With new members joining ACEsConnection at an increased clip, I'll be doing bio round-ups by the week. Here are 12 people who joined the last week in August: Shelly Holt , Mapleton, MN -- Shelly is a graduate student at Minnesota State University,...
....but only two of the eight articles are open access. The others cost $36 each. The issue is: Volume 40, Issue 4, 2012 . The open-access articles are: The Health and Social Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Across the Lifespan: An...
http://www.causes.com/causes/792357-encouraging-empathy-in-our-children/actions/1694374?utm_campaign=home In the interest of healthier children, families, communities and world, I pledge to: 1) Read or Watch about the "Adverse Childhood...
Great new stress infographic from io9.com article : http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/182d1thrxjsvtjpg/original.jpg
"Most people bounce back from trauma — but some never recover. Scientists are trying to work out what underlies the difference." http://www.nature.com/news/stress-the-roots-of-resilience-1.11570 Please note this article references the work of...
"The Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly released a new report on post-traumatic stress disorder, showing that since 9/11, nearly 30 percent of the 834,463 Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans treated at V.A. hospitals and clinics have been...
I just posted a picture taken by my dive buddy and close friend, Alvin Rosenfeld, MD. He was attending a conference in NYC and a researcher from Rockefeller showed this slide. Now the Dalai Lama knows about ACEs too! Alvin published...
"They are investing more than $1 million in federal grant money to build a “trauma-informed” system of care statewide, a project directed by Leslie Brower of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health services.... State officials...
ACEsConnection member Jim Sporleder is featured in this article. "Recently our friend, Jim Sporleder, principal of Lincoln Alternative School in Walla Walla, gave a seminar for staff from several local communities in which we are working. He told his...
"A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics (CMMT) study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress as an adult, and demographics such as age, sex and ethnicity, all leave an imprint on a person's genes. And,...
"ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experience and you are going to hear much more about it over the coming years. Whilst there has been surprisingly little work on ACE so far in in the UK, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente...
"This small sampling of comments represents what justice system-involved girls, their parents, and staff, respectively, shared during listening sessions held nationwide by the National Girls Institute (NGI).... A report detailing the results and...
"In recent years, translational research involving humans and animals has uncovered biological and physiological pathways that explain associations between early adverse circumstances and long-term mental and physical health outcomes. In this article,...
ACEsConnection members Laura Smith and Laura Porter are featured in this article. "This year, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) were the focus of the event. The Network aspired, not only to create an awareness of the ACEs research and findings, but...
"We hope that this report will be an additional resource to support community programs for at-risk youth. The successful programs identified in this report are county-developed and county-approved. Each program in the report has been successful even...