The Children's Resilience Initiative in Walla Walla, WA, has been busy. We're creating parent "Did you Know" cards, one for each ACE. In this post, you can see small front and back images of the first one. I just got the Spanish version from our...
Dear Straight Talk: I'm in college and my very nice roommates are talking about dressing up as Muslims for Halloween. One, who is buff, is even talking about putting on...
"A recent paper by Dr. Jessica Yakeley and J. Reid Meloy, Ph.D., suggests that understanding violence must be approached in a multidimensional way. They argue that we should try to avoid using a single framework to explain why people kill, hurt...
"The Veterans Affairs Administration has developed systems and treatments for returning soldiers who have spent time in war zones and suffered PTSD as a result. This same approach must be applied for people in Camden and other areas of poverty and...
"Researchers in the University of Kentucky Center on Trauma and Children are working to improve services to children who have been exposed to trauma, especially in military families. Supported by a $1.6 million grant from the Substance Abuse and...
"When families do not receive the benefits or protections of certain laws, their health can be undermined. The consequences can be treated medically, but their upstream causes are social and are more effectively addressed using legal strategies," said...
"IRETA staff member Dr. Holly Hagle shares her thoughts on trauma-informed care. The thought that’s always at the top of my mind when I look at our training planning is: are we meeting the needs of the counselors we educate and the people they...
With new members joining ACEsConnection at an increased clip, I'll be doing bio round-ups by the week. Here are 12 people who joined the last week in August: Shelly Holt , Mapleton, MN -- Shelly is a graduate student at Minnesota State University,...
....but only two of the eight articles are open access. The others cost $36 each. The issue is: Volume 40, Issue 4, 2012 . The open-access articles are: The Health and Social Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Across the Lifespan: An...
http://www.causes.com/causes/792357-encouraging-empathy-in-our-children/actions/1694374?utm_campaign=home In the interest of healthier children, families, communities and world, I pledge to: 1) Read or Watch about the "Adverse Childhood...
Great new stress infographic from io9.com article : http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182d1thrxjsvtjpg/original.jpg
"Most people bounce back from trauma — but some never recover. Scientists are trying to work out what underlies the difference." http://www.nature.com/news/stress-the-roots-of-resilience-1.11570 Please note this article references the work of...
"The Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly released a new report on post-traumatic stress disorder, showing that since 9/11, nearly 30 percent of the 834,463 Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans treated at V.A. hospitals and clinics have been...
I just posted a picture taken by my dive buddy and close friend, Alvin Rosenfeld, MD. He was attending a conference in NYC and a researcher from Rockefeller showed this slide. Now the Dalai Lama knows about ACEs too! Alvin published...
"They are investing more than $1 million in federal grant money to build a “trauma-informed” system of care statewide, a project directed by Leslie Brower of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health services.... State officials...