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Revitalization of PACEs Connection underway as a division of National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC)

Diana Fishbein, PhD, founder and co-director of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) , and John Roman, PhD, co-director. NPSC is the new 501 (c) (3) home of PACEs Connection, . PACEs Connection, with more than 60,900 members, is being revitalized by two former employees who have found a strategic and mission-aligned national nonprofit home. “We are thrilled to play a role in maintaining and growing this vitally important social network — the primary source of...

EXCITING NEWS – PACEs Connection is BACK!

Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...

Plans afoot to bring stability to PACEs Connection

To all of you, who, like me, love this website and want to see it and its communities flourish as we work to prevent and heal trauma; build resiliency: please know there is a move afoot by a small group of strategic partners to find a suitable host for PACEs Connection. More will be announced in the coming days. In the meantime, friends, we are figuring out email addresses and other communications logistics and opportunities. PEACE! Carey Sipp, former director of strategic partnerships ...

Message from our CEO, Ingrid Cockhren: PACEs is Sunsetting eff. April 26th

Hello partners, members, and friends, It is with mixed emotions that I am sharing that PACEs Connection will be sunsetting all operations effective Friday, April 26. While it saddens me to see this chapter of PACEs work come to a close, this work is too important to end, and efforts are underway to identify a new home for PACEs to continue its work. At the same time, this presents an exciting opportunity for PACEs to reemerge stronger than ever. Although we intended a seamless transition,...

New York is suing the world’s biggest meat company. It might be a tipping point for greenwashing (theguardian.com)

JBS is the parent company of the Swift, Certified Angus Beef, Pilgrim’s Pride and Grass Run Farms brands. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images To read more of Whitney Bauck's article, please click here. When the office of the New York attorney general, Letitia James, announced that it would be suing the world’s largest meat company, JBS, for misleading customers about its climate commitments, it caused a stir far beyond the world of food. That’s because the suit’s impact has the...

"It's Time to De-privative Mental Health"

This is my next Psychology Today article. With global temperatures now having breached the 2.7 F (1.5 C) extreme danger threshold, it describes the urgent need to swiftly expand beyond individualized services to prioritize using a public health approach in communities to help everyone prevent and heal social, psychological, emotional and behavioral struggles. The article can be found here: https://lnkd.in/g2vbSZAd To see previous and receive my future Psychology Today articles sign up on...

ITRC Coordinator Bob Doppelt's Second Psychology Today Article Now Available

My second Psychology Today article--"Climate Anxiety in Make Believe and Real Time"--was published today. It describes how society's sad response to the global climate-ecosystem-biodiversity catastrophe mirrors that story told in the movie "Don't Look Up." It then describes how one result of our failure to act is that both youth and adults, including my wife and I, suffer from "climate anxiety." The article goes on to discuss how we can overcome climate anxiety by establishing the social...

Psychology Today Articles on Need to Use Public Health Approach in Communities to Prevent and Heal Climate Traumas

ITRC Coordinator Bob Doppelt will not be writing a regular monthly column for Psychology Today . They will focus on different aspects involved with using a public health approach in communities to prevent and heal the mental health and psychosocial problems generated by accelerating climate related toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters. His first article can be found here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/community-is-medicine/202401/communities-are-medicine

Extreme Heat Affects Early Childhood Development and Health [developingchild.harvard.edu]

Personal experience, common sense, and science confirm that temperatures are rising globally. Heat waves are occurring with greater frequency and lasting longer than ever before. According to the World Meteorological Organization , 2023 is believed to have been the hottest year on record. Humans have successfully adapted to a wide range of climates, but there are limits to our tolerance and climatic conditions beyond which our bodies cannot cool themselves sufficiently. While the dangers of...

To learn about a public health approach to mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis listen to short interview with me by the Authors Show

If you want to learn about the most effective way to prevent and heal the pervasive mental health and psychosocial problems generated by the global climate emergency, listen to Don McCauley's interview with me for The Authors Show about my new book Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for Building Resilience and Hope in Communities (Routledge Publishing). The interview will run for the next 3 days on the Authors Show website and can found by scrolling down and hitting the link...

Applications Now Open to Attend the ITRC 2024 "Community of Practice"

Applications are not open to participate in the 2024 ITRC Community of Practice (CoP) on organizing and facilitating “Resilience Coordinating Networks” in communities that build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate crisis. This will be the fourth year we have offered a CoP. If it is like the previous three, people from throughout the US, Canada, the EU and UK are likely to participate. The 10 week CoP begins on Feb. 13 and is free to approved participants. CE Credits are...

Reminder: the ITRC Webinar on "Community is Medicine" is Just Two Weeks Away

This webinar will describe the urgent need, methods, and many benefits of using a public health approach in communities to build population mental wellness and resilience for the climate emergency. To Register for the Webinar Go To: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZNlBUkzMVKD8nbwZYVUyCTpxeE8DItzJvMcpifv1G1… Rising global temperatures are increasingly stressing everyone due to cascading disruptions to the ecological, economic, and social systems people rely on for food, water, shelter, jobs,...

Creating Positive Childhood Environmental Experiences in the Classroom

Back to School with PACEs Connection: Creating Positive Childhood Environmental Experiences in the Classroom Every aspect of someone’s environment will impact how they live, learn, play, and grow. Those under the age of 18 in traditional learning models will spend the majority of their time in a school setting, where the environment itself lays the foundation for their development. Creating positive childhood experiences in schools and the classroom has a profound impact on students'...

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