This is definitely the message we want to give to all new families. Awesome. Do you know when the next dial in meeting is? I missed this week's cause I didn't see the email or I am not sure I got it and I don't want to miss them. Thanks. And congrats on your grandson!!

Tina, It looks like the next ACE Summit Steering committee meeting is February 8. Contact Sharon Vreeland for the call in number. Thank you for your message! I think all new families should hear about what they can do to build their child's brain, before they leave the hospital.

Patients would carry soda into Dr. Gerard Clancy’s office, with cigarettes tucked away for after therapy. Often victims of abuse or violent crime, they would seek soothing but risky behaviors to cope. Overweight. Chronic pain. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Type II diabetes. His former patients will die younger than they should, he said. Clancy conducted therapy sessions until he became president of the University of Tulsa in 2016. At his psychiatry clinic, he saw firsthand how a...

A few months ago I published a blog, " A Mother's Rage". I re-accounted my rage and helplessness regarding my daughter's high school rape in Miami, FL. I ended my post with words of hope. I wrote how several years had passed since my daughter's assault. She was now engaged and pregnant with my first grandchild.  This is the rest of the story. I held my daughter's hand as she labored through the night with my grandson. I tried to comfort her fiancee who felt helpless. I rubbed her back,...