Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, May 2020

May is Resilient Wisconsin Month Governor Tony Evers has proclaimed May as Resilient Wisconsin Month to encourage all state residents to explore the Resilient Wisconsin website to learn how to manage stress and adapt to change. What's new? Tips for people in especially challenging situations during the COVID-19 pandemic Free training webcasts for professionals: Trauma-Informed Care: Putting Humanity Back Into Human Services (on the Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed Practices webpage) Hidden Trauma (on the Resilient Wisconsin: Secondary Trauma webpage) Resilience: The Path to Hope and Meaning (on the Resilient Wisconsin: Adverse Children Experiences webpage) Visit the Resilient Wisconsin: Partner Resources webpage for social media posts and other materials you can use to promote Resilient Wisconsin in your community.

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• The missing link of emotional intelligence
• The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence
• Everything is not fine: Kids can tell when parents suppress their stress
• COVID-19: The downside of social distancing
• If you grew up in trauma, you may be feeling super triggered right now
• Heart disease more likely for adults with dysfunctional childhoods
• A child's home environment can impact the risk of developing depression
• 'Allostatic load' is the psychological reason for our pandemic fog
• Thinking about racial disparities in COVID-19 impacts through a science-informed, early childhood lens
• Supporting the health of individuals experiencing homelessness amid COVID-19
• What one doctor's suicide taught us
• Pediatric research: COVID-19 will lead to more childhood trauma. Health care must take it into account
• One in three gay men feel unsafe at home during coronavirus
• Shelter-in-place ignites trauma from past abusive partners

Brain and Biology

• New insight into the neural circuitry underlying irritability and anxiety in youths when processing social threat
• Podcast: The Brain Architects: COVID-19 Special Series
• Podcast: The Brain Architects - Self-Care Isn't Selfish
• Podcast: The Brain Architects - Creating Communities of Opportunity
• Neural circuit that drives physical response to emotional stress found

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Juvenile justice centers and vulnerable youth latest victims of COVID-19
• Justice systems must help children overcome fear and trauma, not make them worse

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 14(2), April 2020
• Research analysis: Study identifies groups at high risk for PTSD, barriers to care
• How the coronavirus pandemic may bend the demand for behavioral health services
• Coronavirus battle a disaster for health care workers: experts
• Now it is moral injury: The COVID-19 pandemic and moral distress
• Case Western Reserve team studying 'unprecedented' levels of trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
• PTSD increasingly concerning for nurses
• Surge in COVID-19 PTSD may be the "New Normal'

Resilience

• Zabie Yamasaki: Trauma-informed yoga
• Toolkit: Compassion Resilience Toolkit
• "A new Greatest Generation': How our natural resilience may surprise us
• COVID-19: Mental health and well-being for ourselves and our children
• Post-traumatic growth: Finding meaning and creativity in adversity
• Video: Setting aside "worry time" can help you curb coronavirus anxiety
• What we can learn about resilience from Indigenous Leaders
• Will distancing hurt your toddler's social development?
• We are doctors who study trauma. Here's how to cope with the COVID-19 crisis
• Resilience and growth in the face of a pandemic
• Social media may foster post-traumatic growth in disasters
• COVID-19: Finding opportunities for positive change
• 5 steps to working thought trauma, according to a therapist who works with first responders

Schools

• Closed schools create more trauma for students
• Walking the resiliency road: From overwhelmed to compassion-in-action
• 15 post pandemic educator considerations
• Pandemic induced trauma, stress leading to 'uptick' in SEL need

Substance Use Disorder

• Treating substance use disorders in the era of COVID-19
• Is addiction a "brain disease"?
• Words matter: The language of addiction and life-saving treatments
• Signs of fetal alcohol syndrome detected in womb

Trainings

• Introduction to Trauma Sensitive Schools-2-PART VIRTUAL SESSION
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Train the Trainer-8-PART VIRTUAL SESSION
• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care 2-PART VIRTUAL SESSION

Trauma-Informed Care

• Therapeutic foster care - what is it?
• Native American children protected in groundbreaking foster care settlement

Violence

COVID-19: a public health approach to manage domestic violence is needed

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