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Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America) announced today that Jennifer Jones will join the organization as its new Chief Strategy Officer, effective February 15. She currently serves as the director of the Change in Mind Institute and the co-director for Safety and Resilience for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities (which recently announced a merger with the Council on Accreditation). “Jennifer Jones is a well-respected leader in the areas of brain science, child welfare and...

The California Department of Public Health, Injury and Prevention Branch (CDPH/IVPB) and the California Department of Social Service, Office of Child Abuse Prevention’s (CDSS/OCAP), Essentials for Childhood (EfC) Initiative are excited to share a recently updated resource titled “California Child Wellbeing Coalition e-Guide.” This e-Guide was developed for all those who are serving Californians and interested in collaborating or connecting with local coalitions, boards, and other organized...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Hashemi SM, Yousefichaijan P, Salehi B, et. al. Comparison of child abuse history in patients with and without functional abdominal pain: a case-control study. BMC...

Question: How can a person avoid or recover from these possible adverse effects of sexual abuse? Here's an acronym I came up with to help you remember the following tips. https://www.mindcare.us/post/how-the-trauma-of-sexual-abuse-impact-a-person-s-life-and-ways-to-avoid-or-recover-from-its-effects

By Matt Richtel, The New York Times, January 16, 2021 The day after New Year’s, John Reichert of Boulder, Colo., had a heated argument with his 14-year-old son, James. “I’ve failed you as a father,” he told the boy despairingly. During the long months of lockdowns and shuttered schools, Mr. Reichert, like many parents, overlooked the vastly increasing time that his son was spending on video games and social media. Now, James, who used to focus his free time on mountain biking and playing...

In the spring of 1982, Susan Burton turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the death of her 5-year-old son, who had run into the street and was hit by a vehicle driven by an off-duty police officer . Over the course of the next 17 years, Burton was in and out of prison. “Each time I left, I felt a little more broken,” she told me recently. What would have made a difference, she said, was “if there could have been a way to have therapy from traumatic childhood events, disappointments and...

Ever want to be able to message in one swoop what SEL, trauma-informed principles and practices, multi-tiered systems of support, and equity + anti-racism work have to do with one another? We do too. Join us this Thursday 1/21 from 12-1 PST as we dive into this meaty topic. We would appreciate your input, expertise, and collective wisdom as we endeavor to eventually create either a document and/or graphic visualization that achieves our goal. Register for the event with this link: ...

By Mackenzie Mays, Politico, January 17, 2021 The tale of two Californias has never been clearer. As Bay Area tech workers set up home offices to avoid coronavirus exposure, grocers, farm workers and warehouse employees in the Central Valley never stopped reporting to job sites. Renters pleaded for eviction relief while urban professionals fled for suburbs and resort towns, taking advantage of record-low interest rates to buy bigger, better homes. Most of the state’s 6 million public school...

Join ATN for our Virtual 2021 Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference. Join educators from across the country and around the world as we gather virtually, for the 2021 Creating Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference, February 15-18, 2021. The four-day conference will feature keynote speeches from Dr. Tina Payne Bryson , Dr. Melissa Sadin , Ingrid Cockhren , Dr. Mona Delahooke, and special guest Dr. Bessel van der Kolk . This year we are are adding track for parents and caregivers. This...

The December 2020 CTIPP-CAN call began with an update by a representative from the Office of Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) to provide an overview on trauma-informed legislation and additional highlights in the policy landscape for engaging race, trauma, and wellness. The next presenter, Father Paul Abernathy, CEO of the Neighborhood Resilience Project and CTIPP board member, explores the ways in which anti-racist and trauma-informed work may find synergy. This session examined ways in which...

Resilience, which is defined as the capacity to recover from difficulties, is a vital tool in building a strong child welfare system, but what does that really mean? It is easy to say that resiliency is important, but effectively utilizing systems and tools for children and families as well as the employees who serve them is a different challenge. Through the latest research, we know resilience is made up of many different factors, from one’s genetics to their environment and support...

Thanks to the generous support of the more than 130 people who donated, we are more than half-way to our goal to raise $50,000. And we have no doubt that we’ll get there! To recap, we began this campaign in November with a challenge from an anonymous donor, who told us that if we could raise $50,000, there would be another $50,000 coming. Our original deadline was December 31, but we closed our doors during the last part of December and the beginning of January to give our very tired staff a...