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I wanted to share: How Courts in Criminal Cases Respond to Childhood Trauma, Deborah W. Denno https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5429&context=mulr It's wonderful to see the criminal justice system acknowledge the science associated with early childhood development and its direct impact on criminal behavior, I believe policy makers willingness to direct resources into the efforts necessary to impact social change will be greatly increased, and as a result...

By Chen Reis, University of Denver, Lynn Lieberman Lawry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, March 31, 2020, The Conversation. How is the COVID-19 crisis impacting the most vulnerable among us? Tens of millions of Americans fit that description – the poor , the homeless , immigrants , the detained and incarcerated , the precariously employed and the uninsured . Nearly one-quarter of adult Americans do not have access to medical benefits, paid sick leave or access to...

Excerpts from the recent piece by writer, @Leah Harris , published in Mad in America . To read the rest of this piece by @Leah Harris , published in Mad in America , please click here.

A very special 6-week "Warriors of Hope" event will begin this Sunday night on the "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" radio program. This 6-week event will feature six very special guests that will offer their insight on the power of HOPE in their lives and provide encouragement, wisdom and insight on the need for resilience in lives today. The 6 week schedule will feature these guests: *April 5th, Christian Moore, LCSW and author of "The Resilience Breakthrough". Christian is...

By Robert F. Anda, Laura E. Porter, David W. Brown, et al., American Journal of Preventive Medicine, March 25, 2020 INTRODUCTION Despite its usefulness in research and surveillance studies, the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) score is a relatively crude measure of cumulative childhood stress exposure that can vary widely from person to person. Unlike recognized public health screening measures, such as blood pressure or lipid levels that use measurement reference standards and cut points...

By Warren Buckleitner, The New York Times, March 31, 2020 Dear Readers, As the novelty of being holed up with kids wears off, it can help to have some new experiences on hand to keep them busy, happy and maybe even learning. Here’s a short list of recommended tried-and-true apps for school-age children that are $3.99 or less, compiled from reviews by Warren Buckleitner, an educational psychologist who reviews children’s interactive media. He is the founding editor of Children’s Technology...

By Ashley A. Smith, EdSource, March 31, 2020 California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday encouraged thousands of medical, health and nursing students across the state to join the state’s new Health Corps initiative to help the state fight the effects of the coronavirus. Newsom launched the initiative Monday to increase the number of health care professionals needed to fight the pandemic which is expected to surge in upcoming weeks. “If you’re a nursing school student or a medical school student,...

By Dominic Holden, BuzzFeed News, March 30, 2020 While coronavirus infections in New York City’s largest jail have skyrocketed to nearly 10 times the rate of the city’s residents overall — according to one legal organization’s analysis — a grassroots crowdfunding campaign has been bailing out the Rikers Island inmates. The Emergency Release Fund , a group of organizers and activists in New York, has raised $18,000 since March 23 and freed five inmates in the last three days, Alex...

By Beatriz Garcia, Al Dia Social, March 30, 2020 Now that the museums are physically closed as a security measure during the coronavirus crisis , new ways of making cultural visits through their websites have been developed. But also, since art is inspired by life, other web platforms have spawned to express how artists are living this pandemic. This is how the first virtual museum about the coronavirus was born. Its name is Covid Art Museum , an ingenious idea of Emma Calvo, Irene Llorca...

Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs science. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Brown SM, Bender K, Orsi R, McCrae JS, Phillips JD, Rienks S. Adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to complex health profiles among child...

During this time of social distancing and the legitimate scare of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to develop a sense of "normalcy" for our little ones (keiki). We can do this by keeping them on a schedule, making sure that we are listening to their concerns and meet their unmet needs. Due to COVID-19 preschools in Hawai'i have shut its doors to instruction, however this preschool has continued to operate by meeting the needs of the homeless and at-risk homeless families they serve.

When California Governor Gavin Newsom announced on March 16, 2020, that child care providers were essential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, he left the decision to close to each provider. Jameelah Hanif, owner of Watch Me Grow Child Care in Vallejo, CA, decided to close.