Thank you for reading: this is inspired by two ACEs childhood abandonment and sexual abuse. I wrote this when my adoptive mother died and I was clearing the clutter from her house. She valued objects and "stuff"; and my identity was enmeshed in hers.
By Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, March 5, 2020 There’s nothing good about the novel coronavirus—it’s killing many people, and shutting millions more inside, with fear as their main companion. However, if we’re fated to go through this passage, we may as well learn something from it, and it does strike me that there are a few insights that are applicable to the climate crisis that shadows all of our lives. Some of these lessons are obvious: giant cruise ships are climate killers and, it...
Two thirds of couples experience a decline in relationship satisfaction upon the birth of their first child. This can lead to postpartum depression and reduced involvement by the father in the life of their children. Even the strongest relationships are strained during the transition to parenthood. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework and new fiscal concerns can lead to profound stress. The Bringing Baby Home Educator Training prepares people to independently teach pregnant and parenting...
We now need the right climate in the workplace for survivors to talk openly and with full confidence so that their employer can provide appropriate support.
The Greater Richmond TICN is leading efforts for the first annual Resilience Week for Virginia. Resilience Week VA is May 3-9, 2020. Check out the GRTICN Resilience Week webpage to find flyers, an infograph with ideas for each day of the week and handouts of ways to practice the themes on each day. Hooray for VA!
When people think of psychotherapy, they often visualize Dr. Sigmund Freud holding a note pad with his client lying on a couch facing away from him. While it is true that there are still some professionals who utilize Freud’s form of psychoanalysis, there are many different types of psychotherapy that exist to aid in the healing process. In this article, we will examine together five different types of psychotherapeutic techniques and how they can help you heal. Different Reasons for Seeking...
Children Lifeline Trust helped five children's who got admission in school. Education is a crucial component of any effective effort to eliminate child labour. There are many interlinked explanations for child labour. No single factor can fully explain its persistence and, in some cases, growth. The way in which different causes, at different levels, interact with each other ultimately determines whether or not an individual child becomes a child labourer.
By Leora I. Horwitz, Carol Chang, Harmony N. Arcilla, et al., Housing Matters, March 4, 2020 A hospital’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities it serves. Traditionally, hospitals accomplish this goal by providing health care services, but an increasing recognition of how social determinants—factors such as housing, neighborhoods, environmental conditions, education, and the built environment—affect health has inspired many hospitals and health...
By Yunsoo Park, D.C. Policy Center, March 3, 2020 In D.C., a large share of children and youth up to age 17 are likely to be exposed to traumatic events: 21.3 percent have been exposed to an adverse childhood experience (ACE), including an estimated 9 percent who have been a victim or witness to neighborhood violence. Community violence is a common example of childhood adversity, which is a broad umbrella term for a range of circumstances that pose a serious threat to a child’s behavioral...
By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat, March 3, 2020 A truly integrated high school is hard to find. That’s the conclusion of a new North Carolina study that takes a look at two kinds of integration: whether students of different races and ethnicities attend the same schools, and whether those students actually sit in the same classrooms. What it finds is troubling, if not surprising. Across the state, even when high schools appear racially integrated, their classrooms are often racially segregated. [...
By Zoey Poll, The New Yorker, February 20, 2020 In the past decade, the government of Australia spent more than fifteen million dollars on an advertising campaign designed to deter prospective migrants. The multimedia effort, which has been lauded by President Trump, featured bold, red text—“no way: you will not make australia home”—over images of dark, choppy seas. The Department of Homeland Security has distributed similar flyers at migrant shelters in Mexico, near the border: “The next...
By Mikhail Zinshteyn, LA School Report, March 3, 2020 In one incident, a teacher grew frustrated with a student because he wouldn’t respond to her, not realizing that in the student’s Native American tribe, exhibiting silence is a sign of respect to an authority figure. As punishment, the student was denied recess. In another instance, a Native American student was accused of consuming drugs, interrogated by the police and subject to random searches for weeks after returning from a tribal...
If you grew up with abuse and neglect in your childhood, chances are good that you’ve suffered more than your share of broken relationships. Sometimes the break is caused by the other person, but today I want to talk about broken relationships where we played a role in hurting our connection with someone we care about — someone with whom we do want a relationship. This is one of hardest side effects of trauma in childhood — being close to people, and working through conflicts, can be really...
Connecticut Women's Consortium hosts International Women's Day: Celebration of Resilience Resilience film screening followed by Q & A discussion with experts about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), challenges throughout CT, and efforts to lessen their impacts. Resilient Women panel to follow. The panel will feature women of strength and courage that both inspire us and motivate change in our communities. Plan to spend the day and meet with your legislator to discuss issues that...
By Penny Sitler, Newark Advocate, March 1, 2020 There’s much conversation about mental health in children and youth these days. At Welsh Hills School, local pediatrician Dr. William Knobelach recently spoke about depression and anxiety in school aged children to a standing room only crowd at a parent education event. The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES), which looks at the impact of childhood trauma on health and well-being later in life, frequently comes up in talks about mental...