Tagged With "adolescent health"
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ACEs & African Americans Community on ACEs Connection
ACEs Connection envisions a resilient world where ALL people thrive. We are an anti-racist organization committed to the pursuit of social justice. In our work to promote resilience and prevent and mitigate ACEs, we intentionally embrace and uplift people who have historically not had a seat at the table. ACEs Connection celebrates the voices and tells the stories of people who have been barred from decision-making and who have shouldered the burden of systemic and economic oppression as the...
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Free Webinar! February 24, 2015 - CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND TRAUMA: CONSIDERATIONS FOR EDUCATORS
http://ocde.k12oms.org/1250-94...amp;utm_medium=email Recent research on child and adolescent brain development has strong implications for educators and health professionals, especially those working with youth who have experienced trauma....
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February 18, 2015 Conference in San Francisco
Hey everyone, here is information about a great conference in San Francisco that might interest you. Let us know if you go! 7th International Together Against Stigma: Each Mind Matters Empowering Community Mental Health through Research, Practice,...
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How One Connection at CYW’s ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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My First Experience With Raising ACEs Awareness
Hey everyone! I just wanted to share a recent experience I had as a young professional working to spread awareness of ACEs, trauma and resiliency. Along with being a Community Manager for ACEsConnection.com, I also work for housing at San Francisco...
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National Health Security Review 2010-2014
Hello everyone. An important national report recently came out: The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) led the development of the National Health Security Review (NHSR) which describes progress that the nation...
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Season's Greetings!
Hello everyone! My name is Jesus and I am a new Community Manager here ACEs Connection. It just so happens that this is one of the groups that I get to work closest with and I wanted to say HAPPY HOLIDAYS before I go on winter break until early...
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Self-Comparison vs Self-Determination
Beware of the danger in comparing yourself to another person to validate your feelings of self-worth. Self-Comparison is an ineffective tool often used to determine a person(s) social and personal worth with the intent to validate his or her feelings of self-worth. However, this is a very dangerous habit to develop which usually creates feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, and reinforces a negative self-concept as an individual. Life is a transformational process that requires consistent...
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The Most Anxious Generation Goes to Work (wsj.com)
New college graduates report higher levels of anxiety. How managers can help them steer past fear and improve work performance—and how young workers can work to calm their anxiety and be more effective. Michael Fenlon’s company is one of the nation’s biggest employers of newly minted college grads. He’s watching a tidal wave approach. College presidents and deans tell him repeatedly that they’ve had to make managing students’ anxiety and other mental-health issues a priority. “They’re...
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The Tiny Cell that Connects our Physical and Mental Health, and Solves a Decades-old Mystery of Why Toxic Stress Leads to Brain Changes that Spark Depression, Anxiety
More than a decade ago, I was diagnosed with several autoimmune diseases, one after another, including Guillain-Barré syndrome , which left me paralyzed twice while raising two young children. All told I spent six years in and out of bed and hospitals, learning, between crises, to use a cane or walker to navigate life as a working-mother-with-chronic-illness. My immune system was repeatedly and mistakenly attacking my body, causing the nerves in my arms, legs, and those I needed to swallow...
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US could reduce child poverty by 60 percent
Hey everyone, here is a report that I just received from a listserv in my MPH program. Seems very interesting! Given the impact of poverty and social inequality on health and health inequities, members of this list may be interested in a new report...
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We Want YOU to be Part of The League of Extraordinary People
You are extraordinary. Writing this post feels like I have come full circle. In April of 2019, Alfred White reached out to me on ACEs Connection. Shortly after, we spoke at length about the plans he had to create a place of healing and hope in Federal Way and King County, Washington, specifically for individuals with a history of trauma and who were now impacted with symptoms such as addiction and homelessness. I recall sharing with Alfred that there was such a need for this in that...
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Welcome to Young Professionals in ACEs!
Who manages “Young Professionals in ACEs”? Jasmine Pettis: jasmine.pettis@gmail.com Jasmine is finishing up her Masters of Public Health at San Jose State University. Over the past two years, she has worked as a Program Coordinator and...
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Mental Health and Immigration under Extreme Circumstances
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A New Approach to Eliminating Health Disparities [rwjf.org]
I, like many others, have made a commitment to living healthier this year. I am resolved to find and eat a new fruit and vegetable each month, decrease my consumption of meat to a few times a week, and drink at least a half-gallon of water each day. I...
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Re: We_Are_Worthy_poster_
ANTHC's EpiCenter partered with the State of Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project (AFVPP) and Adolescent Health Program to create the "Getting Together" and "We Are Worthy" safety cards, which are evidence-based tools used to address violence. Following the safety cards, ANTHC’s Behavioral Health’s Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative (DVPI) partnered with the Epicenter to create the “Getting Together” and “We Are Worthy” posters that deliver the same positive messages on the cards...
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Re: What is your field and how does your work connect with ACEs?
I am 24 days away from graduating with my Master's in Public Health. The programs emphasis is Community outreach and education and my own personal interest is in Maternal and Infant/Child health. I plan on becoming an Lactation Consultant in the near future and will be working very closely with parents. Early parenting intervention and support is very much related to ACEs as well as primary prevention.
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Re: What is your field and how does your work connect with ACEs?
Hi Joanna! I am a graduate student at Philadelphia University in the Community & Trauma Counseling Program. I am apart of the inaugural cohort of the university and we currently in our summer semester with one year left :-) Our foundation is in trauma and on the first weekend of classes we were introduced to the ACEs study and the impact of behavioral/mental health that follows. The study is discussed almost every weekend we're in class. I am currently interning in a program in...
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Re: What is your field and how does your work connect with ACEs?
I am 27 years old. I am a survivor, a writer and a mental health advocate in my home town of Frederick MD. I am becoming more involved in the municipal and county-level politics. Occasionally I speak at the meetings and I applied to join the mental health advisory board for the Frederick County. I read about history of trauma psychology, religion, social theory, history, mysticism and psychoanalysis. I listen to the lectures of trauma psychologists on youtube. I am writing a psychoanalytical...
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Of interest: Spend June 5 with members of the new National Academies report: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
Of interest: Spend June 5 with members of the new National Academies report: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth Announcement in ACES Connection calendar : June 5 Calendar Announcement https://www.acesconnection.com/event/realizing-opportunity-for-all-youth-discussion-the-new-national-academies-report or at Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, University of Virginia (ILPPP) https://ilppp.virginia.edu/OREM/JuvenilePrograms/Course/144 Working with the National Academies of Sciences,...
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A Better Normal Friday, June 19th at Noon PDT: LGBTQ+ Identity and Race in the US: An Intersectional Discussion On Historical and Generational Trauma
Please join us for the ongoing community discussion of A Better Normal, our ongoing series in which we envision the future as trauma-informed. LGBTQ+ Identity and Race in the US: An Intersectional Discussion On Historical and Generational Trauma With Panelists Rev. Dr. D. Mark Wilson and Alexander Cho, Ph.D., Moderated by ACEs Connection staff members Jenna Quinn and Alison Cebulla Friday, June 19th, 2020 Noon to 1pm, PT (3pm to 4pm ET) >>Click here to register<< Please join us...
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Addiction Born Out of ACEs and The Return of Hope [avahealth.org]
The downstream effect of childhood trauma has been well documented regarding the biological and psychosocial impacts. This presentation will highlight the neurobiological changes associated with ACEs that function as a "primer" for the onset of addiction and related behaviors. It will conclude with principles for influencing these same pathways that assist with restoration of the mind and health downstream effect of childhood trauma has been well documented regarding the biological and...
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A Better Normal Community Discussion - Reimagining Health Care
In a conversational style, join physician Drew Factor who will speak with Dr. Tracy Gaudet, Liza Guroff and An é Watts in a discussion entitled "Reimagining Health Care". Dr. Gaudet will speak about her experience engaging in transformational change at the Veterans Administration and how this has shaped the development of her own Functional Medicine Institute, while Ms. Guroff and Ms. Watts will speak about their knowledge of a Trauma-Informed Approach both at a systems (National Council for...
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"A Better Normal" Community Discussion Series- Our Reckoning with Race and Equity at ACEs Connection
Register for A Better Normal- Our reckoning with race and equity at ACEs Connection
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