"...The study is the first to show accelerated biological aging in childhood as a result of stress. "Those kids are 'older' than they are supposed to be," said study leader Idan Shalev, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University. If the...
"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can stay with us for life. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy explains how these events can be tied up with adult smoking...
Micky Duxbury did a fabulous story on OaklandLocal.com about how a parent's incarceration affects children, and what the community of Oakland, CA, is doing to help. Duxbury focuses on Community Works , an Oakland nonprofit that...
"The hearing, the first time Congress has explored the issue, came after recent U.S. Education Department data shows schools physically restrained students 39,000 times during the 2009-2010 school year -- and black, Hispanic and students with...
I was always told to say that i am honored to be here and also that if the words i speak, offend you i apologize. I am about to embark on my life journey, not to make you feel bad for me, but for you to know how suicide affects one person.I would also...
Dear Colleagues, I'd greatly appreciate your input to help with a novel biochemistry course at Amherst College that I'm co-teaching this fall, and for which we integrate the ACE Study. This is a new non-lab upper level biochemistry course that has a...
Gladys Richardson, a member of ACEsConnection and organizer of the group Primary Prevention of ACEs , sent me this list that she dug up from her files. It's from a meeting on early care and education that she attended in Maine in 2002. In a...
"The American Academy of Pediatrics opposes corporal punishment , but studies have shown that up to 80% of parents report that they rely on it to some extent. What constitutes physical punishment is also wide-ranging: everything from a light slap on...
How do we create an environment that allows students with high toxic stress the same opportunity to learn and grow as students that aren’t experiencing difficult times in their lives? This challenge required us to look at our interaction with...
"...3 salient lessons learned over the past 5 decades about the care of maltreated children: (1) many children and families are affected; (2) the consequences can be lifelong and intergenerational; and (3) treatment and prevention can work but need to...
Last Thursday, Magellan Health Services E-Learning Center and ACMHA: The College for Behavioral Health Leadership hosted a webinar about The Children’s Resilience Initiative (CRI) in Walla Walla, WA. CRI comprises many...
Jolanda Ingeneeger, Doreen Auger, Robin Karr-Morse, and Raul Almazar joined ACEs Connection in April. Here's some info about each, and a link to their profile pages, where you can friend them, send a message, and see all their comments and activity on...
New ACEs Connection members in April included Jerry Nathan, Peter van der Linden, Bruce Gray, and Kathy Adams. Here's some info about each, and a link to their profile pages, where you can friend them, send a message, and see all their comments and...
Lena Wieland, Kathy Hentcy, Nicole MacFarland, and Betty Devine joined ACEs Connection in April. Here's some info about each, and a link to their profile pages, where you can friend them, send a message, and see all their comments and activity on the...