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By Kristen Taketa, Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2020 Last month, Parkview Elementary School mom Amber Dunevant was told that one of her 7-year-old daughter’s classmates had put her daughter on a “kill list.” Dunevant said she saw the list in the school principal’s office. She saw that it had the names of her daughter and a few other students written on green construction paper. Chula Vista police said they investigated and believed the threat was not credible; they found that the...

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2020 A screening tool developed by Bay Area pediatricians to identify adverse childhood experiences, ranging from homelessness and food insecurity to physical and sexual abuse, will now help doctors statewide address trauma affecting patients’ health. The California Department of Health Care Services approved the tool — called PEARLS, for Pediatric ACEs and Related Life-Events Screener — last month. As of Jan. 1, its use is covered by...

By Rachel Treisman, National Public Radio, December 21, 2019 Some low-income college students are among the 688,000 food stamp recipients projected to lose benefits as a result of a Trump administration rule announced Dec. 4. While the rule explicitly targets "able-bodied adults without dependents," it also limits food assistance for a share of college students at a time when campuses across the country are grappling with how to respond to food insecurity. The new rule makes it harder for...

Child advocates across the State of California are working on the passage of Assembly Concurrent Resolution 140 (ACR 140) authored by Assembly Member Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay). The initiative seeks to designate January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month across the state and build upon the county-level proclamations that have spread from Santa Cruz County where it was conceived and launched 8 years ago. Positive parenting is a known remedy for the public health problem of child...

Carolyn Corbi is a spitfire who is passionate about social justice, urban education, and the power of community to lead change. I have known Carolyn for more than twenty years in my family life, but I am now connected to her in my professional life too! How lucky that we reunited over a shared purpose to bring Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) education to schools. As a life-long learner, I am always seeking opportunities to expand my school nurse educator tool-kit. Carolyn is an expert...

New FREE Webinar How To Beat The Post Holiday Blues By Training Your Brain With Brain-Trainer International Founder: Pete Van Deusen Fri, Jan 17, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST In this 1 hour webinar you will learn: 1. How human brains are vulnerable to mood swings, depression and anxiety especially when their is a history of childhood trauma, as well as during the holiday season and other stressful periods. 2. How brain-training creates new habit patterns in the brain that move it toward...

Welcome back friends! If you have not already done so please take a moment to respond to our survey. As curator of our education community site, I am seeking input from the community on what we would like the future of the ACEs in Education site to be. I would like to first understand how you currently use the site and then get feedback on your vision for ways to maximize its usefulness. Please take a moment to fill out this brief survey and help guide our shared learning forward! You need...

The model is an integration of classical psychodrama, object relations and recent advances in trauma theory to provide additional safety and structure when working with survivors of trauma.

By State of Childhood Obesity, January 2020 The rate of obesity has declined among 2- to 4-year-olds enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). From 2010 to 2016, the national rate of obesity dropped from 15.9% to 13.9%. The decline was statistically significant among all racial and ethnic groups studied: American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, black, Hispanic, and white. The map below highlights the most recent state-level...

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Of all 12 guests listed on 2019's TOP 10, eleven of them are ACES Connection members. What a testament to this amazing healing space.

CPTSD Foundation is proud and honored to help support survivors all types of trauma, by offering secret, safe, support groups on Facebook, where you can come and receive the support you deserve. A place where your voice is heard, your feelings validated, and where encouragement is always in abundant supply from others who know what it means to struggle in daily life as a survivor.