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Through the news media, Americans are served an almost-daily dose of violence caused by guns. This year to date, more than 33,929 people in the United States have been killed and another 30,000+ have been injured by guns. The U.S. homicide rate for firearms is 22 times greater than that of the European Union, even though the European population is 35% larger. But to Dr. Garen Wintemute , the statistics on injuries and deaths are only one part of the story. To reverse those appalling numbers,...

The Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening & Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Demonstration Project ECHO Quality Improvement (QI) Program is an initiative of the Center for Youth Wellness: A Program of Safe and Sound and the New Jersey Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics (NJAAP), with funding from HRSA. We are pleased to open applications for the TASIE Demonstration Project ECHO QI Program. Selected practices will participate in a 9-month Quality Improvement Project ECHO program and receive...

Applications for the Trauma-Informed Care ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TASIE) Demonstration Project are due next Friday, 10/8! Earn a $10,000 stipend + 25 MOC Part 4 Points + 13 CME/MOC Part 2 Points! More details at https://njaap.org/tasie/

In 2020, Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) surveyed hundreds of ACEs, trauma, and resilience (ATR) networks across the country to learn more about their characteristics, goals, and technical assistance needs. Our findings spotlight the power and potential of ATR networks and opportunities to better support the broader movement for creating healthy, equitable, and resilient communities. The Health Federation of Philadelphia collaborated with NORC at the University of Chicago...

Dropping October 11th! Listen to Dr. B and her Co-host Seth Creekmore in conversation with Jane Stevens, Founder and Publisher of PACEs Connection. [ Please click here to access the podcast .]

By The HOPE Team, 10/5/21, positiveexperience.org/blog A year ago, we posted a blog with ten ways to help children have positive experiences during the pandemic. Now, we know that most families have struggled – successfully – to create positive experiences for their young children during this terribly disruptive time. Although we had hoped that the pandemic would be behind us, we are still living with COVID-19. Progress has been stalled by the rise of the more infectious delta variant and...

We are just a few days away from broadcasting our all-new 7-day event October 4‒10 , which includes the Talks on Trauma Series Part 2 , a showing of the Wisdom of Trauma Movie, daily meditations, integration sessions, and artistic performances. Dr. Gabor Maté will be in conversation with 33+ trauma experts, physicians, authors, visionaries and artists. The talks will be exploring how trauma relates to parenting, chronic pain, the medical paradigm, the climate crisis, politics, spirituality,...

By Linda Matchan, The Washington Post, October 2, 2021 Michelle Browder is a Black artist and activist who runs a civil rights tour company called More Than Tours — so named, she says, because "it's an experience." A sobering experience: stops include historical lynching sites, the city’s former slave market and the old Greyhound Bus Station where 21 young Freedom Riders were viciously beaten by an angry mob in 1961. Still, no historic site on the tour riles Browder as much as a statue on...

By Tim Schwab, The Nation, October 2, 2021 Over the last year, Doctors Without Borders has faced a major scandal, as more than 1,000 current and former employees signed on to a letter accusing the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization of institutional racism, citing a colonial mentality in how the group’s European managers view the developing world. Such an allegation would be serious in any field, but it deserves another level of scrutiny in the context of global health and...

By Stephanie Beasley, Devex, October 1, 2021 The heads of several U.S.-based philanthropic organizations say they are reckoning with their groups’ legacies of eugenics as they seek to help domestic and international grantees overcome systemic racism and other prejudices that could impact their projects. Ford Foundation President Darren Walker and John Palfrey, president at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , spoke about the philanthropy sector’s early involvement in the...

By Rachel Louise Snyder, The New York Times, October 1, 2021 When I was a young teenager, I was uncontrollable, rebellious. My father believed in corporal punishment, sanctioned by the evangelical church. My mother, who was Jewish, died of cancer when I was 8, and I believe my father’s response to his grief was to double down on his faith: to interpret the Bible literally, to make himself the ultimate authority in our home and to try to create the world he wanted through sheer force. He...

By Susan Gregg, University of Washington Medicine, September 30, 2021 A program to tackle youth incarceration by promoting paths to opportunity for young people, especially among youth of color, is being formed by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. The program, Allies in Healthier Systems for Health & Abundance in Youth (AHSHAY), will be directed by Dr. Benjamin Danielson, a clinical professor of pediatrics at UW...