Behavioral Health Team Now At Kids Creek Children’s Clinic Child and Family Services is pleased to announce two exciting new initiatives for northern Michigan. With our partners at Kids Creek Children’s Clinic in Traverse City and...
I wanted to put in links to great materials from Dr. Bruce Perry, MD, from Child Trauma Academy. I will be taking notes to share at our meeting on Thursday. There are two great lectures in this series (they may be older but...
There is nothing more important than the health and happiness of our children, and what they experience in their early years helps build the foundation for them to grow into strong, confident adults. But every year, more than 650,000 children across...
By John Tozzi | Bloomberg News Growing up poor has long been linked to lower academic test scores. And there's now mounting evidence that it's partly because kids can suffer real physical consequences from low family incomes, including brains that are...
House lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban the practice of gay conversion therapy and other forms of child abuse at youth boot camps and residential treatment programs. The bill unveiled Tuesday by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and...
Where do students in a neighborhood struggling with blight, drugs, and gangs turn? If you're talking about students at Cody High School in Detroit, it’s to Coach Jimmie Knight. “I’m not a counselor, but I’ve got a...
For the second time in two months, a Macomb County sheriff's deputy has saved someone in Mt. Clemens from a heroin overdose thanks to an opioid overdose kit deputies in the county — and other law enforcement in metro Detroit —...
When you reflect on President Obama's childhood and the ACE, given what we do know about him we can calculate he does have an ACE score. Recently, he visited a federal prison and mentioned if it were not for community and family support he believes he...
I absolutely love this page and as we are working to figure out which kids have been traumatized whether when working in school or with the domestic violence shelter or in the child welfare system, ways to help kids calm their fears are important for...
Mindfulness helps poor Children in Brazil deal with Life's Challenges What do actress Goldie Hawn , Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan , and Google employees have in common with children in disadvantaged,...
Justices give prosecutors leeway to bring cases without young children testifying Su preme Court Upholds Child Abuse Evidence Via Mandatory Reporter On Thursday, June 18 the Supreme Court upheld the use of a child’s comments to a...
This is the second part in our documentary, The Hidden Epidemic. You can hear the full documentary on Michigan Radio on Thursday, July 16th at 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. Part one is here. On October 27th, 1986, President Reagan signed a new law...
Childhood trauma unrecognized or ignored can have life changing implications, forging terrible, new links in the vicious, generational, chain of trauma. We can be the difference to break the chain.
Philadelphia ACE Task Force Member Risa Mandell, LCSW, has reminded us that it is important to understand that witnessing animal cruelty may be an adverse childhood event that has lasting impact and may also be indicative of other ACEs. She has...
A mother posts a video to YouTube of her two small sons. They dump Legos on the floor, sit on unmade beds and get toothpaste on the bathroom counter. They hold up signs for the camera that say: "We got toothpaste everywhere in the bathroom,"...