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Research publications this month include a focus on ACEs and childhood obesity, on racial inequities in ACEs in teens, the prevalence of ACEs in women undergoing treatment for opioid use, and separate papers about the links between ACEs and cancer, ACEs and heart disease, and ACEs and asthma.

PACEs Connection is excited to announce that Mendocino ACEs Community Resilience Team has joined the Cooperative of Communities! Mendocino County elicits visions of the rugged Northern California coastline, rolling hills studded with oaks and pear trees, and redwood forests. The rural, vast county, with 3,870 square miles, is nearly the same size as Delaware and Rhode Island combined. As advocates for children and savvy strategists, Sheryn Hildebrand and Patrice Mascolo are changing the...

By Zara Abrams, American Psychological Association, July 1, 2021 James* was born to a mother who suffered from chronic depression and a substance use disorder. She never physically abused him, but she could not provide consistent care. As a result, he faced poverty, homelessness, and severe neglect throughout his childhood. At one point, James was temporarily removed from his mother’s care and placed in a foster home, where he witnessed family violence and experienced emotional abuse. When...

From National Alliance on Mental Illness, July 7, 2021 The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) announced today that it is closing its national office for a week to provide employees paid time off for a mental health break from what has been a tumultuous year and a half of virtual work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The NAMI HelpLine will remain operational from 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. ET Monday-Friday. NAMI’s national office will close Aug. 1-Aug. 8. NAMI is encouraging its employees to...

By Ashley Robinson, Regina Leader-Post, July 8, 2021 Trauma is at the nature of addiction, according to Dr. Gabor Mate. “Addiction is only a symptom, it’s not the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is trauma,” said Mate. Mate was in Regina on Wednesday to speak at the sixth International Training Symposium on Innovative Approaches to Justice: Where Justice and Treatment Meet. The conference started Tuesday and runs until Friday at the Hotel Saskatchewan. Judges, lawyers,...

When presented strategically, data can help tell an important story about childhood trauma. Here are a few tips for presenting numbers in ways that advance efforts to reduce adversity, promote resilience, and improve health outcomes.

Please welcome these six new communities to the PACEsConnection.com network! Louisiana First Foundation PACEs Connection PACEs in East Africa and the Horn PACEs Thailand PACEs & Trauma Informed Community Malaysia Project PACEs at PSS (NJ) Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research (TIHCER) Collaborative Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Louisiana First...

Over the past year since leaving an administrative position in healthcare as a Trauma Informed Administrator to launch as a full time consultant and advocate, I've been educating professionals around the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, and in using a Trauma Informed Approach to service delivery. In my journey, I've encountered two wonderful surprises. Along with the joys of training professionals such as childcare leaders in two states; police...

By Lois Beckett, The Guardian, July 9, 2021 Gun homicides surged across the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, in the same year that Americans bought a record-breaking number of guns . But some of America’s leading gun violence researchers have concluded that what might seem like an obvious cause-and-effect – a surge in gun buying leads to a surge in gun violence – is not supported by the data. Through July of last year, there was no clear association between the increase in...

By Sydney Boyles, WJCT, July 9, 2021 More than 1-in-4 students in Jacksonville schools has what’s considered a high level of trauma, according to state data. To help teachers address the symptoms of that trauma in their classrooms, the Jacksonville Public Education Fund is looking to build out a training program the district is piloting with a nonprofit organization called Hope Street. “Trauma causes emotional dysregulation and sensory dysfunction,” said Hope Street founder Callie Lackey.

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat, July 8, 2021 Mackee Mason says families choose his Austin, Texas charter high school because it’s safe, with little bullying or fighting. Mason, the school’s principal and football coach, credits its ethnic studies courses. The two classes, which students take in ninth and then 11th grade, feature discussion and instruction in LGBTQ history, colonialism, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, police brutality, and exclusionary immigration policies. That allows students, who are...

By Danielle Kurtzleben, National Public Radio, July 11, 2021 NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with professor Lilliana Mason about a recent study she co-authored entitled " Activating Animus: The Uniquely Social Roots of Trump Support ." DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, HOST: Discussions about Donald Trump's voter base and what motivated them is a beloved topic among pundits. But as time goes on, we're getting more and more data that sheds light on what some of those motivations are. A recent study...