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Healthcare is a complex business, with understanding trauma-informed care and embedding it into the system being even more complex, but this manuscript offers deep insights into what to consider and how to move forward to create healthier futures and outcomes for all. Frontiers | Negative effects of adverse childhood experiences and absence of positive childhood experiences on healthcare employees: survey findings built on 10 years of trauma-informed development

Continuing our series from the TIHCER Special Section on TIC in The Permanente Journal… Readiness for Trauma-Informed Health Care and uptake of ACEs Screening: Learnings from the California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) We will present evaluation data from CALQIC, a 48 clinic and 16-month learning collaborative, including the assessment tool used to measure clinic readiness. Nicole Eberhart, PhD is a Senior Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation and a...

Diana Fishbein, PhD, founder and co-director of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) , and John Roman, PhD, co-director. NPSC is the new 501 (c) (3) home of PACEs Connection, . PACEs Connection, with more than 60,900 members, is being revitalized by two former employees who have found a strategic and mission-aligned national nonprofit home. “We are thrilled to play a role in maintaining and growing this vitally important social network — the primary source of...

Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...

Trauma Informed Health Care Education and Research Collaborative (TIHCER) presents: Trauma and Resilience Inquiry in Family Planning Settings Trauma affects family planning, and there is a higher incidence of trauma history in patients seeking STI and pregnancy testing, as well as abortion care. We adapted and applied the Trauma and Resilience-informed Inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths (TRIADS) framework to family planning settings through literature review and focus groups with...

Continuing our series from the TIHCER Special Section on TIC in The Permanente Journal – we have two great presentations this month! Read the entire special section on Innovations in Trauma-Informed Health Care: https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/collection-trauma-informed-healthcare Presentation #1 Time to Move Forward: Resilience and Trauma-Informed Care Building on advances in neuroscience and resilience research, the authors advocate for a shift from the pathology focused biomedical...

The National Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Health Care, Education and Research (TIHCER) presents: #1 - Primary Care as a Protective Factor: A Vision to Transform Health Care Delivery and Overcome Disparities in Health This commentary offers a vision of primary care as a protective factor that can transform the experience of care for both patients and practitioners, improve health outcomes and health equity, and contribute to efforts to rebuild the foundation of primary care in America...

We are continuing our series of presentations based on the articles published in our Special Section on TIC in The Permanente Journal : https://www.thepermanentejournal.org/collection-trauma-informed-healthcare This month we have two great presentations! #1 - Medical Students’ Knowledge, Attitudes Toward, and Identification of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma-Informed Care Professionals from across the health disciplines are tasked with incorporating a trauma-informed care (TIC)...

Description: Kaiser Permanente has implemented routine ACEs screening for pediatrics (Kaiser Permanente Southern California) and Obstetrics (Kaiser Permanente Northern California). This presentation reviews strategies and lessons learned to support patients and staff in implementing this screening modality. Their program is described in the recent The Permanente Journal TIC special section article at the citation below. Watson, C. R., Young-Wolff, K. C., Negriff, S., Dumke, K., &...