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Every U.S. Public Library and YMCA Will Soon Get Narcan for Free [time.com]

Every public library and YMCA in the U.S. may soon be equipped with Narcan, in an effort to combat drug-related deaths by expanding access to the opioid-overdose-reversing naloxone nasal spray. Emergent BioSolutions, which this month completed its acquisition of Narcan maker Adapt Pharma, will provide a free kit including two doses of the nasal spray, as well as educational materials, to each of the 16,568 public libraries and 2,700 YMCAs in the U.S., according to an announcement released...

“We will keep on fighting for him.” [features.propublica.org]

This is Wilson.* His mother, Aline, took the picture to mark a happy and hopeful moment following a traumatic period when Wilson participated in a University of Illinois at Chicago clinical trial that tested whether lithium was effective in treating children with bipolar disorder. ProPublica Illinois reported in April that the UIC psychiatrist who oversaw several federally funded studies, Dr. Mani Pavuluri, violated research rules, failed to alert parents of risks and falsified data to cover...

Post-Harvey, Houston Teachers Learn to Respond to Trauma [prweb.com]

One year after Hurricane Harvey, Houston-area teachers have a new tool to respond to children who have experienced trauma or distress through a new online professional development program. The program was developed through a collaboration between UNICEF USA , Mental Health America of Greater Houston (MHA of Greater Houston), and health simulation company Kognito . The program, titled Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Schools (TPS), is a 30-45-minute online simulation that builds educators’...

Freaky Friday, Prison-Style [themarshallproject.org]

No one knew what we were signing up for, but we volunteered for the “re-entry-to-society simulator” at our Kentucky prison regardless. When the day came, we filed into a large room. “Take a seat at one of the tables, any table. That will be your ‘occupation’ for the next hour—so find something fitting, guys,” said the re-entry program administrator, a red-haired woman acting as our new boss. “You’ll find instructions in your packet. And don’t steal any of the pens or markers!” [For more on...

Latinos Today are More Worried About Their Place in the U.S. [psmag.com]

Being Latino in the United States is harder today than it was a year ago, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. The report, which is based on a bilingual survey of over 1,500 Hispanic and Latino adults over the last few months, identifies increasing pessimism among Latinos about their place in America—even more than they felt soon after President Donald Trump was elected. Here's what you need to know about the survey. NEARLY HALF OF LATINOS SAY THEIR SITUATION HAS GROWN...

What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking? [npr.org]

Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights. And, says Frank Elgar , the study's lead author and an associate professor at the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University in Montreal, "The association appears...

From Trauma Informed To Trauma Transformed: Achieving Post-Traumatic GROWTH for the Youths In Our Most Disenfranchised Public Schools and Communities

Roberto Rivera was a troubled, addicted youth engaged in criminal behavior who discovered his path to transformation in the pit of his traumatic pain. He harnessed the fire of early childhood trauma to change himself from being a problem to being a solution, not just in his own life, but also in the lives of many, many other under-privileged and under-performing young people. The name of his solution is Fulfill The Dream (FTD). FTD is a unique, hip-hop(e) based, Social Emotional Learning...

Trip to New Orleans

I recently return from my vacation in New Orleans. My daughter traveled there the year prior and made the St. Charles Street streetcar sound like a travel back into time. This was no Disney ride. It's a working mass transit and we were on it during the rush hour. My Diane and I were separated and she found a seat up front. I was content to stay in the back and hold on. Doing the tourist thing of asking the question of "Where ya from?" Low and behold I'm standing with another Buffalo Bills...

The Primary Prevention of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Visit advancingparenting.org. We are a small nonprofit pioneering an innovative and powerful kind of child abuse prevention/parenting education that reaches everyone, everywhere, all the time. Bumper stickers! Yes, bumper stickers with parenting tips one them! Parenting tips on vehicles will be read 1000s of times by 1000s of people of all ages for years to come! The tips are behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children. They address...

Teaching students the art of self-reflection by measuring their heart rate under 3 different circumstances

This year I came up with an effective strategy using an app on my iPhone. I have been working with 3-6 graders showing them how their heart rate tells a story about how they are feeling in response to external stimuli. I show them through a series of three experiments which measure their heart rate under three different circumstances.

Safetyism, fragility, and community design [cnu.org]

I am reading The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, which speaks, in part, of the culture of “safetyism” that has taken hold in American discourse and higher education. The authors draw from ancient wisdom, psychological theory, and science to make the case that it is bad for human beings to be made too safe. Research has recently shown that diligently keeping young children away from peanut products—the norm since the 1990s in the US—has vastly raised the...

What Civil War soldiers can teach us about how trauma is passed from generation to generation (www.latimes.com)

More than one person shared this LA Times article by Melissa Healy with me this week so now I'm sharing with all of you. It was published in the LA Times. Here's an excerpt. After reaching the age of 45 — old enough to see the effects of any inherited factors that might influence longevity — the sons of POWs were roughly 11% more likely to die at any given age than were the sons of men who had not been held prisoner. In an even more telling comparison, the researchers turned up 342 POWs who...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (www.pbs.org) & Dr. Bruce Perry Quotes

Anyone who follows Dr. Bruce Perry on Twitter knows he's got lots of feelings and opinions about how some are using the ACE study and ACE scores. It's not always easy in Tweets to understand the depth of his questions and concerns. If, like me, you respect his work and views and wish you knew more, you are in luck. In this episode of Explore Health which aired on PBS yesterday, he is interviewed and speaks about ACEs. Here are some of the things he said: To watch the entire Explore Health...

2018 Healing Justice Alliance Conference - Historical Trauma: Treating the Symptom, Healing the Root

On September 12-14 change agents from across the world came together for the 2018 Healing Justice Alliance Conference in Denver, Colorado. The conference had over 350 attendees and focused on violence intervention and prevention from multiple perspectives. The mission of the Healing Justice Alliance is: "To connect and support hospital-based, community-linked violence intervention and prevention programs and promote trauma-informed care for communities impacted by violence." The conference...

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