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Aging is accompanied by a great many challenges. New research highlights a crucial connection between mental and physical well-being. It demonstrates how addressing trauma can not only alleviate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in older adults but also significantly reduce a major health concern i n this population: frailty. Frailty refers to a state of diminished physiological resilience, increasing vulnerability to falls, injuries, and other health complications. According to...

Ninety-four percent of children sentenced to adult time experienced multiple traumas in their early years. Eighty percent of girls survived sexual abuse, a large percentage overall are commercially trafficked. Yet in all but 10% of cases, this childhood trauma was not even considered in court when minors were tried for crimes. These are the findings in a new report detailing the “childhood-trauma-to-prison pipeline .” The report by the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Human Rights for Kids —...

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Following the strong interest in my article on diagnosing the "DEI Plateau," I have just launched the practical tool designed to bridge that gap. The IEEF Organizational Equity Audit Toolkit is a complete, self-guided system born from my doctoral research. It provides leaders with a structured methodology to: Conduct a simultaneous Structural & Identity Lens Move from demographic tracking to diagnosing systemic root causes. Build a credible, 90-Day Action Roadmap from your insights. It...

You’ve run the training sessions. You’ve issued the statements. You’re tracking the demographics. Yet, a stubborn reality persists: employee surveys reveal a gap between policy and experience, turnover remains uneven, and the promised surge in innovation feels elusive. For many leaders, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) has hit a perplexing plateau. The common instinct is to double down on existing efforts such as more training, clearer communication, better hiring goals. However,...

Over the past year, I have been working on HealthBridge Nexus™— a multilingual, trauma-informed, low-bandwidth access, community-driven digital peer-support model designed for people facing both HIV risk and mental health challenges, particularly those navigating stigma, migration stress, or unstable living conditions. The Problem We Solve Marginalized communities experience "epistemic erasure" : the systematic process by which the knowledge, lived experiences, and the unique needs of...

Aging is a community issue that touches us all — as caregivers, advocates, professionals, and individuals navigating our own journeys. We invite you to join the next session in CHC Univ ersity ’s “Reimagining Aging: Community, Care, Connection” series , sponsored by AARP : Rural Aging – Challenges and Strategies for Improving Health Outcomes in Rural Communities 📅 Thursday, October 23 🕛 12:00–1:00 PM ET 💻 Online Event – Register Now This conversation will examine how shrinking access to...

While the researchers identified four different sites, the site FOXP1 was particularly significant as it acts as a “master switch” for the genes involved in brain development. Credit: Neuroscience News To read more of the Neuroscience News article, please click here. (Thank you to Dr. Nile El Wardani , Professor of Global Health, University of California - San Diego, for sharing this article with me.) Summary: New research reveals that child maltreatment leaves measurable biological “scars”...