"How are behaviors actually formed? How specifically are violent behaviors formed? How are they maintained and then how are they changed?....What…does the research actually show…. Most behaviors , you may be surprised to know, are...
The nation's emergency rooms are swamped. Not only responsible for treating life threatening disease and injury, they have become the primary source of health care for the uninsured. Like the nation's schools, we must increasingly rely on ERs to take...
"Felitti insists that the best way to treat addiction is with empathy and compassion. “I would argue that the person using [drugs] is not using them to have a problem, they’re using drugs to find a solution,” he says. Although some addicts have no apparent childhood trauma, at least half have suffered at least one form of severe childhood stress and many have experiences multiple exposures....Fortunately, the same key factor that provokes resilience in children coping with...
"In Washington on Thursday, several organizations participated in a congressional briefing on the subject, focusing on homeless children in particular…. According to Dr. Ellen L. Bassuk, the president of the National Center on Family...
"Person to person, day in and day out, the healing can spread like a disease too." - Steve James, The Interrupters “I've talked to high school kids…’For some this is the first time they've seen a documentary like this that speaks...
Here's an interesting writeup by Donna Koehn on TBO.com of how the state is switching to a new agency to supervise child abuse in Hillsborough County to try to reduce child deaths and a 40-percent staff annual turnover rate. In " Agency will review...
I received the following letter from Monica Adrian, Caring Kids Program Manager for Merced County Office of Education. 2/14/12 To Whom It May Concern: I am pleased to be able to write a letter of recommendation for Dave Lockridge...
Teri and her colleague, Mark Brown, have been working on a community campaign called the Children's Resilience Initiative. After meeting Dr. Rob Anda through the Washington State Family Policy Council and Community Network system, and...
Live Chat 1 p.m. ET,Feb. 15th. A chance to talk with two violence interrupters (Ameena & Eddie) and the co-producers of "The Interrupters" on CeaseFires pioneering work. http://to.pbs.org/zZIXUE This program reduces ACE's. Evidence-based science.
A story to comment and keep our eye on: Whitney Houston, My Mother and Addiction (note the comments) http://nyti.ms/xCPFg7 Dr. Drew comments (CNN): http://bit.ly/yHSMOK All directions are pointing to traumatic experiences/toxic...
Research shows childhood maltreatment reduces the volume of the hippocampus , a region of the brain that creates long-term memories and contributes to learning--a process disrupted by traumatic stress responses. More specifically, volume reduction was...
Many people think that secrecy surrounding child abuse, government or otherwise, creates a system that has done little to prevent harm. Issues of government secrecy are being challenged today before New York State’s Court of Appeals where...
Here are another three responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Heather Fitzpatrick, Andrea Ransdell and Elliott Schulman. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their page to read more about them,...
Here are another three responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Linda Vorano, Pamela Yenawine and David Braughton. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their page to read more about them, friend them...
The Living Nightmare -- Quanitta Underwood: A Contender for Olympic Gold and a Survivor -- Barry Bearak's profile in the New York Times sports section begins ominously and gets worse: "The two sisters shared a bed, and each night, with...