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Our newest Science and Services Spotlight,Understanding Trauma Exposure in Crossover Youth, is now live! View and download here: https://lnkd.in/eD2i5tBe Explore CTRJJ’s newest Science and Services Spotlight, a resource series for juvenile justice professionals, mental health professionals, advocates, community members, and youth and families. The goals of these Spotlights are to: - Provide brief, focused summaries of current research findings or innovative trauma-informed services, and - Increase awareness of cutting-edge information that can be used to raise awareness, enhance trainings, inform practice, and support policy change. A new Science and Service Spotlight will be added monthly. Browse all downloadable Science and Services Spotlights by clicking the link above!

April is National Stress Awareness Month. We are highlighting one of our core faculty member's publications, Dr. Nadine Kaslow. Please read her publication on"Childhood Physical Abuse and Antisocial Traits: Mediating Role of Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Clusters" at https://lnkd.in/ezPCXr36. #stressawareness #injuryprevention

Moving beyond tinkering at the edges of innovation and into a space where innovation and design thinking are central to our work has been transformative for me. Although I'm not fond of public speaking, being able to share the insights I've gained since joining Healthy Families Whanganui Rangitīkei Ruapehu has been incredibly rewarding, especially in my field of mahi. It also gives me permission to think in a different way then I’m used to after working for so long in our mainstream services. Shifting our focus to prevention rather than crisis changes how we perceive mental health and addiction. It's the system that's the problem, not the people. Systemic change addresses the complexities underlying the issues that keep them in place, and there's something remarkable about transitioning from attempting to solve problems as individuals to addressing them collectively. Change can be truly transformative when approached collectively. Shifting to growing collective wellbeing is the narrative in our rohe, strengths based and whānau focussed. Join us for our next two hui and hear how our rohe’s voice is driving change! #growingcollectivewellbeing #innovation #collectiveimpact #systemschange #mentalhealthandaddictions Healthy Families Whanganui Rangitīkei Ruapehu Te Whāriki o te Ara Oranga

There is increasing understanding that traumatic events can seriously impact individuals’ psychological and physical health and wellbeing. Being trauma-informed means understanding that those in most need of services may also be the hardest to reach and least likely to engage effectively with services. A trauma-informed approach assumes that all of us have potentially experienced trauma and therefore key principles should be applied throughout our work with all children, young people and families. To find out the five principles of the trauma-informed approach, click the link below:   https://lnkd.in/eBtEVY97

Next Monday, join a webinar with the NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disability, and Substance Use Services (NC DMH/DD/SUS) to learn about policies and programs that affect the MH/IDD/SU/TBI community. The goal of this webinar is to bring everyone together in one (virtual) place. This group includes consumers, families, advisory groups, LME/MCOs, community members, and partner organizations. Side by side, people will work together to better understand and improve our system. We will listen closely to one another, and we will share ideas for public policy that will improve lives in NC. January's topic: Behavioral Health Workforce - Peer Support and Direct Support Professionals. Date/Time: Monday, January 8, 2023, 2:00-3:00 pm Register for the webinar at the link below: Image: Collage of images depicting groups of people of various ages and abilities interacting together.

Tomorrow is International Self Care Day, but we think every day should be self-care day. As a community of victim-survivors, lived experienced advocates, loved ones or professional support people it is important to practice self-care. The research shows us that self-care helps to mitigate the impacts of trauma, vicarious trauma and burnout but it can be tricky to prioritise. Find out more about information about self-care and coping with trauma at fullstop.org.au.

The Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute is making major strides helping advance equitable access to high quality mental health care. Read more in our 2023 annual report!

That support is very important. I lost my law enforcement/ US Marshal fiance in the line of duty in 2020 two weeks before Christmas. The holidays are difficult even after three years have passed. Grief has no time limit. The days, months and years will not somehow erase the extent of the loss. For life without that piece of you, is a new life indeed. It is a new world when the person you miss so much is no longer here. Everything looks different and will never look the same again. Every day is a mountain to climb, battling the waves of emotion, when a song plays, a smell reminds you or a memory causes tears to fall. And that never lessens, we only become accustomed to handling it and trying to hide it. You may think time is healing the hurt, then you enter a new phase of your life; a new relationship, a child, a new opportunity, and you realize you cannot share that with your missing part. The waves bear down fresh, as they were on the very the first day of the loss. We naturally resist thinking of the death of our loved ones. We must overcome this resistance in order to confront and assimilate the information that a loved one is gone. When we do confront the reality, we are often assailed by tidal waves of negative emotion. Grief can overwhelm our usual emotion regulation capacity, forcing us to resort to escape and avoidance to get some respite. It is necessary to find a way to reappraise triggers of negative emotion so that the continued presence of the loss is no longer insistent and disruptive. Grief is a very common, yet largely misunderstood, aspect of life. At one time or another, we all must go through the grieving process. But there are many forms and types of grief, and understanding the differences is key to being able to move through the grief process in a healthy way. Acknowledging your grief is often the healthiest way you can come out on the other side. Choosing not to deal with grief can have a long-term, lasting, negative impact on your life. Normal Grief in and of itself is normal. Any time you suffer a loss, it’s the most normal thing in the world to have feelings of grief. There is a huge range of emotions that you may experience during your grieving process. Some of these can be physical, while others may be behavioral, emotional, or social.  #Anticipatorygrief #Complicatedgrief #ChronicGrief, #DelayedGrief, #DistortedGrief, #CumulativeGrief, #ExaggeratedGrief, #SecondaryLoss, #MaskedGrief, #DisenfranchisedGrief (Ambiguous), #TraumaticGrief, #CollectiveGrief, #InhibitedGrief, #AbbreviatedGrief, #AbsentGrief

To add to the conversation of grief during the holidays—grief can also be diverse in that people may grieve having strained relationships or no contact with family; loss of safety; or even the after-effects of COVID-19. Remembering to be mindful in work spaces and showing grace/understanding to those who may not be as cheerful or need some distance. This article gives great actionable ways to support those who may be grieving or struggling in your personal life and applicable to the workplace. ‘Tis the season’ to support one another! 🎄

In case you missed it last week, the #TimeForAction report was released synthesising outcomes from the #PreventionInPractice Summit in December. #TimeForAction outlines four key priorities for collective action across governments, communities and services. These key priorities are supported by practical actions that can be taken now including allocating longer-term funding for prevention programs, increasing the involvement of people with lived and living experience, and improving data collection and reporting. https://lnkd.in/g4ZDw5_b