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May 2017

First Responders Need Help Too: Crisis Hotline Caters To Emergency Workers [NPR Weekend Edition]

Frank Farry is a state representative in the 142nd Legislative District in Pennsylvania, as well as a volunteer firefighter. He created a crisis hotline to provide support for first responders. Courtesy Pennsylvania House of Representatives/Courtesy Pennsylvania House of Representatives The people who leap into action first during crises — police, firefighters and paramedics — have established hotlines in many places for fellow emergency workers who find that they need help too. One of the...

Bail keeps these moms in jail on Mother’s Day. So strangers are posting it for them (www.washingtonpost.com)

An article by Jocelyn Simonson - and a great way to celebrate mother's day. “Money kept them in. Black love got them out.” That is the slogan of Mama’s Bail Out Day , an effort of grass-roots organizations from across the country to bail out mothers and other caretakers who are sitting in jail simply because they cannot afford to pay bail. From Oakland, Calif., to Montgomery, Ala., to New York City, nearly two dozen organizations affiliated with public defenders, local Black Lives Matter...

What is Complex Trauma? A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them

This new resource from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is hot off the presses! This Guide was developed for youth who have experienced—or know someone who has experienced—Complex Trauma. Older youth, adolescents, and young adults can explore the information in this Guide on their own to help them better understand Complex Trauma and the effects. Clinicians, caregivers, and other adults can also use the Guide to have conversations with youth about Complex Trauma and about the...

Fewer U.S. High School Students Drink, CDC Finds [Consumer.Healthday.com]

Drinking among U.S. high school students has plummeted in recent years, a new government report shows. High schoolers who say they drink dropped from about half of students in 1991 down to around one out of three in 2015, an analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals. Binge drinking also declined among high school students, from about 32 percent of all students in 1999 to about 18 percent in 2015, the report found. Binge drinking involves consuming five...

Conference Showed How Field Is Building on Progress in Youth-Serving Field [JJIE.org]

Earlier this year, we urged the Trump administration to continue federal investments in juvenile justice. In the last three decades, the field has benefited greatly from federal support of research, innovative programming and evidence-based approaches designed to improve outcomes for youth, families and communities. After co-hosting a national conference in April that explored how research is shaping youth policy and practice across the U.S., we are convinced more than ever that the wisest...

Which weighs upon the heart (www.hekint.org) & Commentary

I read this article shared by the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. It's written by Murad Moosa Khan. To me, it's about the healing power of stories, sharing and truth-telling. It's about the power of witnessing. Donna Jackson Nakazawa writes beautifully about the healing power of listening, in general and in particular about being asked about ACEs. But still, there's so much fear about asking people about ACEs, hesitation and worry and anxiety about if or how to do so.

How to Recruit Black Principals [TheAtlantic.com]

Principal Macquline King-Morris stepped out of the way of two lines of students heading to the Courtenay Language Arts Center gym. But the stream of elementary-school kids rerouted themselves to deliver hugs, high fives, and huge grins. Creating a pre-k-8 school where every student feels welcome is at the top of King-Morris’s list of priorities. With a student population that is 48 percent black, 35 percent Hispanic, 9 percent white, and 6 percent Asian, Courtenay is one of the most diverse...

A Shot against Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [ScientificAmerican.org]

Each night before “Greg” goes to bed he brushes and flosses his teeth. Then he double-checks the instructions on the dark brown bottle his nurse gave him before he unscrews the cap and tips five drops of a light-amber, oily liquid onto a spoon. The brew, glistening from the light of the bathroom fixture, is tasteless and has no odor he can detect. But it’s chock-full of bacteria. He sloshes the substance around in his mouth and swallows. Greg hopes that while he sleeps the foreign microbes...

Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education [ChildTrends.org]

This report from Child Trends and the National Center for Children in Poverty includes a review of the prevalence of early childhood trauma and its effects. The report offers promising strategies for child care and preschool programs looking to help young children who have endured trauma, and presents recommendations for policymakers to support trauma-informed early care. [For more of this story go to https://www.childtrends.org/publications/ecetrauma/]

LAUSD clarifies what school staff should do if immigration agents show up on campus [SCPR.org]

Los Angeles Unified School Board members have clarified what staff on the district's campuses are supposed to do if federal immigration agents show up at their campus. In February 2016, when they declared L.A. Unified campuses as immigration "safe zones," the board had already directed school employees to alert district higher-ups of any request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. But in case the implication wasn't already clear, board members passed a resolution Tuesday...

Trump’s pick to run mental health is poised to shake things up. Even some liberals can’t wait [StarNews.com]

President Trump’s pick to run federal mental health services has called for a bold reordering of priorities — shifting money away from education and support services and toward a more aggressive treatment of patients with severe psychiatric disorders. The proposal has some psychiatrists — a generally liberal bunch — cheering despite their distrust of the Trump administration. [For more of this story, written by Meghana Keshavan, go to ...

Tarpon Springs Grant Recipients [Patch.com]

Empowering a Community in Building Resiliency Peace4Tarpon, a non-profit community organization committed to educating all sectors of the community regarding the impact of individual and systemic trauma and creating a just, healthy and resilient Tarpon Springs, just announced the recipients of its Building Resiliency Grants. On March 31, nine mini-grants up to $1,000 each were awarded to individuals, schools and organizations which had submitted proposals designed to build resiliency within...

KC to be pilot site for Sesame Street in Communities program [KSNB.com]

The new program provides videos, activities, storybooks, games and other resources, in both English and Spanish, to help children with their early development. Specific topics include reading and writing, moving your body, exploring emotions, dealing with divorce and helping kids grieve. The program features the Sesame Street Muppets and is primarily sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. [For more of this story go to ...

What Lies Beneath Behavior? Introducing Echo's New Infographic!

Every novelist, psychologist, anthropologist and your Aunt Jane have wanted to know this. What motivates people and what’s going on when their behavior is irritating or just plain doesn’t make sense? At Echo, we encourage adults to look beneath the behavior of children and to understand ‘behavior as communication.’ It may be that the child is choosing a way of communicating that is hard for you to deal with but that doesn’t diminish the fact that the behavior is driven by some deep need or...

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