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A new partnership between the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the National Association of Schools Nurses hopes to enhance school nurses’ ability to address children’s mental health issues. One-in-five children has had a seriously debilitating mental illness, according to a statement from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. And school nurses frequently are on the front lines. “It’s often the nurse at school who picks up on mental health and substance abuse issues,” said...

Forty-year-old Ghada* from Aleppo faced devastating loss after loss that led to her becoming acutely depressed. Just weeks after her home was destroyed in a shell attack, her father and brother were killed when a shell hit their building. Soon after, her son was kidnapped and she was forced to sell her destroyed home and land to secure his release. Ghada began displaying symptoms of extreme fear whenever she heard sounds of shelling, even those in the distance. She became extremely anxious...

I don't know about the rest of you but it seems every day now I open up the ACEsC page and get excited by the new developments being made in the area, and new resources becoming available -- video resources for attachment?! Do you realise how much you'd have to pay the "PopPsych" pages for that??! Holy gosh!! There're so many good things becoming available. Coming from a country where some people have been struggling for years to "get things going" it's literally stunning. Yesterday I posted...

This 13 module video series is 78 hours of video, course notes, references, articles and other relevant resources, plus monthly online support calls. Module 1: Attachment. Attachment is the scientific name for a biological communication system that gets set up between a baby and their family from the prenatal period through the first few years. Myrna is having a special sale off the full series for Spring: MARCH 21 to MAY 21, 2017 at 30% off the regular price.

Healing from child abuse or chronic trauma doesn’t happen step-by-step, as if you were climbing a staircase. The healing process is more like peeling an onion. Child abuse is sustained trauma that happens day after day. It forces you to disconnect from your mind, body, and heart. This helps you survive the abuse, but it also hides your authentic self. Every day for years you disconnected from reality and from your true identity, while enduring the abuse. Every year added a new layer of...

Hello! I am writing to share a wonderful new resource from the Vital Village Network’s friend and partner, Charles C. Daniels, Jr. Charles is the Founder and CEO of Fathers’ Uplift, which works to assist fathers in overcoming barriers (financial barriers, addiction barriers, oppressive barriers, emotional barriers and traumatic barriers) that prevent them from remaining engaged in their children’s lives. Charles’s book “Pre-Father Care: Prenatal Care for Fathers” is now available for...

Every day, our jails and prisons take in large numbers of offenders who have serious mental health issues. But how good are we in diagnosing and treating their illnesses? Traditionally, not very good…and the record gets worse with respect to providing the most appropriate treatment. And as a recent study that I was part of published in the Journal of Youth & Adolescence showed, it is even more distressing when we examined diagnosis and treatment among racial/ethnic groups. In this study...

A bushy-bearded man in shorts, T-shirt and a heavy backpack entered the Texas Capitol earlier this month. He had a special delivery for the governor, the man said, and he had come a long way to deliver it. Tom Kennedy, 64, hiked almost 300 miles from Houston to Austin—via San Antonio, no less—to hand-deliver about 700 postcards written by Texans to the office of Gov. Greg Abbott. The effort was to raise awareness about the stigma of mental illness. “When I was a child there was a huge stigma...

Unity 2017 is a national conference designed for and about community health workers, community health representatives, and promotores. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Collective Power of CHWs, CHRs and Promotores.” The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO) at The University of Southern Mississippi, with support from Sanofi US, the Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, Baylor Scott and White Health, KDH Research & Communication, MHP Salud,...

How our Florida Red Mangrove tree was adopted as a Peace4Tarpon symbol and the Official Tree of Tarpon Springs!

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is running a special report called "A Time to Heal." This exhaustive series begins with tracing the significant economic issues that have hit "rust belt" cities like Milwaukee (the third-most impoverished big city in the U.S.) and imposed significant social and economic decline. The articles trace how researchers are now exploring why some people who are exposed to childhood trauma emerge undefeated—and whether their resilience can be coaxed out of others and...

Utah Governor Gary Herbert speaks to press at the monthly conference in March _______________________________________________ Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed into law on March 22 a resolution ( H.C.R. 10 ) to encourage state policy and programs to incorporate ACEs science to address “severe emotional trauma and other adverse childhood experiences” in children and adults and implement evidence-based interventions to increase resiliency. The resolution was approved unanimously on March 7 by...