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When Jay'Aina Patton was three, her father, Antoine, went to prison for gun possession. It wasn’t until she was seven or eight that Jay’Aina (or “Jay Jay” as friends and family call her) really understood where her father was. She also knew just how difficult maintaining a relationship with him was. Her father was imprisoned hours away. Her mother, raising two children on her own, could only afford to take them to visit twice during his seven-year incarceration. They couldn’t make up the...

By PBS News Hour, May 17, 2020 The Rev. William J. Barber has long tackled the issues of race, poverty and hatred. His Poor People’s Campaign in June will hold a digital assembly and march on Washington to draw attention to civil rights issues. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with the reverend about the impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color for our on-going initiative "Chasing the Dream: Poverty and Opportunity in America." Hari Sreenivasan: Reverend William Barber, thanks so much for joining...

By Philip Montgomerey, The New York Times, May 16, 2020 Before the crisis hit, I was working on a lot of studio-based portraiture work. All of those assignments had to be put on hold when the pandemic closed down the country. That was a really jarring reality, but I’ve since come to see it as an opportunity to dive back into my background in reporting. A lot of my early assignments were to capture the mood of the city. It felt haunting. People were still processing what was happening, and...

By Elissa Tosi, WBUR, May 14, 2020 As a psychotherapist, my work is all about connection. It’s about supporting my clients by cultivating an understanding of who they are and where they’ve been. But therapists are people, too, and we have our own issues. We fight with our partners, apologize to our kids for bad parenting moments, get sick, lose loved ones, the list goes on. We often have to put our stuff aside in order to focus on the client’s reality, and our ability to do that is a skill...

Find in this post the slides from the Systems Transformation Better Normal call, featuring RYSE Youth Center's Associate Director Kanwarpal Dhaliwal. A link to the call recording is also provided.

Hello Friends, Check out this article Sacramento News & Review just wrote about me and my book “The Gifts of Adversity.” https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2020/05/18/taming-the-inner-storm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taming-the-inner-storm Carolee

Leaders in the ACEs/trauma/resilience movement from 10 states across the U.S. Midwest gathered for a networking call on May 11 to learn about flexible funding opportunities for states under the CARES Act , ways to get involved in advocacy, and to share their successes and challenges in building statewide coalitions. The meeting was organized by ACEs Connection and the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) in response to COVID-19 and the growing interest in organizing...

3 Ways to Be a Strong Leader in These Turbulent Times from Advisory Board applies the concept of fight/flight/freeze to leadership response during a crisis 10 Ways to Ease Your Coronavirus Anxiety from the New York Times Coronavirus Anxiety: How to Deal with Life after Lockdown from the BBC includes tips for managing the anxiety many may feel as states begin to reopen. " It's OK to Not Be OK" from CBS is a video interview with Dr. Luana Marques from Harvard University, who discusses best...

CRACKED UP THE EVOLVING CONVERSATION TRAUMA AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF ADDICTION With DARRELL HAMMOND DIRECTOR MICHELLE ESRICK and RENOWNED TRAUMA AND ADDICTION EXPERT GABOR MATÉ, M.D. author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction MODERATED BY JANE STEVENS, FOUNDER OF ACES CONNECTION Hosted by ACES Connection Thursday May 21st at 2pm PDT / 3p MT / 4p CT / 5pm EDT FREE FOR ALL WHO REGISTER! IF YOU REGISTER, BUT CAN NOT ATTEND, YOU WILL RECEIVE A RECORDING WITHIN ONE WEEK.

By Lydia Blanco, Black Enterprise, May 15, 2020 Tyde-Courtney Edwards, founding director of Ballet After Dark , is a classically trained black ballerina , art model, and survivor of sexual assault who is on a mission to help others heal from their trauma through the art of ballet. Now, during the pandemic, she is helping people unwind and reset their focus on healing virtually as her studio is closed. Edwards began her journey at the Baltimore School for the Arts and has over 20 years of...

By Your Letters, Syracuse.com, May 15, 2020 To the Editor: Vulnerable children and teenagers need our attention at this time. For some, the home they have been restricted to during the COVID-19 pandemic is not a safe place. The stresses of finances, food insecurity, close living quarters, fears regarding infection and other crises-related pressures increase the risk for physical and sexual abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence. While schools remain closed, some children, who would...

By Giles Bruce, Kaiser Health News, May 14, 2020 On an early March day at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency room at the University of Chicago Medical Center teemed with patients. But many weren’t there because of the coronavirus. They were there because they’d been shot. Gunshot victims account for most of the 2,600 adult trauma patients a year who come to this hospital on the city’s sprawling South Side. And the pandemic hasn’t dampened the flow. [ Please click here to...