On Google, you can read any one of the 173 stories about San Francisco Sheriff George Mirkarimi being sentenced today to one day in jail and three years probation for falsely imprisoning his wife when he supposedly abused her on New Year's Eve. ...
All of you ACEs Too High Network members who live within easy driving distance of Winters, CA, are invited to the first meetup of NorCal ACErs at the home of Jane Stevens. Sunday, March 25 at 2 p.m. RSVP to the meetup in the events section, and I'll...
KUDOS TO the Associated Press reporter and the Newsone.com headline writer for providing the child's perspective in this story: "Kidnapped Boy to Experience Confusion, Trauma" . The boy was kidnapped when he was 8 months old. CPS took him...
Just over a decade ago, I spent a summer volunteering in the women’s facility of the San Francisco County Jail. I led a support group for women and did basic case management work. Most of the women were in for drug offenses, prostitution,...
It's Brain Awareness Week ! The Dana Foundation has a short overview of the thousands of celebrations around the world. And check out the cool brain art . Our nod to the festivities is a link to yesterday's video that Jenna...
Besides the 10% of men who think it's OK to physically assault a women if a man gets angry at her, according to reports on CalgaryHerald.com and TheProvince.com , the good news is that 52 percent said it's okay for a woman to...
It wasn’t your everyday experience, hearing Bible verses mixed with particulars from epidemiology and neurobiology in the same breath. But that’s what Dave Lockridge was doing as the 20 people in his Monday night ACE Overcomers...
A six-year $3.4 million test of the SafeCare model of treatment for the prevention of child abuse and neglect involving 2,175 parents reduced the number of children going back into Oklahoma's child welfare system from 70 to 50 percent,...
Jonathan Purtle, another Network member, recently blogged about the Multiplying Connections Initiative in Philly.com. Read his full blog here where you will also find links to other blogs he has posted on the ACES and trauma informed care.
On the Westside of Chicago, providers were struggling with many quetions over the years: Why don't families show up to their appointments? Why do so many families seem hopeless? Why aren't families accepting our help? At the same time...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Molly Warner, Ann Brice, Mary G. Warren, and Jonathan Purtle. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their pages to read more about them,...
The district attorneys of Queens, Richmond, Onondaga, Monroe, Kings, Bronx and New York counties wrote an op-ed in the New York Daily News supporting NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg's request to the state for $5 million for the Nurse...
It wasn’t a light-bulb moment that prompted Denise Hughes-Conlon to institute a few changes at the Pinellas Ex-offender Re-entry Coalition. It more like a nudge. Specifically, a nudge from Robin Saenger, then vice-mayor of Tarpon Springs, FL,...
Here is an interesting take on how to heal hurtful memories from a wise researcher: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03...emc=edit_th_20120306 The article was in the NEW YORK TIMES online on March 6, 2012. I am very interested in the topic of resilience and in memory and how to heal from hurtful experiences. Perhaps hurtful experiences have some value--but does the healing from them have even more value?
I was recently in Banff, Alberta, a beautiful place high in the Canadian Rockies, to speak about the ACE Study at the Alberta College of Family Physicians. It was a fine meeting and a quite interested audience. Hopefully, some of the...