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...
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...