Actress and activist Kelly Rutherford wrote this for the Huffington Post. Here's an excerpt: Violence against women and girls is a global health issue. In some countries it is estimated that as many as seven out of 10 women are beaten, raped, abused...
Police reported abuse cases involving a record 21,603 children to child consultation centers last year, up 31.8 percent from a year earlier and marking a 20-fold increase over a decade, the National Police Agency said Thursday. An agency official...
A new study shows that adolescent girls who experienced maltreatment in the past year and were willing to talk about their painful experiences and their thoughts and emotions, were less likely to have PTSD symptoms one year later. Those who tried to...
Social impact bonds—sometimes known in the United States as “Pay for Success” agreements—are as complex as they are innovative. Social impact bond agreements require cooperation between government agencies, social...
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Tim Clement recently posted the following in the Philadelphia ACEs Connection group here at acesconnection.com: " Maiken Scott , Health and Science reporter of WHYY, wrote an article that highlights the increased understanding...
Exposure to passive smoking in childhood causes irreversible damage to the structure of children's arteries, according to a study published online today in the European Heart Journal. The thickening of the arteries' walls associated with being...
Boys, but not girls, tend to suffer more from depression and conduct disorder after moving from a poor neighborhood to a better one, a new study says. Conduct disorder includes acting-out behaviors such as bullying, fighting, cruelty to people or...
The Affordable Care Act will give an estimated 4 million people who have spent time in U.S. jails better access to health care. This includes coverage for mental illness and substance-abuse problems that increase the risk for being rearrested,...
Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child wrote this article. The first page preview is free, but the whole thing will cost $30 for 24-hour online access. Advances in the biological and social sciences tell...
Background. Considerable evidence now links childhood adversity to a variety of adult health problems. Unfortunately, almost all of these studies have relied upon retrospective assessment of childhood events, creating a vulnerability to bias. In this...
Please take the time, when you can, to watch the 23 minute video contained in this article by Darkness to Light (a Child Sexual Abuse Prevention organization). The voices and stories are told by adult survivors - male and female - who know...
http://www.survivorsnotanonymous.com This is a website-in-progress but it's where you'll find much information about me and the project I'm working on that has happily led me to find ACEs. I know I will be making some perfectly wonderful...
The Obama Administration has proposed a massive federal program aimed at curbing the use of psychotropic medications to treat foster youths, an issue that appeared on the federal radar in 2011. President Barack Obama included in his 2015 budget a plan...
It didn’t take much reading between the lines to decipher the central message of last week’s Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement . Lawmakers and witnesses alike appeared to agree: There are people in solitary...