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Q&A — Psychologist Seth Pollak Studying poverty through a child’s eyes Research on early-life adversity should pay more attention to the perspective of children themselves By Alla Katsnelson 8.4.2021 Poverty affects nearly one in seven American children — about 10.5 million kids in total — and it has a long reach. Children living in poverty experience more stressors that can hinder healthy emotional and cognitive development and contribute to well-documented disparities in education,...

By Greg Breining, All About Birds, June 25, 2021 Jim Nugent grows cherries on his 40-acre orchard in Michigan’s Lee­lanau County, an idyllic peninsula of dunes and tree-covered hills jutting into vast blue Lake Michigan. The sur­rounding water moderates the worst of the frigid winters here, and the rolling topography drains cold air from the upland orchards. Cherries thrive in the sandy soil. “The fruit belt in Michigan is pretty tight to the coastline of Lake Michigan,” says Nugent. In that...

By Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, Oregon Live, July 28, 2021 A city of Portland drive to spend $114 million in federal coronavirus aid to help struggling residents last year overwhelmingly assisted Black Portlanders as well as other communities of color, according to an analysis released Tuesday. The sweeping set of initiatives approved by the Portland City Council included providing everything from Chromebooks to those with limited digital resources to food boxes and direct cash payments to...

By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, August 6, 2021 O n June 1st last year, a week after George Floyd was murdered, more than three hundred fires blazed across Philadelphia, according to police. In the previous days, there had been reports of two hundred commercial burglaries—otherwise known as looting—and more than a hundred and fifty acts of vandalism. Four hundred people had been arrested, and the National Guard was on the way. By that Saturday, June 6th, tens of thousands of...

By Emma Hall and Charlotte West, Cal Matters, August 5, 2021 Victoria Chubb was supposed to study photography at a college in New Mexico after graduating from high school in Riverside County, but was afraid of being far away from home. “I really did just chicken out to leave my reservation and to leave California,” said Chubb, a member of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. She tried to go back to art school in San Bernadino a few years later, but dropped out to care for her mother, who was...

In my speaking, consulting, and advocacy work, I’ve been focusing on three keys to better leadership: trauma, trust, and hope. I believe representativeness heuristic is what we do when we take mental shortcuts in order to process information quickly. Often, that can be helpful in a world with so much information. However, as we’ve discussed before when it comes to neuroscience and bias, how we see the world is often not how the world really is.

Leaving no one behind Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract There are over 476 million indigenous peoples living in 90 countries across the world, accounting for 6.2 per cent of the global population. Indigenous peoples are the holders of a vast diversity of unique cultures, traditions, languages and knowledge systems. They have a special relationship with their lands and hold diverse concepts of development based on their own worldviews and priorities. Although numerous...

Following the vision of Oklahoma’s First Lady, Sarah Stitt, the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS) is proud to be the first state agency to become a Hope Centered and Trauma-Informed organization. We know that individuals, families and communities across our state face adversity and trauma. But we also know that Oklahomans can overcome adversity.

You've got the book , you've checked out the free resources on the site , and you're ready for students to come back to your school. Now you can get a 15 minute pep talk each week that dives deeper into the implementation of those strategies. And if you have questions on anything, just send us a quick email and we'll be responding to those questions or concerns in future episodes. Check out the first episode! https://anchor.fm/job-iles/episodes/The-Whole-Child-Needs-the-Whole-Teacher-e15l5eh...

https://healingthewoundthatwontheal.com/ Please take a look at my website. My work is in early trauma, as you will see. I am having a very difficult time right now. Recent traumas and loss are triggering my infant trauma. Would like to connect with others here. But, please, don't try to fix my infancy. "I believe we accept too indifferently the fact of infantile amnesia, that is, the failure of memory for the first years of our lives, and fail to find in it a strange riddle." Sigmund Freud

Back by popular demand! I am excited to share the registration for a special edition August workshop! Register here: www.bit.ly/riseaug Image description: A black background with bright yellow text says Free, Interactive Workshop August 18, 2021 | 3:30PM PT/6:30PM ET Unlearning Ableism for Educators Register www.bit.ly/riseaug The workshop is scheduled for 2 hours with a brief break included and will be recorded. A copy of the recording and slides will be sent out to all registered...

I absolutely love watching the Olympics, especially track and field. Watching this year’s Games got me thinking…The thing about sports is that when top athletes perform, they make it look easy, as if anyone could walk in off the street and do it. We do not have the context or back story to see all the hours of training and preparation invested by both the athlete and their coaches. The development of a foundation, strength training, practice, visualization, and relentless dedication are all...