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By Corey Mitchell, Education Week, June 18, 2019. The Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, is urging the U.S. Department of Education to take "immediate action" to address the underreporting of restraint and seclusion in the nation's schools. In a report released Tuesday, the GAO asserts that the Education Department has repeatedly and knowingly published the inaccurate data in its civil rights data collection. According to the GAO report, 70 percent of school...

By Eillie Anzilotti, Fast Company, June 17, 2019. A simple measure of societal progress is: “Will the next generation be better off than the current one.” Right now, we seem to be going backwards on that metric. A child born today has around the same chance of growing up in poverty as one born in 1990. “We haven’t seen the progress we’ve wanted to see on reducing child poverty, and part of that is to do with the way our economy is working—even though it’s technically growing, we haven’t seen...

New Study Examines State Lawmaker Perspectives on Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences Released by Children's Trust of South Carolina

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook - What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing By Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child's mind -- and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder witnesses, kidnapped teenagers, and victims of...

The Michigan ACEs initiative hosted the largest convening of ACEs professionals in the state of Michigan. Dr. Robert Anda, co-principal investigator of the original ACE Study, co-founder oACE Interface and also featured in RESILIENCE, opened the conference. He introduced keynote speaker Dr. Christina Bethell, professor at Johns Hopkins University and director, Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, to an audience of over 500 people.

If you have been working hard to create and sustain a beautiful garden for Elders and their care partners and want to learn more about how to support healing for people living with unresolved trauma, you are invited to join me in Omaha, Nebraska on June 27th for “Trauma Informed Care: Making Peace with the Past.”

Highlights excerpted on Science Direct about a new study by Erin P.Hambrick, Thomas W.Brawner, BruceD. Perry, KristieBrandt, Christine Hofmeister, and Jen O.Collins published in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing. Link to Science Direct about a new study by Erin P.Hambrick, Thomas W.Brawner, BruceD. Perry, KristieBrandt, Christine Hofmeister, and Jen O.Collins published in the Archives of Psychiatric Nursing.

By ChangeLab Solutions. Shared Use Addresses a Common Problem For the nearly 15,000 Tongan Americans who live in Salt Lake County, Utah, a survey by the local chapter of the National Tongan American Society found two key culprits causing low rates of physical activity within the community. First, the survey uncovered that most residents did not have access to essential resources like gym memberships, exercise equipment, or even safe sidewalks. And second, the survey revealed that residents...

By Fran Smith, USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, June 18, 2019. A spike in suicides among teenage boys in the United States, reported Tuesday in JAMA, is the latest evidence of a public health crisis that continues to get worse. The suicide rate for boys ages 15 to 19 jumped dramatically in 2017, reaching its highest point in a generation. Although boys have historically had higher suicide rates than girls, a study in JAMA Network Open in May showed the gap has narrowed as suicide...

By Carol Graham, Los Angeles Times, June 17, 2019. To make America happy again, society has to figure out how to make our country whole. Understanding what divides Americans – and what gives them hope — could be critical to improving their well-being and the nation’s. By tracking patterns in well-being, and creating programs based on the results, we can take steps toward tackling the malaise that afflicts many of us, including the physically and mentally stressed, the jobless, the aging and...

Earlier in the year, I wrote a blog post about one of my newest students who was saving food that was served in school to bring home to her family. The 4-year-old girl, a recent immigrant from Guatemala, was storing food in her pants pockets instead of eating at school. Here is a link to the blog post: Pockets Filled With Chicken and Other Social Determinants of Health Yesterday, I was privileged to see this little girl welcome the guests for the end of year celebration as the students move...

The other day I was the guest on Amee Quiriconi’s podcast ONE BROKEN MOM, which is focused on parenting, kids and the effects of trauma on how we manage it all. It was so fun talking with a fellow traveler, helping to get the word out about how we heal from Childhood PTSD. You can check out One Broken Mom here. You can take my online course, “ Healing Childhood PTSD” here .