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When Acknowledgeing Our Family's Failures Is Not Betrayal.
As a child to Caribbean parents, growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, it was rare to see families which did not raise their children with physical and verbal abuse on a regular basis. The conversations we children engaged in with our "best friends" often revealed the dark secrets lurking behind the facades of our picture-perfect family lives. Even in the seeming "best" families, the children faced private, if not public shaming. Some lived in fear of parental outbursts to their childish...
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Question of the Month - Is Child Adversity Linked to Ethnicity?
Hi Community! Here in Trinidad and Tobago, we are probably more diverse in terms of ethnicity than many of our Caribbean neighbours - a callaloo of sorts (Remember the national anthem proclaims: "...Here every creed and race find an equal place..." ) Well, research overseas shows that there is a difference in how children experience adversity based on their ethnicity. In the USA in particular, there are neighbourhoods that are predominantly white and others where the majority of persons are...
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Recording Available: Trauma-Responsive Practices During Distance Learning
Hi Community! Did any of you register for the interactive workshop on Advocating for Trauma-Informed Care for Teachers and Caregivers being hosted by Rise to Resilience on March 17? If so then we have a treat for you. Please watch a recording of their previous online workshop titled, Trauma-Responsive Practices During Distance Learning . Learn relationship-building strategies to be trauma-responsive during distance learning as an educator, parent, or other caregiver.
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Calendar Event on Caribbean Women's Mental Health
Hi Caribbean Community! I hope everyone is doing well. Our newest member on ACEs Caribbean Community is Dr. Joanne Spence from 🇹🇹. On Friday 19th March 2021, she and other female mental health professionals from the Caribbean (Guyana 🇬🇾 and Jamaica 🇯🇲) will be speaking at an online workshop on Caribbean Women's Mental Health. The event is part of International Women's Day celebrations. #IWD2021 #ChooseToChallenge More info on the event is available at the Calendar entry at the link...
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FREE Virtual Screening of the Resilience Documentary - 14th to 18th March 2021
Hi everyone! Well, it is Friday afternoon and I am sure as Caribbean people you are as excited as I am for the weekend. If you are missing the movie theatres being open in your country, do not despair because --- we've got you covered for the next few days! So this is BIG news for those who have been looking forward to seeing " Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope ". There will be a FREE virtual screening over a four-day period from Sunday 14th to Thursday 18th March...
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Free Webinar on Trauma and Justice
"Understanding the Role of Trauma in Truth, Reconciliation & Peacebuilding" is the name of a Free webinar from the Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation, affiliated with George Mason University in the USA. The webinar will focus on how trauma hinders efforts to heal social divides. It will be held on March 17, 2021 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm via the Zoom platform. Registration is available online at the following Eventbrite link: ...
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Re: Happening Now! Hello again. The webinar we...
It was quite interesting. A good background on the ACEs study and how law enforcement can do better to respond to calls with trauma in mind. It was hopeful and that makes my heart smile. In many places, police are unprepared to deal with mental health and related challenges in persons with whom they interact. If it reduces death of citizens, improves capacity in the police and other first responders, I'm on board.
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Register for Free Webinar on ACES Aware.
Happy Resurrection Weekend, ACEs Caribbean Community! Please click on the picture below for a link to a webinar about ACES Aware - the California partnership between medical and community-based providers and the prevention sector. The program trains pediatric providers across the state on how to conduct ACES screening, reimbursable by MediCal (California’s Medicaid). Community partnerships go beyond screening to help ensure that children and families are connected to services and supports...
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Did You Remember?
Happy Monday, everyone! We hope the weekend was relaxing and refreshing. So about the image we chose for this blog post. Legend has it that elephants have fantastic memories. They represent the animal with the ability for the longest recall. What were you supposed to remember? Well, the upcoming free webinar from Justice Clearinghouse on "The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job". It is scheduled for April 21 which is only 2...
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Action on ACEs Conference 2021: From ACEs to Resilience (June 10)
Hi ACEs learners. We're trying to ensure you have access to credible information and training on ACEs by sharing links to such events. Today is no exception. The organisation, Action On ACEs, based in Gloucestershire, UK is hosting a free virtual conference on Thursday 10th June 2021 from 9:30 am to 3:30pm UK time. The conference, ‘From ACEs to Resilience’ will focus on "resilience, how to build it in children and young people and how we can support adults who have experienced ACEs. It will...
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Do Higher ACEs Score Cause Worse Covid-19 Effects?
Hi and a good Therapeutic Tuesday morning to you all. As the world sees a light at the end of the tunnel to the nightmare of Covid-19, more and more research is being published to reveal who may have been more severely affected by it and why. During the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at Mount Holyoke College and Virginia Commonwealth University examined a sample of 236 people in the U.S. to assess the impact of the pandemic on mental health, well-being and substance use.
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Reclaiming the Narrative of Black Fatherhood
Fathers play a critical role in the healthy development of children and families. This is why it's important to address structural and systemic barriers that prevent Black men from being fully present in their children's lives—so that all families have a chance to thrive. My wife and I have been married since 2019, but we’ve known each other since we were 14-year-olds. We are raising a blended family. She has a daughter who is 9 and a 7-year-old son. I have a son who is 8, and together we...
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Building a Restorative Restart to School in the Fall
As we look towards the reopening of in-person instruction in the fall, planning and reimagining for a restorative restart to our school systems that emphasizes student and educator mental health is a priority. In addition, there is a windfall of one-time funding coming to districts from federal and local funds for just this purpose. Recently a wise educator said to me, ‘you know, if you want to get to the hearts and minds of school leaders to make changes for the fall you need to do so by...
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FREE 2-Day Conference on The Body Keeps The Score
Happy weekend, everyone! We don't usually post on a weekend but we have some exciting news! Dr Bessel Van Der Kolk is offering a 2-day virtual conference on his landmark presentation, The Body Keeps the Score, on 13th and 14th December 2021. The fact that it is free and open to everyone makes it even more exciting. "I’m presenting this training to serve as both a guide and an invitation—an invitation to dedicate ourselves to facing the reality of trauma, to explore how best to treat it, and...
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Free Trauma Research Foundation Zoom Sessions
Hi everyone, we hope you're all doing well and remaining healthy. As we begin the second month of 2022, we want to share with you a link to a series of online sessions on trauma that you can attend via Zoom. The sessions are being offered by the Trauma Research Foundation and aim to equip caregivers to understand what their children are experiencing, and to provide some support to their children. (Don't quote us but TRF appears to be connected with Bessel van der Kolk as the session is...
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Upcoming Webinar - Trauma Mitigation for Police and the Policed
Hello everyone, we are targeting law enforcement officers in this blog post so if you know any who may benefit from the information, please pass it along. They might be interested in an upcoming webinar on Tue Mar 22, 2022 at 1:00 PM EDT. TThat's exactly 1 month from today. Here is an excerpt: - "Law enforcement officers routinely respond to situations with intense emotion and a high potential for negative outcomes. Officer mindset and awareness is critical to the best outcomes for them and...
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FREE Event - Parenting from an Attachment or Trauma Perspective
Hi everyone, We trust you are enjoying the weekend. If you're in the USA and Canada, it's a long weekend so please be safe as you enjoy time with your family. Dr. Bessel van der Look announced the following on his Facebook Page for The Body Keeps the Score:- "New Free Monthly Event! Inspired Parenting- Parenting from an Attachment/Trauma Perspective with Dafna Lender. Register at the link below:...
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Building the Movement workshop series
If you haven't already been joining our Building the Movement workshop series, I wanted to personally invite you to join the next free, virtual workshop that aims to provide stakeholders, advocates and practitioners the tools to integrate trauma-informed, resilience-focused and healing-centered approaches and principles into their daily operations. Please join us on Friday, March 4, 2022, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. PT) as we focus on populations with high prevalence of...
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ICYMI - Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience.
Hi everyone, as things appear to be reopening globally, the world is in dire need of support to address the emotional trauma of the past 2 years. Therefore, preventing trauma and fostering resilience are skills that will be in great demand. In case you missed it, there is a free workshop series titled "Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience" that is in progress to share information on how to accomplish that objective. This is an initiative of the Campaign for...
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Free Virtual Grief Summit (April 28 & 29, 2022)
Hi everyone, we're approaching the weekend again and we hope you have all had a productive week. The world is pretty stressful right now and, although many countries are seeking to roll back their COVID 19 restrictions and return to a form of "normalcy", for a lot of people who have suffered loss from the death of loved ones or the radical change in their circumstances, normalcy is an unknown. So we would like to share with you an upcoming online event known as the Virtual Grief Summit from...
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Free Webinar on The Empathetic Workplace
Hi everyone!HHow are you and your loved ones? As businesses reopen from the COVID 19 restrictions, traumatised persons who have lost loved ones and jobs and 2 years of their lives will be gathering together to return to work. In that setting, it will be critical to understand how better to relate to our coworkers, bosses and employees so that everyone on our team enjoys optimal relationships and mental and emotional wellness. Since we spend at least 8 hours per day with one another, we need...
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Help Not Handcuffs - Free Webinar
Hello everyone 😁 So for many years, we have seen in the Caribbean a challenge faced by police officers in dealing with persons who are experiencing mental illness. In some territories, the outcome of such interaction is often the fatal shooting if the (usually male) patient. However, models are arising in more developed nations from which we can learn and adapt to our regional circumstances. The free Webinar coming up at 7pm ET on July 19 is called "Help not Handcuffs" and is an opportunity...
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Free 8 module adult education course "Childhood trauma, Consequences and Essential Responses"
Good Tuesday morning, everyone. We just learned of this free 8 module course on childhood trauma. It is by Dr. Jane Mulcahy and available for a few weeks, until 31 December 2022. "In this free eight module course, participants will gain an understanding of how children’s earliest experiences and the nature and quality of their attachment to their primary care-giver can impact their ability to feel safe in the world, to regulate their emotions, to trust other people, to learn, experience good...
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Please Join the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program
Hi everyone, It's been a while but I want to invite you to join me as I take part in the PACEs 16-hour Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) accelerator certification program. If you are interested in doing work in your community to address childhood trauma and need some tips on how to start and resources available for use in your outreach, then this free webinar series is one to give strong consideration. Once you complete the Introduction to Places Connection webinar, there are several more...