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July is a time to celebrate all summer has to offer by building bridges and innovating with community to get to the heart of trauma-informed awareness and resilience building. This month, we’ve added new July dates to the summer 2023 *CRC* curriculum—but that’s only half of the good news. Last year, the CRC began as a pilot program. Now that it's evolved, what better time to bring accelerator participants together in a PACEs Connection CRC community than the summer? We are proud to announce...

Susan Burton and Cari Lynn’s social justice memoir follows Burton’s journey from a prison inmate to a leading campaigner for criminal justice system reform. Susan Burton is the founder of A New Way of Life, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and other support to formerly incarcerated women. She is nationally known as an advocate for restoring basic civil and human rights to those who have served time. Susan is the 2010 recipient of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award from the...

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.

Back in 2019, we began planning to write a book, From Trauma to Resiliency, that would describe the experiences of survivors who have experienced multiple traumas and who have benefitted from relationship-based, collaborative family-school-community-based services. We asked colleagues doing amazing work in San Diego County to contribute chapters, and they shared stories of oppressed, traumatized groups of survivors that include, people who have faced abuse, war, and poverty,...

Stock Photo via Getty Images Anxiety disorders among children and teens are linked to an increased likelihood of developing an anxiety disorder or depression in the future, according to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. To read more of Elena Ferrarin's article, please click here. The loss of parents or other primary caregivers — among the most tragic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for students — has sparked a need to provide bereavement support in schools. The pandemic...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) in collaboration with the California Mental Health Services Authority (CalMHSA) is excited to announce a grant program with awards of up to $150,000 per grantee to promote well-being and community connection in Los Angeles County. The grant program is developed for programs to coincide with May Mental Health Awareness Month and foster community connection as a part of LACDMH's Take Action for Mental Health L.A. County...

Learn4Life helped Hector D. transform an idea into a business plan LOS ANGELES (February 21, 2023) – While occasionally working for his father’s landscaping business, high school student Hector D. realized that protection against sharp tools, thorny shrubs, biting insects and brutal heat could be improved with better gear. He had the idea for a technical vest that would protect workers that he is calling Arbolero – combining the Spanish word for tree and a bolero vest. Now his teachers in...

It's been five years since T he New York Times first launched stories spotlighting years of abuse and harassment by movie producer, Harvey Weinstein. The stories helped make the #MeToo movement go viral around the world.. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP via Getty Images Author: To read Jaclyn Diaz' article, please click here. The #MeToo Movement was created by Burke in 2006 as a way to empower people who had been sexually assaulted and harassed. Kimberly Hamlin, a feminist history scholar at Miami...

(Photo by Patrick T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Author: To read Lila Seidman's article, please click here. The mid-July launch of 988 – a national mental health crisis hotline – spurred an outcry among some activists who warned that calls could trigger unwanted police response. Their fears aren’t completely unfounded: Though the hotline is separate from 911, crisis counselors may relay information to police in dire situations, such as when a caller’s life is in imminent danger. Their fears...

Getty Images Author: To read Louise Godbold's article, please click here. In the opening arguments to Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial in Los Angeles this week, the producer’s defense lawyer pointed to his moldering, overweight client and asked the rhetorical question, “ Do you think these beautiful women had sex with him because he’s hot?” The inference is that poor Harvey was not going to get laid unless in exchange for what he provided in career advancement to conniving “Hollywood...

November 9, 2022 11:00 AM 3:30 PM EST Virtual via Zoom Learning how little bodies register and retain trauma physically and physiologically is key to helping children release toxic stress. Register HERE. After any long period of stress or trauma—such as getting through a pandemic—it is normal to experience emotional de-regulation. As we prepare for post-pandemic life, it is normal to experience de-regulation as a result of long periods of stress or trauma. In Echo's Trauma-Informed Yoga for...