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All posts tagged "trauma"
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayWe Know What Truly Works for Gun Violence Prevention and Invest In It
ESTONES TENKA/SHUTTERSTOCK More than 115,000 Americans will be shot and 40,000 will die from gun violence this year alone — just like...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayI Can Offer Hope to Other Young Survivors of Sexual Abuse
While COVID-19 has consumed almost every part of the lives of most Americans for more than two months, the uncertainties, anxieties and...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico, and U.S., Needs Help With Both Immediate Needs, Ultimate Causes
A few years ago I attended a workshop on Theatre of the Oppressed, an approach to community education based on the use...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayPandemic Affecting Adolescent Development; We Must Help Them Handle New Traumas
The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights the disproportionate impact of crises on our most vulnerable communities, particularly here in New Mexico. Reports across the...
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1.9KNewsFor Kids Unsafe at Home, School Closure Increases Risk For Trauma
In January, Sharral Dean, a therapist at the Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia, was seeing about 30 young clients a week....
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2.9KGuest Opinion EssayNew Mexico Must Do More For Homeless Youth
As a longtime advocate for children, youth and families in New Mexico, I wholeheartedly believe in the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage...
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayIncarceration Increases Young Black Men’s Risk of Repeatedly Being Violently Injured
In 2016, my colleagues and I wrote a paper that examined risk factors for repeat violent injury among black men in Baltimore...
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3.3KGuest Opinion Essay5 Ways to Best Support Homeless Students During COVID-19
As a college student, I experienced a devastating hurricane and most of my town was flooded. I remember this experience as being...
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3.8KGuest Opinion EssayIs California’s ACEs Questionnaire ‘Trap’ For Poor Families?
I’ve written about a study that found that poor mothers often avoid revealing their problems or accepting much-needed help because those asking...
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2.0KNewsNew Mexico Foster Care Intends to Become ‘Trauma Responsive’ in Lawsuit Settlement
New Mexico’s already low performance in child welfare hit rock bottom on Sept. 22, 2018: Thirteen foster youth, represented by Disability Rights...
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3.1KGuest Opinion EssayEffects of Gun Violence Can Be Reduced in Youth, Chicago Program Shows
Concentrated gun violence results in lost population and economic power, increases trauma throughout communities and depresses school outcomes among students exposed to...
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9.3KGuest Opinion EssayStop Traumatizing Teens in Foster Care With Negative Stigma
As a young person who was in foster care as a teenager, I have come to realize that there are many misconceptions...
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2.7KNewsLas Cruces, New Mexico, Legislator Helping Fight Childhood Trauma
With some time to kill the day before the 2018 Thanksgiving break, William Soules, a math and social studies teacher at Oñate...
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3.3KGuest Opinion EssayTrauma for Youth Is Everywhere … But We Can Heal It in Newark
On a sunny afternoon in 2006, I was driving my four sons to a cookout in Newark, N.J., my hometown. We had...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayOnly Death Ends the Rescue Fantasy for Clinician — At First
From training to practicing to now teaching, one of the key factors in psychotherapy that continually surfaces is countertransference (sorry self-care), which...
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2.0KNewsCarlsbad Center Partnering With Eddy County CASA to Serve More Young People
It was a bleak time for many foster youth and their families in need when Kids’ Safehouse ceased operations in January 2015,...
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1.4KGrantsTraumatized Youth Welfare Direct Services Program Grants
GRANT FOCUS: Child/Youth Welfare, Mental Health, Traumatized Youth, Trauma | Amount: Up to ~$30,000 | Deadline: Mar. 1, 2020
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4.7KNewsHow One Philadelphia After-school Program Works to Be Trauma-informed
On an afternoon in October, kids in the Sunrise of Philadelphia after-school program made tissue-paper marigolds, assembled little altars and created masks....
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2.6KNewsAvoid Simplistic Thinking About Trauma-informed Care, Some Say
As the effort to be trauma informed sweeps across youth-serving agencies, some who research and treat trauma are urging people to think...
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2.7KNewsLA’s BEST Sees Increase in Mental Health Issues, Responds with a Focus on Trauma
The increase of mental health problems in kids is one of the reasons LA’s Best, an after-school provider serving 25,000 children in...
