Tagged With "mental health"
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Helping Children Recover from Disasters
As we consider the effects of trauma on children, major disasters, whether they are natural or manmade, can profoundly affect their development. Below are links to a research-based fact sheet (in English and Spanish) you can share with parents and other primary care givers: English Version Spanish Version These are also attached to this post. English Version Spanish Version
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Hot temperatures may be bad for brains, even young and healthy ones: Study
From: The Daily Climate Heather Mongilio Jul 11, 2018 "It's really shocking that we found such a significant effect on a population that is usually considered immune to these heat A new study out of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that high temperatures are linked to cognitive impairments, even in resilient populations. Researchers at the university followed 44 college students who were living in dorms at a college in the greater Massachusetts area. Half of the students had...
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Re: Climate Change Isn’t Just Frying the Planet—It’s Fraying Our Nerves “We kind of lose our cool.”
I so value the way you connect the climate crisis to mental health. I do the same but from a causal perspective. I see historical childhood trauma as the result of colonial child rearing principles has disconnected us from our nature and Nature, which allows us to exploit and destroy her, causing the climate crisis. If you haven't yet read my blog, please do - Addressing ACEs as a Social Transformation Initiative.
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Re: UC Berkeley Event: Climate Climate Change: The Defining Health Challenge and Opportunity of the 21st Century
Sounds like a great event! I am so glad that the livestream option is available. Thank you too for the attached document - it so clearly links climate change and health - I am looking forward Nov 1st!
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ITRC Launches Campaign to Enact New Climate Change Mental Wellness & Resilience Policy
ITRC Seeks Organizational and Individual Endorsements for New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy! To read the complete policy and make individual or organizational endorsements go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Need to Enact a Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy ? The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) seeks organizational and individual endorsements for its new Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience...
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Invitation to July 28 Webinar On The Urgent Need, Methods, and Benefits of Enacting the New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
You are invited to join a free 1 hr. webinar on Tuesday , July 28 from 12:30-1:30 pm Pacific Time (3:30-4:30 pm ET) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy Click here to register for the free webinar What is the Need for a New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy? Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes civilization-changing impacts. The U.S. is...
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How to Heal Emotional Trauma After a Climate Disaster [ecowatch.com]
From The Center for Public Integrity, EcoWatch, August 30, 2020 Disasters are stressful. Our warming world keeps adding fuel to the fires — and floods and hurricanes, among other calamities. What can be done about the trauma that follows? The Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations and our partners in newsrooms around the country have been reporting on this for months. We've learned a lot by asking experts: people who've lived through disasters and the professionals...
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Invitation to Sept 22 webinar on the ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
In case you missed the first one: I nvitation to Tuesday Sept. 22 free webinar on... The Urgent Need, Methods, and Benefits of Enacting the New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy for Climate Change--and Other--Adversities You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Tuesday , September 22 from 12:30-1:30 pm PST (3:30-4:30 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy Click here to register for the free webinar or go to the ITRC Website:...
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CTIPP invites everyone to participate in calls on pressing national issues, starting this Wednesday on climate
The monthly Zoom virtual gathering sponsored by national organization “ Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) ” will complete this year’s series by tackling some of the most pressing issues this country is facing. With a focus the role of trauma-informed approaches to help manage solutions to these challenges, the CTIPP-CAN (Community Advocacy Network) meetings for the remainder of the year will address climate this Wednesday followed by policing in October, peer...
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The Recurring Trauma of California’s Wildfires [The New Yorker]
When Laurie Noble was growing up, in Fort Bragg, California, in the nineteen-fifties and sixties, her family’s home doubled as a government weather station. The house was equipped with rain and wind-speed gauges, thermometers, a barometer, and a recording barograph, and the family belonged to a network of part-time observers paid by the federal Weather Bureau, the forerunner of the National Weather Service, to fill in gaps between its professionally staffed stations. By the time Noble was a...
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Disasters Are Driving a Mental Health Crisis (calhealthreport.org)
Emotional distress is common following natural disasters, and the psychological toll can linger for years, studies suggest. In California, where the state is in the midst of yet another highly destructive wildfire season, published research on the prevalence of mental health impacts among wildfire survivors in the state is scarce. However, a preliminary study by researchers at UC Davis found that around one in five people reported significant symptoms of anxiety and post-traumatic stress up...
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Pandemic Sets Off Future Wave of Worsening Mental Health Issues [uh.edu]
By Laurie Fickman, University of Houston, September 28, 2020 Long after a COVID-19 vaccination is developed and years after the coronavirus death toll is tallied, the impact on mental health will linger, continuing to inflict damage if not addressed, according to new research. Michael Zvolensky, University of Houston Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and director of the Anxiety and Health Research Laboratory/Substance Use Treatment Clinic, has...
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3 Realms of ACEs - Updated!
ACEs Connection has updated our 3 Realms of ACEs Graphic to represent recent and pressing events. The 3 Realms of ACEs are Community, Household, and Environment. ACEs in these realms intertwine throughout people’s lives, and affect the viability of families, communities, organizations, and systems. Environment has been updated to include "Pandemic", as the entire world continues to survive through the COVID-19 crisis. The Community Realm has been updated to include "Discrimination" and "Food...
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"A Better Normal" Community Discussion Series- Our Reckoning with Race and Equity at ACEs Connection
Register for A Better Normal- Our reckoning with race and equity at ACEs Connection
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Invitation to Dec 2 webinar on the ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
You are invited to a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday , December 2 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy To register for the webinar go to: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Need for a New Climate Change Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy? Climate science indicates that global temperatures will, in the not too distant future, rise above the 2.7-degree F. temperature threshold that unleashes...
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Just 2 Weeks Until the Free Webinar on the Urgency, Methods, and Benefits of the New ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
Reminder of a free 1 hr. webinar on Wednesday , December 2 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm PST (3:00-4:00 pm EST) on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy for Climate Traumas and Many Other Adversities Go to the ITRC website to register for the Dec 2 webinar: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Need for a New Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy? The Covid-19 pandemic, job and income losses, racial and ethnic violence, and many other adversities are generating widespread...
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The Long-Lasting Mental Health Effects of Wildfires [outsideonline.com]
By Jane C. Hu, Outside Online, December 3, 2020 When Aimee Gray woke up on a Sunday morning in October 2017, she decided she was finally going to get a new pair of shoes. She’d worn holes in her favorite Skechers, so when she and her husband headed into town for groceries, she stopped in the shoe store and treated herself to two new pairs. As they drove back to the home they rented on Bennett Ridge Road, in the hills southeast of Santa Rosa, California, her husband remarked on the strange,...
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Applications Now Being Accepted for ITRC Free 9-Week Training Program on Community-based Mental Wellness and Resilience
ITRC Training Program begins on Tuesday February 9 and includes CE Credits from the American Public Health Association For a detailed description and schedule, and to apply to attend, go to the ITRC website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/
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Join Feb. 17 peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events
Please see information below regarding the Prevention Institute’s upcoming peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events taking place on Wednesday, February 17 th from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM . Registration link below. Join Feb. 17 peer learning forum on trauma-informed approaches during catastrophic events What does it mean for a city or other local government to be trauma-informed and what might this look like during the COVID-19 pandemic? Agencies and...
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The Hill Magazine today published OPED about need to build community resilience
The Hill magazine today published my Commentary calling on the Biden Administration and Congress to recognize the urgent need to link their efforts to address both the pandemic and climate crisis with community-based population-level initiatives to prevent and heal mental health and psychosocial problems. It can be found here: https://thehill.com/changing-america/opinion/540152-pandemic-and-climate-solutions-will-fail-without-a-major-focus-on Building community-based, culturally-grounded,...
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Civil engineers find link between hospitals and schools key to community resilience [sciencedaily.com]
From Colorado State University, Science Daily, February 5, 2021 New research from the Colorado State University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, published in Nature Scientific Reports , has found hospitals and schools are interdependent, suggesting their collective recovery must be considered in order to restore a community in the wake of disaster. Because hospitals and schools are so integral to a community's well-being, Associate Professor Hussam Mahmoud and Ph.D.
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New Report — Socially Connected Communities [healthyplacesbydesign.org]
From Healthy Places by Design, March 2021 NEW REPORT Socially Connected Communities Solutions for Social Isolation In recent decades, people in the United States and around the world have experienced soaring rates of social isolation, with profound impacts on community health and well-being. Healthy Places by Design, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has released a new report that reframes the conversation about isolation and outlines five recommendations for creating...
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Register Now for March 25 Webinar on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy
The next free 1 hr. webinar on the new ITRC Mental Wellness and Resilience Policy is in less than 2 weeks: on Thursday , March 25 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm Pacific Time (3:00-4:00 pm Eastern Time--US & Canada) (Note: this webinar was originally scheduled for March 18). To Register for the Webinar go to the ITRC Website: http://www.theresourceinnovationgroup.org/ Why the Urgent Need for a New Approach to Foster Mental Wellness and Resilience? The skyrocketing mental health and psychosocial...
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