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Published by Knox Village Soup, May 4th 2020 Maine Kids Count reports that Maine has a higher than average percentage on nearly all measured youth mental health indicators including high rates of diagnosed anxiety, depression, behavioral and conduct problems, and exposure to two or more adverse childhood experiences. A $10,000 grant awarded by the Maine Community Foundation to Northern Light Acadia Hospital will be used this summer to train and certify two clinicians in Parent Child...

Written by Nina Jacobs, Friday, May 1 2020 - Police officers should be trained in understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on young people in order to tackle an increase in child to parent violence, new research suggests. The study was commissioned by Northumbria Police. A report commissioned by Northumbria Police, Policing Childhood Challenging Violent or Aggressive Behaviour: responding to vulnerable families , makes the recommendation as part of a wider strategy to...

We hope you are participating in and enjoying the first annual #ResilienceWeekVA! Trauma-Informed Community Networks (TICNs) across Virginia are engaging their communities through a variety of resilience-building activities, events, and trainings! Today, we are spotlighting the Alexandria TICN: Resilience Alexandria: Inform Support Elevate (RAISE) , one of the 26 TICNs across Virginia participating in Resilience Week VA, and the many ways they are connecting and collaborating to build...

Recovering from trauma takes hard work, and often survivors wish the recovery process could go faster. A new client recently asked me, “Should I be exercising? Doing yoga? Meditating? What can I be doing physically to help me heal or recover more quickly? What else can I do to get through all of this?” It was a great question, so today, I’m going to address it in case you’ve been wondering too. Trauma impacts everything from how we think to how our body responds to the things around and...

All families have their squabbles and days when one member might not speak to another. However, there is one type of painful situation where the communication between family members stops; this is family estrangement. Often, family estrangement occurs when an adult child is learning to cope with and get rid of harmful people in their lives, but it can happen under other circumstances as well.

Excerpts from a piece by Sumi Kim published in the Ten Percent Happier online newsletter. Click here to read the rest of this piece by S umi Kim published in the Ten Percent Happier online newsletter.

The Pinetree Institute is a Maine non-profit located on the NH border in Eliot. They conduct research and present workshops on ACEs and resilience. A workshop with Dr. Christina Bethell was scheduled for today, but was cancelled because of COVID-19. Dr. Bethell's field of expertise is PCE (Positive Childhood Experiences) and their role in combatting ACEs and promoting resilience throughout the lifetime. Because of the circumstances, Pinetree Institute is offering a 40 minute podcast in which...

These last few months have been strenuous—harder for some than others. While I have hope that loosening restrictions on social distancing and economic restraints will alleviate some of what we have endured together, I hope we don’t pivot too quickly to “happy days are here again.” There are ways we have grown and learned from the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. I have heard some say, “We can’t go back to normal… normal wasn’t working or healthy,” and I’d say I have to agree...

Dear Friends, Please see the link below to my interview last Thursday on Insight with Beth Ruyak. I discuss my book The Gifts of Adversity and my experience of sexual abuse by a priest. I hope my book and interview can be a resource for you and others you know. https://www.capradio.org/news/insight/2020/04/30/local-author-carolee-tran-and-her-new-memoir-the-gifts-of-adversity/ Take good care friends and be well. Warmly, Carolee

From MedicineNet, May 3, 2020 The tragic death by suicide this week of an emergency department physician who had been caring for COVID-19 patients in New York City underscores the huge psychological impact of the pandemic -- which will linger long after the virus is gone, experts say. "For frontline responders, the trauma of witnessing so much illness and death will have lasting effects for many," Bruce Schwartz, MD, president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), said during the...

By Abbie Roth, The Columbus Dispatch, May 3, 2020 You might have seen the headlines warning that, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the current mental health crisis facing youth in the United States will only worsen. Like adults, children are experiencing new or intensified stressors as a result of the pandemic, including loss of routine, separation from friends and extended family, and increased anxiety and frustration. Some more extreme stressors — food insecurity, loss of a parent or...

By Philip Alston, Rev. William Barber, and Rev. Liz Theoharis, CNN Opinion, April 30, 2020 Out of the wreckage of World War II, the United States worked with other countries to proclaim, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , that "freedom from fear and want" are people's highest aspirations. Seventy-two years later, with a pandemic laying waste to lives and livelihoods, the world is again gripped by fear and want. In the United States, the world's wealthiest nation , the coronavirus...