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I would like to examine this statement from Audrey Stillerman on response to Dr. Gordon’s comment on academic narrowmindedness posted 10/23/2022. Please accept this as a means of expanding discussion and not solely criticism. I am interested in opposing viewpoints. “Along with other experts, the authors are concerned that ACE scores may be misappropriated as a screening or diagnostic tool to infer individual client risk and misapplied in treatment algorithms that inappropriately assign...

By David Wallace-Wells, Photo: Devin Oktar Yelkin/The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2022 You can never really see the future, only imagine it, then try to make sense of the new world when it arrives. Just a few years ago, climate projections for this century looked quite apocalyptic, with most scientists warning that continuing “business as usual” would bring the world four or even five degrees Celsius of warming — a change disruptive enough to call forth not only...

By Martin Pengelly, Photo: Jeremy Woodhouse/Getty Images, The Guardian, October 27, 2022 Americans die younger in conservative states than in those governed by liberals, a new study has found. The authors wrote : “Simulations indicate that changing all policy domains in all states to a fully liberal orientation might have saved 171,030 lives in 2019, while changing them to a fully conservative orientation might have cost 217,635 lives.” The study was published on Plos One, “an inclusive...

By Megan Greenwell, Photo Illustration: The Washington Post, The Washington Post, October 24, 2022 In January 2019, Zohna Everett was sitting in an airport when her phone rang. On the other end of the line, a voice informed her that she had been randomly chosen to receive $500 a month as part of something called the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration. When Everett had first heard about SEED a few weeks earlier, she’d wondered if it might be a scam, as things that sound too good to...

[Ed. note: This post is in response to Dr. Jeoff Gordon's post about the American College of Preventive Medicine's position statement on ACEs.] Responding with, and on behalf of, my co-authors Kevin Sherin, MD MBA MPH and David Niebuhr, MD MPH MSc. Dr. Gordon, thank you for starting a conversation about our Open Access paper which includes the ACPM Position Statement on ACEs. We agree 100% that a national priority is preventing, mitigating, and treating childhood maltreatment as well as all...

Simon Sinek wrote: "The limbic brain comprises the middle two sections and is responsible for all our feelings, such as trust and loyalty. This area of the brain is responsible for all human behaviour and all our decision-making. It is where our emotional connection takes place, and it has no capacity for language." As a CEO responsible for health and behavioral health systems, I noticed early on that most patients and clients didn't improve during talk therapy. As I learned the nuance of...

If there’s one thing that stands out about Rachael Steidl and her work as the Executive Director of YouthWell - it’s a sense of collaboration. Since its founding seven years ago, YouthWell has focused on bringing communities together around addressing youth mental health and ending the stigma or shame surrounding mental health challenges. Their mission has since grown and now extends to adolescents, young adults and their families across all of Santa Barbara County. YouthWell has a key aim...

By Dr. Bob Sege, 10/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ HOPE National Resource Center Director, Bob Sege, went to Darwin Australia at the end of September. Here is part two of his time there. Access part one here . At the end of September, I was invited to Sydney Australia to celebrate the beginning of a formal partnership with Western Sydney University, which is now the Australasian HOPE network leader. TeEACH (Transforming early Childhood Education and Health) sponsored my...

NACoA is a proud recipient of the 2022 Alkermes Inspiration Grants program; funding the Children Deserve Recovery, Too! program. This is a unique, limited opportunity to bring children’s recovery to your community. Apply today for a chance to be one of 40 not-for-profit organizations to receive NACoA’s Children’s Program Kit and on-demand training for community-based, youth-serving nonprofit organizations who are serving communities historically under-resourced and underrepresented. Selected...

By Emily Flitter, Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images, Marketplace, October 25, 2022 In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, Wall Street’s biggest banks pledged billions of dollars to address the racial wealth gap. But what often went unrecognized was the role these financial institutions have played in perpetuating wealth disparities. That’s the subject of New York Times reporter Emily Flitter’s new book, “The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America.” In it, she...

By Upasna Gautam, Photo: Samuel Hall, CNN Health, October 26, 2022 Sahaj Kohli, whose family immigrated to the United Kingdom from India, struggled with an identity crisis familiar to many children of immigrants. As the first in her family to marry a non-Indian, the first to go to therapy and the first to start talking openly about mental health, she found herself needing an outlet to share her challenges. In 2019, she founded Brown Girl Therapy , an online mental health community for...

By Madison Hunt and Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, October 17, 2022 Scholar Angela Davis, an iconic activist for the abolition of prisons, shared her decades of experience on Monday with leaders of the “Family Defense Movement” — a small-but-growing community of advocates opposed to the very foundations of the child welfare system. During a virtual live-streamed conference, Davis told New York City activist Joyce McMillan she sees parallels between the U.S. prison system and the system...