Tagged With "Idaho"

The Idaho Children’s Trust Fund offers grant funding, within $1000-$5000 range, to programs that seek to prevent child abuse and neglect by increasing protective factors in order to strengthen families and promote well-being. Application packets for the grants will be available Monday, September 23, 2019. Please visit our website for more information! https://www.idahochildrenstrustfund.org/index.php/grants-a-awards/annual-grants-program

By Scott McIntosh, Idaho Statesman, December 26, 2019 For the first time, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put together an analysis of adverse childhood experiences, or ACES, and the potential positive impacts of preventing such experiences. In a study released last month, the CDC concludes that reducing the number of adverse childhood experiences that a child encounters could reduce cases of depression by 44%, or by 21 million cases, reduce heart disease by 1.9 million...

California has approved ACEs screenings for pediatricians and will even reimburse them for patients on Medicaid and Medi-Cal! Is there anyone working on something similar in Idaho? If so, I'd love to help in any way I can. More information here: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/state-incentivizing-doctors-to-perform-adverse-childhood-experience-screenings/2241308/

There is a small pilot project being done here in Boise. Dr Tom Patterson is the lead on that. I know they started fairly recently screening parents of babies at their four month appointment. The idea is that if they can identify parents with high ACE scores, they can put them in touch with more resources and perhaps prevent intergenerational ACE transmittal.