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By Matthew L. Edwards, The New England Journal of Medicine, April 10, 2021 A mericans protesting violent policing of Black communities are calling for law-enforcement budgets to be reallocated to community health services. Although such proposals are sometimes dismissed as naive or unrealistic, history provides an example of a transfer of power and resources from police to health services that benefited Black communities enormously. Pittsburgh’s Freedom House Enterprises (FHE) Ambulance...

At last week’s fabulous HOPE Summit, one person told me that they didn’t realize all the things that PACEs Connection does.

When you hail a cab or Uber in a foreign country, do you trust the driver to take you to your destination? When you place a first-time order from a third party residing across the country (or world), do you trust them to send you the item you purchased? When we start dissecting trust and how it informs our relationships, it becomes obvious that we place a lot of trust in people we barely know or don’t know at all.

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Andres Sciolla, a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UC Davis Medical School, hopes that an expanded version of ACEs becomes completely integrated into the medical profession in the future. By “expanded,” he explains: “Medicine would have to integrate sustainable and practical ways to address social determinants of health,” such as affordable housing, basic income, and access to affordable health care. Sciolla earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Chile...

Dr. Porter Jennings is PACEs Connection’s new Midwest and Tennessee community facilitator. She replaces Ingrid Cockhren, who is now director of PACEs Connection’ Cooperative of Communities and leads the efforts of the organization’s six community facilitators. Jennings spent her junior year in college living with a Spanish family and studying at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she acquired fluency in Castilian Spanish. That’s not the dialect spoken by the Central and South...

From National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health, April 2021 Charged with leading scientific research to improve minority health and reduce health disparities, NIMHD developed the 2021-2025 NIH Minority Health and Health Disparities Strategic Plan in collaboration with all NIH Institutes, Offices and Centers and externally with experts and communities impacted by health disparities. This strategic plan demonstrates the commitment of all of NIH...

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, March 29, 2021 In This Report, You’ll Learn An overview of the research methodology used. How juvenile justice involvement can carry lifelong consequences. How state policies are blocking people with juvenile justice involvement from opportunity. Advice for lawmakers on removing these barriers to opportunity. Summary This report — which can be downloaded or viewed online — explores how barriers to education...

By Jesper Löve, Kirsten Mehlig, Åsa Källström, et al., April 9, 2021 Abstract Background Despite the high prevalence and severe consequences for health and wellbeing, epidemiological research of neglected emotional needs during childhood is scarce and little is known about its relation to parental socioeconomic position (SEP). This study investigates the prevalence of family violence and parental unavailability in childhood and its association with parental SEP and parental psychological...

The consequences of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, can have a detrimental effect on the individual child and their family. Adverse childhood experiences are defined as traumatic events that a child experiences between the ages of 0-17. Examples of these include, but are not limited to, experiencing or witnessing violence, abuse, or neglect. Particular individuals are more susceptible to experiencing ACEs in their lifetime, such as children of military soldiers, thus resulting in the...

Please welcome these five new communities to the PACEsConnection.com network! Greater Williamsburg Trauma-Informed Community Network (VA) Hope Beyond Hurt: A Trauma Informed Coalition of Cambria and Somerset (PA) Norwescap Parenting SEAS (NJ) Resilient Jefferson County (IN) Wyoming Statewide ACEs Action (WY) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . Greater Williamsburg...

In 1999, an adult in my private practice remembered their difficult birth in their body while receiving bodywork from me. It was an eye opening moment. I had just had my first baby and was a newly graduated Biodynamic craniosacral therapist. We are trained to ask about the birth process in our adult clients because of the compressive forces on the body particularly the cranium. My client told me that she felt her lifelong depression was associated with her near death at birth, and what...