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Resources, posts, discussions, chats about national efforts to build a trauma-informed, resilience-building nation.

September 2018

Significant trauma provisions included in committee reports accompanying spending bill

The House voted overwhelmingly (361-61) to approve the FY (Fiscal Year) 2019 Labor/HHS/Education and Department of Defense Appropriations on September 26, following the Senate’s approval by a vote of 93-7 on September 18. By combining funding for often-controversial domestic programs with funding for defense, appropriators created a must-pass package and made a government shutdown less likely as the looming October 1 deadline approaches. President Trump said he will sign the bill. The...

Former SNL cast member Darrell Hammond talks childhood trauma on the Hill [washingtonpost.com]

Darrell Hammond, who you’ll definitely recognize from his turns as Al Gore, Bill Clinton and President Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” was actually nervous to meet with lawmakers on the Hill earlier this week. It’s one thing to play a politician for laughs on TV and another to persuade one to back your cause. “I was a little awestruck,” said Hammond, who met with Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.), Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to discuss...

White Women: We Need To Talk About Race [forbes.com]

“White women like me” is a phrase you hear often when you talk with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. Rowe-Finkbeiner is the cofounder, executive director and CEO of MomsRising.org – a grassroots organizing nonprofit that takes on “the most critical issues facing women, mothers, and families by educating the public and mobilizing massive grassroots actions.” Both her activism at MomsRising.org and her latest book, Keep Marching: How Every Woman Can Change Our World, focus on the idea that we can...

One man turned nursing home design on its head when he created this stunning facility. (upworthy.com)

Jean Makesh, CEO of Lantern assisted living facilities, says he meets folks with stories like these every day. It's their stories that inspired him to make some changes at Lantern. "I thought I knew a lot about elderly care. The more and more time I was spending with my clients, that's when I realized, 'Oh my god, I have no clue.'" A big believer in the idea that our environment has an enormous effect on us, he started thinking big — and way outside the box. "What if we design an environment...

U.S. Senate passes opioid legislation with trauma-related provisions

On Monday evening, the U.S. Senate approved 99-1 the Opioid Crisis Response Act (OCRA) of 2018 (Senator Mike Lee, R-UT was the lone “no” vote). The rare, multi-committee, bipartisan bill includes significant provisions taken from or aligned with the goals of the Heitkamp-Durbin Trauma-Informed Care for Children and Families Act (S. 774) , including the creation of an interagency task force to identify trauma-informed best practices and grants for trauma-informed practices in schools. The...

Climate change intensified Hurricane Florence, study finds (sciencenewsforstudents.org)

Scientists recently completed a compelling experiment. They knew Hurricane Florence was barreling towards the United States’ East Coast. It was whipping up ferocious winds and the potential to drop enough rain to flood huge swaths of land. A warming climate can provoke more severe weather events. So this team decided to probe whether Earth’s climate fever might have intensified Florence. And their study’s finding: It did! This showed that Florence would end up being bigger than it would have...

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