The afternoon turned from rainy to sunny outside the 100-year-old farmhouse in Winters while eight members of the NorCal ACErs engaged in a captivating discussion about what drew each of us to devote some or most of our time to implementing ACE...
Burtt Richardson, Gladys Richardson, Marcia Stanton (pictured above, left to right) and I had a long lunch yesterday in Phoenix. Burtt's a retired pediatrician who practiced in Maine for decades. Gladys is married to Burtt and does community...
When a pregnant woman visits the Jefferson County Public Health clinic in Port Townsend, WA, a town of about 9,000 people on the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, she’s asked the typical questions about tobacco, alcohol and...
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky (Associated Press photo) The Associated Press reported that Penn State has contracted with Praesidium Inc ., based in Arlington, TX, which is described as an abuse risk...
THAT'S WHAT California law can require now. And that's why a woman who experienced a sexual assault by her husband and then divorced him went to the state Capitol in Sacramento to lobby for a change. News10.net did a nice job as did the...
A very old resentment of mine was piqued by a recent “Southland” episode. A woman who was a former rape victim believed – wrongly as it turned out – that the black man following her from the market had evil intentions....
Like many other states, Montana has had a spate of horrific child abuse cases and deaths. Unlike some other states that are only trying to toughen child abuse reporting laws -- which is akin to closing the barn door after the horse gets out, but...
On Google, you can read any one of the 173 stories about San Francisco Sheriff George Mirkarimi being sentenced today to one day in jail and three years probation for falsely imprisoning his wife when he supposedly abused her on New Year's Eve. ...
All of you ACEs Too High Network members who live within easy driving distance of Winters, CA, are invited to the first meetup of NorCal ACErs at the home of Jane Stevens. Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. RSVP to the meetup in the events section, and I'll...
KUDOS TO the Associated Press reporter and the Newsone.com headline writer for providing the child's perspective in this story: "Kidnapped Boy to Experience Confusion, Trauma" . The boy was kidnapped when he was 8 months old. CPS took him...
Just over a decade ago, I spent a summer volunteering in the women’s facility of the San Francisco County Jail. I led a support group for women and did basic case management work. Most of the women were in for drug offenses, prostitution,...
It's Brain Awareness Week ! The Dana Foundation has a short overview of the thousands of celebrations around the world. And check out the cool brain art . Our nod to the festivities is a link to yesterday's video that Jenna...
Besides the 10% of men who think it's OK to physically assault a women if a man gets angry at her, according to reports on CalgaryHerald.com and TheProvince.com , the good news is that 52 percent said it's okay for a woman to...
It wasn’t your everyday experience, hearing Bible verses mixed with particulars from epidemiology and neurobiology in the same breath. But that’s what Dave Lockridge was doing as the 20 people in his Monday night ACE Overcomers...
A six-year $3.4 million test of the SafeCare model of treatment for the prevention of child abuse and neglect involving 2,175 parents reduced the number of children going back into Oklahoma's child welfare system from 70 to 50 percent,...