About This Event: Please join me and invite your friends to come and talk about all the great work happening in Alameda County October 28th 4pm at A'Cuppa Tea 2992 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705 Jasmine Pettis, MPH, CLE Community Manager
*** This is a series of short articles about ACEsConnections members and the work they are doing to implement practices based on ACEs research.*** Over her 40 years in health care, Rona Renner has been a registered nurse, parenting coach,...
[Burtt and Gladys Richardson with Marcia Stanton, co-founder of the Arizona ACE Consortium] Ever since hearing Dr. Vincent Felitti talk about the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study in 2005, Gladys and Burtt Richardson's top priority has been the primary prevention of ACES and fostering of resilience. To put those goals into practice they have begun developing what they call Family Networks and Neighborhood Networks, starting with their own Sam Hughes neighborhood in Tucson, AZ.
Both males and females affected; risk goes up with drug and alcohol abuse, researchers say One in six American teens seen at emergency departments has experienced dating violence, new research finds. Researchers surveyed nearly 4,100 teens, aged 14 to...
Expectant moms' use of nicotine-replacement therapy could also spell problems for kids, study suggests Children born to women who smoked during pregnancy appear to have an increased risk of developing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),...
40 percent who'd sent explicit messages or photos said they'd been sexually active, study finds Middle school students who send sexually explicit text messages and photos to one another are more likely to have sex than those who don't "sext," a new...
Adults with dyslexia are more likely to report that they were physically abused as children or teenagers than people who don't have the learning disorder, according to a new study. Dyslexia, which affects up to 10 percent of people, causes problems...
If one could wave a magic wand and reduce the number of tobacco smokers by more than 10 percent, the percentage of adult alcoholics by 12 percent, the percentage of those suffering from chronic depression by more than half, most people would do so....
Stress can be just as contagious as a cold. Martie Rafferty is a clinical social worker. She said stress is toxic and you can catch it just like a cold. "People tend to get irritable, impatient, or just can't focus, can't concentrate and that effects...
Study found lower-income kids at challenging high schools less likely to engage in risky behaviors Low-income teenagers who get into a more rigorous high school may take fewer health risks than their peers at other schools, a new study suggests. The...
Good parenting and life skills coaching seem to reduce inflammation in children from low-income families, a new study suggests. Inflammation is a common problem among poorer children, and can lead to a number of illnesses, according to Northwestern...
Only 22 percent of those at risk get screened, and researchers think complacency may be why. Only one in five sexually active U.S. teens has been tested for HIV, a new government report shows. That percentage is concerning because teens make up a...
Riverside County wants to start over at a place where many a wayward youth started over. County officials plan to spend up to $32.9 million – $24.69 million coming from Sacramento – to tear down and rebuild the Van Horn Youth Treatment and...
French economist Thomas Piketty sparked a global debate on inequality by arguing that the wealthy pull ahead by reaping disparate rewards from financial capital. He may be missing the human half of the story. When defining capital, Piketty...