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By W.R. Cummings, Psych Central, June 14, 2019. How many times have you heard a parent say something like, “If I baby my kids, they’ll never know how the real world works.” Or maybe they’ve said things like, “How will they learn to keep going if I teach them it’s okay to stop when things get hard?” Or maybe they talk about people who are “whiney” because they want their feelings to be validated. Or maybe they think therapy and counseling are both a bunch of crap. We all know parents (or...

Recent media attention has been given to connection between sports and its powerful effect on youth, particularly the power of sport to help youth heal from trauma. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics by Molly Easterline has caught national media attention including the recent article in the New York Times “ Team Sports May Help Children Deal With Trauma ” (by Perri Klass) and NPR’s “Playing Teen Sports May Protect from Some Damages of Childhood Trauma ” by Susie Neilson. These...

As Above - So Below. One thing we know about unaddressed Trauma - it's going to come out somehow - somewhere and we will bear witness to it in our lives. Community Peace is possible when we work together to reduce the ACEs of children and do what we can across the generations to encourage folks to begin to process what has happened to them. When we change our lens from blame and shame to provide an atmosphere of safety, and build relationships to support them, everything begins to shift and...

Please welcome these three communities from CA, OR, and VA to ACEs Connection . More i nformation about each one of them is below. You can also find theses communities among this list of all our communities . Humboldt County (CA) ACEs Connection : We are educating and raising awareness about ACEs and resiliency in Humboldt County. Our hope is to empower our people to prevent ACEs, actively work to heal trauma, and build resilience for all children, families and their communities through a...

Despite the advances of nutritional therapy over the last 30 years, there is often limited to no inclusion of nutrition as part of the trauma treatment for children and families with PTSD. However, diet and nutrition can serve as powerful tools to influence change in both the body and brain of a child and/or family member experiencing trauma.

The recent Congressional Hearing on Preventing Childhood Trauma included a robust dialogue about the correlation between poverty, trauma and ACEs (time stamp 2:49). Panelists were asked what policies could positively impact income as a means to prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma and ACEs. Raising the minimum wage was not discussed. The following press release, describing new research from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment , supports it as an effective strategy , one...

By Stuart Butler, Brookings, July 12, 2019. In many areas of domestic policy, effective solutions to a problem typically need the coordination of different government programs and agencies. For instance, achieving good health in a community requires not just good medical care, but also attention to transportation, housing conditions and other “social determinants” of health. Collaboration and coordination across agencies and programs is no easy matter at any level of government. For one...

By Monica Humphries, Nation Swell, July 12, 2019. On the drive home from Priya Shah’s first Storycatchers musical, she pulled over to cry. Shah, who now serves as the executive director of Storycatchers, had just seen a musical at the Illinois Youth Center, a juvenile detention center in Warrenville, Illinois. She watched girls tell stories of sexual abuse, battery and neglect. She also saw stories of hope and resilience. “It struck me that these characters I had just watched struggle, joke,...

By Dominic O'Sullivan, The Conversation, July 10, 2019. Indigenous public policy fails consistently. The research evidence is compelling . Across post-settler colonial societies like New Zealand, Australia and Canada, schooling is not as effective for Indigenous citizens, employment and housing outcomes are not as good, and health outcomes are worse. In Canada, the government says the solution lies in stronger nation-to-nation relationships between the state and First Nations . In Australia,...

You can listen to About Health, on KPFA.org, 94.1FM, hosted by me (Rona Renner, RN) Listen Here: https://www.nurserona.com/health-consequences-of-intimate-partner-violence/ or here: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=314353 I was honored today to be joined by Dr. Brigid McCaw and Michiko Scott to discuss Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). I was moved by Michiko's courage to talk about her own experience with IPV. As an IPV survivor she overcame various challenges as an immigrant single mother of...

In what’s been described as a landmark investment from the federal government in social-emotional learning, the House of Representatives approved a spending bill last month that included $260 million in funding for what it calls “whole child” initiatives within the Department of Education. The funding is divided into four areas : 1. $170 million through the Education Innovation and Research program to provide grants for evidence-based innovations that support students’ social, emotional and...

By Marisa Kwiatkowski, USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. How do you know when someone is emotionally ready to be interviewed about a trauma he or she has experienced? What do you do if she wants to back out just before publication? How do you respond to a source’s complex family dynamic when it is affecting the reporting process? How do you protect yourself from becoming emotionally entangled in a story? While producing a five-part series, “ Ashley’s Story ,” published in April in...