• Every Tuesday: The Trauma Research Foundation is hosting a weekly “Sound Passage: Use Your Voice to Find Your Voice!” The sounds and movements activate the vagus nerve to settle the nervous system, creating a peaceful, calming effect. The vagus nerve, also called the “soul” or “compassion” nerve, activates the body’s social engagement system, turning off the stress system and helping us feel safe in our bodies.
• September 6: The National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives is hosting a presentation that will describe the urgent need, methods, and many benefits of community-led initiatives that use a public health approach to build population mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal global warming-generated, and other, mental health, behavioral health, and psychosocial struggles.
• September 20: Our next CTIPP CAN call will provide a briefing on our new women’s health toolkit, created in partnership with people with lived personal and professional experience interfacing with women’s healthcare systems. 
• September 21: Join a virtual Congressional briefing on the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act of 2023 (CMWRA). Hosted by the International Transformational Resilience Coalition, CMWRA would, for the first time, authorize the CDC to fund and support community-led initiatives nationwide that use a public health approach to proactively build mental wellness and resilience to prevent and heal mental health problems generated by toxic stresses, emergencies, and disasters.

• Urge Congress to support the RISE from Trauma Act (S. 1426 and H.R. 4541) to expand the trauma-informed workforce in schools, healthcare settings, social services, first responders, and the justice system and increase community resources to address the impact of trauma.
• Urge Congress to support the Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Act (S. 1452 and H.R. 3073) to help communities proactively develop local strategies that build population-level resilience by planning for and responding to the mental health challenges caused by disasters and toxic stress.
• TOOLKIT: Free resources to help you urge Congress to support trauma-informed federal legislation.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

• Our August CTIPP CAN call provided practical strategies and real-life examples of trauma-informed schools that are creating safer and more supportive environments for everyone.
• Job Opportunity in Hawaii: Twenty mental health specialists are urgently needed to provide services to people affected by the Maui wildfires. The position starts immediately and runs for approximately 1-3 months. Qualifications include 1) current Hawaii license to practice as a Clinical Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist, or Mental Health Counselor (active out-of-state licensures acceptable under current emergency proclamation), 2) bachelor's degree with a minimum of 12 semester credits hours in psychology or social work, and 3) minimum two years of professional experience providing mental health clinical services to individuals, couples, families or groups with mental illness.

MINDFUL MOMENT: TAKE A MINUTE

This month’s mindful moment can help you experience the present moment more meaningfully; if you practice this a lot, it can become automatic. Pick anything in your environment and choose to pay attention to it for one minute. It can be a cloud floating by in the sky or how your fan/air-conditioning sways the paper on your desk. If your attention moves on, simply and gently bring it back to the object.