Tagged With "trauma-informed care"
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Re: Post Traumatic Growth after Natural Disasters - Communication and Connections Help [sciencedaily.com]
Thank you so much for sharing this research, Leslie. It affirms much of what I've read from other communities, and gives us insight for action here in Sonoma.
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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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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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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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Indigenous Educators Bridge Native and Western Science in the Classroom (yesmagazine.org)
Gregory Cajete stands in front of a classroom full of University of New Mexico students enrolled in a graduate seminar on Indigenous nations and sustainable communities. Cajete is teaching these students about having a relationship with, and responsibility for, the environment. This way of knowing is called Native Science , and it is part of a body of evolving Indigenous knowledge based on generations of learning and direct contact with nature. A Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo and...
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A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis (zinnedproject.org)
A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution — as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it’s becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at...
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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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How Do Children Impacted By Wildfires Recover? A Resilient Community’s Trauma-Informed Story Of Healing
Editor’s Note: Do you have a story of a local community creating programs to help their members recover from climate change disasters? Send us your story of a resilient community to editor@kindredmedia.org. We’re honored to feature Thrive , a healing initiative of the North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF), a collaboration of people, organizations and agencies in Butte County, California, whose mission is to address the impact of trauma across generations. In the wake of the devastating...
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Over 80 Orgs. Call on Congress to Engage Whole Communities in Trauma Prevention and Healing by Introducing and Enacting the "Resilience for All Act of 2021"
The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) today released a letter to Congress calling for the introduction and enactment of the "Resilience for All Act of 2021." The letter is endorsed by over 80 national, state, and local mental health and human services organizations from across the nation, and by over 240 individual professionals. The letter can be found on page three of this document. Overview : The "Resilience for All Act of 2021" will, for the first time, make the...
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Indigenous climate action leaders discuss racist colonialism with Dr. Gabor Maté
Raging wildfires in California and Turkey, hurricanes in the U.S. southeast, flooding in West Africa, droughts in Iraq and Syria and other environmental catastrophes across the globe traumatize hundreds of thousands of people. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, founder and director of Indigenous Climate Action , has a different view of these events than what we typically see. She says the trauma of climate change spans generations and is interwoven with colonization in the form of modern extraction...
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Climate change is 'first and foremost' a health crisis, new report finds (yahoo.com)
Working construction under the merciless Arizona sun, Eleazar Castellanos knew the signs that heat exhaustion was settling in. On the days when the temperature would top 100 degrees, he and his coworkers would sweat profusely. Then came the cramps in their arms and legs, and the overwhelming urge to stop: take a break, get some water, cool down. But they couldn’t. Not if they wanted to get paid and return home to their families as breadwinners. “Many of the employers don’t understand, we...
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Perspectives and Practices for an Eco-Wise Culture
The very best remedy for climate anxiety is knowing that this a collective experience, not an individual experience. This is a 12-month learning community to build understanding, resiliency and togetherness amidst the ecological crisis we and our planet are facing.
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What’s Mine to Do? Vision, Action, and Mourning in the Face of Collapse with Miki Kashtan
When we know what is ours to do and what is not, we can discern our next steps with care for all the needs, impacts, and resources we know of, including the limits of our capacity.
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Introduction to Resonance for Climate Anxiety with Sarah Peyton
In order to remain engaged, responsive and loving, we need support,
otherwise, our inner resources become depleted.
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Repair And Care In A Ruptured World: Psychology Tends to The Climate Crisis with Dr. Wendy Greenspun
Like Kintsugi, the Japanese pottery tradition that mends broken shards with golden lacquer, movements toward repair of these various ruptures can create stronger ‘containers’ for the pain of individuals and communities and help us move toward essential action.
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Request for Your Organizational Endorsement of the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act
This is a request for your organization to endorse the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (CMWRA) developed by Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY). This is the legislation the ITRC has been working on for two years (and was previously called the Resilience for All Act) Rep. Tonko plans to introduce the CMWRA in Congress in late October . Before he does we would like to gather a wide and diverse set of endorsements from national, regional, state, tribal, and local organizations. To...
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How to Help Survivors of Extreme Climate Events (psychologytoday.com)
By Elaine Miller-Karas MSW, LCSW Building Resiliency to Trauma Psychology Today, September 30, 2022 Mental health can suffer after extreme climate events. KEY POINTS Mental health conditions exacerbated by natural disasters include post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. After a disaster, the number of people needing assistance from the mental health systems strains or exceeds community capacity. There are simple strategies helpers can use to help survivors restore...
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Over 100 Organizations Endorse the Introduction of the Tonko-Fitzpatrick Bi-Partisan "Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act"
The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC)* and over 100 other national, regional, state, and local mental health, human services, education, faith, and other organizations today strongly endorsed the bi-partisan “Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act” (CMWRA) introduced by US Representatives Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA). The legislation has garnered support from Representative Kathy Castor (D-FL), who is an original cosponsor, as well as national...