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By Theresa Davis, Albuquerque Journal, December 16, 2019 The number of asylum seekers entering the United States has dropped in recent months. But hundreds of migrants are currently living in makeshift shelters or overcrowded government centers on the U.S.-Mexico border. A University of New Mexico team is working to treat the medical and mental health needs of those migrants. The UNM Health Sciences Center Border ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) team hosted a teleconference...

By Rutgers University, Science Daily, December 16, 2019 The study appears in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly. About 15 percent of pregnancies worldwide are high-risk, making premature delivery, low infant birth weight and other poor outcomes more likely. In the United States, 10 percent of pregnant women require hospitalization because they have hyperemesis gravidarum, pre-eclampsia, kidney infections, gestational diabetes or are at risk for imminent delivery, among other...

By Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, December 16, 2019 A bipartisan deal on a government spending bill would for the first time in two decades provide money for federal research on gun safety. A law adopted in the 1990's has effectively blocked such research and prohibits federal agencies from engaging in advocacy on gun-related issues. The spending bill, set for a House vote as soon as Tuesday, would provide $25 million for gun violence research, divided evenly between the...

By Casey Newton, The Verge, December 16, 2019 Google and YouTube approach content moderation the same way all of the other tech giants do: paying a handful of other companies to do most of the work. One of those companies, Accenture, operates Google’s largest content moderation site in the United States: an office in Austin, Texas, where content moderators work around the clock cleaning up YouTube. Peter is one of hundreds of moderators at the Austin site. YouTube sorts the work for him and...

This year's coming State of Our Health Breakfast on February 7th, 2020, will feature Dr. Nadine Burke Harris. Dr. Burke Harris is the 1st and current Surgeon General of California since 2019. She is a pioneer in linking adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress with harmful effects on health later on in life. We are excited to have her share with us! You won't want to miss it! You can listen to an interview with her here . We are currently only taking in Sponsorships and Table sales.

2019: A YEAR OF BUILDING RESILIENCE As we close on another year, KPJR FILMS would like to thank so many organizations, educators, health care and justice professionals for their ongoing support and focus on building an awareness of childhood trauma and resilience. In 2019, KPJR FILMS worked with over 250 national and international partner organizations and supported actions to build trauma-informed communities worldwide. PAPER TIGERS and RESILIENCE screenings, trainings and resources have...

PBS NEWSHOUR: Researchers are trying to better understand the biology of stress and its impact on child health. Now, data suggests those connections may form as early as the womb, with studies indicating frequent and prolonged adversity for pregnant women can affect the development of their babies. Stephanie Sy reports on a program aimed at easing the stress and struggles of mothers and their unborn children. ...

While members of the Maryland General Assembly did not dominate the Dec. 13th “MGA ACEs Roundtable” in numbers, they commanded the room and enlivened a focus on how ACEs science can inform current and future policies considered by elected officials.

Nearly two years ago, a team of colleagues at LifeLong Medical Clinics jumped at the opportunity to integrate practices based on ACEs science to prevent and heal trauma in their patients when it joined a two-year learning collaborative known as the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative (RBC). A few months after training began, the staff realized they had to put on the brakes.

Last Sunday evening's "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" featured special guests Dorthy and Steven Halley. In case you missed the program it can be heard by hitting this link: https://bbsradio.com/sites/default/files/audio_dirs_five/breakingthesilence/Breaking_The_Silence_2019-12-15.mp3 Their over 25 years of professional life together was discussed including the River of Cruelty model explaining how cruelty is passed from person to person and generation to generation. This...

By John D. Hoch and Adriana M. Youssef, Springer Link, December 14, 2019 Abstract Exposure to potentially traumatic events (PTEs), and trauma related diagnoses are poorly understood in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental disabilities (DD). The current study examined N = 7695 cases seen by a community mental health provider to compare exposure to PTEs and trauma-related diagnoses between children with ASD, children with DD, and children with other mental health diagnoses (e.g.,...

By Cassondra Kambeitz, Marilyn G. Klug, Jacob Greenmyer, et al., BMC Pediatrics, December 16, 2019 Background Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a highly prevalent lifelong disorder with high rates of comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders. Individuals with FASD are often exposed to abuse, neglect and foster home placements which have uncertain effects on the lifelong course of FASD. In this study we compare the prevalence of adverse childhood events (ACEs) and neurodevelopmental...