"Fellow PRA staff member Lisa Callahan and I recently had the opportunity to work with the NYS Office of Court Administration (OCA) and the Queens Treatment Court (QTC) on a project to identify trauma screening best practices and to pilot the use of...
"I recently attended our state conference and there was a standout session by Marcella Jacobs of the Kennedy Krieger Institute on OT and Trauma Training for Infants and Toddlers. It was very informative and thought provoking, so I've decided to share...
"This is very complex and gets at a core dysfunction of American society and culture. "We cannot seem to understand that people are not "human do-ings," they are human "be-ings" - with minds and hearts and spirits that need to be nurtured and cared...
New Practice Guidelines for Treatment of Complex Trauma & Trauma-Informed Service Delivery were launched in the Australian Federal Parliament on October 29. They were produced by the Sydney-based organization `Adults Surviving Child Abuse' (ASCA) which is the peak body in Australia representing the interests of adult survivors of child abuse in all its forms. The Guidelines are being described as `ground breaking', and we have been overwhelmed by the national and...
"The ACE study was a landmark study involving 17,000 participants surveyed between 1995 and 1997 enrolled at Kaiser Permanente.... "So why isn’t this a major headline and why isn’t more being done to address this? "My answer is that part...
"Award-winning author, Dr. Jane Bluestein, presented her latest book, “The Win-Win Classroom,” in a workshop to approximately 400 Kent School District teachers.... "To prepare for the workshop, each participating school designated at...
"The finding, published Nov. 5, 2012, in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, for the first time provides clear evidence that smaller amygdala volume is associated with PTSD, regardless of the severity of trauma. But it's not clear whether the...
Attachment and Self-Regulation as a Public Health Intervention At a recent Youth Suicide Prevention Brainstorm, someone asked me what I would do with a $1 million dollars. I quickly responded that I would create a public health campaign that...
"PARENTS involved in tragedies such as the Holocaust and 9-11 can pass their trauma-related biological functioning onto their children, Queensland's Child Protection Inquiry has heard. Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service director Brett...
"Robin Saenger, founding director of Peace 4 Tarpon, served as the Vice Mayor of Tarpon Springs before she decided to pursue a passion she had developed for bringing education and awareness to the community. The group's purpose is to make Tarpon...
Washington State Dept. of Health document - Goals & Action Plans http://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/...dhoodExperiences.pdf
Full text (19 pgs) is now available for the paper co-authored by AcesConnection member Heather Larkin: Larkin H, Beckos BA, Shields, JJ. (2012). Mobilizing Resilience and Recovery in Response to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): A Restorative...
On November 15, 2012 the Panel will release its report at a press conference in Ottawa. The report will be freely available for download from the Royal Society of Canada at that time.... The main questions that are elaborated upon in the report...
"Suicide risk has been reported to be associated with psychiatric disorders [10-12], adverse childhood experiences [13], and family history [14]. Suicide attempts and especially repetition of attempts are high-risk factors for subsequent suicide [15-17]. Previous literature has indicated that 10-50% of adolescent suicide attempters reattempted [18], and that about 11% of these committed suicide [19]. Additionally, among individuals under 25 years of age, both those who committed suicide and...
"These days, Tonier Cain travels the country running workshops for service providers at women’s correctional facilities. What she has to teach, she’s learned from long years of experience. Tonier has been arrested 83 times for...