless even. Ms. Garza Tulip, 41, had endured so many...
Canada pledges $40 billion in talks over rampant abuses of Indigenous children [npr.org]
By Joe Hernandez, Photo: Cole Burston/AFP/Getty Images, National Public Radio, December 14, 2021 The Canadian government will set aside $40 billion — more than $30 billion in U.S. currency — to compensate Indigenous people who faced abuses as children in the country's residential schools, officials announced Monday. The funds will also be used to reform the country's troubled child welfare system. The pledge comes amid ongoing negotiations between Canadian authorities and First Nations...
Gulf Coast Judges Unite To Implement Child Trauma Care [wxxv25.com]
By Janae Jordan, WXXV 25, December 9, 2021 Gulf coast judges and 150 stake holders came together for a two day training event to implement trauma-informed care for children. Professionals working in mental health, schools, law enforcement, church ministries, and child welfare gathered at the u-s-m gulf park campus for a two-day training on “Trust-Based Relational Intervention”– also known as TBRI . TBRI Is an evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of...
New Grant Opportunity from Cal OES: 2021-22 Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention (SD) Program Request for Proposal [cdph.ca.gov]
Description The purpose of the SD Program is to prevent sexual and domestic violence through primary and secondary prevention efforts, prioritize marginalized/underserved populations within communities, and build the capacity of local organizations. Grant Subaward Performance Period May1, 2022 – April 30, 2024 Submission Deadline Wednesday, February 9, 2022 Available Funding Individual Applicants may request up to $300,000. [ Please click here to view the RFP .]
Resiliency Within: Helping Kentucky Survivors through the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)
Have the events this past week in Mayfield, Kentucky been impacting you? We understand the tragedy of climate events and how every person can be affected. In this episode, we share some wellness skills to help your nervous system return to balance.
Cracked Up movie NOW available on our website! [crackedupmovie.com]
We are so excited to let everyone know that Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story is now available to rent or buy through our website! Our film has helped so many people around the world and has literally saved lives! We hear from so many people who are suffering, telling us that they decided not to commit suicide after watching Cracked Up. This is so deeply moving to us that we want to help a million more people, so PLEASE help us do that by sharing the film on our website with everyone you...
After delays, the first people of Orange County have preserved a piece of their ancestral village [latimes.com]
By Ben Brazil, Photo: Don Leach/Times Community News, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2021 A few years ago, Adelia Sandoval sat at the foot of an old oak tree and pondered the resilience of her people, the Juaneño Band of Mission Indians. The spiritual leader and her tribe, considered to be the original people of Orange County, had been fighting for years to preserve a small portion of the land surrounding the old oak. The Mother Tree, as she called it, was rooted on the grounds of one of...