I'm doing interviews for a story about Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, where Principal Jim Sporleder has turned the idea of discipline upside down and inside out, with the result that suspensions are down by 85 percent, written referrals are...
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is devoted to providing resources and e-learning (free!) about the effects of traumatic stress on children and families. If you haven't been to the NCTSN website , it's worth a look. I've signed up...
The story about the Florida man who was acquitted on child abuse charges last week for doing to a 7-year-old boy what had been done to him as punishment when he was a kid got me to thinking about the process of how people and communities...
This 10-minute video shows how schools in Spokane, WA, embraced principles of complex trauma to change how they teach children grappling with adverse childhood experiences. It's well worth watching. It was put together by the Washington...
The Primary Prevention of ACEs group has started a section called RESILIENCE RESOURCES , and added a few resources, including Burtt & Gladys Richardson's parent guide that includes ACEs and resilience surveys, and links to web sites, including ResilienceTrumpsAces.org , put together by the Children's Resilience Initiative in Walla Walla, WA. Feel free to add more resilience resources to that page in the comments section, and I'll incorporate them into the list.
Any experienced teacher will tell you that every class has a few: children who can’t focus, can’t sit still, who fight at the slightest provocation, or perhaps withdraw completely. These kids are usually labeled as “bad”,...
In Visitacion Valley Middle School, an urban middle school in South San Francisco, CA, students start and end their days with 15 minutes of meditation, according to this wonderful post by Kyle Palmer on KQED's State of Health blog. Since...
Devery Broox was found not guilty of child abuse after "berating a 7-year-old boy, shaving his eyebrows and head as punishment and forcing him to do calisthenics," said this report by Susan Jacobson in the Orlando Sentinel . "At one point, a...
Individuals traumatized in childhood frequently have higher than average resting heart rates--a factor now linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Interestingly, training that assists individuals in resetting their stress point and...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Jennifer Walch, Shonda Goward, Dena Strum Klein and Linda Lee. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their page to read more about them,...
IsraAID has been helping Japan's tsunami victims by providing training to handle post-traumatic stress disorder, according to this very touching story by Boaz Arad on JTA.org. IsraAID organizes art, music, movement and drama therapy...
The ACE International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) is intended to measure ACEs in all countries, and the association between them and risk behaviours in later life. ACE-IQ is designed for administration to people aged 18 years and older. Questions cover...
According to a Medicalxpress Article : "Children in the U.S. whose activity choices, interests, and pretend play before age 11 fall outside those typically expressed by their biological sex face increased risk of being physically, psychologically, and...
In Lebanon, where it's not against the law for men to physically or sexually abuse their wives, about 300 people rallied over the weekend "to raise awareness of Lebanon’s lack of laws protecting women from domestic abuse," says ...
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