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New York Exhibit Shows the Prison Crisis Through the Eyes of Formerly Incarcerated Artists [yesmagazine.org]

The smell of cow’s blood made Russell Craig light-headed. He’d bought a few gallons of it from a butcher shop. Now here he was in a studio, painting it onto canvas, creating shapes that mimicked Rorschach tests he had taken as a child. “I was being really, like, stressed out. [The blood] was affecting me,” Craig says. “Then some people was advising me to not work in this medium. Maybe I should be careful when I don’t really know what I’m getting into in the spiritual aspect and all sorts of...

Article of the Year, Spanking is an ACE

Child Abuse & Neglect Article of the Year 2017 Child Abuse & Neglect, The International Journal, is pleased to announce the winner of its ‘Article of the Year’. The papers shortlisted for this title have demonstrated outstanding contribution to research on child welfare and we wish to recognise these scholars and research topics within the community. The papers selected for this title were voted on by the editorial team and editorial board (33 votes) of Child Abuse & Neglect. For...

Toxic Stress Is The Hidden Public Health Crisis California's New Surgeon General Wants To Solve [laist.com]

Our brains grows so much in the first few years of life that any trauma we experience during that time can affect our health forever. California's new, first-ever surgeon general, Dr. @Nadine Burke Harris, has made the link between childhood adversity and long-term health the focus of her work. She was sworn in by Gov. Gavin Newsom last week and calls her new role a "dream job." [For more on this story by PRISKA NEELY, go to ...

Mitigating the effects of childhood trauma [medicalxpress.com]

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can lead to mental health disorders in adolescence, and healthy family functioning and civic engagement can mitigate such damaging impact, according to a new Rutgers University–Camden study. Furthermore, low household income and low parent education increase the chances that children will have adverse experiences, explains Wenhua Lu, an assistant professor of childhood studies at Rutgers University–Camden, who co-authored the study with Yunyu Xiao, a...

Mental Illness: 5 Things People Want Us To Understand [blogs.psychcentral.com]

During the month of September, the world is asked to participate in and advocate for Suicide Prevention Awareness. It astounds me in this day and age of having access to various resources, articles, websites, blogs and other sources available on Online or on cell phones, that there are still people who misunderstand and incorrectly judge those living with conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, bipolar disorder and similar disorders. For most of us, we can go through a tough time, overcome...

My Mother Has Been Homeless for 45 Years. Why Isn’t Housing a Right? [truthout.org]

Not long ago, I received a letter from my mother. It said, “I am homeless, again. I may be dead before you are released from prison. Love mom.” It felt like some cruel force punched through my chest and tore out my heart, then stomped on it. My mother did not write that letter to simply provide me with an update on how her life continues to unravel. My mother wrote that letter because it is nearly impossible to survive deep poverty on one’s own. Even though I am incarcerated, my mother views...

To end the HIV epidemic, addressing poverty and inequities one of most important treatments [theconversation.com]

In his State of the Union speech, President Trump called for ending the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and senior public health officials stated that the government plans to focus on highly impacted areas and getting drugs to people at risk. I am a social scientist with over 10 years of expertise in the area of health disparities. My research interests include understanding and addressing disparities in HIV and cancer...

Toolkit: Changing the narrative about young men of color who are victims of violence [[bmsg.org]

The Healing Justice Alliance is committed to educating key stakeholders and the broader community on the adverse effects of trauma and finding ways to promote healing and safety in our communities. By working with young men of color who are survivors of violence to manage trauma, changing the community conditions that produce trauma, and communicating strategically about the importance of this approach, we are not only improving lives but also changing the public conversation about violence...

Five Strategies for Engaging Family Partners [nichq.org]

Families have an unmatched impact on their child’s health, especially during the early years of life when children’s rapidly developing brains are laying the groundwork for their future health and wellbeing. To be the best advocates for their children, families need the right supports, whether they be access to public assistance programs like Medicaid and housing, opportunities to build a strong relationship with their child’s health provider, or resources that empower them to support their...

The Relentless School Nurse: Precepting Nursing's Future

Preceptorship is an opportunity that must not be underestimated. As a nurse, one of our professional obligations is shepherding the next generation of nurses through their clinical training. It is an opportunity to model the heights of our profession, but it often dissolves into a much different experience for the students. As a school nurse and clinical faculty at Rutgers University-Camden, I have a great appreciation for preceptors and the importance of the student experience. This month,...

CRI Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training Webcast!

CRI Course 1: Trauma-Informed Training Webcast! Date: February 26, 2019 Time: 8am - 3pm Pacific Time A dynamic six-hour WEBCAST course, Course 1 introduces CRI’s capacity-building framework for building resilience, KISS. Knowledge, Insight, Strategies and Structure describes our community’s learning and movement from theory to practice and how to implement evidence-based strategies into action. The training includes three groups of topics: the NEAR sciences , a cluster of emerging scientific...

Trauma Informed Schools Network Conference: Cultivating Connections

We would like to make the community aware that an amazing national team of practitioners are hosting the Trauma Informed Schools Network Conference: Cultivating Connections in Nashville, TN at Lipscomb University from July 15-16, 2019. The conference will only be around 125 participants. The mission of the conference is to create networks and connections through learning about best practices associated with trauma informed practices. The design of the conference will be trauma informed in...

California Must Address a Statewide Latino Physician Shortage [calhealthreport.org]

Despite California’s leadership in expanding health coverage to a record number of Californians, we have a crisis that hardly anyone is addressing: Our state still fails to provide the quality—and quantity—of care needed by our largest ethnic group. According to research from the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, Latinos represent over 40 percent of California’s population but make up less than 12 percent of graduating physicians from the state’s medical schools. At the current...

Newark Today: Becoming A Trauma Informed City [wbgo.org]

On this month's Newark Today we'll be talking about the city's efforts to become a trauma informed city by 2020. The discussion comes on the heels of NJTV News' five part series Trauma's Tragedy and Treatment , by host Michael Hill. We'll be joined by Keri Logosso-Misurell, Executive Director of the Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition and Healthy Greater Newark ACO, Keesha Eure with The Newark Anti-Violence Coalition, and Barbara Neal Chief Program Officer South Ward Children's Alliance. The...

Researchers: tool can identify human trafficking victims [bcm.edu]

A screening tool designed specifically to assess for human trafficking was more likely to identify sexual and labor exploitation of youth, as well as the risk factors, than a commonly used psychosocial assessment, reported researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Participants for the study were recruited from Covenant House Texas, the largest shelter in Houston for homeless youth and young adults. Results were...

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