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In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.

ACEs may inform some or all of the reasons that a client is seeking treatment and can be clinically useful in treatment planning and provision. This article briefly reviews the importance of screening for trauma, how to do so using the ACEs questionnaire, factors to consider when implementing this screening, and how to best use data gathered through the screening. Why do it?: A high proportion of the population has at least one ACE in their history. Client’s entering mental health treatment...

Grief: Counseling Approaches for Teachers Grief is “a reaction to any form of loss… [that] encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger, and the process of adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another, depending on his or her background, beliefs, relationship to what was lost, and other factors.” (Mastrangelo & Wood, 2016) Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer explains, “Death may end a life, but not necessarily a relationship.” Although the person may be...

Among PACEs Connection initiatives around the country, it’s well known that our social network is something like a bustling, giant town square where people share ideas, resources and any number of conversations about how to prevent childhood adversity and promote positive childhood experiences. On May 14, PACEs Connection assembled a virtual town square gathering of PACEs initiatives in California, where we have 58 initiatives sparking action all across the state. Speakers at the gathering,...

Among the fascinating 20 research publications included this month are one that looks at the importance of context of ACEs in a low-income Black cohort, and another at the hidden risk of child adversity during COVID in which findings are viewed in the context of a reactive welfare system.

For anyone who thinks Oregon — long regarded as a liberal, progressive state — was a welcoming place for Blacks and other minorities in the past, a recent webinar sponsored by Oregon health care organizations was a chilling wake-up call. In June 1844, Oregon’s provisional government passed its first Black Exclusionary Act , with language stating that any Black person who set foot in Oregon “would be publicly whipped 39 lashes.” From that time forward, Oregon, like most states, amassed its...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 2, 2021 CONTACT Lisa Miller 856.272.3422 lmiller@camdenhealth.org Camden Coalition’s multidisciplinary Camden Core Model highlighted in new National Academy of Medicine report on the future of nursing Camden, NJ - In a new report released by the National Academy of Medicine and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation entitled “The Future of Nursing 2020 – 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity,” the Camden Coalition’s Camden Core Model is noted as...

What do PACEs Connection and “What Happened to You?”, the new book by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Perry, have in common? Almost everything. That’s my conclusion after I finished listening to the book on Audible and re-reading parts of it on Kindle. In the book, Winfrey, a w orld-class connector, journalist, entertainer, author, thought leader, actor, and philanthropist, teams up with her longtime friend Perry, a child psychiatrist, neuroscientist and principal of the neurosequential model of...

I am so excited and honored to have a meaningful conversation about trauma and addiction with Amanda Wendler, Libby Alexander, Eli Saslow, Gabor Maté and surprise guests! As a recovering addict of 36 years I have been through a lot, seen a lot and learned a lot. And so, the conversation keeps evolving and that’s how it should be. The minute I think I know it all is the minute I am in trouble. So I remain teachable while continuing to share my personal experience, strength and hope. I believe...

By Carol Anderson, The Guardian, June 4, 2021 B odies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “ plague of gun violence ” and the inability to mount an effective response , even in the wake of multiple mass shootings , is, unfortunately, rooted in the other pandemic gripping the United States: anti-Blackness and the sense that African Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed white citizenry. For...

From BioSpace, June 4, 2021 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded a $2 million grant from the state of California to study a precision medicine approach to screening children for adverse childhood experiences. The three-year grant—part of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine —was announced by the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, in partnership with the Office of the California Surgeon General. Adverse childhood experiences, also called ACEs, are...

By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, June 2, 2021 Julesa Webb resumed an old habit: serving her children three meals a day. Corrine Young paid the water bill and stopped bathing at her neighbor’s apartment. Chenetta Ray cried, thanked Jesus and rushed to spend the money on a medical test to treat her cancer. In offering most Americans two more rounds of stimulus checks in the past six months, totaling $2,000 a person, the federal government effectively conducted a huge experiment in safety...