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Bo Dean with New Hanover area Community Resiliency Model trainers Audry Hart, the late Chris Johnson, and J'vanete Skiba. Bo Dean answered the call for monthly donations to PACEs Connection more than a year ago for many reasons, one of the main ones being that PACEs Connection and the work it supports helps us “live into our humanity.” In addition to his supporting learning and development for some 2200 employees in New Hanover County, North Carolina, Dean also co-chairs the County’s...

Dr. Bob Sege, 4/27/2023, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ April is child abuse prevention month. Most families will do almost anything to provide a safe and nurturing world for their children. Sometimes, however, circumstances get in the way and due to family stress or individual problems for the parents or caregivers, children end up experiencing abuse or neglect. This begins a tragedy both for the children, and or the entire family. From our years of working in the field, we...

PHOTO: Courtesy of IllumiNative To read more of KC Baker's article, please click here. American Genocide: The Crimes of Native American Boarding Schools spotlights the atrocities Indigenous children endured for decades at these schools — and how survivors are trying to heal From 1819 through the 1970s, tens of thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their homes and placed in institutions across the nation where they were housed, educated and clothed. But they were also forced to...

Dr. Judith Herman, a psychiatrist and pioneering researcher of trauma, had her career on hold for two decades as she navigated her own chronic pain and several surgeries after an accident.Credit...Kayana Szymczak for The New York Times By Ellen Barry, The New York Times, April 24, 2023 In the fall of 1994, the psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman was at the height of her influence. Her book “Trauma and Recovery,” published two years earlier, had been hailed in The New York Times as “one of the...

The Mississippi Supreme Court in April 2021 Credit:Rogelio V. Solis/AP By Caleb Bedillion and Taylor Vance, ProPublica, April 14, 2023 Poor defendants in Mississippi are routinely jailed for months, and sometimes even years, without being appointed an attorney due to the state’s notoriously dysfunctional public defender system. The Mississippi Supreme Court now says this practice must end. The state’s highest court approved a mandate on Thursday that criminal defendants who can’t afford...

Child care programs rarely generate enough revenue to cover the steep cost of securing and maintaining facilities.Photographer: Maansi Srivastava for The Washington Post via Getty Images By Kendra Hurley, Bloomberg City Lab + Equality, April 25, 2023 President Joe Biden last week signed an executive order meant to chip away at two major problems with US child care: unaffordability for parents and low wages for care workers. Largely missing was a meaningful bid to address a third challenge,...

By Markian Hawryluk and Kevin Van Valkenburg, Illustration: ESPN, Kaiser Family Foundation Health News, April 24, 2023 The boxer felt broken. Every day, he was waking up in pain. Some days, it was debilitating headaches. Other times, it was his back. Or his fists. His ribs. His nose. On top of that, he had mood swings. Depression. Anxiety. Mike Lee didn’t regret his career. He had been one of the best professional fighters in the world in his weight class. He’d gone 21-1 professionally and...

By Perpetua Neo, Photo: Lyuba Burakova/Stocksy, mindbodygreen, April 23, 2023 I’ve heard many people tell me they have accepted something that’s happened, whether that’s a loss, a traumatic childhood, significant change in their health, or something else. But what I’ve found is, just because you say something verbally or want to accept it, doesn’t mean that acceptance has actually happened—especially if you’re angry with yourself or are inundated by the sheer magnitude of your emotions. As...

The Peace and Justice Institute and the Resilience Network will present its 5th Annual Resilience Conference on Thursday May 11th and Friday May 12th in Winter Park, Florida. This year's conference will focus on the strides that the Central Florida criminal justice, public safety, mental health, and educational sectors are making to move from punishing individuals towards true discipline. Participants will hear from national experts and local change makers on their efforts to create systems...

Trauma Informed Care Experts, Dr. Warren Larkin (U.K.) and Becky Haas (U.S.) are excited to host the Global Resiliency Accelerator on May 11th from 12-2 pm EST. The event is titled, "Using a Trauma Informed Approach in Prisons in the UK and US." Presentations will include: Her Majesty's Prison Leeds – The Journey to Becoming a Trauma Informed Prison Presenters are Lynne James (Governor responsible for the trauma informed prison project at HMP Leeds) and Emm Irving (Head of Improving...

“The way we show up among our peers, in our communities, and in our societies will either foster a culture of belonging or it won’t. Avoidance, apathy, gaslighting, and disconnection may have gotten us where we are now, but they won’t get us where we’re going,” says PACEs Connection’s newest staff member, Kahshanna Evans, as she begins her role in helping people who want to start or revitalize PACEs Connection communities learn how to do community development. Evans brings a passion for...

By Krista Goldstine-Cole, EdD, co-principal investigator, Into the Black Box study of developmental adversity, Billings, Montana - April 25, 2023 A team of researchers at the University of Montana School of Public and Community Health Sciences has launched Into the Black Box, an extensive and ground-breaking study of how some adult learners turn information about developmental adversity—the traumas, adversities, and significant stressors that are sufficient to alter the brain, body, or...