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Materials Now Available: ACEs Aware July 14 Webinar [acesaware.org]

A recording and materials are now available for the second in a series of webinars exploring the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress, presented by Al Race, Deputy Director and Chief Knowledge Officer from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. Providers seeking CME/CE and MOC credits* must complete a separate activity evaluation in order to request CME/CE certificate. Those seeking MOC credits must also successfully complete the post-test with...

A Child's Early Experiences & Brain Development [mountsinaiparenting.org]

A Child's Early Experiences & Brain Development As a primary care provider, promoting strong parent-child relationships and positive parenting behaviors is critical to your role. Research tells us that a child's early experiences, and the environment in which they are raised, dramatically affect how the brain, and thus the child, develops. See the following clip to learn more about early brain development from expert Dan Siegel, MD: From the Keystones of Development Secure Attachment...

Rev. Darrell Armstrong and Shiloh Baptist Church Considered for AHA Award

By Bob Sege, 7/14/21, positiveexperience.org/blog Many of you undoubtedly remember the spectacular keynote address that Rev. Darrell Armstrong gave at our First Annual HOPE Summit . He and Shiloh Baptist Church are being considered for an award from the American Heart Association “Empowered to Serve Business Accelerator” Program for non-profits. There will be three winners – each of which will share a percentage of the $105,000 Grand Prize that would go a long way towards seeding his...

Through life experience, Consolee Nishimwe seeks to advocate for women and girls [amsterdamnews.com]

By Shania Degroot, New York Amsterdam News, July 8, 2021 Consolee Nishimwe, 41, lives in New York City and devotes much of her time to advocating for women’s rights as well as helping the people who have survived genocide-related trauma. Nishimwe, a Rwandan genocide survivor, recalls much of her current work being influenced by the trauma she experienced during her childhood in Rwanda. Consolee grew up in Rwanda, where both of her parents worked as teachers. Prior to 1994, she was raised...

Book About PTSD Still Available on Amazon

"Unlocking the Puzzle of PTSD, A Holistic Guide to Restoring Inner Peace" is a unique and comprehensive Holistic manual and workbook to understand and treat PTSD. The book is for health professionals as well as for lay people interested in the subject. It includes information about PTSD, Complex PTSD and trauma from a Holistic (mind, body, spirit) perspective. It presents easy to use practical tools and activities for both clients, and for individuals not in therapy to use themselves. The...

Announcement About New Book on Amazon

Trauma can cause one to spiral down into darkness. Using spirituality and creativity with holistic tools can help one find Light again. Restoring the Broken Threads: Out of Trauma, Into the Light discusses several holistic (body, mind, spirit) methods for healing from trauma. The book presents education and easy to use tools for increasing insight and restoring balance. It also presents personal experiences from the writer's own evolution out of the effects of trauma. Methods are based on...

Two Years After a Huge Refinery Fire in Philadelphia, a New Day Has Come for its Long-Suffering Neighbors [insideclimatenews.org]

By Daelin Brown, Inside Climate News, July 5, 2021 Dorthia Pebbles inhaled harmful pollutants and smelled noxious odors from the Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery for years when she would leave her rowhome on Hoffman Street to walk to the corner store. After losing family members to cancer, she and her neighbors who lived across the street from the massive South Philadelphia refinery, once the largest on the East Coast, couldn’t help but conclude that its emissions were giving them...

Alcohol Abuse Is on the Rise, but Doctors Too Often Fail to Treat It [nytimes.com]

By Anahad O'Connor, The New York Times, July 12, 2021 Like many people who struggle to control their drinking, Andy Mathisen tried a lot of ways to cut back. He attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, went to a rehab center for alcohol abuse, and tried using willpower to stop himself from binge drinking. But nothing seemed to work. This past year, with the stress of the pandemic weighing on him, he found himself craving beer every morning, drinking in his car and polishing off two liters of...

ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing and postpartum women [washingtonpost.com]

By Maria Sacchetti, The Washington Post, July 9, 2021 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing and postpartum women for deportation, reversing a Trump-era rule that permitted officials to jail thousands of immigrants in those circumstances, according to a new policy released Friday. ICE’s new policy is even more expansive than it was during the Obama era, when President Biden was vice president. The Obama administration generally exempted pregnant...

Why declining birth rates are good news for life on Earth [theguardian.com]

By Laura Spinney, The Guardian, July 8, 2021 F ertility rates are falling across the globe – even in places, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where they remain high. This is good for women, families, societies and the environment. So why do we keep hearing that the world needs babies, with angst in the media about maternity wards closing in Italy and ghost cities in China? The short-range answer is that, even though this slowdown was predicted as part of the now 250-year-old demographic...

'I am not alone:' How a California county is helping Hispanic family caregivers find peace [democratandchronicle.com]

By Natalia Rodriguez Medina and Tom Kisken, Democrat & Chronicle, July 12, 2021 Through 27 years of marriage, Amalia and Félix Santiago have taken care of each other. The devotion, in their eyes, is a duty. It is what they vowed. When Félix Santiago, 84, started showing signs of dementia two years ago, his wife took notice. He could not remember the names of movies a half-hour after watching them. He forgot his address and his phone number. "When you see the person you love going through...

Parent Voices / Voces de los Padres

I know the Echo parenting course is life-changing — not least because as a parent I've experienced the benefits myself— but we at Echo don’t always get to hear the individual stories of the families we serve. However, at the onset of the pandemic, we were making a lot of calls to help parents transition from in-person to online classes. As a result, I got to talk to two parents—Kenia and Lilian—who were so generous in their appreciation of the parenting course and so clear about how this...

The Great Loneliness: Healing Disconnection in CPTSD

Childhood PTSD is, in its essence, an injury to our ability to connect with other people. You may have sensed the injury, but you likely considered it a personal failing. You saw other people easily connecting, and you thought your difficulties were because you were doing something wrong. We now know that abuse and neglect in childhood can literally change your brain and restrict the normal cognitive processes that enable you to seek out and connect with good, appropriate people to bring...

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