Hey All, I am looking into starting a national social change campaign. Last year I founded the campaign Hope4Alaska after a loss of an ex-boyfriend to suicide. This campaign allowed me travel around the Alaska to speak about suicide prevention, train...
Research shows that over half the middle class population has “adverse childhood experiences” (ACE) in their background, and ACEs are associated with serious later life health and social problems. The Center for Post-Trauma Wellness (CPTW)...
Are there any resources out there that use a simple screening tool in hospital emergency rooms for ACEs and/or post age 18 traumatic events? The question from my friends in primary care and ER settings are surrounding the short timeframe of ER...
This is another essay from our school. I'm posting this for Natalie Allen, one of our teachers. - Jim Sporleder, Principal, Lincoln High School, Walla Walla, WA. By Natalie Allen Teacher, Lincoln High School Dakota Johnson started at...
"MHCC together with collaborating partners ASCA (Adults Surviving Child Abuse), ECAV (Education Centre against Violence) and PMHCCN (Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network Australia) are advocating for a cultural and philosophical shift to...
Greetings, This is my first post. I work as Executive Director of COTS, Committee on the Shelterless ( www.cots-homeless.org ). We help people experiencing homelessness, who experience a much higher incidence of ACEs than do people in the general...
A physician colleague in Florida has been studying ACEs in the juvenile corrections system, relating certain aspects to various outcomes like recidivism, and is getting close to have an article for publication. I think it should be in a...
In the Judith Herman video (Pt. 1) , the successful Netherlands Center for Chronic Early Childhood Traumatization , Landelijk Centrum voor Vroegkinderlijke Chronische Traumatiseringz (LCVT) model, is briefly lauded and discussed. ...
The number of research projects looking at the relationship of adverse childhood experiences and long-term consequences spawned by the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experiences Study and studies of children's developing brains seems...
"NCFY: What do you mean when you talk about “politicized” trauma-informed interventions? McKenzie-Mohr: There are two aspects I think of. First, it has to do with the concept of trauma itself. As long as trauma is understood merely as an...
This webcast features a discussion between six researchers and/or service providers across Canada and the U.S. who work with women in the areas of mental health, substance use and trauma/violence. Following the initial presentations,...
Greetings ACEs Connection Community Members! I am a Stoneleigh Foundation Fellow and Coordinator of the Philadelphia ACE Task Force Project with the Institute for Safe Families , and I recently created two new groups on ACEs Connection:...
"...The study is the first to show accelerated biological aging in childhood as a result of stress. "Those kids are 'older' than they are supposed to be," said study leader Idan Shalev, a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University. If the...
"Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can stay with us for life. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy explains how these events can be tied up with adult smoking...
Micky Duxbury did a fabulous story on OaklandLocal.com about how a parent's incarceration affects children, and what the community of Oakland, CA, is doing to help. Duxbury focuses on Community Works , an Oakland nonprofit that...