"Award-winning author, Dr. Jane Bluestein, presented her latest book, “The Win-Win Classroom,” in a workshop to approximately 400 Kent School District teachers.... "To prepare for the workshop, each participating school designated at...
"The finding, published Nov. 5, 2012, in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, for the first time provides clear evidence that smaller amygdala volume is associated with PTSD, regardless of the severity of trauma. But it's not clear whether the...
Attachment and Self-Regulation as a Public Health Intervention At a recent Youth Suicide Prevention Brainstorm, someone asked me what I would do with a $1 million dollars. I quickly responded that I would create a public health campaign that...
"PARENTS involved in tragedies such as the Holocaust and 9-11 can pass their trauma-related biological functioning onto their children, Queensland's Child Protection Inquiry has heard. Mater Child and Youth Mental Health Service director Brett...
"Robin Saenger, founding director of Peace 4 Tarpon, served as the Vice Mayor of Tarpon Springs before she decided to pursue a passion she had developed for bringing education and awareness to the community. The group's purpose is to make Tarpon...
Washington State Dept. of Health document - Goals & Action Plans http://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/...dhoodExperiences.pdf
Full text (19 pgs) is now available for the paper co-authored by AcesConnection member Heather Larkin: Larkin H, Beckos BA, Shields, JJ. (2012). Mobilizing Resilience and Recovery in Response to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE): A Restorative...
On November 15, 2012 the Panel will release its report at a press conference in Ottawa. The report will be freely available for download from the Royal Society of Canada at that time.... The main questions that are elaborated upon in the report...
"Suicide risk has been reported to be associated with psychiatric disorders [10-12], adverse childhood experiences [13], and family history [14]. Suicide attempts and especially repetition of attempts are high-risk factors for subsequent suicide [15-17]. Previous literature has indicated that 10-50% of adolescent suicide attempters reattempted [18], and that about 11% of these committed suicide [19]. Additionally, among individuals under 25 years of age, both those who committed suicide and...
"These days, Tonier Cain travels the country running workshops for service providers at women’s correctional facilities. What she has to teach, she’s learned from long years of experience. Tonier has been arrested 83 times for...
"MAPP of the Southern Kenai Peninsula – the local collaborative for community health improvement – is conducting its second Community Health Needs Assessment from November 2012 – March 2013. "The first part of the assessment includes...
"Stress is not something you get a lot of sympathy for," Dr. Shonkoff said in a separate interview at the Society for Research in Educational Effectiveness meeting in Washington. "This is a culture that says suck it up and get over it." But in...
"What then are the developmental and biological consequences of early exposures to penury, strife, and hardship? How do experiences of childhood adversity get “under the skin” and affect physiological and cellular pathways leading to...
"SUFFERING IN SILENCE: Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may cause big problems of concentration, have disruptive effects and prevent the sufferer from functioning normally in daily life....Problems caused by bullying do not...
"This paper arises out of frustration with the results of school reforms carried out over the past few decades. These efforts have failed. They need to be abandoned. In their place must come recognition that income inequality causes many social...