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Special Section on Innovations in Trauma-Informed Health Care

We are delighted to share that our special section on 'Innovations in Trauma-Informed Health Care' is now available online. Access the special collection: https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/collection-trauma-informed-healthcare Access the full issue: https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/toc/tpj/28/1 Download a pdf of the entire special section (TOC attached): https://tihcer.weebly.com/trauma-informed-health-care.html Please help us to spread the word by sharing the above URLs with your...

Donation

Advancing Parenting received a $5000 donation from a generous lady in Washington. This will allow us to print and ship 50 sets of our parenting tips bumper stickers. Thank you, Jasmin (not a member of Paces Connection). AP has requests for thousands of sets…from schools, child abuse prevention councils, family resource centers, children’s advocacy groups, United Ways, CASAs and GALs, and pediatricians. They would like to put the stickers in holders and place them on counters so folks can...

2024 HOPE Summit and the Week of HOPE starts next week! [positiveexperience.org/blog]

By Laura Gallant, 3/14/24, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ We are less than a week away from the Fourth Annual HOPE Summit – The HOPE Transformation and the Week of HOPE ! Register now to participate in these exciting events centered around the HOPE framework and positive childhood experiences! Interactive events throughout the Summit This year’s HOPE Summit features over 20 different workshops that participants can choose from across three sessions. We are excited to partner with...

Stress & Regulation: Experiential Workshop with La Maida Project

Happening next week! A special invitation to the PACEs community: Use promo code hellopaces for complimentary registration. To better understand the brain and how its innate physiology impacts our day-to-day behavior, this workshop explores bottom-up regulation, the stress response, and how humans have evolved to thrive in reliable interdependent communities. This workshop will guide participants in practicing self- regulation skills, and invite thoughtful reflection around the importance of...

Leaders & Experts in Education: We Need You!

We are seeking a few additional leaders and experts in education to join as panelists for a special closed meeting roundtable discussion taking place on 4/9 @ 11:00 am - 2:30 pm (ET). Topics will include equitable access to quality education for children of African descent, the viability of a whole-person education for children of African descent, providing school children of African descent tools for healing and resilience, and ensuring that the education of children of African descent...

Maybe a presentation from Take a Second Look Educational Foundation is right for your organization?

Have you ever thought - Why did he act like that? Why did she say that? That reaction seemed extreme! What was I thinking? Maybe a presentation from Take a Second Look Educational Foundation is right for your organization? Take a Second Look Educational Foundation - Our purpose is to provide information about how we can understand each other better and develop more compassion once we understand what is going on in a person’s brain. “Let’s take a second look at what is really going on…” Who...

A Word of Warning and a Word of Advice for the PACES Community

Primary prevention is a medical term that describes powerful measures that prevent rather than treat illness, e.g. immunization, regular exercise, proper nutrition, not smoking. Ask yourselves why there is so much attention given to secondary and tertiary prevention of child abuse and so little attention given to primary prevention. Dr. John Briere, professor of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, and Center Director of...

CELEBRATING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH OUR CEO

"Helena, it's like life and business. You have to start at the bottom, work your way up and hold tight. You never start at the top." For hours upon hours, I would sit as my mom parted, combed, washed, conditioned and braided my thick, curly hair. While she meticulously worked on my hair, my mom taught me many things. It certainly wasn't just about my hair. It was a sacred time of closeness and connection that I now hold dear. I sure didn't then! In my years working with foster youth, I often...

[free event] What Does Sociocultural Trauma Have to Do with the Workplace?

For many organizations, the inability to recognize the ways that sociocultural trauma is activated becomes the missing link in otherwise genuine efforts to create a healthy workplace environment. In this webinar, we’ll: + define socio-cultural trauma + learn how it becomes activated at work + learn how to create a truly inclusive community at your workplace >>Register Here<< This event is part of a weekly series by Tend Collective , a trauma-informed care consultancy. @Donielle...

How the HOPE framework differs from strength-based and trauma-informed care approaches [positiveexperience.org/blog]

By Laura Gallant, 3/11/24, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ The HOPE framework, centered around positive childhood experiences (PCEs), helps professionals and organizations achieve their mission of improving the health and well-being of children, families, and communities. It is an impactful framework that can be used on its own and alongside other models such as strength-based and trauma-informed care approaches. While many models and frameworks also celebrate strengths and promote...

A Solution to Help Prevent Trauma and Suffering

The current conversation about anxiety and depression is lacking a vital dimension: emotions education. We are now learning that many instances of anxiety and depression are actually symptoms of buried core emotions. These types of symptoms could be prevented with more education surrounding emotions and trauma.

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