Second Response

08/17/2020

Second Response has a track record of helping children and caregivers mitigate trauma. As the current environment implores us to find new ways to offer safe, effective interactions to build resilience, we know we can change the world together -- with our own two hands.

Just how we will do that challenges us to be inventive, but our commitment remains: to serve and make a difference. We hope you will consider supporting us in the months ahead. Stay safe.

03/01/2018

Social and Emotional Learning is about helping students develop a range of skills they need for school and life

12/27/2017

12/25/2017

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” ― Charles E. Schaefer

12/22/2017

Second Response has a unique methodology that approaches mind-body wellness with specific exercises that release stress, distress and trauma.

Read more about our work at http://www.secondresponse.org/playshop-2/

Second Response is dedicated to Social Emotional Resilience.

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This is "Social Emotional Resilience" by Second Response on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12/21/2017

Americans actually consume the most opioids than any other country in the world. Why do we have an incredibly addicted population?

Very important and insightful read to understand our nations opioid epidemic.

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/8/3/16079772/opioid-epidemic-drug-overdoses

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2015 was the worst year for drug overdose deaths. Then 2016 came along.

12/20/2017

Second Response is on the frontline, providing education, training and conducting PLAYshops to every member of the community like our first responders, hospital staff, parents and our schools.

Now more than ever we need your help. The Opioid epidemic is destroying families and leaving children bear of any tools to cope. This has a detrimental impact on the human body.

Second Response has tools and new approaches, based on a grounded understanding of how our body deals with stress and trauma, helping build resilience and allowing our bodies to heal.

Learn more about our work at http://www.secondresponse.org/ or support us by https://second-response.networkforgood.com/

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12/19/2017

Important, easy to read article on how indirect stress can later turn into toxic stress.

"it is important to remember that biology and history are not destiny. Many of the effects of toxic stress can be reversed. The earlier toxic stress can be caught and met with a healthy response, the more effectively the healing from its effects. Relationships are key and healthy, supportive, stable ones have an extraordinary capacity to fortify people – children and adults – against the damaging effects of toxic stress. It’s the power of human connection, and it’s profound.

https://www.heysigmund.com/toxic-stress/

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Stress is a normal part of life, but under certain conditions, it can turn toxic. Toxic stress isn’t so much about the cause of the stress, but about the chronic and ongoing nature of the stress.

12/18/2017

Why Connecticut's drug overdose crisis isn't slowing down. A very in depth, data based article on Connecticut’s current epidemic.

https://overdose.trendct.org/
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In a series of stories all this week, TrendCT uses data to better understand the state's intractable drug-overdose problem.

12/15/2017

On average, two people die of a drug overdose every day in Connecticut.

The opioid crisis is far more serious than we can imagine. Second Response is dedicated to train as many people as possible in our unique methodology, using a combination of online teaching tools and videos with intensive personalized instruction. Please consider this urgent effort.



https://second-response.networkforgood.com/projects/20945-second-response-building-resilient-caregivers

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Dear Friends and Supporters, More Americans died just last year as a result of the opioid crisis than in every single conflict we have fought in since 1955 -- including Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq — and casualty rates among young and old in our ...

12/14/2017

Opioid crisis: Childhood friends die on same day, half a mile apart

"The amount of fentanyl in his body was the equivalent to three grains of salt. That's all it took to kill a 180-pound guy," said Greg Manning.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/29/health/opioid-fentanyl-childhood-friends/index.html

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The powerful painkiller fentanyl is being blamed for the deaths of two teen boys in an Atlanta suburb.