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By Sophie Austin, Photo: Sophie Austin/AP News, Associated Press, May 6, 2023 California’s reparations task force voted Saturday to approve recommendations on how the state may compensate and apologize to Black residents for generations of harm caused by discriminatory policies. The nine-member committee, which first convened nearly two years ago , gave final approval at a meeting in Oakland to a hefty list of proposals that now go to state lawmakers to consider for reparations legislation.

By Kimmy Yam, Image: Justine Goode/NBC News/Getty Images, NBC News, May 5, 2023 Twice a week, dozens of mostly Chinese immigrant older communities head to a tai chi class in South Brooklyn, New York, so they can flow along to the art form’s steady movements while dedicating a deep focus to every breath, every muscle. Tai chi classes may not match the quintessential image of mental health treatment, but behind the soft background music and fluid motion are moments for participants to quell...

By Hub Staff, Photo: Avi Gerver Photography/Johns Hopkins University, The Hub, May 3, 2023 Students from three Baltimore high schools recently spent a day developing and presenting ideas for how communities in cities such as Baltimore can become more resilient against the effects of climate change and how city residents can better cope with heat stress and other climate-related health threats. The day-long HackGood4 Baltimore hackathon, developed by the Johns Hopkins Office of Economic...

Recently Brickel and Associates’ owner and clinical director, Robyn Brickel, MA, LMFT sat down with Pain 2 Possibilities as a speaker for their The Willow Tree Chronic Pain & Trauma Online Summit. During this conversation Robyn Brickel discusses EMDR and goes into detail about trauma-informed care. Watch the full interview below.

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Recently Brickel and Associates owner and clinical director, Robyn Brickel, MA, LMFT joined Dr. Natasha Beauvais and Dr. Cecily Havert on episode five of the Living Breathing Medicine podcast. During their discussion, they shared important topics such as trauma-informed care, a “bottom-up” approach to treating trauma, and the mind-body connection. Discover more about their insightful conversation on the importance of creating a safe environment for quality care in mental and physical health.

Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with mental health struggles. The collective trauma of COVID-19 has exasperated our country’s mental health crisis. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Co-hosts Ingrid Cockhren, CEO of PACEs Connection, and Mathew Portell, director of outreach and education, spoke with Robert Sege, MD, Ph.D. and professor of pediatrics and medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, to launch a focus on mental health during Mental Health...

More than 550 researchers, advocates, educators, community stakeholders, clinical and practitioner groups, persons with lived experience, legislators, and representatives from state agencies, among others, attended a statewide summit in Raleigh, North Carolina—“Leveraging North Carolina’s Assets to Prevent Child Trauma,” April 27-28. Diana Fishbein, Ph.D., senior scientist in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill, and the...

RALEIGH- Resilient North Carolina , a website created by the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NCH&RCI), has launched. Resilient North Carolina is intended for all North Carolinians, with the goal of sharing best practices and connecting individuals and organizations building resilience and reducing trauma statewide. NCH&RCI works to build healthy and resilient communities for young children and families, creating resilience across each generation by bringing...

The Center for Community Resilience (CCR) is pleased to share its 2022 Annual Report highlighting our latest efforts to advance a national movement building more equitable and just communities for children and families. CCR worked with partners across the country to develop new approaches in narrative change to lift up the truth of structural racism, strengthen power-building to mobilize communities and the organizations that serve their needs and interests, and use science to measure...

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Kids Know Books About Abuse Are Not Pornography. ‘Moms’ Should, Too. NY TIMES, Patricia McCormick May 7, 2023 Last year, a parent at a Virginia school board meeting stepped up to a microphone and read a passage from my book, “Sold.” The scene she chose to read, informed in part by my own experiences of sexual abuse , describes the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl by an older man. There is no graphic language or obscenity in the passage; the story is told from the point of view of a child...