"Last month we shared advice from two runaway and homeless youth programs about how to look for signs of sex trafficking when young people come to your organization for shelter and support. We also listened in on a Web forum cosponsored by the...
Editor's note: Jeff Anderson is an attorney and the founder of Jeff Anderson and Associates in St. Paul, Minnesota. He has represented survivors of sexual abuse by clergy and other authority figures for 28 years. (CNN) -- As Pope Benedict XVI steps...
"A new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study shows that missed meals in childhood can be linked to experiencing pain and depression in adulthood. Depression and chronic pain are experienced by 44 percent of working-aged adults and the study shows a...
"Beginning Monday, March 4, TASH members will have access to a complimentary suite of training sessions on the prevention of restraint, seclusion and aversive interventions.... Shouldn’t School Be Safe? Preventing and Eliminating the Use of...
The following list contains trauma treatments, interventions, and trauma aware approaches to care as identified by Alameda County providers and staff as effective and ones that they commonly use...."...
" Toolwire ( http://www.toolwire.com ) and the Sidran Institute ( http://www.sidran.org ) today announced the launch of the Risking Connection® LearnScapes, a series of interactive online learning simulations created...
ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder wrote the following... "The AMERICA ’S ANGEL® Campaign: Raising the Bar on Raising America RE: Request to join President Obama’s Call to Action on gun violence Dear Mr. Duncan: I am...
"A Missouri House committee has endorsed legislation that would eliminate the current time limits for prosecuting cases that involve sexual offenses against people age 18 and younger....
"This document proposes strategies that communities (“communities” refers to any group with shared interests such as neighborhoods, counties, states, and professional groups) can consider to promote the types of relationships and...
"Hardy is one of about 30 patients receiving Stellate Ganglion Block injections in his neck, and he said the shots have worked. "As part of the study, Hardy received three injections that led to relief from his symptoms ranging from one day to three...
"The ugliness and inexplicability of the violence in our cities comes to define you and everyone around you. With just one act of violence, the ground shifts beneath you, your knees buckle and all you can do is try the best you can to maintain your...
“Post traumatic stress is very prevalent in the community. My dad has it, I had it, I was a refugee,” said Paul Hoang, a licensed clinical social worker and the co-host of a Vietnamese community television program. He also champions mental...
"In his book, From Neurons to Neighborhoods, Dr. Shonkoff underscores the value of investing in young children. He and his colleagues at Harvard’s Center of the Developing Child share research that shows how the architecture of the brain is...
Dear Straight Talk: I grew up with my stepfather regularly knocking my mother around when he was drunk and being emotionally abusive to both her and me. She would never stand up to him or leave him and I hated both of them for participating in this...
"The maladaptive consequences of child maltreatment persist throughout the lifespan. For example, research on the associations between patient reports of adverse childhood experiences (i.e., child maltreatment) and adult mental and physical health...