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By University of California, San Francisco Department of Pediatrics, November 10, 2022 Children who have accumulated three or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood are twice as likely to be stopped by police by age 14 than those without an ACE, says a new study published in Pediatrics . The paper shows a general trend that the greater number of ACEs a child is exposed to, the more likely the child is to have police contact and to be warned or arrested by the police...

This month’s CTIPP CAN call will pilot a new tool – Airmeet – to further the movement’s ability to network and connect with other passionate advocates and practitioners. Airmeet enhances our ability to provide more interactive and engaging presentations, breakout sessions, polling, and more. Join us to help test out the new platform’s features and networking capabilities, as well as join important discussions and provide feedback about CTIPP to help us continue to better propel the movement...

On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, the Highmark Caring Place will host the Third Annual VIRTUAL Children's Grief Awareness Day. The schedule of the day's presentations and activities is shown below. No registration is required for any of the Children's Grief Awareness Day presentations, either beforehand or on November 17. All the events will be live on the Children's Grief Awareness Day Facebook page and on the Highmark Caring Place YouTube page. New videos will be released throughout the day from...

In light of the recent college shootings, including Sunday’s shooting deaths of three football players at the University of Virginia , PACEs Connection CEO Ingrid Cockhren will revisit her discussion with the Rev. Deanna Hollas for the History. Culture. Trauma. podcast Thursday, November 17 from at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET.. Rev. Hollas is the gun violence prevention ministry coordinator with the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship, a founding member of the Everytown for Gun Safety Interfaith Advisory...

Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We need you, our 57,651 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through. Unfortunately, pay and hours have had to be cut for our staff. Most of us will be laid-off for the month of December. The good news is that, since sounding the alarm this Summer, we’ve raised $46,000 ! Thank you to all who’ve donated. To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please read...

Photo: Fred Olivier / Alamy [Personal note: People often ask what prompted me to found PACEs Connection, which began as ACEs Connection in 2012. There are two parts to this answer: the professional part—how ACEs Connection grew out of my reporting on violence epidemiology. And the personal one, which I haven't written about in great detail until now. It appears on HiddenCompass.net , a remarkable travel site that calls itself "the antidote to clickbait".] CONTENT WARNING: This story contains...

Our federal government’s health agencies and their websites do not include spirituality in their frameworks for health and wellbeing. Consequently, the spiritual dimension of health is not recommended as a resource to improve individual health and wellbeing and the nation’s public health.

By Cathy Free, Photo: Gentle Barn, The Washington Post, November 14, 2022 Turkeys have sharp claws, pointy beaks and red saggy bits on their necks. Snuggle might not be the first word that comes to mind when seeing a feathered turkey waddling across a farm. But Barbara Slaine was sitting on the ground at a California farm last year when a turkey named Sun shambled over and climbed into her lap. Slaine, 63, was visiting the Gentle Barn animal sanctuary from New York and had never had an...

By Sam Levin, Étienne Laurent/EPA, The Guardian, November 14, 2022 Los Angeles residents jailed because they can’t afford to pay bail have filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the system that often keeps low-income people behind bars before they’ve been charged. The complaint was filed on Monday on behalf of six people in LA jails who were recently arrested but have not yet seen a judge, been arraigned or assigned a public defender. The case is the first to challenge LA’s “ bail schedule...

By Jennifer Ludden, Photo: Jeff Dean/National Public Radio, National Public Radio, November 3, 2022 Demetrius Harper-Edwards and his girlfriend, Sarai Yisrael, spent the pandemic lockdown dreaming of owning a home. They saved for a down payment, and worked to repair their credit. "I was literally on that couch just going crazy with the paperwork," says Yisrael, who was pregnant with their now 2-year-old son. Harper-Edwards also has twin 8-year-old daughters. She's a seamstress and sells her...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Iob E, Lacey R, Giunchiglia V, Steptoe A. Adverse childhood experiences and severity levels of inflammation and depression from childhood to...

The Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) wants to help our network access the government funding available for states, localities, and community-based organizations to address trauma. As a start, we looked at the federal grants open and posted on grants.gov throughout October 2022. We discovered 24 grants aligned with trauma-informed work. While our scope was short (October 2022), we were pleased to find eleven of the 24 grants start at $100,000, meaning that smaller...