"On Tuesday, December 18, MHAC's Don Mares joined Governor John Hickenlooper at the capitol for the Governor's announcement of $18.5 million in new funding for mental health systems in Colorado in his 2013 budget. The budget request would expand the...
"American health care is in the midst of profound changes, some of which are really exciting in their potential," Skubi says. "For example, with the implementation of electronic records in 2007, Interfaith was suddenly able to look at the entire...
"Dr. Vincent J. Felitti of the Department of Preventative Medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in San Diego California describes how he and his colleagues did a population-based analysis of over 17,000 healthy, middle-class...
"When most people think about the military, a calm yoga room is probably the last thing that comes to mind. But with veteran unemployment, substance abuse, and suicide rates due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the rise, the U.S. Armed...
"Proposals must be received no later than January 7, 2013 , at 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time.... "Funding is available for activities and events in support of Prevention of Violence and Trauma of Women and Girls (VAW) in the United States , its...
A final comment on SAMHSA's feedback site. "The guidelines provide an excellent framework for beginning the assessment process for the development of an organizational change strategy to support a trauma informed approach. The key domains to be...
"Adverse childhood events often lead to adult shame and illness. Back in the early 1980s, I realized that every case of severe PMS I saw was in a woman who had come from an alcoholic home or was currently residing in one. Many others with chronic...
"...Trauma-sensitive classrooms and schools provide an environment where all adults in the building have an awareness and sensitivity to the potential impact of trauma and adverse experiences on students’ lives. The initial thinking behind low...
"With powerful firearms comes greater risk. Adam Lanza's murder-suicide shows us the frightful price of misjudging that risk. In a June 2011 story, “ New perspectives on suicide prevention ,” I wrote about the three elements of the ...
Very nice blog post from a survivor. "Having lived with manic-depressive illness for over sixty years and having studied the illness from the standpoint of social behavior , episodes, spikes in mania, triggers, onsets of trauma, curves of feeling...
"...With this new funding, Akron Children’s will develop the Center for the Treatment and Study of Adverse Childhood Events, with the goal of providing leadership, training and consultative services in the area of childhood traumatic stress for...
"Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction, unemployment and divorce are 10 times more likely to have been victims of childhood physical abuse, according to a new study prepared by the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of...
"Your primary care physician may be your first choice for assistance with most health-related issues, but according a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, primary care physicians agree they may not be...
“Our children are dying and we can stop it,” says Dr. Ted Corbin, an emergency department physician at the Drexel University College of Medicine where he is both a doctor and a violence prevention practitioner. Violence, he says, is a...
Nice collection of resources. "Our heart goes out to the families of the victims, the students who witnessed the violence, and the community of Newtown, CT. But also to families who struggle with raising a child with mental illness, loving them,...