Thursday night, the Bay area chapter of the Michigan Youth Opportunities Initiative presented a program on the success of foster care children. The message was geared at educating the audience of their journeys from an abusive home to foster...
This is an older article but it is appropriate for us as we seek system changes (in all systems affected by Adverse Childhood Experiences) including the Health Care System: The article is from last year's Pediatric News and is by Dr. Howard who...
In Michigan, 46 percent of child abuse victims in 2013 suffered from emotional abuse, according to the 2013 report on child abuse and neglect data collected by the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System. In neighboring Illinois, however,...
Dr. April Ping is a pediatrician in Livingston county. She's known by foster parents in her area as somebody who understands the complications the foster care system brings, and the health concerns it creates for kids. The mental health care concerns...
Michigan uses the Strengthening Families Approach to Increase Resilience for Children and Families in Our State, so I wanted to post the information for the curriculum here. BRINGING THE PROTECTIVE FACTORS FRAMEWORK TO LIFE IN YOUR WORK...
Dr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and recently this NPR series , was recently in Michigan for a conference on how adverse...
For all of you members who are new on ACEs in Michigan, if you are interested in posting the work you are doing or a video you can. It can be tricky at first but becomes very simple quickly. If you want more information you can: 1. Send me a private...
Raising awareness about the impact of child traumatic stress and what parents and caregivers can do to help children recover and thrive is the focus of a new public education campaign launched July 3 by the Substance...
The National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience (NCAR) met in December 2013 and as a result produced the Community Resilience Cookbook You can read about the five cities and four states in the U.S. and Canada that are...
Here's a link and info about a presentation from the National Center on Health, Office of Head Start, that may be of use to those of us looking for material appropriate for community awareness talks. I like that the PDF user guide has a...
The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice is set to become the first state agency to conduct risk assessments using predictive analytics, a process that uses huge collections of data to predict outcomes and patterns. It’s the sort...
This is a Little Late but for Those on the Group who are Interested, I wanted to put this event here. I signed up. It is from 12:00 - 1:30 EST tomorrow. GoTo Webinars are easy to sign up for. Just register at the link in this Blog. ...
I met Dr. Greg Proulx in September 2014. I was getting ready to go to a meeting on ACEs in Washington, DC and was trying very hard to spread the word about ACEs across the region. That week before WE met, I spoke to about 100 people...
Juan Ramirez grew up in poverty in the Rio Grande Valley, in a neighborhood infested with drug-and gang-related violence. By the age of 10 he’d started smoking marijuana and using inhalants. Within a couple of years he’d moved on to...
DEAR FELLOW MICHIGANDERS, Michigan is truly at a crossroads. After years of struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Michigan is beginning to rebuild its economy. More Michiganders are getting back to work and using their many talents to...