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“It’s so important that we all speak up on mental health.”- Anne-Marie Mental health still remains a taboo in most parts of the world. People are afraid to talk about their struggles because they fear that they won’t be understood and will be ridiculed. As a result, they don’t speak about their struggles and suffer silently. But, now with the prevalence of the pandemic, the world has also witnessed a mental health crisis. People are speaking about the anxiety and depressive episodes...

Given a high demand this year, we are accepting applications for additional students! 16 Strong Project is excited to be recruiting for our second Youth Advocacy Board! Our goal is to involve youth in our program and resource development as well as provide guidance to this group to be leaders and advocates around ACEs in their own schools and communities. We are looking for a group of creative, resourceful, hard-working high school (grades 9-12) students to join our Youth Advocacy Board who...

By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, August 9, 2021 Brianna McCain left her job as an office manager when the pandemic started, to care for her two young daughters. By last spring, she was ready to go back to work. But she hasn’t been able to, because her children are still at home. She has been searching for a job with flexible hours and the ability to work from home, but these are hard to find, especially for new hires and for hourly workers. She can’t take an in-person job until...

By Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post, August 9, 2021 The latest United Nations climate report is not exactly light beach reading. The sweeping assessment released Monday by more than 200 scientists with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a picture of a planet in dire straits. The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is at its highest in the history of the human species, the researchers say. Global average temperatures are more than 1 degree Celsius (1.8...

By Rachel Kidman, Nature, August 9, 2021 I have spent my career studying how the HIV epidemic affects children. One profound way is through the death of one or both parents — the United Nations definition of an orphan. As of 2020, about 15 million children and adolescents, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, had lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. These youngsters face immense challenges. Through decades of research, the field is slowly learning how to help them lead healthy lives and succeed in...

By Jay Pitter, Policy Options Politiques, August 9, 2021 It has been said that traumatic incidents dislocate “ the lived and imagined landscapes ” of a city’s emotional ecosystem. This theory feels especially palpable as we approach the precipice of the post-COVID city. Scarred by decades of car-centric infrastructure and festering social divides, our already wounded urban landscape, along with its services and amenities, has been further threatened by the global pandemic. This public health...

Why not reunite mothers and their children in rehabilitation communities like we created in North Carolina more than two decades ago?

Join us for the August edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch and Learn Series. The session is Wednesday, August 11th at 10am PST / 12pm CST / 1pm EST, and features the Rev. Dr. Clifford Barnett, Carey Sipp of PACEs Connection, and Alison Wine and Kelly Purcell, all of Wilmington, NC, sharing the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) and how CRM helps coaches and players alike regulate to win -- on and off the field. Register HERE...

Children, Youth, and Families Who Experience Migration-Related Trauma and Family Separation Offers information on unaccompanied and separated immigrant youth in the US who have experienced migration-related trauma and family separation. This brief includes information about: who unaccompanied children are and how many are in the US; how traumatic separation affects immigrant children, youth, families, and systems; and what can be done to assist immigrant children, youth, and families who...

Dr. Levine is the founder of the Somatic Experience Trauma Institute. He’s worked in the field of stress and trauma for over 40 years. He is the developer of the Somatic Experiencing Method and has written several books on trauma, including Trauma and Memory, In An Unspoken Voice and Waking the Tiger.

Please welcome these four new communities to the PACEsConnection.com network! Joining Forces for Children Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (OH+KY) Resilient Lehigh Valley (PA) Southcentral Alliance for Family Resilience (AK) Vermont PACEs Community (VT) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Joining Forces for Children Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky (OH+KY) :...

By Tik Root, The Washington Post, August 4, 2021 Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones around the world. The influx is as much as 10 times more than previously thought, and if the trend continues on its current trajectory millions more could suffer the impacts of flooding, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature . “People die and lose their homes and livelihood,” said Beth Tellman, a human-environmental geographer at the University of Arizona and...