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By Marketplace, October 7, 2019 It was midafternoon on Valentine’s Day when I heard an early news report about the school shooting. The particulars drifted in as I hurried my way through a pile of work that needed attention before I left for a long Florida weekend with my wife: students and teachers killed, number unknown. Panic in the halls. A gunman armed with an assault rifle. My first reaction was: Not again. I’d found myself thinking that too many times lately. Hadn’t we all? Four...

By Michael Painter and Priya Gandhi, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 3, 2019 Across the United States, people are recognizing that climate change is a major threat to any vision of a healthy future. They are responding by developing solutions to not only avoid the health harms from climate change, but also actively improve health and limit climate change. In Austin, Texas, city officials have grown increasingly concerned about their residents enduring more days with extreme heat.

In last week’s post, I talked about how COMMON it is for people with CPTSD and Childhood PTSD to experience being isolated, and being lonely. Loneliness is part of life, at least a little bit, for everyone. But for a lot of people who experienced early trauma, it’s like a curse we carry, that touches everything in our lives and almost never gets talked about. So in this post, I’m going to keep talking about isolation, along with one of the biggest obstacles to healing it, and that’s the fact...

I’ve been preaching self-care since the early 1990’s when I worked in residence life at a local college. I watched student resident assistants working for free room and board in the dorm give all their to care for their fellow students. I knew if they ignored their own needs it wouldn’t be long before they would knock on my office door asking to leave. So their self-care was in my best interest and theirs. Now you can find apps, Websites, life coaches, books, and youtube channels dedicated...

By Veronika Tait, Psychology Today, October 4, 2019 Groundbreaking research conducted in the 1990s found that the greater number of negative childhood experiences a person had, the more likely they were to experience poor health outcomes later in life such as heart disease, liver disease, and cancer. A new study published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect has found that positive experiences, such as having a teacher who cares about them, can buffer against these negative outcomes.

By Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, October 3, 2019 Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey rolled out a broad set of policy proposals on Thursday that seek to significantly reduce child poverty, including by offering a $300 monthly cash allowance to most families with young children. Though many of the Democratic presidential candidates have introduced proposals to help working families, few of Mr. Booker’s rivals have offered a policy specifically aimed at cutting the child poverty rate. The...

By Ping Chen and Mullan Harris, JAMA Pediatrics, October 7, 2019 Key Points Question How are adolescent family relationships associated with trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence into midlife for women and men? Findings In this cohort study of 18 185 individuals (9233 females and 8952 males), those who experienced positive adolescent family relationships had significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms from early adolescence to midlife (late 30s to early 40s) than did...

Please welcome these four communities from CA and WA to ACEs Connection . More information about each one of them is below. You can also find theses communities among this list of all our communities . Riverside Resilience (CA) The Riverside Resilience initiative started in 2016 when county and community leaders came together to understand how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma influence health and wellbeing. The goal of the initiative is to launch a cross-sector collaboration...

By Rachel Lee, California Health Care Foundation, September 20, 2019 In California, nearly two out of three adults with a mental illness do not receive mental health services, and only 1 out of 10 adults with a substance use disorder receives any kind of treatment. These gaps in care have drawn the attention not only of policymakers, but also health technology investors and entrepreneurs. Last year, health tech start-ups, including Quartet Health, Lyra Health, and Pear Therapeutics, raised...

By Traci Pedersen, PsychCentral, September 12, 2019 More than half of older Chinese-American immigrants experience depressive symptoms, which in turn may be linked to increased disabilities and chronic health conditions, according to two new studies from Rutgers University in New Jersey. The studies examined the link between psychological well-being and the onset of disability and comorbid chronic medical conditions among a group of roughly 3,000 Chinese Americans age 60 and older. Their...

By Rick Strom, TYT Sports, October 7, 2019 It's time to end bullying. Rick Strom breaks it down. [ Please click here to watch video clip .]

By Deke Farrow, The Modesto Bee, October 4, 2019 Alana Scott likes to share a story about Tanya King. King, 47 and a student at Modesto Junior College, was interviewing for a scholarship to take a five-week Living WELL program, said Scott, a founder of the nonprofit organization WELL, or Women’s Education and Leadership League. King saw another candidate, Veronica Nunez, arriving and greeted her. Scott asked King how she knew Nunez, and learned that they’re MJC classmates and that King had...