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Lucia is a career consultant at a workforce development career center in a large, diverse city in the Upper Great Lakes region. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was excelling at her job. She was engaged, clients loved her, and her supervisor was impressed with her potential. However, once the pandemic hit, she started to struggle. She could not keep up with requests to help clients or respond to coworkers. She would go days without answering emails. Small mistakes would devastate her and...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs. Every month, she posts the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs, PCEs and PACEs. Thank you, Harise!! — Rafael Maravilla] Child Abuse Gilchrist SA, Stanfield J, Tan MAM, et al. Changes in Pediatric Non-accidental Trauma Emergency Department Visits During and Following the...

As a reflection on the past weekend's celebration of Juneteenth, and the historical trauma of chattel slavery influencing our lives today, this week's episode of the History. Culture. Trauma podcast is an excerpt from a recorded interview of Dr. Bruce Perry conducted by hosts Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, and Mathew Portell, director of education and outreach, in June, 2022. In this interview Perry discusses, within the context of historical trauma, his #1 New York Times Bestseller...

How new parents perceive their personal childhood experiences has a significant impact on the health and wellness, as well as their unborn child. It is paramount for expectant parents to care for themselves in order to reduce stress and physical illness on their unborn child. When a mother experiences extreme amounts of stress, neurohormones are released from the expectant mother to the fetus, causing a fight or flight response (Center for Child Counseling, 2023). Maternal stress can appear...

When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.

This Part 2 post continues exploring the pervasive Wholistic Health Equity Determinants (WHED) that impact the LGBTQIA++ community. Focus is on the rising incidence of trauma and mental health conditions across the community and the expanding advocacy, funding, as well as resources to mitigate the WHED.

House panel debates gender-affirming care bill Republicans in Congress are pushing a controversial new bill that would pull federal funding from children’s hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors — a move that public health experts and pediatricians warn could have a seismic impact on transgender children’s mental health and those hospitals’ services overall. The otherwise bipartisan hearing on a pack of bills got ugly fast. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) said the legislation...

From Sesame Workshop, Image: from article, June 2023 Ever since the landmark study that inspired Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop has been leading the conversation about how media can educate children. For us, cracking the code of learning is a continuous process — and a collaborative one. Uniting researchers, educators, producers, and entrepreneurs, we’re forever inventing a more engaging, enriching, and encouraging world for kids, even as their needs and environments change. [ Please click...

Illustration of the PTMF framework by psychologist Juliet Young (@Juliet_Young1) By Richard Sears, Mad in America, June 13, 2023 A recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology suggests that adopting a Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) approach in inpatient psychiatric settings can significantly reduce self-harm and the use of seclusion and restraint. The researchers, led by clinical psychologist Faye Nikopaschos, credit this reduction to weekly staff training on psychological stabilization and...

By Laura Gallant, 6/15/23, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Juneteenth celebrates a hope-filled moment in U.S. history, and recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday increases opportunities for all children and families to access positive childhood experiences (PCEs) and the Four Building Blocks of HOPE . Juneteenth is also a reminder of the importance of imbedding anti-racism into our work and social lives. Racism blocks access to PCEs and is a source of trauma. When we...

Lead plaintiff Rikki Held on her family's ranch in southeastern Montana. Behind her, a wildfire burns four miles away. In Summer 2022, this was one of 18 wildfires within 50 miles of her home. Credit: Richard Forbes By Richard Forbes, Inside Climate News, June 12, 2023 Rikki Held headed southeast into the badlands, eyes fixed on the billowing smoke as it reddened with sunset. Rutted tracks wound between scrubby hillsides that hid the wildfire. Brush raked the car. She’d been home at the...