"With powerful firearms comes greater risk. Adam Lanza's murder-suicide shows us the frightful price of misjudging that risk. In a June 2011 story, “ New perspectives on suicide prevention ,” I wrote about the three elements of the ...
Very nice blog post from a survivor. "Having lived with manic-depressive illness for over sixty years and having studied the illness from the standpoint of social behavior , episodes, spikes in mania, triggers, onsets of trauma, curves of feeling...
"...With this new funding, Akron Children’s will develop the Center for the Treatment and Study of Adverse Childhood Events, with the goal of providing leadership, training and consultative services in the area of childhood traumatic stress for...
"Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction, unemployment and divorce are 10 times more likely to have been victims of childhood physical abuse, according to a new study prepared by the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of...
"Your primary care physician may be your first choice for assistance with most health-related issues, but according a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, primary care physicians agree they may not be...
“Our children are dying and we can stop it,” says Dr. Ted Corbin, an emergency department physician at the Drexel University College of Medicine where he is both a doctor and a violence prevention practitioner. Violence, he says, is a...
Nice collection of resources. "Our heart goes out to the families of the victims, the students who witnessed the violence, and the community of Newtown, CT. But also to families who struggle with raising a child with mental illness, loving them,...
"Renowned psychiatrist Karl Menninger said, "What we do to our children, they do to society."... "A good place to begin getting info is the October 2011 BBC documentary, “America’s Child Death Shame.”* Also, the monumental ACE study...
"Taylor Ellison of Anchor Point gave a presentation she and Katherine Dolma of Homer developed to bring peace through an outdoor camp for children who have experienced adverse childhood experiences....Ellison described impacts associated with nature...
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"Today, this historic launch of the U.S. Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity makes me believe that my dream has become yours, and that, together, we will see our dream become real. We will see nurture replacing violence; light replacing...
"Pierce County Juvenile Court, its probation department and its community partners have been nationally recognized for their leadership in reducing the numbers of youth who are detained at Remann Hall, our county’s detention facility for...
"...There aren’t easy answers. It is not as if the parents of neurodivergent kids can structure the perfect educational environment and can create safe social spaces that respect autonomy and diversity of communication, interests, and...
Nice poster/brochure. http://www.voamn.org/TIC-Poster
I thought the members of ACEsConnection might want to know about an issue that's affecting our high school seniors in Washington, because this may be happening in your state, too. In fact, I was asked that question the other day by one of our...