Actually, as you'll note in the screen-grab above, Calgary, Canada's police chief said "skyrocket" to describe what he expects to happen when the new Calgary Child Advocacy Centre opens in the fall, according to this post on CBCNews...
A Troubled Silence By RICHARD B. GARTNER Given what we now know about why it takes child abuse victims so long to come forward, the law needs to be changed. http://tinyurl.com/7f75eo6
Great words from a doctor and survivors. The second from someone with experience as both patient and mental health professional. Helping, fixing or serving? by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. "Helping, fixing and serving represent three...
I'm reading This Fragile Life by Charlotte Pierce-Baker. It's a story about her son's battle with mental illness, but it's is also the continuation from her first book Surviving the Silence. In truth, the Pierce-Baker family narrowly survived...
These four members of ACEs Connection joined in early April (yep I'm way behind in member bios...but catching up): Sara Stalman, Edith Guerts, Jackie Smith Duggan, and Eugenia Vavra. On their pages you can message and friend them! Sara Stalman ,...
For the 12th year in a row, the first paper published about the CDC's ACE Study has been on the American Journal of Preventive Medicine's top-ten most-read list. The paper jumped onto that list the year in 1999, the year after it was published....
WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- Post-traumatic stress disorder affects 1-in-29 Americans, including combat veterans, first responders, abuse victims and disaster survivors, U.S. officials say....
Welcome to ACEs Connection members Tory Henderson, Nola Smith, Deborah Woodbury, and Karen Heck. Check out their pages to send them a message or friend them! Tory Henderson , Olympia, WA -- Tory works for the Washington State Department of Health . A...
Following a two-year collaboration with the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California to develop and test new ways of communicating the science of early childhood development, the Center...
Thought this worth posting since it has connections to primary care: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/wsw-poi060612.php RESPECT-Mil stands for Re-Engineering Systems of Primary Care Treatment in the Military...
Here are introductions to ACEs Connection members Seth Doyle, Kalma Kartell White, Tim Jones, and Clarice Bailey. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Seth Doyle , Seattle, WA -- Seth is program...
Interesting changes in Australia. "The laws...widen the definition of domestic violence beyond physical abuse to include stalking, repeated derogatory taunts, intentionally damaging or destroying property and preventing someone having contact with...
Musician and actress Alanis Morissette weighed in on Huffington Post yesterday about the "attachment parent" frenzy prompted by the Time Magazine cover featuring Jamie Lynn Grumet breastfeeding her three-year-old son....
Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Colleen Williams, Leslie Lieberman, Monica Sullivan, and Cynthia Shirley. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Colleen Williams , Mount Vernon, WA...
This headline jumped out at me this morning -- " Could texting while parenting harm baby's development? Oh give me a break....more blame-the-digital-media-for-all-of-our-social-ills junk, I thought. By the end, I was sold. Dr. Neal Halfon,...