ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

5 Ways Trauma And Poverty Affect Childhood Development

By Nicole F. Roberts — 2020

Although children are born ready to learn and grow, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur in youth resulting in toxic stress. And that toxic stress from ACEs can literally change how the brain develops and affect how the body responds to stress as one ages.

Read on www.forbes.com

FindCenter Post-Image

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home

In 1974, playwright Ntozake Shange published For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. The book would go on to inspire legions of women for decades and would later become the subject and title of a hugely popular movie in the fall of 2010.

Book
Keith Boykin (editor)
2012
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
15:02

What If Gentrification Was About Healing Communities Instead of Displacing Them? | Liz Ogbu

Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Raising Antiracist Kids: The Power of Intentional Conversations About Race and Parenting

Parents, caregivers and educators know that having conversations with kids about race and racism are important, but they often don’t know when and how to have them.

Book
Nicole C. Lee
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Mothers United: An Immigrant Struggle for Socially Just Education

In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, and underqualified teachers.

Book
Andrea Dyrness
2011
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World

The essential guide to parenting multiracial and multiethnic children of all ages and learning to support and celebrate their multiracial identities In a world where people are more likely to proclaim color-blindness than talk openly about race, how can we truly value, support, and celebrate our...

Book
Farzana Nayani
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the view of the hoopers and hustlers he watched from the side window of his family’s first-floor project apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Book
Carmelo Anthony
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
41:30

Horizons 2018: Monnica Williams Ph.D. on “Race-Based Trauma”

“Race-Based Trauma: The Challenge and Promise of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy” Monnica Williams, Ph.D.

Video
Monnica Williams
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
44:17

Monnica Williams: The Experience of Racism Is an Assault on Mental Health

My guest on the show today is Dr. Monnica T. Williams, certified licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa. Monnica is researching how PTSD symptoms can result from racism and what racial trauma and race-based trauma look like.

Video
Monnica Williams
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
02:20

Intergenerational Trauma: Residential Schools

Learn how the effects of residential schools continue to manifest into the present day.

Video
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization.

Book
Christine Caldwell (editor), Lucia Bennett Leighton (editor)
2018
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Poverty and Economic Inequality