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By Kim St. Lawrence, YouTube, March 23, 2020 Note from the author: No children's story should be written in a weekend, but I wanted to get this out while social distancing is so important for prevention. We're in awe of parents who are navigating this new normal with their littles and hope this will help to start a dialogue or provide comfort in uncertain times. [ Please click here for video .]

From Alliance for Hope International, March 2020 Join us on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:30 AM PST/11:30 AM EST for a webinar hosted by Alliance President Casey Gwinn and CEO Gael Strack to provide valuable information about COVID-19 and the work of Family Justice Centers and other collaboratives across the country and around the world. Victims of domestic and sexual violence need hope now more than ever. They need services to be available and accessible even if some of those services must...

TRANSFORMING TRAUMA PODCAST: Dr. Laurence Heller in Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté on Complex Trauma and the Future of Trauma-Informed Care Transforming Trauma host Sarah Buino facilitates an extraordinary conversation between trauma visionaries Dr. Laurence Heller and Dr. Gabor Maté centered on complex trauma (C-PTSD), the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on human development, and their views on the future of trauma-informed care. At the core of both Dr. Heller’s and Dr.

Project Connect is a study being conducted by researchers at Kent State University and Arizona State University to offer a free online video-based health and well-being educational program to grandmothers raising teenage (12-18) grandchild(ren) without the help of the birth parents. Grandmothers and their participating grandchild who complete all 5 online surveys and the online educational program will each earn $150 and each family will receive an Amazon Fire tablet. If you have questions...

HOPE is a natural fit for ACES Connection. To further embrace the members of ACES Connection we have created a Balancing ACES with HOPE community and encourage all to visit and join. Please read our blogs and post your comments. Let us know how you think HOPE could impact your work and personal life. Being in nurturing, supportive relationships are critical for children to develop into healthy, resilient adults. This concept forms the first of the 4 Building Blocks of HOPE . The first of...

Adverse Childhood Experiences is a bit shrouded in the meaning. Please let me simplify it into actionable terms. What was done to you from the outside stick to you on the inside. Then what was done to you we continue to do to ourselves. When we were fed with a spoon soon we learned to feed ourselves with a spoon. When we were stressed shamed or blamed from the outside in, we then shame and blame ourselves on the inside as our habit. This is done consciously or subconsciously. The words...

Greetings, Community - We are all looking for ways to support others during this time. Then, I was reminded of the healing power of story. And decided that one of the ways I thought I might help was to place the Kindle version of my book at .99 cents on Amazon (it would be FREE, but they don't allow for an extended option of that). If you know of someone - parent, friend, or organization that serves others - then this might be of interest. In addition to the Kindle version, the companion...

I wanted to share: How Courts in Criminal Cases Respond to Childhood Trauma, Deborah W. Denno https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5429&context=mulr It's wonderful to see the criminal justice system acknowledge the science associated with early childhood development and its direct impact on criminal behavior, I believe policy makers willingness to direct resources into the efforts necessary to impact social change will be greatly increased, and as a result...

By Chen Reis, University of Denver, Lynn Lieberman Lawry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, March 31, 2020, The Conversation. How is the COVID-19 crisis impacting the most vulnerable among us? Tens of millions of Americans fit that description – the poor , the homeless , immigrants , the detained and incarcerated , the precariously employed and the uninsured . Nearly one-quarter of adult Americans do not have access to medical benefits, paid sick leave or access to...

Excerpts from the recent piece by writer, @Leah Harris , published in Mad in America . To read the rest of this piece by @Leah Harris , published in Mad in America , please click here.

A very special 6-week "Warriors of Hope" event will begin this Sunday night on the "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" radio program. This 6-week event will feature six very special guests that will offer their insight on the power of HOPE in their lives and provide encouragement, wisdom and insight on the need for resilience in lives today. The 6 week schedule will feature these guests: *April 5th, Christian Moore, LCSW and author of "The Resilience Breakthrough". Christian is...

By Robert F. Anda, Laura E. Porter, David W. Brown, et al., American Journal of Preventive Medicine, March 25, 2020 INTRODUCTION Despite its usefulness in research and surveillance studies, the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) score is a relatively crude measure of cumulative childhood stress exposure that can vary widely from person to person. Unlike recognized public health screening measures, such as blood pressure or lipid levels that use measurement reference standards and cut points...