Harvard Psychiatrist Shares 4 Tips to Surviving the Holidays with Family Boston, MA, November 22, 2021 — Dr. Frank Anderson, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and author of Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD With Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, (PESI Publishing, Inc; ISBN: 9781683733973; Original Trade Paperback) can provide your audience with advice on how to positively deal with negative emotional triggers over the holiday season. Through the innovative, evidence-based and holistic therapy approach to understanding and healing family trauma, Dr. Anderson reveals four tips that will help your audience survive the holidays: - Accept Imperfection. Before any gathering, accept that the event might not go exactly as planned. Imperfection is a normal, healthy part of life. - Flush Out Family Drama. Don’t take on their drama. Differentiate what is yours from what is theirs, and remind yourself what is truly important. - Prepare an Emotional Exit Plan. If you are going to be at an event with relatives you don’t like, take a walk when you start to feel triggered—and if you are BEACON | FROM Page 18 ity to serve a diverse set of populations and be able to serve individuals who are high-risk or have specialized needs because they have substance use disorder, other mental health conditions or developmental disabilities. “In addition, these crisis centers must be able to service a diverse range of people at diff erent ages, races, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sexual identity and language spoken,” continued Moran. Moreover, to serve everyone in every place in the commonwealth, they must be able to provide crisis and outgoing services in a reasonable time in all areas of the commonwealth. (A “Yes” vote is for the bill.) Sen. Joseph Boncore has resigned HOW LONG WAS LAST WEEK’S SESSION? Beacon Hill Roll Call tracks the length of time that the House and Senate were in session each week. Many legislators say that legislative sessions are only one aspect of the Legislature’s job and that a lot of important work is done outside of the House and Senate chambers. They note that their jobs also involve committee work, research, THE REVERE ADVOCATE – WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2021 PANDEMIC | FROM Page 6 zation. Dwight Hall’s mission is “to nurture and inspire students as leaders of social change and to advance justice and service.” Dwight Hall’s programs strive to form a more just society that meets the needs of the commuhosting the party, designate a room that is off limits where you can take a break. - Treat Yourself. Everyone deserves a little luxury, especially during the holidays. Treat yourself to your favorite meal or get a massage. Whatever the activity is, do it often during the holidays. Frank G. Anderson, MD, became interested in treating trauma during his residency program in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and later became a psychiatrist at the Trauma Center in Boston under the direction of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score. During this early phase of his career, Dr. Anderson met Dr. Richard Schwartz, founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS), and has been practicing IFS therapy ever since. Today, Dr. Anderson works as a lead trainer and consultant for the IFS Institute and serves as adviser to the International Association of Trauma Professionals (IATP). To learn more about Dr. Anderson and his work, visit www.FrankAndersonMD.com. constituent work and other matters that are important to their districts. Critics say that the Legislature does not meet regularly or long enough to debate and vote in public view on the thousands of pieces of legislation that have been fi led. They note that the infrequency and brief length of sessions are misguided and lead to irresponsible late-night sessions and a mad rush to act on dozens of bills in the days immediately preceding the end of an annual session. During the week of November 15-19, the House met for a total of 14 hours and 47 minutes while the Senate met for a total of eight hours. Mon. Nov. 15 House 11:06 a.m. to 1:29 p.m. Senate 11:15 a.m. to 11:41 a.m. Tues. Nov. 16 House 11:05 a.m. to 4:02 p.m. No Senate session Wed. Nov. 17 House 11:02 a.m. to 6:25 p.m. Senate 11:07 a.m. to 6:38 p.m. Thurs. Nov. 18 House 11:00 a.m. to 11:04 a.m. Senate 11:09 a.m. to 11:12 a.m. Fri. Nov. 19 No House session No Senate session Bob Katzen welcomes feedback at bob@beaconhillrollcall.com CENSUS | FROM Page 1 merators could assist people in fi lling out census forms. “I want to note the work of the Revere Counts Committee, because that seemed to come into some question [last] week,” said Kantor. “The Revere Counts group provides outreach to residents to urge them to complete their census, to complete them online and to respond to the federal census enumerators when they come calling or knocking on their door. The instructions to all Revere Counts staff and grantees were very clear; they were never allowed to assist anyone in fi lling out a U.S. Census form.” After researching the issue and contacting the legal counsel for the Massachusetts Secretary of State, Kantor said, the redistricting committee pinpointed fi ve potential issues that, taken together, could account for the 67 people included in the census block containing only one commercial business. Kantor added that people have been listed as living at that particular census block during the 2000 and 2010 federal censuses as well. In addition, Kantor and Novoselsky both noted that there were several other areas in the city that were identifi ed as addresses that did not contain residential buildings. During the past decade, Kantor said, the census bureau has launched a series of data privacy strategies called disclosure avoidance. “What disclosure avoidance does is actually swap and move data around a little bit to make it really hard to identify the individual census blocks that someone could fi gure out,” said Kantor, “so it is very likely that some of the data was moved, and they create ‘noise’ to move individuals into a block so they can’t be as easily identifi ed from a diff erent block.” Census blocks are created by Page 19 nity in a fair and dignifi ed way. I have sought to continue this mission through my work on the Revere School Committee. My experience in education, technology, and fi nance, within both the private and public sectors, provides me the experience to ensure that our Comthe census bureau about a year before the census and are typically based on street and natural boundaries within a city, although the city does not have input into how the boundaries are determined. In addition to the disclosure avoidance, Kantor said, federal census enumerators may use past addresses to identify individuals who have fi lled out a prior census but have not fi lled out an existing census. Kantor said there could also have been people who fi lled out a federal census, but didn’t want the federal government to know where they lived and did not give a correct address. “We also know the U.S. Census has a practice of counting people who are living outdoors – people who might be considered homeless or not have a residence – and they often log them at an address near where they may be staying,” said Kantor. The fi nal possibility, he said, is that sometimes workers who have a temporary residence will fi ll out their work address on the census. “I don’t think any one of these explains the 67, but I think a combination of these fi ve adds up to the 67, and as I’ve mentioned, this is not a new problem for the city,” said Kantor. “We did talk to the general counsel for the Secretary of State, and I think it is worth noting that this is the third census she has worked on, and this is the fi rst time she’s ever heard of a municipality complaining of an overcount. She hears a lot of complaints about undercounts, and a lot of cities take action against undercounts.” Novoselsky said he still isn’t happy with the explanations and noted that he had identifi ed more locations in his ward that were not residential but listed 189 people. “I know you say that’s the way they have been coming down for the last two censuses, but it wasn’t an issue then because it wasn’t aff ecting monwealth recovers fully and that our children are properly prepared for the jobs of the 21st century. Please join me in this eff ort. —Anthony D’Ambrosio, BA Yale, MA University of Cambridge is a Candidate for State Senate the precinct lines; it wasn’t aff ecting the ward lines, but now it is,” said Novoselsky. “I still say there is some kind of fraud and nastiness going on with something like this, and I don’t believe the U.S. Commerce Department and U.S. Census department should be allowed to put people where they don’t belong in empty lots.” Novoselsky said his ward lines on the new map should look different based on the 189 people from his ward. As part of the new redistricting map, the Garfi eld School, which was in Ward 2, was moved into Ward 1. “I don’t care what they say, I will not vote for this map at all,” said Novoselsky. City Council President Anthony Zambuto said he still has issues with the census data and redistricting process, but laid the blame at the federal government and not the city. “This has been – I’ll be kind – enlightening, and I think I trust the federal government less now than I did before the beginning of the process,” said Zambuto. “But I don’t see any criminality or anything on the part of the census takers. I think we were taken aback by the numbers, and some of us might have said some things that weren’t accurate or were an overreach. Like I said, I trust the federal government even less, but this is part of the process, and we thank everyone who has done the work, and obviously, no one was counting people – they were just trying to solicit people to fi ll out the census forms.” Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo said the explanations from Kantor made him feel comfortable that at least the City of Revere would not be found legally liable if there were found to be issues with the census data. He also said he has spoken to city councillors in surrounding communities, and some have said they have had no issues similar to the issues in Revere, while some said there have been some irregularities.
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