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By the HOPE Team, 7/28/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Like so many people, we spent part of the weekend transfixed by the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Despite COVID, no crowds, and troubles with the Tokyo organizing committee, the athletes dazzled us with their speed, endurance and grace. In particular, Simone Biles seems superhuman – a woman who seems to defy gravity and performs gymnastic feats that had been thought to be impossible. She wears her past on her body and outfit: her collarbone bears...

Transforming Trauma Episode 048: Bringing Trauma Awareness to Coaching Volleyball with Kathy Nielson In this episode of Transforming Trauma , we are joined by Kathy Nielson. Kathy recently completed the Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training and is now a NARM-Informed Professional. Kathy shares about her multifaceted involvement in her community of North Minneapolis. This is a community full of connection and engagement, a multiracial community where 84% of residents are people of color, but...

By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk, July 22, 2021 Santa Barbara County is one of two agencies in California to receive a nearly $2.5 million Pathway Home Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to implement a re-entry program, providing 250 justice-involved individuals the services that will help them secure employment opportunities before their release from the jail system. The Santa Barbara County Workforce Development Board , the Sheriff’s Department , Allan Hancock College and Santa...

By Alisa Chang, Justine Kenin, and Jason Fuller, National Public Radio, July 26, 2021 NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Katherine Mooney, author of the book Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack , about the erasure of African-Americans in the equestrian world. AILSA CHANG, HOST: "Teen-Aged Girl Cracks Barrier On Race Track" - that was the headline on Jet Magazine 50 years ago this month. And while that teen, Cheryl White, was the first African American girl to become...

By Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, July 26, 2021 In the basement of Reign Salon in Antioch, a brick wall is a reminder of a dark past. More than a century ago, Chinese people built tunnels under the city because they were forbidden by law from going outside after sundown. Then, white residents burned Chinatown to the ground. Today, few traces of the old Chinatown remain — some tunnel entrances such as the one in Reign, wood pilings in the San Joaquin River that were the foundations of houses. [...

By John Bartlett, Natalie Alcoba, Joe Parkin Daniels and Leyland Cecco, The Guardian, July 27, 2021 A s statues of queens and conquistadors are tumbled amid protests across North and South America, Indigenous people are pushing for a region-wide reckoning with colonialism’s bitter legacy of massacre and cultural erasure. From the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, Indigenous Americans have taken aim at the Catholic Church, national governments and other powerful institutions. In Canada, the...

By James Bruggers, Inside Climate News, July 23, 2021 In New York City, several Hunts Point residents have lists of neighbors they’re checking on to help keep the most vulnerable alive during heat waves. The city has also subsidized 74,000 air conditioners for low-income, elderly residents and is spending tens of millions to plant trees, as part of a “cool neighborhoods” program that also includes outdoor water misters. In Phoenix, the nation’s hottest big city, officials are working with...

Please make a commitment to personal use ONLY! NOW Playbook Transformative Community Capacity to Advance Equity We are excited to share the Vital Village Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) Playbook . The NOW Playbook is a resource guide designed to provide tools for local leaders, community coalitions and networks, educators, practitioners, and policymakers working to promote the wellbeing of children and families, advance equity, and align systems of care and education in...

Hi Community! Incase you missed us during this phenomenal event! On Wednesday June 16, 2021, three ACEs Aware grantees shared their successes promoting ACE screenings, sustainable trauma-informed systems-level changes, and self-care and resilience to health and human services staff during their grant activities. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris listened to each presentation with an opportunity to ask the grantees targeted questions about what they are learning and how their promising practices can...

Unaccompanied children migrate to the US from countries all over the world for a number of reasons, including economic, political, environmental, and social factors. These children are often exposed to traumatic experiences, such as loss of or separation from loved ones, sexual assault, and violence, before, during, and after their migration journey. Once children arrive in the US, stressors such as isolation, acculturation, and trauma can add to the many challenges they already face.

By Heather C. Forkey and James H. Duffee, American Academy of Pediatrics, July 26, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic and our nation’s racial reckoning have given new visibility to trauma and its impact on children. Even before the pandemic, it was understood that the most fundamental threats to health have their roots in adversities experienced by children without sufficient buffering of a caregiver. Behavior, development, relationships and physical health can be affected for a lifetime due to the...

In 2020, New Jersey, a state with about 9 million people spread over the rural countryside and dense urban areas like Newark, launched a new entity: the NJ Office of Resilience (NJOR). The NJOR is unusual because it is a public-private partnership. It brings together three private foundations as well as the NJ Department of Children and Families to provide community-driven strategies for preventing, treating, and healing from ACEs. Like a ship’s navigator laying out a course on charts, Dwana...