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National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day, Thursday, May 9th
"So why should you care about the mental health of your child or adolescent? Because with the proper diagnosis and treatment of a mental illness, your children can go on to lead healthy, productive lives. Here are some quick statistics to consider: *...
In-home therapy benefits families - Massachusetts
"The goal of Child & Family Services' in-home therapy program, provided under the umbrella of the state's Child Behavioral Health Initiative, is to get parents to understand a child's diagnosis and help them manage the child's behavior. "The program, which rolled out three years ago, has proved to reduce symptoms, meltdowns and child hospitalizations, program director Kristen Davies said...." http://www.capecodonline.com/a...S/305060307/-1/rss02
Child Welfare Training: The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute - Grant/funding
"The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to fund a National Child Welfare Institute that will build the capacity of the child welfare workforce to effectively respond to the complex needs of the children and families in order to...
Child Abuse Hotline Ad Uses Photographic Trick That Makes It Visible Only To Children (1 min)
"A Spanish organization called Fundación ANAR , or Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk, created a bus-stop advertisement in April that features the group's hotline number for children to report abuse. But by using a process called...
Cyberbullying rampant among high school students
"Step into a class of 30 high school students and look around. Five of them have been victims of electronic bullying in the past year. "What's more, 10 of those students spend three or more hours on an average school day playing video games or using a...
What Does It Take for Traumatized Kids to Thrive? - Washington State
This article features the work of ACEsConnection members Dr. Mark Brown, Jim Sporleder, and Teri Barila. "About a decade ago, Washington State embarked on an early social experiment to educate people about the impacts of stress on children. The...
Why housing for women? - Canada
"The new system, which will be implemented over the next three years, brings a distinct shift in form, implementing evidence based research on housing first methods. We support this new focus, which places emphasis on the obvious solution...
Primary Sources: What Makes Some Young Mothers More Likely to Be 'Harsh' Parents?
"Overall, adolescent mothers were indeed more likely than older moms to use harsh parenting. But things appeared differently when the researchers looked at race and ethnicity. Hispanic mothers were less likely to be harsh compared to white and African...
Traumatized moms avoid tough talks with kids, study shows
"According to the study, which was presented at the Society for Research in Child Development 2013 Biennial Meeting in Seattle, a sample of low-income mothers who had experienced their own childhood traumas exhibited ongoing "traumatic avoidance...
Connecticut lags in kids’ mental health screening
"In 2012, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that nationally, 80 percent of children with a potential mental health need did not receive any psychosocial therapy, and over 70 percent did not have any mental health office visits. "In...
ROLE OF MATERNAL CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON PARENTING AMONG DEPRESSED MOTHERS OF PSYCHIATRICALLY ILL CHILDREN - abstract
Abstract Background Independently, maternal depression and maternal history of childhood abuse confer risk for impaired parenting. These associations may be compounded when depressed mothers with histories of childhood abuse are faced with the...
Murray Introduces Children’s Recovery from Trauma Act - Washington State - UPDATED
[Updated 5/5/13] I found the Library of Congress page on this bill (see below). "Today [Feb. 26], U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) introduced the Children’s Recovery from Trauma Act to provide increased support for children and families affected by trauma and all those involved with their care. This bill includes a reauthorization and updates to the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI), which works with children and families who are exposed to a wide range of...
An Overview of Trauma-Informed Care: Interview with Nancy J. Smyth, Ph.D. (59 min)
"Today's episode of the Social Work Podcast looks at Trauma Informed Care, one of the most promising approaches to working with people without causing additional trauma. And I had the honor of talking about Trauma-informed care with Nancy Smyth,...