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Having friends, family, and other strong social ties is essential for happiness. GETTY IMAGES By Kristine Gill, Fortune Well., August 13, 2023 The happiest country in the world is Finland, according to the 2023 World Happiness Report . But short of moving across the ocean, experts agree there are ways to improve your own happiness regardless of where you live. “Happiness is a habit,” says Talia Soen, CEO and founder of Happy Things, a platform that helps you build those habits with daily...

By Ada Tseng, Illustration: Patrick Hruby/Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2023 Hi there! My name is Ada Tseng, and I’m an assistant editor of the Utility Journalism Team — “news you can use” — at the L.A. Times. I’m filling in for Laura Newberry. Last year, I worked with reporter Agnes Constante , who led a project at the Los Angeles Times exploring mental health in the Filipino American community and the forces that influence it . Before she reported each of the stories in...

Stop It Now! is offering their most popular prevention training, Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action , this September, and the training is already filling up! Please secure your position by registering soon if you plan on attending! Learn about this foundational prevention training course and register below, or visit our training page to read more about Circles of Safety. Circles of Safety: Awareness to Action for Youth-Serving Professionals This core training equips youth-serving...

For moving past hidden wounds from childhood, mindset matters. These important attitudes undergird the process of healing from adverse childhood experiences.

As the summer winds down and millions of students return to school, “History. Culture. Trauma.” podcast hosts Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, and Mathew Portell, director of communities, continue with their series of education-related podcasts. This Thursday’s encore edition features Anthony Conwright, a writer and long-time educator who has focused on humanities, critical race theory, Juneteenth, and giving students voice and choice in the classroom. “In recent years, COVID-19,...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Race/Cultural Concerns Stewart TJ, Gonzalez VM. Associations of historical trauma and racism with health care system distrust and mental health help-seeking...

The shift to a Healing-Centered Engagement Model releases culture as a root cause of trauma, to instead celebrate the intrinsic resilience and the capacity to promote PCEs that ethnic history, racial and other social identities afford. This is particularly important for white, privileged communities to embrace, given their historical diminishment of non-white cultures.

Dear Colleagues What have you learned about family engagement that can be applied across different subject areas? ✏️ Over the (lol) several decades, I have learned to appreciate professional development to keep striving for excellence. We are honored to share a SPECIAL training with the Nurturing Fathers Program Facilitator's Course and the Advanced Practitioner Credential Course by the Fathers and Families Coalition of America. The partnership to support those attending the international...

We have an abridged *CRC* curriculum this August, including a few rescheduled events. The full CRC curriculum will resume in September. Until then, members can take a splash in our CRC community forum.

Next Sunday the zoom conference "Sunday with Gopal" will take place. Everyone is invited who is interested in solving actual problems and who wants to understand what lies at the heart of all our problems and suffering. You are most welcome to attend this meeting. You will see how it is possible to deal with deep and unresolved attachment trauma that leads to all the problems we have in everyday life. For more information about the event, watch the video below: ...

Longtime donor to and friend of PACEs Connection, Chris Freeze, who is also a former FBI Special Agent-in-Charge and current Ph.D. candidate at the University of Oklahoma, needs our help to complete an online survey on employee perceptions of leadership, hope, and well-being. The survey is designed to identify ways in which leaders can help improve the well-being of employee s by reducing burnout and increasing job satisfaction . According to Freeze, who is studying under Chan Hellman, PhD,...

This is a NEW YORKER article from 2016, but it so full of history and content it is well worth reading. Newer people with interest in our field may not be familiar with this history. https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-secret-formula-for-resilience How People Learn to Become Resilient by Maria Konnikova February 11, 2016 Norman Garmezy, a developmental psychologist and clinician at the University of Minnesota, met thousands of children in his four decades of research. But...