Jonathan Purtle, another Network member, recently blogged about the Multiplying Connections Initiative in Philly.com. Read his full blog here where you will also find links to other blogs he has posted on the ACES and trauma informed care.
On the Westside of Chicago, providers were struggling with many quetions over the years: Why don't families show up to their appointments? Why do so many families seem hopeless? Why aren't families accepting our help? At the same time...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Molly Warner, Ann Brice, Mary G. Warren, and Jonathan Purtle. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their pages to read more about them,...
The district attorneys of Queens, Richmond, Onondaga, Monroe, Kings, Bronx and New York counties wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News supporting NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's request to the state for $5 million for the Nurse...
It wasn’t a light-bulb moment that prompted Denise Hughes-Conlon to institute a few changes at the Pinellas Ex-offender Re-entry Coalition. It more like a nudge. Specifically, a nudge from Robin Saenger, then vice-mayor of Tarpon Springs, FL,...
Here is an interesting take on how to heal hurtful memories from a wise researcher: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...emc=edit_th_20120306 The article was in the NEW YORK TIMES online on March 6, 2012. I am very interested in the topic of resilience and in memory and how to heal from hurtful experiences. Perhaps hurtful experiences have some value--but does the healing from them have even more value?
I was recently in Banff, Alberta, a beautiful place high in the Canadian Rockies, to speak about the ACE Study at the Alberta College of Family Physicians. It was a fine meeting and a quite interested audience. Hopefully, some of the...
I'm doing interviews for a story about Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, where Principal Jim Sporleder has turned the idea of discipline upside down and inside out, with the result that suspensions are down by 85 percent, written referrals are...
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is devoted to providing resources and e-learning (free!) about the effects of traumatic stress on children and families. If you haven't been to the NCTSN website , it's worth a look. I've signed up...
The story about the Florida man who was acquitted on child abuse charges last week for doing to a 7-year-old boy what had been done to him as punishment when he was a kid got me to thinking about the process of how people and communities...
This 10-minute video shows how schools in Spokane, WA, embraced principles of complex trauma to change how they teach children grappling with adverse childhood experiences. It's well worth watching. It was put together by the Washington...
The Primary Prevention of ACEs group has started a section called RESILIENCE RESOURCES , and added a few resources, including Burtt & Gladys Richardson's parent guide that includes ACEs and resilience surveys, and links to web sites, including ResilienceTrumpsAces.org , put together by the Children's Resilience Initiative in Walla Walla, WA. Feel free to add more resilience resources to that page in the comments section, and I'll incorporate them into the list.
Any experienced teacher will tell you that every class has a few: children who can’t focus, can’t sit still, who fight at the slightest provocation, or perhaps withdraw completely. These kids are usually labeled as “bad”,...
In Visitacion Valley Middle School, an urban middle school in South San Francisco, CA, students start and end their days with 15 minutes of meditation, according to this wonderful post by Kyle Palmer on KQED's State of Health blog. Since...
Devery Broox was found not guilty of child abuse after "berating a 7-year-old boy, shaving his eyebrows and head as punishment and forcing him to do calisthenics," said this report by Susan Jacobson in the Orlando Sentinel . "At one point, a...