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February 2021

ACE Parenting Theater Course

ACEs Parenting Theater Course Parents with a high ACE score may find it difficult to draw upon their own childhood memories for examples of positive parenting. They aren’t alone. For many, the way we parent our own children often mirrors the way we ourselves were raised, whether we do this consciously or not. You may think this only natural since one’s parents are the primary reference point for how to communicate, relate, and respond to others and to life. As they say, “You don’t know what...

PTSD and CPTSD in Veterans

To understand the differences between the diagnoses of PTSD and CPTSD, we need to understand the evolution of stress-orders and their eventual recognition by the American Psychiatric Association. PTSD has been around as long as humans have inhabited the earth. It was inevitable that our ancestors would develop the disorder as they lived in constant threat of death.

Hope and Resilience Are Distinct Contributors to Survivor Well-Being

The purpose of this post is to provide a direct response to Cheryl Step’s “ Resilience: The Foundation of Hope .” First, we do not object to the term resilience in everyday conversation. However, in the research and practice literature, resilience (or resiliency) has suffered from a myriad of inconsistent definitions and conceptualizations that leave researchers and professionals with uncertainty about what it means to guide practice. We notice Cheryl considers resilience using several other...

Yolo County (CA) supervisors OK universal basic income pilot project [DavisEnterprise.com]

Enterprise article dated February 12, 2021 By Anne Ternus-Bellamy Some of Yolo County’s poorest families with young children will receive a hand up and out of poverty through a universal basic income pilot project approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The 31 families in the CalWORKS Housing Support Program who have children under the age of 2 will receive monthly payments for a year, up to a maximum of $12,155. That cash assistance, combined with the CalWORKS grant they already...

Announcing the Keep Community Campaign!

Inspired by last weekend's blog post I wrote on Rise to Resilience, They Are Human, Too , I decided to create a campaign called Keep Community. Over the next month, I hope to collect $1000 to donate $500 towards the Tacoma Mutual Aid Collective who does incredible work in the local community. The other $500 will go towards creating care packages for unhoused individuals in Pierce County (Washington state). These packages will include items such as: cloth and single-use masks, hand sanitizer,...

Circle of Security Virtual Training

Hello ACE Followers, We are so looking forward to 2021 and we hope for a year filled with coming together, protecting our families and neighbors, and building stronger communities. I strongly believe that using Circle concepts, tools, and practices in our work and our personal lives can really transform relationships. We wished that our first training of the year could have been in person. However, the upside of having virtual trainings is that literally, anyone, anywhere in the world can...

Staying The Course for Families [imprintnews.org]

By Jerry Milner, The Imprint, February 11, 2021 As a child welfare social worker for a few decades now, serving as the leader of the U.S. Children’s Bureau was the greatest honor of my career, perhaps my life. In my field, there is no comparable position to lead the country in shaping a vision, if one chooses, that can affect the lives of vulnerable children, youth and parents in such profound ways. It is also a place where the reigning political ideology can affect actions, drive priorities...

Neglecting Yourself Doesn't Make You a Better Mother [nytimes.com]

By Danna Lorch, The New York Times, February 10, 2021 Before even becoming a parent, I was conditioned to believe that good mothers always put themselves dead last. At a college reunion years ago, I complimented a former classmate, a mother of three, on how strong she looked. She shrugged it off: “Oh, that’s because I never take time to make myself food. I just eat scraps off the kids’ plates.” Years later, when I was pregnant with my son, Isaac, friends who were already moms eyed my bump...

Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences Town Hall: The Connection Between Child Development and Chronic Illness

The League of Extraordinary People is excited to announce the free, February Town Hall! This town hall's topic is Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences: The Connection Between Child Development and Chronic Illness. Reserve your spot at www.bit.ly/tloepfeb You can find more information about TLOEP at www.tloep.org! Alfred White is the founder of The League of Extraordinary People. After nearly 38 years of experiencing homelessness, Alfred swallowed a 1/4 ounce of crack cocaine in 2004...

New Report Explores Top Social Determinants

This article originally appeared on RACMonitor News 2/10/21 “Permission to republish this article was granted by RACmonitor“ It’s just February, but a steady stream of reports and surveys touting the top social determinants of health (SDoH) and mental health (SDoMH) for 2021 have already begun to appear. First up is the 2021 Consumer Sentiments and Insights Survey by The Root Cause Coalition , an organization co-founded by AARP Foundation and ProMedica. The survey was conducted online last...

Public Policy and health in the Trump era [thelancet.com]

By Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein, Sameer Ahmed, et al., The Lancet, February 10, 2021 This report by the Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era assesses the repercussions of President Donald Trump's health-related policies and examines the failures and social schisms that enabled his election. Trump exploited low and middle-income white people's anger over their deteriorating life prospects to mobilise racial animus and xenophobia and enlist their support...

How Society Has Turned Its Back on Mothers [nytimes.com]

By Pooja Lakshmin, The New York Times, February 4, 2021 As a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health, nearly every mother I have treated during the pandemic fights through decision fatigue, rage and a feeling of powerlessness every day. This isn’t breaking news. Burnout among parents, in particular moms, has been a defining principle of this global disaster. Clinical-level burnout is defined by a triad of symptoms: exhaustion, a sense of futility and difficulty maintaining...

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