Tagged With "Northern Ireland"
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2018 – Summer of Awareness and Awakening
Between Cork and Belfast, Ireland will have seen an unprecedented amount of trauma speakers, all world specialists, and we hope that this will transform the nation. But although science confirms these findings on an almost daily basis, this information is not new as the ACEs have been in the public domain for the last 20 years. There is therefore no need to re-invent the wheel. With the launch of < ACEs-in-Ireland > we hope to bring the best and most relevant facts and to soften the...
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A miracle cure for a patched-up society? Ireland April 2018
A miracle cure for a patched-up society? By Contributor 19th April 2018 The recent lidocaine (Versatis) patch controversy seems to be a wider debate about health resources — one which could be resolved by just sticking a plaster on it (pun intended), GP Dr William Ralph supposes The recent lidocaine (Versatis) patch debate seemed, on the surface, to be just another healthcare resource allocation decided by the media in the face of Health Service Executive (HSE) intransigence, and a disregard...
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Bearing witness to trauma among offenders: harnessing the Adverse Childhood Experiences evidence for better outcomes (Jane Mulcahy via YouTube & online).
This is a talk by Jane Mulcahy of the University College Cork, Ireland. This video was just published on YouTube today by the National Health Scotland today - Video link at the end - Mulcahy talks about how and what to talk ACEs, in general, as well as specifically as relates to relating with offenders. Here are some quotes: Cissy's note: For those also new to her work (like), who want to learn more, here's a pdf of the same name with more details and references. #ACEs ...
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Call for services to help mothers and babies [The Irish Times]
Mothers and babies are “avoidably suffering” because of the failure to implement recommendations on mental health services for pregnant women and new mothers in Northern Ireland, according to a report released today. The Time for Action report by NSPCC Northern Ireland, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), and the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors (CPHVA) also called for the development of a mother and baby unit and specialist perinatal mental health services in every health and...
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Childbirth Can be Another Source of Trauma for Women Who Were Abused [Irishtimes.com]
By Arlene Harris, The Irish Times, February 7, 2020 While it may be an innate and mainly joyful event, many pregnant women feel anxious at the thought of going through labour and can suffer emotional and physical distress during the delivery itself. And there is one group of women for whom there is an extra level of trauma associated with the arrival of their unborn child – those who have been victims of sexual assault. Hazel Larkin is a sexual abuse survivor and over the coming months will...
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Do we, in Ireland, have our very own Dr Nadine in Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh ? HEALTH PROGRAMME FOR THE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED IS REAPING BENEFITS
Irish Health Innovator 1 : Dr Clíona Ní Cheallaigh. (7 May 2019) Dr Cliona Ní Cheallaigh, consultant in general medicine and infectious diseases at Dublin St James Hospital, pioneers a unique programme of inclusion health. This is a dedicated service to tackle health and social inequities among our most vulnerable and socially excluded populations: the homeless, people with substance use disorders, sex workers, and prisoners. A year-long pilot study of Ní Cheallaigh’s programme showed...
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Dreaming of Making Ireland the First ACE-Aware REPUBLIC !
Sunday Herald Supplement - 23 Sept 2018 Re: Glasgow ACEs Conference Click on the Tabs for details http://aceawarescotland.com/vision/
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Excellent new Animation from Northern Ireland
Excellent new animation about ACEs from Northern Ireland, slighly different from the short videos we have been used to and with a new angle : put words into action - at all levels especially at the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY-8HilOzh0
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Excellent New Irish Probation Study (2018) : Aligns with Similar Research Nationally and Internationally
This study shows - once again - that it is not essential to begin every project with lengthy and expensive research, when immediate action and intervention is what counts. Thanks to #ACEs, the data is there already : not rocket-science, and no need to re-invent the wheel. [ ... Notwithstanding the small cohort involved, this research adds to the international body of evidence on trauma and substance use, criminality and homelessness . The research highlights the need for health and community...
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Heal from Trauma - Nature's Way
[ ..... Reframing our cultural understanding of how trauma works is fundamental to creating institutional and personal strategies for healing that truly work ......... While there is a growing awareness in.....workplaces and communities about the prevalence of trauma in both personal and occupational contexts - including with children - a nuanced understanding of healing is still in the early stages..... ] [ ....“There’s tons of people getting trauma-informed out there ..... But people don’t...
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#Homelessness / Exploring the connection between early trauma and later negative life events among Cork Simon service users.
One of the first ACEs study conducted in Ireland - this one amongst the Cork Simon Community, an organisation caring for adult-homeless people. This link is a very visual presentation, including 2 locally-made videos , plus 2 standard ACEs videos at the end. In another link we will present the more text-and-data version of the study. Authors : Dr. Sharon Lambert & Graham Gill-Emerson. March 2017 >>> ACE's at Cork Simon
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"How to talk policy and influence people": a special series of Law and Justice
"No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" is the title of Greta Thunberg's book, which is a compilation of her speeches on the need for urgent action to tackle climate change. One of those speeches is entitled "Together We Are Making a Difference". I had planned to organise an event on the topic of “How to talk policy and influence people” kindly supported by the Cork Education and Training Board in Ireland on the 2nd of April 2020. Unfortunately, the event had to be cancelled due to the...
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'It Breaks My Heart': School Principal Says Living in Emergency Accomodation Having Huge Impacts on Lives of Children [echolive.ie]
From Cork News-Live, February 17, 2020 IT is “simply unacceptable” that children across Ireland are experiencing homelessness, a Cork principal has said, expressing her anger and upset at the situation. Nickie Egan, principal of North Presentation Primary School on Gerald Griffin St, has encouraged her staff to become more aware of the difficulties facing homeless students, and those experiencing other issues, in a bid to aid their development. There were 9,731 homeless people in Ireland in...
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Measuring Trauma-Informed Care with Online ARTIC
FREE Online ARTIC webinar for Ireland and UK Thursday, May 28, 2020, 3:00-4:00 pm BST Register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional attitudes toward TIC, has...
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Measuring Trauma-Informed Care with the Online ARTIC
FREE Online ARTIC webinar for Ireland and UK Thursday, May 28, 2020, 3:00-4:00 pm BST Register today at this link The Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) is hosting a FREE webinar for leaders in health, trauma, and trauma-informed care (TIC) to preview the new Online ARTIC, a cutting-edge online tool for measuring TIC. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is one of the only validated measures of TIC. It measures professional and para-professional attitudes toward TIC, has...
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No Child 2020: Fintan O’Toole on a new Irish Times initiative (www.irishtimes.com)
Cissy's note: This is one of the best articles I've read in a long while. I discovered it this morning, thanks to @Jane Mulcahy It's written by Fintan O'Toole and published in The Irish Times . Here are some excerpts: Continue reading...
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Poorer people more likely to be admitted to hospital with self-harm, report finds [The Irish News]
A new report has found striking differences in the rates of poorer people being admitted to hospital due to self-harm HOSPITAL admissions due to self-harm are three-and-a-half times more likely in poorer areas of the north, new research has found. Prescription rates for "mood and anxiety" medication have also increased across all parts of the north but were two-thirds more prevalent in the most deprived areas. The annual report on health inequalities in Northern Ireland was published...
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Submission to the Seanad Public Consultation Committee on Children’s Mental Health Services in Ireland – May 2017
[ .......... The ACE Study can be used both as an essential tool to detect, understand, treat and heal physical and psychological conditions, as well as a road map to effect changes in our society, communities and our homes. The ACEs is a movement gathering momentum and achieving tremendous results, in all layers of society : in hospitals, clinics and private practice, schools, in health education, courts, prisons, and of course, in families and with individuals. It is producing huge savings...
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Timeline of PUBLIC Awareness in Ireland - claim your spot if you came first [IrishExaminer.com]
When it comes to ACEs, Cork appears to be indeed the capital of Ireland. From Noel Baker in the great Irish Examiner newspaper, September 2017 : Almost one-quarter of men and women aged in their 50s and 60s were found to have suffered an ‘adverse childhood experience’, with research showing higher odds of depressive symptoms later in life among that group. A newly published study looked at baseline data from 2,047 men and women aged 50 to 69 in the north Cork town of Mitchelstown and found...
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Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland
This Law and Justice special podcast was recorded live at the "Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland" event at Bewley's Cafe Theatre in Dublin on November 28th, 2018. The event, organised in conjunction with the Irish ACEs and Trauma-informed Forum, was kindly sponsored by Senator Lynn Ruane. It was an open discussion with survivors of childhood trauma. professionals working in the Early Years sector, education, health, addiction, criminal justice and psychotherapy about the...
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Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland: Firkin Crane event Cork 08 April 2019
https://soundcloud.com/jane-mulcahy/firkin-crane-event-towards-an-ace-aware-trauma-responsive-ireland This event was an open discussion with survivors of childhood trauma and professionals working in the Early Years sector, education, health, addiction and homeless services about the desirability of raising public and political awareness of the prevalence and impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in Ireland and the need for a collaborative cross sector trauma-responsive approach for...
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Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland: Open the can of worms
I prepared these background notes to provide context for the "Towards an ACE-Aware, trauma-responsive Ireland" event I organised at the Firkin Crane theatre in Cork, Ireland on 08 April 2019. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332275178_Open_the_can_of_worms
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Welcome to ACEs in Ireland!
ACEs in Ireland is a hub for all things trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences here in Ireland, and for those who strive for change and follow ACEs science. The island of Ireland is host to one of the most traumatised people on the planet. There can therefore only be one way, and that is up and better. We welcome all your questions, from your very own special interest or position, and surely among us, we can provide information, answers, support, and more importantly, solutions. You are...
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ACE's Approach to Community Development
Hi All, I have just recently become a member of the ACE's in Ireland group here online. I hope you will be patient with me as I navigate my way around the site as I am not very technical. I am delighted to have found this community and I look forward to learning from you all. I have recently taken up the role of community development officer in my community. The community has many social issues such as crime, poverty, high unemployment and a high rate of early school leavers and very low...
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Re: Dreaming of Making Ireland the First ACE-Aware REPUBLIC !
Of course you are Ann marie ! Scotland is stealing a march on us with their goal to become the first ACE-Aware Nation. But as Ireland IS a republic of sort, I put my intention out here. Don't forget to click open the link above : it's the electronic supplement the Sunday Herald newspaper published. A fine example for us to aspire to.
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Ireland Lacrosse Bows Out Of 2022 World Games So Iroquois Nationals Can Play (npr.org)
When invitations went out to men's lacrosse teams to compete in the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Ala., there was a big omission. The No. 3 Iroquois Nationals, a team that represents the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, wasn't on the list. Organizers said the Nationals could not compete because they are not a sovereign nation — even though players have their own passports. The Haudenosaunee are actually the originators of lacrosse, what they call the "medicine game." A petition calling for the...
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Three-nation research to examine relationships between social factors and epigenetics (Eurekalert)
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, November 9, 2020, Grant Announcement . $2.9 million National Institute on Aging grant to USC's Eileen Crimmins supports collaboration of large studies in US, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to answer questions about how life circumstances affect gene expression and health. A new three-nation project will examine how social, economic, psychological, environmental and behavioral circumstances in childhood influence gene expression and affect health...
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Nine New Communities Join ACEs Connection / February, 2021
Please welcome these nine new communities to the ACEsConnection.com network! ACEs Connection Sweden ACEs in Ireland Alberta Champions For Children: Past, Present, and Future (CAN) Central Texas Resilience Network (TX) Chester County ACEs Coalition (PA) Jones County Resilience Collaborative (NC) Kings County ACEs Connection (CA) San Joaquin County ACEs Aware Network (CA) Vallejo City Strength (CA) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community...
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Study: The occurrence and co-occurrence of ACEs and their relationship to mental health in the United States and Ireland
Abstract: Background Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have various deleterious effects on mental health but few studies have been conducted in Ireland. Objective The primary objective was to determine if there were significant differences in occurrences of ACEs in U.S. and Irish adults. We also sought to determine if there were unique associations between individual and multiple ACE events and mental health. Participants and setting Preexisting nationally representative adult samples...
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I'm an American raising my child in Ireland. I don't want to move back to the US because I feel safer here. (newsbreak.com)
Photo: Betsy Cornwell Author: To read Betsy Cornwell's article, click HERE . I'm originally from New Hampshire but have lived in Ireland since 2012. My 5-year-old son was born here, and I didn't pay anything for his birth. When I drop him off at school, I don't worry whether there's going to be a shooting. I grew up in New Hampshire, but I've spent most of my adult life in Ireland . I first came to County Galway in 2012, intending to stay for a few months — but after I met my, now ex,...
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Woodworking and Hugs: Inside the Mental Health Movement for Men (reasonstobecheerful.com)
Credit: MSUK To read MaryLou Costa's article, please click here. Recognizing that “m en will talk shoulder to shoulder, but not necessarily face to face,” Men’s Sheds give guys a space to tinker while they open up — and heal. “While you’re doing this, you’ve got to concentrate on what you’re doing. And it takes your mind off other issues, and for those couple of hours, you kind of relax. Once you start feeling better, it’s like dropping a pebble in the water, and those ripples come back out,...