Tarpon Springs, FL, once known for harboring the nation’s largest sponge-harvesting industry, today boasts a new designation: it may be the first city in the country to declare itself a trauma-informed community. It isn’t that the 24,000...
The World Health Organization in Europe wants preventing childhood maltreatment to become a primary objective for this region of the world. They are using the ACES as a tool for determining childhood exposure to stress and violence: "WHO/Europe draws...
Please don’t miss this vitally important film on how violence (one form of toxic stress/trauma) is “interrupted” in inner cities. It features the work of WHO epidemiologist, Dr. Gary Slutkin who theorizes violence transmits like a...
Here are another three responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Suzanne Schmidt, Nathan Epps and Karin White Tautfest. Some of the responses are shortened, so there's a link to their page to read more about them, friend...
An article on the Ryther Organization (Seattle) website makes a connection between ACES and health problems, yet within the framework of February being Heart Health Month. Associating different causes and ACES, including monthly focuses on...
A headline in yesterday's Salisbury (NC) Post read: “Mother finds daughter performing sex act on man staying in home.” The girl is 11 years old. After Poynter.org's associate editor Mallary Jean Tenore reached out to...
Here are a couple of columns that I missed. In case you did, too, they're noteworthy. Wendy Murphy, one of our network members, wrote The Need for Accurate Language in Penn State Coverage in November 2011. My profession of journalism doesn't...
Research conducted at Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital identified poverty as a potentially contributing factor to cases of severe physical abuse (i.e., requiring hospitalization). Children less than a year old were at highest risk. For more...
Marketplace aired this wonderful story this evening , about a Vietnam vet and unemployed engineer who was killing himself by smoking, he admitted, but made sure the EMTs could always find him to take him to the hospital because he didn't want to die...
" Business leaders back early education as economic development ," in Mainbiz, "Maine's Business News Source," and " DR. PONDER: Healthy family helps fight chronic illness " in OA online , the Odessa American online news source. The Mainbiz article is...
As a result of the efforts of Dr. Robert Anda, my CDC partner in the ACE Study, a number of States are including the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study measurements in their routine, annual, public health measures via the BRFSS or...
Somatic Perspectives on Psychotherapy interviews clinician’s and thinkers who take a somatic approach , such as using emerging ideas in neuroscience or evolutionary psychology to understand the nature of traumatic stress. This month’s...
Caitlin Molsberry , an ACEs Too High Network member who works in the Iowa Department of Public Health has created the State ACE Response Project group for people from state agencies to share information about how they're developing strategies to...
Hello All -- I am excited to be a part of this online forum, and I hope to be able to both absorb new information and research as well as provide some to this community. I am a clinical social worker, and the program director of San Francsico's...
Vincent Felitti wasn't the only one to kindly point out that the ACEs Too High Network and ACEsTooHigh News looked too much alike. But he was the first. And so when I looked -- really looked -- at both sites after launching them four weeks ago,...