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ACEs Connection member Teri Barila has organized these events for her community. "The impact on adverse childhood experiences on businesses and communities will be the subject of two free workshops coming next month at the Walla Walla Police...

Abstract Childhood maltreatment, witnessing violence, and growing up with absent, addicted, or mentally ill caregivers influence adult physical and psychological well-being and may play an important role in female offending. This study utilizes data...

Background Adverse childhood experiences (e.g., physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, exposure to domestic violence, parental discord, familial mental illness, incarceration and substance abuse) constitute a major public health problem in the...

"I would recommend that CDC partner with SAMHSA and NIH to have a mix of the three types of primary prevention – universal, selective and indicated interventions.  These strategies will minimize adverse childhood experiences, which can...

"Dozens of states have slashed spending on mental health care over the last four years, either because of the recession's toll on revenue or a new zeal to shrink government...."  ...

[video: 5 mins] "A team of researchers has shown that domestic abuse prevention programmes are able to have a positive impact on secondary school children's attitudes to violence.... "So the challenge is to encourage governments to incorporate this across the mainstream curriculum and build a workable infrastructure at every secondary school-age year. "Rather than confining relationship education to special sessions that are tangential to the assessed curriculum, geography or maths, for...

"Rats that are socially isolated during a critical period of adolescence are more vulnerable to addiction to amphetamine and alcohol, found researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. Amphetamine addiction is also harder to extinguish in the...

"We need to recognize that most children come to the attention of the child protective services system for reasons of neglect. When you study those cases, as I have in both Wisconsin and Washington state when I was responsible for the system there,...

"New research at the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed higher-order...

Article written by ACEsConnection member Shauna Signorini. " In June 2010, I heard Dr. Perry talk a somatosensory intervention-play music of 60-80  beats per minute , the same rate as the human heart, to calm a person's heart rate.......

Dr. Linda Chamberlain lives in Alaska, where suicide rates are "typically double the national rate", she says in  this blog post on the web site of the Scattergood Foundation . She's the Thomas Scattergood Scholar on Child Behavioral Health...

"The Tool Kit is designed to help organizations improve the quality of services offered by integrating an understanding of the impact of trauma and violence into the organization’s policies, procedures, and interactions with those being served....