The Billings Clinic is receiving $12 million in funding to continue its trauma and complex care in the state.Funds come from $10 million in grants and a $2 mill
Study explored the relationship between traumatic events and somatic symptoms among children and adolescents, finding a significant increase in somatic complaints such as stomach pain and headaches in those diagnosed with PTSD, particularly among those experiencing multiple traumas.
>> being able to care for my dad, being able to make sure the bills are paid, for me to be able to strategize with my lawyer. you can't do that behind bars. >> the most important thing in my life is change, i'm working to getting my certifications. i've been free and sober for a year. >> i've had relatives and friends in jail and in prison. my mother was incarcerated for a time. so many people are doing these things out of trauma, out of pain, out of desperation, out of poverty. everyone has a story like that and we have to decide whether we are going to inflict harm and punishment or try to help heal and grow. >> it's important, for changing minds. how we do that, continuing to have this conversation and using the language of love, freedom, and liberation. >> every time i have been incarcerated i come out worse than i have been in. if you heal, and can help the next person heal, your community will be that much safer.
acute malnutrition among children. one third of the children. one third of the children in gaza have acute malnutrition which will lead to irreversible impact on your physical and mental health and development of the children in gaza. they will suffer for a few decades because of what is happening right now. when i said 73,000 people have been injured, most of them are children, half of them have moderate to severe injuries. they will have some type of disability, physical disability for the rest of their lives in gaza, and you can of course imagine their mental health trauma, i have seen in the clinic children so traumatised because of the sounds of explosions that happen every night, and many of them have physical illness and one of the children i have seen in the displacement centre, i ask every child, what would you like to be in the future, and they say doctors. they like to be. as in the future, not fighters, except for one child,
Previous studies in correctional facilities have shown positive effects of yoga on inmates. They experience increased impulse control and improved mental health.
the death toll mounts. in this room it is only the bodies of children. we have been here so many times in this nearly seven-month-long war. every day, more names added to a growing list of horror. trauma and grief play out on a never-ending loop. shellshocked residents standing in the ruins of their decimated homes. children trying to salvage what they can from the rubble. looking for something familiar. for more than two months, israel has threatened to send troops into rafah, but even without such an operation it is under regular bombardment. the strikes come at night. they come during the day. sometimes there's a warning from the israel defense force just before a hit. these residents are on the move, carrying backpacks and flour after being told to leave just this afternoon.