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Study: Tough childhoods are tough on adult hearts (MedicalXpress)

Karen Clemmer · 5/11/201:50 PM

Posted on May 7, 2020, MedicalXpress. Adults who had rough childhoods have higher odds for heart disease. That's the conclusion from a look at more than 3,600 people who were followed from the mid-1980s through 2018. Researchers found that those who experienced the most trauma, abuse, neglect and family dysfunction in childhood were 50% more likely to have had a heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in their 50s and 60s. The Northwestern University study, published recently in the...

Emotional Well-Being and Coping During COVID-19 [psychiatry.ucsf.edu]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 5/11/209:58 AM

From Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF, May 2020 These are unprecedented times. We need to work extra hard to manage our emotions well. Expect to have a lot of mixed feelings. Naturally we feel anxiety, and maybe waves of panic, particularly when seeing new headlines. A recent article by stress scientist and Vice Chair of Adult Psychology Elissa Epel, PhD, outlines the psychology behind the COVID-19 panic response and how we can try to make the best of this situation. Our anxiety is...

Del Mar (CA) nurse launches virtual support group for healthcare providers (KUSI News)

Karen Clemmer · 5/10/208:27 PM

By KUSI Newsroom staff, April 27, 2020. SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Del Mar nurse Pantea Vahidi has launched the ‘ Caring for Those Who Care’ virtual support group for nurses, and other healthcare providers, with the intention of supporting those bravely fighting on the front lines of the novel Coronavirus all around the world. The groups are held daily ; interested nurses, and healthcare professionals, can register via www.PanteaVahidi.com. “ COVID -19 has humbled us to recognize that regardless of...

Study finds meditation and aerobic exercise relieves stress in medical school students (EurekAlert)

Karen Clemmer · 5/10/208:20 PM

Rutgers, Released May 4, 2020, Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Rutgers professor and medical school student collaborating on research touched by pandemic. Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School student Paul Lavadera expected his career would put him on the front lines of dealing with medical emergencies. But he never could have imagined he'd be graduating during the biggest global pandemic in a century when he joined forces two years ago with Tracey Shors,...

Overview of the Community Resiliency Model, used worldwide to help trauma survivors re-regulate their central nervous system, offered in two, free 90-minute webinars.

Carey Sipp · 5/1/208:18 AM

Elaine Miller Karas , key creator of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), will be joined by CRM trainers from Wilmington, NC, Allison Wine , behavioral specialist, and Kelly Purcell , instructional coach and multi-tiered support specialist for this free, two-part training. Register now for two, FREE 90-minute sessions May 7 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST and May 14 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST (The complete overview requires attendance at both sessions. Registration link below registers you...

Forsyth County Trauma Informed Care Network

Laneita Williamson · 4/29/2011:29 AM

The Forsyth County Trauma Informed Network is taking great strides into recognizing and addressing community post Covid-19 impacts. PowerPoint attached.

Hundreds of Miles From Home, Nurses Fight Coronavirus on New York's Front Lines [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/29/206:45 AM

By Jenny Gross, The New York Times, April 28, 2020 Each night at dusk, in an otherwise desolate Times Square, hundreds of nurses in blue scrubs gather to board buses that take them to hospitals across New York City. Of the thousands of nurses who have come from other states to shore up New York’s hospitals, more than 4,000 are staying in Midtown Manhattan. During the day, many rest at their hotels, amid darkened Broadway marquees, quiet streets and boarded up shops. At night, they face...

Efforts to Reduce Black Maternal Mortality Complicated by COVID-19 [chcf.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/23/206:36 AM

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, April 20, 2020 Latoyha Young had a birth plan. She was going to have the baby in Sacramento with community doula Joy Dean by her side. Dean was funded by the county’s Black Child Legacy Campaign , which works to reduce the disproportional number of Black infant and child deaths in Sacramento. But in mid-March, when Young went into labor just as Governor Gavin Newsom ordered Californians to stay at home to avoid spreading the novel...

University of Florida Graduate Public Health Course: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Individuals, Communities, and Public Health: Student Project Summaries

Lindsey King · 4/22/2010:57 AM

The University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions partnered with Peace4Tarpon under the Robert Wood Johnson Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) grant. Together they created 2 online graduate courses that focus on addressing ACEs and creating trauma-informed and resilience-based programs from a public health approach. Peace4Gainesville and Peace4 TheBigBend have also contributed to these courses. This post is intended to showcase some of the work of the...

Announcing Trauma and Resilience Competencies for Nursing Education

Kathleen Wheeler · 4/21/2011:07 AM

The authors are pleased to announce the Trauma and Resilience Competencies for Nursing Education. These competencies serve as a guideline of minimal expectations and reflect essential knowledge, skills and behaviors for three levels of nursing education: 1) undergraduate, 2) graduate, and 3) psychiatric nurse practitioner programs. The Trauma and Resilience Competencies, developed in 2018 at the Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut by an Expert...

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