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Andrew and Ariya Boone got the call from Paradise Elementary at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 8. Fire was roaring toward the town of Paradise and they had to come immediately to pick up their three boys. Andrew raced to the school as Ariya frantically packed the family’s most treasured belongings and soothed their small daughter while the sky, which had been relatively clear just an hour before, turned so dark that it felt like “10 o’clock at night at 9:30 in the morning.” “It was insane…the fire was...

In order to process our emotional distress and move it though and out of our body, we need to learn to recognize and express our emotions in a healthy way, in the body and mind.

This is the second post in our two-part series about the session led by Dr. Flojaune Cofer and Ben Duncan, each from a public health background with a focus on health disparities. They addressed ACEs in the context of health equity at their panel entitled ACEs, Race, and Health Equity: Understanding and Addressing the Role of Race and Racism in ACEs Exposure and Healing. The panel occurred at the 2018 ACEs Conference: Action to Access co-hosted by ACEs Connection and the Center for Youth...

Announcing! The 2019 Beyond Paper Tigers Trauma-Informed Care Conference on June 26 & 27, 2019 will revolve around the theme, " Building Resilience Across the Life Span ," with Pre-Conference Trainings, Social/Networking event, and film screenings beginning on Tuesday June 25, 2019. Early bird conference ticket pricing is being offered until March 15, 2019! Purchase tickets here: https://beyondpapertigers. eventbrite.com Visit our conference page for more information:...

Thank you to everyone who participated in CRI’s October is Resilience Month! From film screenings to a Dia de los Muertos celebration, from yard signs to new products, we accomplished a lot this past month! CRI kicked off the month with two proclamations - from the City of Walla Walla and the county- to declare our effort to mitigate ACEs via community resilience building. We hosted a resilience treasure hunt with our friend Tod Sullivan , themed according to his home country- England. He...

Given the high number of young people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, current housing resources are insufficient to fully address the challenge. To achieve the greatest impact with limited resources, communities across the country are beginning to move from fragmented programs toward coordinated, system-level responses to youth homelessness. To support communities’ efforts, we analyzed the largest national data set combining youth risk assessments (based on the...

Algorithms should not decide who spends time in a California jail. But that’s exactly what will happen under S.B. 10, a new law slated to take effect in October 2019. The law, which Governor Jerry Brown signed in September, requires the state’s criminal justice system to replace cash bail with an algorithmic pretrial risk assessment. Each county in California must use some form of pretrial risk assessment to categorize every person arrested as a “low,” “medium,” or “high” risk of failing to...

Susan Burton is the nationally known justice reform leader whom the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof and civil rights lawyer/ bestselling author Michelle Alexander have called a modern day Harriett Tubman. She is also the founder of A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project , a program that has, to date, helped more than a 1000 women escape poverty and trauma and get on their feet when they return from prison. In addition, Burton is the author of the stunning memoir, Becoming Ms. Burton: From...

It’s always worth revisiting what we think we know. In recent years, there’s been a trend among early childhood researchers to keep moving the focus to earlier and earlier in children’s lives. The storyline might go something like this: Sure, grade school matters, but we need to think about high-quality preschools to level the playing field. Actually, preschool is too late — the interactions kids have with their parents in the first years of life are really what’s crucial for development....

When former professional skier Chris Rutgers founded Outdoor Outreach in 1999, he was simply paying forward what he credits for helping him reconcile his own childhood trauma: experiencing the outdoors with a community of peers. The San Diego-based nonprofit, which is funded through charitable donations and grants, has served more than 10,000 mostly poor and non-White youth for nearly 20 years. Exploring the great outdoors is often associated with Whiteness and economic privilege. But...

Study: 4.6 Million American Kids Live in Homes With Unlocked, Loaded Guns. A study published in the Journal of Urban Health determined that people who own guns for protection are less likely to store them securely. More than 40% of children under 18 years old are living in homes with firearms that are not stored properly. The statistics are staggering and troubling. A recent Washington Post article found that over 215,000 children have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine in...

Ten Things Grieving Children Want You To Know 1. Children want to be told the truth about the death: Tell them in age-appropriate and direct language Ask them if they have any questions and clear up misconceptions 2. Children look to you as a role model for how people grieve: Share your feelings with them as long as they are relieved of the task of having to “fix it” Each child will grieve in their own unique way They will grieve alone in an effort to shield you from their pain 3. Children...