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By NBC News, July 11, 2019. Nowadays, we are more connected to people than at any other time in history, thanks to technology. And yet many Americans report feeling lonelier and more isolated than ever before. Social isolation and loneliness have been shown to pose a growing threat to health, having the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Heart disease, a weakened immune system, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues are just some of the negative effects...

By Kelley Czajka, Pacific Standard, July 11, 2019. Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg unveiled new details of his Douglass Plan , a comprehensive program to combat racial injustice in the United States, on Thursday morning. Buttigieg, who is polling at 6 percent (behind four other Democratic candidates) and recently announced a $24.8 million fundraising sum over the past three months, has been struggling to gain the support of black voters. His...

Considering the role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in a person’s life can prove useful in understanding and mitigating the risk of workplace violence.

A national survey published in 2014 revealed a disturbing finding. Compared to college graduates pursuing other professions, medical students, residents and early career physicians experienced a higher degree of burnout. Citing that article, a group of researchers at University of California at Davis School of Medicine wondered whether medical students’ childhood adversity and resilience played a role in their burnout, said Dr. Andres Sciolla, an associate professor of psychiatry and...

[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 posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Wickramasinghe YM, Raman S, Garg P, Hurwitz R. Burden of adverse childhood experiences in children attending paediatric clinics in South Western Sydney, Australia: a...

By Karen Oehme, Institute for Family Violence Studies Director, July 15, 2019. Florida State University has launched a new online curriculum for professional certification in trauma and resilience. The curriculum was developed by the Clearinghouse on Trauma and Resilience within the Institute for Family Violence Studies at the FSU College of Social Work in conjunction with FSU Center for Academic and Professional Development . “This training addresses a gap in the knowledge base of human...

Community Resilience Initiative is incredibly grateful to all who attended, helped created, and supported our 2019 Beyond Paper Tigers Conference! We were honored to be joined by approximately 450 people from 23 different states and 2 Canadian provinces. Each session felt charged with energy due to the passion and dedication from each of our attendees. CRI was thrilled by the participation, whether during the pre-conference social, or in the creation of the 7-Sentence Stories! And...

By Peggy Barmore, The Hechinger Report, July 8, 2019. LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Shenandoah Cochran, 34, greeted the two teachers at the front door of her elevated house in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, like family friends. Her youngest children, 5-year-old Daniel Pearson and Shenabelle Pearson, 3, abandoned a late-morning snack of fresh-sliced strawberries and mandarin orange pieces to join the trio of adults at the door. “He’s been asking when you all were going to get here,” Cochran said as...

By W.R. Cummings, Psych Central, June 14, 2019. How many times have you heard a parent say something like, “If I baby my kids, they’ll never know how the real world works.” Or maybe they’ve said things like, “How will they learn to keep going if I teach them it’s okay to stop when things get hard?” Or maybe they talk about people who are “whiney” because they want their feelings to be validated. Or maybe they think therapy and counseling are both a bunch of crap. We all know parents (or...

Recent media attention has been given to connection between sports and its powerful effect on youth, particularly the power of sport to help youth heal from trauma. A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics by Molly Easterline has caught national media attention including the recent article in the New York Times “ Team Sports May Help Children Deal With Trauma ” (by Perri Klass) and NPR’s “Playing Teen Sports May Protect from Some Damages of Childhood Trauma ” by Susie Neilson. These...

As Above - So Below. One thing we know about unaddressed Trauma - it's going to come out somehow - somewhere and we will bear witness to it in our lives. Community Peace is possible when we work together to reduce the ACEs of children and do what we can across the generations to encourage folks to begin to process what has happened to them. When we change our lens from blame and shame to provide an atmosphere of safety, and build relationships to support them, everything begins to shift and...

Please welcome these three communities from CA, OR, and VA to ACEs Connection . More i nformation about each one of them is below. You can also find theses communities among this list of all our communities . Humboldt County (CA) ACEs Connection : We are educating and raising awareness about ACEs and resiliency in Humboldt County. Our hope is to empower our people to prevent ACEs, actively work to heal trauma, and build resilience for all children, families and their communities through a...