Here are short bios of four more ACEs Connection members: Emily Kronenberger, Kimberly Randell, Julia Hellman, and Alicia Lieberman. Go to their pages to read more about them, friend them and/or send a message. Emily Kronenberger , Allentown, NJ --...
A resource for health professionals to share with their trauma patients. We help people cope with, and heal from, their negative experiences by directing them to specialized trauma treatment centers, therapists, support groups and...
PLoS blog post by Maggie Brown referencing ACE study. "Children can be traumatized not only by the same things that can traumatize adults – for example, direct physical/sexual abuse, natural disasters, or events related to war – but also...
Walla Walla Police Sgt. Kevin Braman __________________ IF YOU'RE AMONG THE MORE THAN 350,000 people (!!) who read the story about how Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, took a different approach to school discipline, with a resulting 85%...
One of the more interesting background notes to the CDC's Adverse Childhood Experience Study was that the Institutional Review Board (IRB) responsible for approving this particular research project involving human subjects nearly turned...
Here are another four responses from new members to a question about their interest in ACEs: Pamela Jacobson, Crystal Elliott, Tony Raden, and Patty Frew. Some of the responses are shortened, so go to their pages to read more about them, friend them...
I've studied human development and family-system functioning professionally for 33 years. I conclude that a largely-unhrecognized source of personal and social "problems" is an inherited [wounds + unawareness] cycle : 1) young kids are parented ineffectively, and develop up to six specific psychological " wounds " to survive. 2) without parental recovery and family-system imporovement, kids leave home and choose similarly-wounded, unaware mates - repeatedly. Many of them...
Washington State determined that 13 out of every 30 students in a classroom will have toxic stress from 3 or more traumatic experiences. Those children are likely to be more "unruly", more "unmotivated" or more absent than the others. Source:...
Great article with lots of nice examples on how to cultivate a strong parent-child connection . Article may be a nice printout to give parents. "Connection Parenting," or "Attachment Parenting," refers to the deep bond that is natural,...
"Each year an estimated 3,300,000 children are exposed to violence against their mothers or female caretakers by family members. Studies show that child abuse occurs in 30 to 60 percent of family violence cases that involve families with children....
Lincoln High School staff member Brooke Bouchey in supply room full of food, clothes, blankets, backpacks, and sleeping bags donated by Walla Walla community. Last week I visited Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA. I'll post more about the...
The Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law last month came out with its grades for states' reporting of child abuse fatalities or near-fatalities. Oklahoma went from a C+ in 2008 to a B this year,...
There was scary news as well as news to inspire coming out of the first presentations at the Weight of the Nation , the forum sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention taking place in Washington, D.C. The meeting began on...
This interactive billboard in London's Eustis Station invites people to use their mobile phones to drag the abuser away from a woman....drag him across several large screens. It's a clever way to make the point....especially as it focuses the change...
Sally Sexton, a clinical psychologist in Scottsbluff, NE, is looking for someone in a general medical setting, perhaps someone affiliated with a family practice, who might be interested in conducting a small pilot study correlating ACE scores with...