In a study of more than 1,000 students in grades six to eight, researchers in Canada looked for the relationship between ACEs and early childhood risk factors for adult cardiovascular disease. They found that an: accumulation of 4 or more ACEs...
Leah Sottile wrote this for Atlantic.com; no mention of ACEs, but the data and stories are compelling. Steven Woolf, director of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, helped prepare the NAC/IOM report and brought the...
Logan LaPlante gave this 11-minute TEDx talk at the University of Nevada nearly a year ago, when he was 13 years old; it was posted early this year. It's had more than one million plays on YouTube. He cites the elements of being happy,...
The National Council for Behavioral Health’s Trauma-Informed Care team is looking for a person to take on a full-time staff position. The job location is in Washington, D.C. but consideration for a remote location is possible. The...
Drs. Karen Kalmakis and Genevieve Chandler, both professors at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing an analysis of the concept of adverse childhood experiences. They concluded: Adverse childhood...
This is an amazing story of social injustice, racism and trauma- un informed criminal justice, from the police all the way through the courts and probation. If you look at the world through a trauma-informed lens, this begs the question: Do our jails...
What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our...
Susan Cole, director of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative in Cambridge, MA, and co-author of the two-volume series Helping Traumatized Children Learn, wrote this for the Huffington Post. Here's a sample: The New York Times empathetically and...
Does anyone else wonder about the validity of this data, given the drop in funding to child protective services and occurrences such as those in Arizona, where thousands of child abuse cases were never investigated ? That state did not investigate...
Sally Jacobs, David Filipov and Patricia Wen put together a 15-chapter saga of the Tsarnaev family in an investigation of the sons' roles in the Boston Marathon bombing last April. The sentence that stands out: ..."the brothers were heirs to a pattern...
Susan Frey, a reporter for EdSource, says that the proposed transition will take about three years. San Francisco’s proposed policy, introduced by Commissioner Matt Haney and supported by the district’s teachers union, is unique in...
Amanda Erickson wrote a poignant column on AtlanticCities.com in which she responds to a couple of heartless posts by San Franciscans who advocate that the homeless should be hidden away. I get it. Getting yelled at on the street, turning people...