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All posts tagged "trauma"
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4.1KOpinionTrauma 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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3.7KOpinionOnly 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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2.7KNewsCarlsbad 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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1.7KGrantsTraumatized 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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5.5KNewsHow 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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3.3KNewsAvoid 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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3.3KNewsLA’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...
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2.5KNewsRaise the Age Is No Panacea for North Carolina Youth
Issues raised by the school-to-prison pipeline in North Carolina can’t be pinpointed to just one factor. But, said Peggy Nicholson of the...
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4.3K► ReportsAtlanta Youth Count: The Prevalence of Sex and Labor Trafficking Among Homeless Youth in Metro Atlanta
Researchers from Georgia State University surveyed homeless youth around Atlanta to create a comprehensive overview of their experiences, particularly in regard to...
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3.0KNewsLGBTQ, Traumatized Homeless Youth More Vulnerable to Being Trafficked: Report
Understanding how homeless youth are trafficked is important information for the organizations offering them services.
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5.6KOpinionThese Tools Help Coach College Youth Aged Out of Foster Care to Develop Relationships
What does it take to engage students who age out of foster care into supportive relationships on the college campus? It helps...
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3.9KNewsSocial Workers, Navigators Help Mississippi Foster Youth Transition To College
By the time she turned 6, Jessica Reese had been sexually abused repeatedly. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services took Reese and...
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4.3KNewsYouth Caught in Crosshairs of Cycles of Gun Violence. Is Anybody Listening?
Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were...
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4.3KOpinionRight Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
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4.3KNewsYoung Atlanta Refugees Build Robotics Along With New Lives
An Atlanta robotics team initially made up of refugee youth has racked up win after win in state and national competitions, successfully...
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1.7KOpinionBoost Education for Youth in Solitary With More Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
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4.1KFrom the BureausTrauma Runs Through Gun Violence Among Black Youth, Researcher Says
Of all the threads of injustice, trauma is the common theme that contributes to a culture of gun violence for black youth...
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9.5KOpinionEven Toddlers, Preschoolers Need Trauma-Informed Intervention
Benjamin Franklin once said; “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Nowhere is this axiom truer than in the...
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2.8KOpinionFrom Trauma to Trust: New Approaches to Police Accountability
A Newark, N.J., police officer talks about the hostility she experiences from local residents. She is pained that the community won’t look...
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3.9KOpinionWe Can Close Poor Students’ Gap With Better Trauma-informed Education
The New York Foundling has been protecting children and strengthening families for nearly 150 years and is now one of oldest and...
