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Take a look at all of the shareable resources (documents, webcasts, social media posts, etc.) created for the Resilient Wisconsin initiative . ACEs, adversity's impact Lack of trust exacerbates loneliness spiral Exposure to childhood adversity is linked to early mortality and associated with nearly half a million annual U.S. deaths, study finds Association between adverse childhood experiences and adverse pregnancy outcomes Childhood adversity a leading preventable factor in death?

Aristotle believed, "Courage was the first of human virtues because it makes all others possible." The need for courage is paramount in today's new world. While some wish to return to 'normal' I believe it’s a time to take advantage of being out of our collective comfort zone and embrace our growth as individuals and as a society. Change takes courage and it is no coincidence that this is our first character value in the formula for Choosing Love! As American poet laureate and legend Maya...

Technical assistance is available to applicants until 11/1. Last month we launched People, Parks, and Power (P3), a national initiative to invest in green space, health equity, and racial justice. P3 is a joint effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, led and managed by Prevention Institute. Through this new initiative, $7 million in funding is available for community-based organizations and base-building groups working to advance park and green...

Friends, Please join us tomorrow for the start of our two-part series Engaging Faith and Community Partners in Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) . These webinars support faith and community leaders addressing the prevention and mitigation of ACEs and their possible impact, including substance use disorders (SUDs), suicide, and other health risks. Join both webinars to hear from experts about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their potential consequences. This two-part...

By J. Brian Charles, The Trace, October 18, 2021 R ay Kelly worried that the sound system wasn’t going to work. If the speakers failed, he was less likely to draw people to the park to build support for Baltimore’s movement to defund the police — to shift law enforcement funding to other services and projects that proponents hope can decrease violence. If he couldn’t get their attention with music, Kelly worried, he wouldn’t be able to explain the opportunity they had to radically reimagine...

By Kelsey Osgood, Hannah Sheldon-Dean, and Harry Kimball, Child Mind Institute, October 2021 Even before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, mental health professionals were struggling to meet the needs of the 1 in 5 children and adolescents with a mental health or learning disorder. Then the pandemic hit, bringing an upsurge in youth reporting mental health challenges. In this report, we examine the growing body of research on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s mental...

By Damon M. Petrich, Travis C. Pratt, Cheryl Lero Johnson, and Francis T. Cullen, University of Chicago, October 2021 ABSTRACT Beginning in the 1970s, the United States began an experiment in mass imprisonment. Supporters argued that harsh punishments such as imprisonment reduce crime by deterring inmates from reoffending. Skeptics argued that imprisonment may have a criminogenic effect. The skeptics were right. Previous narrative reviews and meta-analyses concluded that the overall effect...

Please join us for our new series Education Upended: Talking Out of Turn . This monthly series will feature a conversation facilitated by Lara Kain, PACEsConnection Education Consultant , with special guests on education related current events and hot topics. We will use a trauma-informed and PACEs science aware lens to examine what is going on K-12 education, what needs changing, and strategies being used in the field to disrupt harmful policies and make positive changes in the system.

We are so very grateful our Cracked Up community has been offered a 25% discount code, crackedup25 , to attend this program. My film Cracked Up, The Darrell Hammond Story is the film it is because of Bessel’s pioneering work! I am so honored to have him in the film as well as joining us on panels and participating in Cracked Up, The Evolving Conversation series. His book, The Body Keeps The Score helped me more than any book on trauma I ever read. I felt seen and known with every word!

By Caitlin Gibson, The Washington Post, October 13, 2021 P atty Sang sat alone in the living room of her Seattle apartment, riveted by the breaking evening news on her television. A White gunman had just murdered eight people — six of them women of Asian descent — in a rampage that spanned three spas near Atlanta. It was March 16, one year into a global pandemic that incited a torrent of anti-Asian racism and violence, and Patty, a 48-year-old Korean American actor, instructor and solo...

By Taylor Dafoe, Artnet, October 4, 2021 Looking to the New Deal for inspiration, lawmakers in Congress have proposed $300 million in workforce grants that would put unemployed art workers back on the job. Inspired by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Creative Economy Revitalization Act , or CERA, would establish a program within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act that would give grants to artists and cultural organizations for public projects. The funds, which would...

By Madison Hunt, The Imprint, October 13, 2021 Ridding itself of ties to a past now seen as barbaric and unjust, it is now illegal to place “shackles, handcuffs, irons and straitjackets” on children appearing before the New York family courts. “The use of restraints on children is humiliating, traumatizing, stigmatizing, and permanently damaging into their adult life,” Democratic state Sen. Jamaal Bailey, the bill’s author, wrote in a public statement released last week. “The human cost of...