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By Catherine Hajnal and Seanna Quresette, Photo: from article, Career Wise Weekly, November 30, 2023 Do you ever wonder why you are drawn to a helping profession? As career professionals, we constantly help people through life transitions in wide-ranging ways. Along with our knowledge, skills and abilities, we bring to this work our personal perspectives and frameworks on what it means to “help” and who exactly needs helping. When we look at what gets in the way of well-being for clients,...

By Laura Gallant, 12.7.23, https://positiveexperience.org/blog/ Last year we posted a blog about 10 ways to practice positive childhood experiences (PCEs) during the holiday season . By popular demand, we created a new resource based on the blog that can be downloaded and easily shared. These holiday tips were adapted from our original 10 ways to promote positive experiences fact sheet. Through this seasonal resource, we want to share that no matter what or how you celebrate, there are big...

By Hali Kil, Photo: from article, Greater Good Magazine, November 28, 2023 With the holiday season just around the corner, families and households will soon be gathering to give and receive gifts. Many will also be sending donations to communities in crisis, and organizing charity events and food drives to help others. The reason for our holiday generosity is obvious to us as adults. We hold a sense of moral responsibility to be kind and get a satisfying feeling of having done a good deed.

By Healthworld, Photo: from article, The Economic Times Healthworld, December 4, 2023 According to a recent study, adolescents and young adults who had adverse childh ood experiences (ACEs) before the age of 18 had a substantially higher risk of presenting indications of muscular dysmorphia. The findings were published in the Clinical Social Work Journal. [ Please click here to read more .]

By Kate Woodsome, Illustration: iStock, The Washington Post, December 4, 2023 In the holiday season, people often bring more than leftovers to work. They’re stressed by tight budgets. Alcohol flows. Trips home or down memory lane can feel like a warm embrace or a chill blast of unmet childhood needs. The hangover from all of this can be noticeable on the job. But no matter the season, every day can be bring-your-inner-child-to-work day. And everyone would be better off if workplaces took...

December 6, 2023: This week, Suds of Love Truck aka "Miss Dorothy" was spotted serving Lumberton Christian Care Center! Founded by Tina M. Bowen, Suds of Love Truck is a 30 ft truck equipped with three sets of washers and dryers, a full bathroom, and hygiene products to assist unhoused individuals and those in need. Suds of Love also assists local schools with their washer and dryer needs as well as with disaster relief. For more information about Suds of Love and how to support their...

Most of us already know that complex trauma is a significant public health concern. With the Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training, helping professionals can play a vital role in delivering trauma-informed care to their community, even if they're not mental health providers. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily is joined by Stefanie Klein, LCSW, Faculty and Assistant Training Director at the NARM Training Institute, to preview the Level 1 NARM Online Basics Training (OBT), the live...

"It's Not About Food, Drugs, or Alcohol: It's About Healing Complex PTSD", a new book by PACEs Connection member Mary Giuiliani, launches next week. For a preview of what the longtime student of ACEs science, now PACEs science, shares in her revealing “teaching memoir”, tune into our ‘History. Culture. Trauma.’ podcast for a lively conversation between Giuilani and hosts Ingrid Cockhren and Mathew Portell this Thursday at 1 p.m. PT. In the book—chock-full of quotes from top experts on the...

Click here to make your donation today. PACEs Connection is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed, healing-centered and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems, and communities. We support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems.

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] LGBTQ Concerns Tran NM, Mann S, Cortez MG, Harrell B, Nettuno L. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental health by gender identity in the United...

From Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), Photo: from article, December 2023 The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), under a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of the 2022 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) Child and Family Health...

A screenshot from “Cared Straight,” a documentary about the Youth Deterrent Program in Detroit. (Kickstarter) By Ricardo Ferrell, Waging NonVioloence, November 22, 2023 In many inner cities and suburbs across America our youth are losing their way, as they drop out of school and start hanging in the streets with the wrong crowd. These teens are drawn to negative influences and lose interest in their academics. They become bored with the idea of learning and obtaining an education and more...