One of the great themes that threads its way through Toni Morrison’s work like a haunting melody is the hold that time past exerts over time present. In larger historical terms, it is the horror of slavery and its echoing legacy that her...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — I OPENED the curtain and found my patient stretched out flat on the recliner, one arm thrown across his eyes. Worried, I reached for his pulse, but then I heard a soft snore. He was sound asleep, before...
Dana Lam was insured under her parent's health plan until the end of 2014, thanks to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to stay on family health insurance until they turn 26. The arrangement worked out well until...
Hello ACEs Connection Friends, I wanted to invited you to join a Facebook page created to expand access to trauma informed practices, approaches, and communities. We would love to have you participate. Join us...
A few months ago, the Australian organization, Adults Surviving Child Abuse, published a report that identified how much money the government and the private sector could be saving - $9.1 billion - by acknowledging and addressing child abuse and the...
On Monday, New York's attorney general announced that he had sent letters to 13 major retailers inquiring about their use of "on-call scheduling," which can make workers responsible for showing up at a moment's notice, or leave them without a...
In America, we often see poverty and hardship as the result of moral failure—or, more kindly, as a failure of social norms. This is why, in 1965, sociologist and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously attributed the prevalence of...
Abstract Aims. Accumulating evidence links childhood adversity to negative health outcomes in adulthood. However, most of the available evidence is retrospective and subject to recall bias. Published reports have sometimes focused...
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It’s safe to assume that every Montanan is against child abuse. But tragically, it happens all the time, the incidents of child abuse are actually increasing and the impacts of abuse on the most vulnerable...
Most newly stylish coinages carry with them some evidence of grammatical trauma. Consider “affluencer,” “selfie,” “impactful.” Notes of cynicism and cutesiness come through. But every now and then a bright...
Abstract Animal studies have amply demonstrated that stress exposure during pregnancy or in early post-natal life can adversely influence brain development and have long-term ‘programming’ effects on future brain function and behaviour....
Last year, Kalief Browder allowed me to interview him many times about his experience in the New York City criminal-justice system. At sixteen, he had been arrested in the Bronx for a robbery that he insisted he hadn’t committed. He...
Jacob Lawrence was a painter, but he was also a storyteller of the first order. In his 1941 masterwork, “Migration Series,” Lawrence (1917-2000) unspools one of the foundational narratives of the modern United States: the journey...
The stories that have been shared herein recently, e.g., regarding trauma-informed education models, are stories about folks practicing 'eulogy virtues' as defined in this great piece by David Brooks in the New York Times. http://nyti.ms/1Fy2QmR...
In 1946, a malaria outbreak across the Southern U.S. catalyzed the formation of what would eventually become the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Then in 2002, China's CDC began its operations just as an outbreak of Severe Acute...