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On Tuesday October 26th, 2021 at 7pm we will host a film screening documentary of a child survivor of child sexual abuse and a community discussion on the lessons we can learn from survivors and how to prevent it. https://tinyurl.com/768vh6vk

***Trigger Warning: this article will address childhood sexual abuse and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** As our readers know by now, CPTSD Foundation is not afraid to tackle tough subjects that have for too long been considered taboo. This month’s articles will be about childhood sexual abuse and the recovery process to achieve a healthy and happy adult life. This article will concentrate on what childhood sexual abuse is and how it relates to complex post-traumatic stress disorder...

The Lingering Effects of Attachment Disruptions

Bizu Gelaye, associate professor of epidemiology By S.I. Rosenbaum | Illustrations by Mary Delaware In 2014, Bizu Gelaye began to wonder what his life was worth to the country he lived in. The associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health was watching from his Boston office as the Ebola virus killed thousands of people in West Africa. At the same time, in Ferguson, Missouri, activists were being gassed in the street as they protested the death of just one...

Did you know that societal inequities can impact a person's long-term health outcomes? Marginalization is the exclusion of a disadvantaged person or group to the fringe of society. It results in individuals being overlooked when laws, policies, and practices are established that protect the privileged class, and leads to adverse community environments--such as poverty, poor housing, and lack of mobility--that promote fertile ground for structural violence and harm, including racism and...

Please see the attached pdf as it discusses events we are going to have during Red Ribbon Week from October 23 to October 31. We are working hard to build protective factors up in our community for our youth!

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, September 23, 2021 F ueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals are clamoring for it, the media is covering it, and the National Institutes of Health, after publicly apologizing for giving the field short shrift, recently announced it would unleash nearly $100 million for research on the topic. This would seem to be...

UPDATED for November 16th! We look forward to seeing everyone there! Registration https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApcuGuqjssGNCWSrzGLRqi4kfzDwQ-h4y3

The First Lady of Virginia's Road to Resilience Tour continued this week with a virtual stop highlighting the trauma-informed community networks (TICNs) in Central Virginia. The Southside TICN hosted the second Community Conversation of the month with representatives from three additional networks in attendance, including Greater Richmond TICN, Caroline Virginia Community Resilience Network (CRN), and Blue Ridge CRN. The conversation was facilitated by Melissa McGinn, Director of Community...

By Aissata Sall, Global Fund for Women, October 11, 2021 Last week, a whistleblower testified to US Congress about failures at Facebook, including that Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teenage girls and that its algorithms promote harmful content, particularly around body image. We need an investigation of the data presented by the Facebook whistleblower—moreover policymakers should enact regulations holding tech companies accountable. Many—including those who are most impacted by tech...

From Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, October 12, 2021 According to an NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll, 38 percent of U.S. households report facing serious financial problems in the past few months, as the delta variant outbreak has extended health and economic problems faced by households over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic ( see Figure 1 ). These serious financial problems are cited despite 67 percent of U.S. households reporting they...

By John Balzarini, Melody L. Boyd, Housing Matters, October 2021 As the nation grapples with affordability pressures and an eviction crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, understanding small-scale landlords’ role in maintaining affordability and navigating evictions is critical. Landlords serve as gatekeepers to the country’s limited supply of affordable rental housing—making key decisions about who to rent to, rental prices, eviction procedures, and the maintenance and preservation of their...