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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 ...

To read more of Greg Owen's article, please click here. Reese Steiner, a fourth-year English major at Ohio State, and her girlfriend, Lauren Branch, a recent graduate from North Central State, didn’t plan on testing their relationship by opening a business. “If we get through this without breaking up or anything, then we’re golden,” Branch told The Lantern , the Ohio State newspaper. The business is a bookstore and coffee spot that the couple are calling Little Gay Bookstore and Queer Beans,...

One of the biggest questions that Andi and I get whenever we talk about a trauma-informed approach is something along the lines of “Ok I get ACEs and toxic stress, but what can I do about it in my organization?” We get it–this approach can seem overwhelming because it is literally a lens through which you see everything. We often say that a trauma-informed approach is less about what you do and more about how you do it. So how in the world do we even begin the work of operationalizing our unders

Madison Stalker, 15, a camp attendee, stands in front of her peers during Path Finders Camp, a bereavement camp put on by Hospice of Northwest Ohio, at Camp Miakonda in Toledo, on July 26. (The Blade/Stephen Zenner) By Stephen Zenner, The Toledo Blade, August 6, 2023 Experiences ranging from rowdy to solemn worked their way through the foliage of Camp Miakonda’s outdoor activities and cabins during Path Finders Camp, a bereavement camp put on by Hospice of Northwest Ohio. To the general...