How's your brain's air traffic controller doing? Directing too many close calls? Or managing without breaking a sweat? This video, part of the InBrief series from Harvard University's Center on the Developing Child , explains how this air...
"Recognizing a person’s unique trauma is the first step in trauma-informed care, and that can only be done with a thorough intake process that is shared with every member of the staff. In Cain’s words, the intake form needs to be referred...
Matthew Holt's red satin "ACEs" jacket features pediatrician Nadine Burke. _____________________ Artist Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog is "A place where art, medicine, social media and pop-culture collide and create a patient...
Youth Opportunity Center juveniles walk through the hallways to their different classes. The Muncie facility was one of those to be closed in plan to "right-size" network. _______________________________ It's abandoned a plan to "right-size" the...
“People tend to believe that you are either born with empathy or not,” said Dr. Helen Riess, lead author of the study. “But empathy can be taught, and you can improve.”...Responses to this study have so far been...
"It is not just receiving compassion that relieves our pain. Stephanie Brown, professor at SUNY Stony Brook University and the University of Michigan, has shown that the act of experiencing compassion and helping others actually leads to...
Dr. Robert Anda explaining life to "12-year-olds" at Iowa's first ACEs Summit in Des Moines. __________________________ Last week, nearly 800 adults -- human services professionals, educators, judges, business leaders, philanthropists, and policy...
Marie Warga, at the age she says her father was sexually abusing her. Editor's note: When H. Marie Warga learned that her father was attempting to contact her, she wrote this letter to him. At the urging of Connie Valentine , one of the...
Lincoln High School graduated 57 students this year. Four years ago, 12 students graduated. ___________________________ Jim Sporleder, principal of Lincoln High School, has led his staff to take a compassionate approach to student discipline. Even...
We are sponsoring a national survey just now and would like your members to complete the survey and forward to their colleagues. The abuse of kids with disabilities is a silent epidemic, occuring somewhere between 4-10 times more than those w/o...
Good quote from Elizabeth Power: "While the wars of recent years have heightened our awareness of PTSD upon the military, we are at risk for underestimating its cost on our social fabric . Children cannot learn when they are terrified or traumatized....
Sue Mackey Andrews posted information in the State ACE Response Project group that Vincent Felitti will be in Maine this week. He'll meet with people from the THRIVE Initiative , which provides trainings , technical assistance and...
Jerry Sandusky arrives for the fourth day of his trial in Bellefonte, PA, last week. He's accused of 52 counts of sexual abuse with 10 boys over 15 years. Associated Press distributed this photo by Nabil Mark of the Centre Daily Times....
"All the Danish soldiers who developed PTSD were much more likely (compared to resilient soldiers) to have suffered emotional problems and traumatic events prior to deployment. In fact, it wasn't traumatic war experiences that predicted the...
I work at CommuniCare Health Centers as a registered dietitian, but my interest in ACEs comes from my involvement in the Incest Survivors' Speakers Bureau of California (ISSBCA). We have sponsored or co-sponsored all 18 of the Annual Northern...