Sarah's Law: United Kingdom
Saw this on Huffington Post this morning: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/04/03/sarahs-law-helped-to-protect-hundreds-of-children_n_1400937.html
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Roundup: Brief therapy heals trauma in kids; a cautionary tale for child protective services
One of the issues that many pediatricians and family practitioners have in screening for child trauma is the lack of effective treatment for the child. Jane Brody did a terrific post on the New York Times Well blog about a therapy that...
Roundup: Ideas for preventing child trauma fall short; child trauma costs billions in long run; extend constraints for abusers in family violence
Since this is National Child Abuse Prevention Month , you're likely to see many editorials and op-eds on the subject. Here's one from today's Statesmanjournal.com . Bill Day's illustration about verbal abuse (above) for this editorial is,...
Port Townsend, WA, learns that to change health culture, it takes a community
Nate (l) and Nico Winegar play with pinwheels that symbolize Port Townsend's "Our Kids: Our Business" campaign Last week, I posted a story about how a family services clinic in Port Townsend, WA, includes childhood trauma in regular health...
Mary Warren of Arizona & Child Abuse Prevention: ACYF Commissioner's Award
March 13, 2012 Dr. Mary G. Warren, PhD, IMH-E® (IV) Best for Babies Dependency Court Children's Mental Health Coordinator Never Shake A Baby Arizona Coordinator Prevent Child Abuse Arizona PO Box 26495 ...
How Can the ACES be Used in Primary Care?
Randall Reitz, PhD, Director of the Behavioral Science at St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency in Grand Junction Colorado and active participant in the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), and I have written a "Point Counter...
Roundup: Fast-tracking family violence cases pays off; women on probation, parole have more mental illness; stressing an old brain affects memory
A man who stabbed his girlfriend 12 times in February pled guilty to attempted murder yesterday, a little more than a month after the assault. The case was part of a project to fast-track family violence cases in Minneapolis area, according to this...
Roundup: Pittsburgh advocate sees poverty thru public-health lens; WA community celebrates Nat'l Child Abuse Prevention Month; should media have shown Jason Russell's breakdown?
Rashad Byrdsong, the founder of Community Empowerment Association (CEA), a nonprofit community development organization in Pittsburgh, thinks that poverty needs to be addressed through a public-health lens, according to this post by ...
First NorCal ACErs meetup: eclectic minds gather to talk ACEs
The afternoon turned from rainy to sunny outside the 100-year-old farmhouse in Winters while eight members of the NorCal ACErs engaged in a captivating discussion about what drew each of us to devote some or most of our time to implementing ACE...
Mini-meetup in Phoenix, AZ
Burtt Richardson, Gladys Richardson, Marcia Stanton (pictured above, left to right) and I had a long lunch yesterday in Phoenix. Burtt's a retired pediatrician who practiced in Maine for decades. Gladys is married to Burtt and does community...
Public health clinic adds child trauma to smoking, alcohol, HIV screening
When a pregnant woman visits the Jefferson County Public Health clinic in Port Townsend, WA, a town of about 9,000 people on the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, she’s asked the typical questions about tobacco, alcohol and...
Roundup: Penn State offering free counseling to sex-abuse victims; more child-abuse prevention services in WI town; GA law eliminates "spousal privilege" in DV cases
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky (Associated Press photo) The Associated Press reported that Penn State has contracted with Praesidium Inc ., based in Arlington, TX, which is described as an abuse risk...
Roundup: Pay spousal support to rapist? Alaska governor sends Cabinet across state for family violence awareness; Montana child trauma hearing wrap-up
THAT'S WHAT California law can require now. And that's why a woman who experienced a sexual assault by her husband and then divorced him went to the state Capitol in Sacramento to lobby for a change. News10.net did a nice job as did the...
The Divide That Need Not Conquer Us
A very old resentment of mine was piqued by a recent “Southland” episode. A woman who was a former rape victim believed – wrongly as it turned out – that the black man following her from the market had evil intentions....
Live now: Advocates encourage Montana lawmakers to make child trauma No. 1 public health issue
Like many other states, Montana has had a spate of horrific child abuse cases and deaths. Unlike some other states that are only trying to toughen child abuse reporting laws -- which is akin to closing the barn door after the horse gets out, but...