Join me tomorrow for my conversation with my close friend, Ritu Bhasin! I'm thrilled about our upcoming conversation. Register now to secure your spot.
DEI attackers are on the run!
The White House's pledge to protect DEI initiatives is turning the tide. We are reasserting our right to merit-based opportunity, our commitment to solidarity, fair and just hiring, and promotion practices. We are winning! Ritu Bhasin and Vernā Myers, who are dear friends, will host a discussion on the current state of DEI and strategies for pushing it forward!
Register and join us! https://lnkd.in/e45jj7wp
Top Voice for Neurodiversity in Cybersecurity | Top 50 Global Neurodiversity Evangelist | Accessibility and Disability Champion | Triple Award Winner | Host of the NeuroSec Podcast | Founder WiCyS CO and Neurodiversity
Did you know that in 2022, tragically, over 49,000 lives were lost to suicide? Shockingly, a significant number were individuals aged 25-44, predominantly of Caucasian descent. This includes my father, a retired police sergeant, who, like over 50% of others, used a firearm to end his life.
While there are interventions, therapies, and medications that can help prevent suicide, it's time we shift our focus. Let's open up conversations about adverse childhood experiences, the crucial nature of healthy caregiver attachment during infancy, and the traumas that precede joining professions like law enforcement.
Do we need to emphasize the importance of discussing well-being, fostering healthy connections with peers, family, and spirituality, or reaching out to 988? Of course! As you share your present struggles, also bravely recount the challenges you have overcome in the past, no matter how many years have elapsed. As a suicide loss survivor, I strongly believe that together, through open dialogue and understanding, we can strive to prevent such heartbreaking losses. Jason M. Palamara and I are grateful to Dianne Bernhard for contributing to our new book, Living Blue.
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Director of Veteran & First Responder Engagement at Forge Health. The Cold Case Consultant. Co-Founder, Living Blue Apparel. Author, Speaker & Coach. Peer Support Specialist & Crisis Counselor.
Dianne Bernhard is the Executive Director of the Concerns of Police Survivors organization and responsible for fulfilling their mission, providing leadership, overseeing the functions of the organization, strategizing for future growth, and operating C.O.P.S under the direction of the National Board.
What Dianne is most however, is an amazing human who has cared for our Nation’s heroes in such an impactful way through the work she does. Before her role at C.O.P.S, Dianne was a Deputy Chief for the Columbia Missouri Police Department and uses her years of experience and leadership to show up for officers and their families when they need it most.
I had the privilege of speaking at the C.O.P.S National Conference in Dallas last year and saw firsthand what an impact her work is having on the law-enforcement profession.
Barbara Rubel, Compassion Fatigue Speaker and I are excited to have Dianne’s words inside of the End of Watch chapter of our book, Living Blue: Helping Law Enforcement Officers and Their Families Survive and Thrive from Recruitment to Retirement, to share with you all.
On 1 May we'll be joined by Sharon Maciver, National Director for Child Criminal Exploitation at Action for Children and Donna McEwan, Practice Development Advisor, the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice, who will consider how best to equip practitioners, parents, carers, families and communities to prevent, identify, protect against, and understand the risk of child criminal exploitation, and will discuss about the work underway on the development of a national framework for practice. There will also be space for questions: https://buff.ly/3VZXkGj
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Doing my part to share the report below and raise awareness about the need to stand with Black women in confronting hate--and protecting those experiencing it--in the fight to create a just and equitable world.
I’m writing today to share with you a new report by three anonymous women entitled, "We All Deserve Safety and Peace: Amidst a Surge in Divisiveness, We, as Black Women Advancing Social Justice, are Under Increased Threat." This report shares that Black women on the frontlines of social justice movements face greater threats than other groups, and they receive less support. Many of us may know this. Some of us may not, thinking that environmental and justice advocates are at risk somewhere else, in some other place. But this isn't true. This is a brave report and no matter our role in environmental advocacy and activism, we all have a stake in the basic safety of Black women fighting for social justice.
The report also contains eight solutions on how we all can support Black women and improve safety, both on and offline, and contribute to building a more just, nurturing, and safe society. Please consider sharing this report far and wide and with your networks. You can also submit your own story (anonymously if needed) at https://lnkd.in/gx2kYc2k
February is #BlackHistoryMonth, which underscores the importance of increasing access to financial security for people everywhere — to create wealth, lift communities, and build legacies. Learn about our commitment to those ideals, through our Blueprints to Black Wealth initiative: https://bit.ly/49uR9xz
📑 Explore new insights in the Alliance for Youth Justice (AYJ)'s latest briefing paper on the experiences of Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic young people transitioning to adulthood in the criminal justice system.
🔍 Delve into the findings here ➡️ https://buff.ly/3lZyt5k
February is #BlackHistoryMonth, which underscores the importance of increasing access to financial security for people everywhere — to create wealth, lift communities, and build legacies. Learn about our commitment to those ideals, through our Blueprints to Black Wealth initiative: https://bit.ly/4bS2GsO
February is #BlackHistoryMonth, which underscores the importance of increasing access to financial security for people everywhere — to create wealth, lift communities, and build legacies. Learn about our commitment to those ideals, through our Blueprints to Black Wealth initiative: https://bit.ly/49eQYqt
February is #BlackHistoryMonth, which underscores the importance of increasing access to financial security for people everywhere — to create wealth, lift communities, and build legacies. Learn about our commitment to those ideals, through our Blueprints to Black Wealth initiative: https://bit.ly/49rnxkv
