ACEsConnection members Laura Smith and Laura Porter are featured in this article. "This year, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) were the focus of the event. The Network aspired, not only to create an awareness of the ACEs research and findings, but...
"We hope that this report will be an additional resource to support community programs for at-risk youth. The successful programs identified in this report are county-developed and county-approved. Each program in the report has been successful even...
"In 2005, the Monroe County Office of Mental Health (MCOMH) was awarded a six year System of Care (SOC) grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to transform children’s mental health services. SOC is...
"This week the Safe Start Center launched a new tool to help practitioners on the community level provide effective programs to help children exposed to violence. The Children Exposed to Violence Evidence-Based Programs Database is a collaborative...
"I first came to ANDRUS as a direct-care worker in October of 2010. Andrus had already fully implemented the Sanctuary Model, and I was introduced to it very quickly at my new employee orientation. I was thrust right into the toolkit, with constant...
"Clearly, always, there are a great many guys who relate to the destructive atmosphere of their childhood when the mission preachers get into these sorts of topics, which can include the preachers talking about being absent and selfish fathers while...
"Lately, due to the problems we as a town need to address in light of teen behavior, MAPP’s ideas stand all the more relevant. The goal is to make us all aware of adverse childhood experiences so that we can, through awareness, stop the behavior...
ACEsConnection members Dr. Robert Anda, Dr. Joel Fein, and Emily Wilson MPH are on the ACE Task Force. "For over two decades, ISF has developed, piloted, and disseminated successful programs that address child abuse and family violence. ISF is a...
Reporting on Health has reprinted one of the most original and important stories I've read in a while. Written by the veteran science reporter Jane Stevens , it details the central role of childhood trauma in such things as chronic disease, mental...
"Children with autism have difficulty identifying inappropriate social behavior, and even when successful, they are often unable to justify why the behavior seemed inappropriate. New brain imaging studies show that children with autism may recognize...
"Further research could provide much needed input into the design of anti-discrimination interventions—such as public education about human rights and the effect of discrimination on the person with depression; action from health services to...
"It turns out there's not one, but two opposite ways in which the brain allows us to voluntarily forget unwanted memories, according to a study published by Cell Press October 17 in the journal Neuron. The findings may explain how individuals can cope...
" While many Latino children enter school hampered by weak preliteracy skills, a new program tied to Head Start successfully equips parents to close these gaps, according to findings out today from the University of California, Berkeley." ...
"The brain's "reward system," those brain circuits and structures that mediate the experience and pursuit of pleasure, figured prominently in several studies. The studies shed light on adolescents' ability to control impulsivity and think through...
"Sierra Health Foundation announces that six California counties have been selected as partners in the Positive Youth Justice Initiative. This initiative will support these six counties as they transform their local juvenile justice systems to...