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October 2016

Teacher Stress and Health: Effects on Teachers, Students, and Schools [RWJF.org]

Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations in the country, but introducing organizational and individual interventions can help minimize the negative effects of teacher stress. The Issue This research brief examines causes of teacher stress, its effects on teachers, schools, and students, and strategies for reducing its impact. Key Findings Forty-six percent of teachers report high daily stress, which compromises their health, sleep, quality of life, and teaching performance. When...

Sacramento emergency school sees increase in homeless kids [SacBee.com]

Loaves & Fishes’ school for homeless children has asked Sacramento County to increase the number of emergency shelter beds for families, citing a spike in the number of children sleeping on Sacramento streets. Mustard Seed School Director Casey Knittel said of the 40 families whose children enrolled in the school in September, 19 were camping in a car or tent. With days getting cooler, rainy weather expected this weekend, Knittel said those children need to be inside at night. Burke said...

California's preschools are deeply segregated, new report finds [SCPR.org]

Preschools around the United States and in California are deeply segregated, a new report from Penn State finds. Around the country, white children are overwhelmingly going to preschool with only other white children, and more than half of all black and Latino children under five attend preschool where 90 percent of the students are children of color. That's also the case in California, one of two states with the lowest enrollment of white children in public preschool programs. In fact, a...

Treating trauma's steep toll on native youth remains challenge for courts [Inforum.com]

Brandi Azure could feel the love fade from her family on days her parents drank. What happened on one of those joyless days left a deep scar on her memory, ever-present among a constellation of scars from a childhood spent in poverty with parents stuck in the haze of addiction. It was a Saturday gathering at her uncle's house in West Fargo where the adults were boozing. An argument erupted, and her uncle started choking her aunt. Brandi's dad, seeing his sister being attacked, grabbed a...

We are the We

Joint Post: Gail Kennedy & Christine "Cissy" White We were talking about the Parenting with ACEs (this group as well as the process of parenting with ACEs). We got animated, excited and went on and on and on (as we often do when we get to talking!) We decided to write a joint blog post to tell you about our conversation and ask you to weigh in on what you want. Read on our attempt at a combined post: Gail's voice - I called to ask if Cissy thought there was need for a place on the...

Mama Obama & Daddy Donald: Growing Myself Up (www.healwritenow.com)

"And I told them, I told them that they deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. And I told them that they should disregard anyone who demeans or devalues them and that they should make their voices heard in the world." This is the part of Michelle Obama's speech that killed me. How do you disregard your own father or family members if it is they who devalue you? If a sexual predator is a parent or coach or neighbor how does a child disregard them? I didn't. I couldn't. So I did...

Trauma-Informed Transformation

[Some cute kids from UrbanPromise All Camp Day 2016...none of whom are Josiah!] I was just going to breeze in and out of CamdenForward School, our elementary grades at UrbanPromise, to fax something and grab my paycheck. Then the plan was to bury myself again in my mile long to-do list, the weight of which was interrupting my sleep with increasing frequency. But the fax machine is in the main office…and the main office has a picture window…and as I pressed buttons I heard, “Oh there’s Mrs.

Erasing stigma needed in mental health care [ScienceNews.org]

Scientists, politicians, clinicians, police officers and medical workers agree on one thing: The U.S. mental health system needs a big fix. Too few people get the help they need for mental ailments and emotional turmoil that can destroy livelihoods and lives. A report in the October JAMA Internal Medicine, for instance, concludes that more than 70 percent of U.S. adults who experience depression don’t receive treatment for it. Much attention focuses on developing better psychiatric...

Europe's prisoner suicide problem [DW.com]

While questions over security and personal well-being have emerged in the wake of the Chemnitz explosives suspect Jafer Albakr's death, figures show that prisoner suicides happen far too often. In Germany, the phenomenon has witnessed a decline over the past 15 years, with 117 in 2000 dropping to 50 in 2013, reported a study by the country's suicide prevention program. However, Germany's suicide rate in prison remains higher than Europe's average, comprising 41 percent of all deaths in...

States, Advocates Urge Caution as Federal Officials Consider New JJDPA Regulations [JJIE.org]

State officials, advocates and researchers are urging federal officials to tread carefully as they consider changes to how states demonstrate they are protecting juveniles in custody. They say that if the rules become too strict, cash-strapped states that find themselves out of compliance could abandon the federal program designed to help juveniles entirely. “This would inevitably lead to wider variances between and within states in terms of the efficacy, equity and efficiency of juvenile...

Organizations in Philadelphia launch a Trauma-Informed Funders Guide

Responding to the overwhelming demand of funders in the Delaware Valley to better understand the impacts of trauma on our region and how they can apply trauma informed practices to their own work, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, the Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation, and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey partnered to produce this hands-on resource that will help funders : Understand the science behind trauma, adverse childhood experiences,...

An Insecure Childhood? Then It’s Harder Dealing With Adult Stress [HuffingtonPost.com]

A new study adds to our knowledge of the profound and lasting impact child relationships have upon a range of adult experiences. The latter include our personality traits; the potential for positive, mutual engagement with others; or for emotional disturbance in many forms. This study, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience , found that insecurity in childhood makes it harder to deal with stressful experiences when you’re an adult. You can see that, for example, in the fact that people...

How America's Past Shapes Native Americans’ Present [TheAtlantic.com]

Native American poverty doesn’t fit the image many may have of life on secluded, depleted reservations. Most Native Americans now live in cities , where many are still trying to adjust to urban life; as a group, Native Americans face a 27 percent poverty rate and are still trying to reverse some of the lasting effects of federal policies that have put them at a disadvantage for hundreds of years. The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 was the impetus for the relocation of the large number of...

Why therapy during pregnancy should be required [WashingtonPost.com]

People frequently consider going to therapy before they make a major life transition, such as getting married or changing careers. But what about when embarking on a monumental shift such as parenthood? Women, who are advised to exercise and watch what they eat while they are pregnant, don’t always think of psychotherapy as an important part of their prenatal care regimen, but it can be critical to the well-being of mother and baby, both during and after pregnancy. For many people, pregnancy...

The U.S. Is Making Its Border Stations More Welcoming [CityLab.com]

Contrary to Donald Trump’s claims , the U.S. government isn’t neglecting its borders. It’s just the opposite: The U.S. is investing in them heavily, replacing border stations that used to be little more than shacks with facilities that are modern, secure, and welcoming. Border-control facilities took home two of the 2016 General Services Administration Design Awards, announced last month in Washington, D.C. The Mariposa Land Port of Entry (designed by Phoenix-based Jones Studio for Nogales,...

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