Tagged With "Childhood Trauma is Tied to Health Risks"
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Re: Welcome Members of Northern Michigan ACEs Action
Tina, Great information! Dr. Perry has done some amazing work in the field and I have found his lectures very informative and useful. We work hard at the Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center to educate others and view our clients through the trauma lens to understand behaviors. Thank you for your work and information sharing. Amelia
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Re: Under One Roof
From Dr. Bruce Perry, MD (Understanding Traumatized and Maltreated Children) Clinical principles for effective work with children have additional critical elements. One is helping the child understand what they feel and why they behave a certain way in given situations. Traumatized children frequently act impulsively and misunderstand why this has happened. They will often explain this (as will the adults around them) as the by-product of them being stupid, insensitive, bad, selfish, sick or...
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Re: Study from Pediatrics: Some new moms get too little advice from doctors (usatoday.com)
(Here is a Link to the Full Text PDF from Pediatrics, July 27th 2015) Maternal Report of Advice Received for Infant Care BACKGROUND: Advice has been associated with increased adherence to recommended infant care practices, and may represent a modi fi able factor to promote infant health. METHODS: A strati fi ed, 2-stage, clustered design, with oversampling of black and Hispanic mothers, was used to survey a nationally representative sample of 1031 mothers of infants aged 2 to 6 months.
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Re: Trauma informed hospital system
Here is a partial list of information (I don't know of any full scale implementation in Michigan) 1. http://www.avahealth.org/aces_...ic-primary-care.html (From the Academy on Violence and Abuse - RJ Gilespie and Teri Petterson screen for parents of 4 month olds at a large Pediatric Primary Care Clinic in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Gilespie will be speaking along with Nadine Burke-Harris at the AAP annual conference in Washington, DC this October at the "Peds 21 Conference" which can be found at...
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Re: AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
Dr. Hahn I will not be able to attend this meeting on such short notice. But I will happy to attend a future meeting, hoping evening times will be a option. Thank you! Tracy Romel, LLMSW Behavioral Health Consultant On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
I wanted to put this here so that the NE Michigan Group could have some Ideas of how to move forward beyond the school system but that might be able to be tied in through Alcona too? We could try to collaborate with the CAC (Grand Rapids) ---- and Alcona maybe Jacki Fitzgerald ---- and then maybe Western Michigan (NCTSN K-Zoo sight) --- to move the trauma informed care collaboration into NE Michigan. So here is the newsletter from the Child and Family Services in TC. Behavioral Health Team...
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Re: SAMHSA's Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach
Here is the link. This can help guide organizations and communities as they approach and discuss the concept of Trauma-Informed: http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/c...-4884/SMA14-4884.pdf
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Re: Brain Development Bottom-Up
This very Important Brief Describes the Effects of Child Maltreatment on the Developing Brain in a Very easy to Understand Format ... It contains information that we used to develop our First Alpena Trauma-Informed Schools Presentation. In recent years, there has been a surge of research into early brain development. Neuroimaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), provide increased insight about how the brain develops and how early experiences affect that development.
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Re: Unseen Wounds Childhood Emotional Abuse
Unseen Wounds An important study finds that children who have been psychologically maltreated suffer effects that are equal or greater than children who have been physically or sexually abused. This article was published by the folks at the Boston Trauma Center (BVK) late last year and now it is in the APA journal and there are Continuing Education Credits that can be received by reading the article but even without CE credits, this article is excellent and something we should know about. By...
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Re: Developing a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System
This issue brief discusses the steps that may be necessary to create a child welfare system that is more sensitive and responsive to trauma. Every child welfare system is different, and each State or county child welfare system will need to conduct its own systematic process of assessment and planning, in collaboration with key partners, to determine the best approach. After providing a brief overview of trauma and its effects, this issue brief discusses some of the primary areas of...
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Re: Developing a Trauma-Informed Child Welfare System
These two Cards were mentioned by Dr. Stirling in the AAP Trauma Experienced by Kids in Foster Care Video. I really think when dealing with kids in Foster Care or any child who has been traumatized, it is important to understand that the behavioral reactions seen are often normal adaptive reactions considering what the child experienced. The video is really great at explaining this and helping us understand but also understand how to speak to parents so that they can understand the behaviors...
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Re: Healthy Foster Care America
This set of Resources from Healthy Foster Care is Great. The video is awesome and the Guide for Pediatricians is a great resource not only for Pediatricians but Teachers and Child Welfare and all other Professionals. So I am putting this here as we learn and share. I did put it on ACEs in Pediatrics when it was first available. Thanks Tina https://www.aap.org/en-us/advo...es/Trauma-Guide.aspx
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Re: Text 4 Baby
I signed up for Text4Baby about 4 months ago. I have been receiving weekly texts on infant care. I find the information up to date and excellent for new or pregnant mothers. For my "1 month old baby" I received this text: "A crying baby can stress you out. Need a break? Put your baby in a safe place to cry and ask for help. Watch this video for more ideas: text4b.org/094." Since this doesn't work as a link, here is what you would learn when going to the link: All babies cry and some cry more...
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Re: Outreaching where the bears live.
I brought a gal (Nancy Gaucher) who was an ex-Detroit police officer to Medstart (a U. of Michigan CME program organized by students) to speak about rural homelessness in the UP. Nancy started "Voices for Youth". I am not sure if it still exists but she was alarmed to find so many teens which she called, and I agree, "throw-away" kids living in the woods. These kids had left circumstances of violence at home and so I truly believe it is important for all of us to understand that these...
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Re: Kalamazoo schools expulsions, suspensions rate among state's highest (m-live.com)
It's time for schools and communities and agencies and individuals to become trauma-informed building resilience into communities and each one of us.
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Re: followup exchange presentation 9:8
Here is the followup exchange presentation given yesterday 9/8 in Alpena. Wanted to review ACEs, go over toxic stress and give a followup on the work we have been doing in Alpena and where we hope to go. No volunteers to join our group. However, asked that if the group hosts other presenters who may be interested to let them know about us. Making a collection of power points that can be used in our rural community to educate folks on ACEs and Toxic Stress. Any ideas of how to spread the word...
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Re: I tweaked the Spokane Public Health Dept and Jane's ACEs Handout with a PDF editor
Here is the PDF I made with an editor. I can edit it more too if anyone would like.
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Re: Northern Michigan Building Resilience
We have formed a trauma task force in our community and are doing our best to pull it together. ACES Connection has been key in our start up. We will keep growing, learning and spreading what we learn.
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Re: ACE Community flyer
And here is a Link to Michigan Public Radio State of Opportunity Series article with Dr. Felitti and Dr. Hahn after his visit to Alpena: http://stateofopportunity.mich...ublic-health-problem
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Re: ACEs is not just about kids...
Hi Cathy, I completely agree. I had this article from the RWJF taped to the cork board at my desk and looked at it everyday wondering how I could get these services for the parents of my pediatric patients. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $16 Million to Health Leads to Help Health Care Providers Address Social Factors Boston– Health Leads , an organization which enables physicians and other health care providers to prescribe basic resources such as food and heat for their low-income...
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Re: Prevelance of ACEs in Michigan
The PDF attachment is for Mike Foley's Power Point on ACEs for late 2014. Thanks
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Re: Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative
Here is the Actual Power Point. The poll everywhere are slide slots from an app service that allows interactive audience polling which we used for the 10 ace questions which were texted in live during the presentation. We had 20 participants in addition to the 4 presenters. Below is an example of what the slide would look like with the poll.
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Re: The Impact of Trauma and Neglect on Young Children
Here is the Link to the Webinar. Please watch. Dr. Perry's work is absolutely wonderful and really helps us with understanding of trauma and toxic stress. 1. http://www.ctacny.com/the-impa...-children-video.html 2. Here is another video that is absolutely awesome by Dr. Perry (about 1.5 hrs) from the National Council for Behavioral health. So awesome to learn and understand better how to help Children and their Families. http://www.thenationalcouncil....rauma-informed-care/ 3. Here is...
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Re: Emotional Abuse Is Far Worse Than You Think (3.5 min)
This is an older post I put up, but I feel it is incredibly important to understand that all forms of abuse and childhood adversities need to be addressed in order for children to heal and to grow up happy. The above video references the study below. Thanks The 'Unseen Wounds' of Child Emotional Abuse (psmag.com) As recent reports regarding actor Stephen Collins remind us, accusations of child sexual abuse reliably produce a reaction of intense horror. But a new study suggests that, if we...
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Re: Saving Brains, A Grand Challenge by Dr. Mike Evans
This is an awesome video and shows that by planting and growing a trauma informed community and State (of Michigan), we can really work together to 1. Be able to understand our fellow citizens' suffering (our children's friends, our friends who are having a hard time at work or in the community etc). 2. We can not only see the origin of the suffering, we can start to understand the origin of the suffering (and I would say the diminution of every suffering human's potential). BUT THIRD and...
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Re: Saving Brains, A Grand Challenge by Dr. Mike Evans
Thank you, Tina! I'm on board, 2000 +%! Why wouldn't we do this? What's stopping us? We have the ability to really, truly end the generational cycle of trauma. We can all be miracle makers...what an awesome opportunity and important responsibility. ~ Cathy
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Re: Healing ACE's
Would love to read the books, David. Thanks for your note- will definitely review the resources. I too am a school psychologist of many years here in Michigan and am grateful for the ACEs work. Prior to my tenure in schools, I worked in mental health, including community settings, state hospitals and a psychiatric prison. My broad base of experience- both personal and professional- have helped me understand the real limitations of these governmental organizations in relieving suffering in...
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Re: Trauma-Informed Care is Not a Program For Your Clients
I agree. There is not one BDP that suits all. I have seen people "run child clients" thru: the TF-CBT workbook By Alison Hendricks, Judith A. Cohen, Anthony P. Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger (which is a good tool) , have the pizza party and declare "mission accomplished". It doesn't necessarily work that way. I agree that healing includes our ability to sit with clients in their trauma, "hold the safe space" for them to figure it out. I definitely need to continue to do work when new...
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Re: What Michigan Counties Would be Interested in tackling a Public Health Epidemic?
This is the first page of the West Virginia Public Health Survey Monkey. It has a link typed in to a video of Dr. Felitti on ACEs and the ACE study How Childhood Trauma can make you a Sick Adult. You have to cut and past this link into your browser. At the end of survey in a pick box, it allows you to choose which county you live in and there is an "other" option --- I chose other and put in Tuscola, Michigan. I think that is actually great because this would allow the Health Department to...
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Re: What Michigan Counties Would be Interested in tackling a Public Health Epidemic?
Maybe even a link to the handout on ACEs/Toxic Stress/Resilience that people can print out and have with them???
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Re: Ideas from Members on How to Extend our Reach?
Hi Marni, I have been asked to give a presentation on ACEs/Toxic Stress and Trauma Informed Care to the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Child Abuse Concil. I have given several talks on ACEs and Toxic Stress. I do them for free or just ask (if it is possible) a small fee to cover gas, hotel and a day or two in the kennel for my dogs. I was asked by the Great Start Collaborative via the school psychologist to go to the last meeting in Alpena but I couldn't figure out the time or date. So I missed it. I...
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Re: Dr Greg Proulx
I have attached the Power Point Presentation from the Michigan Association Infant Mental Health Tribute to Dr. Proulx for all his work with infants and Alpena in our region for many years. Here is a link to the main Blog Post to Greg also. https://www.pacesconnection.com/...ss-dr-greg-proux-too
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Re: Breaking Through: Video and User's Guide to Understand and Address Toxic Stress
Carlene very nice thanks. So if Dr. Panknin and I got Alcona Health Centers to screen parents and kids for ACEs could you help us with who the docs would refer to? Thank You
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Re: Family Struggles May Affect Boys' Brain Development (Healthday.com)
Since we know trauma and ongoing stress have a significant impact on a young brain, it is imperative we intervene. Much of our intervention is of course focused on the child, however; we must also focus on the adults in that child's life. Many times the chaos can be mediated by implementing interventions and support for the adult/parent in the home. By helping the parent chaos may be minimized.
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Re: Live Chat on ACEs in Education
I will attend at 5:30 pm. Every Thursday until 5:30 pm we hold specialty juvenile courts, either mental health court or sobriety court.
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Re: Want to make Michigan a top 10 education state? Here are some suggestions (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org)
The schools need to become trauma informed! I'm gonna go through the Lincoln Data out there and put the results here which we can put in our next pres to the admin for APS and hopefully extend to Rogers City, Hillman, and Alcona!!!
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Re: Check out "What if ACES were the basis for mental health treatment?" (madinamerica.com)
What if We Could PREVENT Most Mental Health Problems? By Dr. Sandra L. Bloom | August 20th, 2015 | Posted on realmhchange.org The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs Study) may turn out to be the most important scientific finding of the late 20th century, opening up windows of opportunity that could vastly improve mental health care, physical health care, and virtually all of our current major social problems. The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we...
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Re: Mindfulness for Teens
I heard about this after listening to a CME (California Audio-Digest Lecture) on Anxiety and Toxic Stress for pediatricians. The site was developed by a Canadian pediatrician. I think it would be useful for many of us to share this with our kids we serve whether in medicine, child welfare, juvenile justice or whatever service area we are concerned with --- or even with parents of teens who have suffered trauma and could use help to heal. I wish someone had introduced me to mindfulness a long...
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Re: Innovative, New Approach in Charlevoix County, Michigan Court
Awesome!!!! (With my one caveat --- I HOPE the organization understands that meds do little for trauma and focus heavily on the other strategies like MBSR, Yoga, Trauma-drauma and the expressive arts, equine therapy etc to build SAFE environments, minds and bodies that youth can habitate then develop strong sense of a positive self so youth can heal... They may even consider other strategies at some point in the future like Neurofeedback or biofeedback with breath and heart rate variability...
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Re: A Mother's Rage
Cathy- What a brave post! I applaud your honesty in sharing and writing about your experience. As a foster care survivor and having worked in criminal law for so long, I often believe that families are often forgotten victims. I am looking forward to meeting you (in person) at the upcoming webinar and brainstorming ways in which we can introduce trauma informed care to our community!
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Re: Spokane Public Nurses Provide Resources - We can Use
Public health nurses at Spokane Regional Health District (SRHD) developed a 178-page toolkit -- 1*2*3 Care -- for caregivers of children. They define caregivers as parents, grandparents, child care providers, teachers, and others who care for children daily. They describe the toolkit as supporting caregivers on their journey towards "trauma sensitivity". The toolkit can be downloaded as a whole, or individual topics can be downloaded separately. The toolkit also includes handouts for...
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Re: Watch the Drug Epidemic Overdose Spread in America
The question is, "what was the trauma that caused a person to begin abusing drugs?" and as communities are we willing to address to that root issue first? Are we more focused on punishment or healing?
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Re: Presentation to our Human Services Coordinating Committee
We had a great meeting with our local Human Services Coordinating Committee today. It was a great opportunity to reach out to others. We also received the opportunity to put our survey monkey community ACEs Survey on the Alpena Public Schools Facebook Page which will give us a great opportunity to reach out for a more comprehensive local ACEs survey as they recently had 50,000 views. The powerpoint for the Presentation is below in the attachments with the videos embedded in the presentation.
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Re: Poverty Impacts Brain Development
Live Online Event: How does poverty affect health decisions? Posted on July 1, 2014 by TEDMED Staff Poverty affects every aspect of life and has particularly bad repercussions on human health. The stress of poverty has detrimental effects on the body — and especially the brain. Two landmark studies are among the many to show poverty’s harsh impact. In the Whitehall Studies, researchers at the University College of London sought to understand how the health of men in the British Civil Service...
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Re: The Crisis in Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Rooms (The Center for Young Healthy Minds)
And as I stick to, These problems can only truly be solved by prevention of mental health issues in the first place, many of which begin as behavioral problems in infancy and toddlerhood, often as a result of exposure to ACEs/Toxic Stress. Prevention is the only viable, long-term solution. Prevention also saves a lot of psychological anguish and long term harm. It is no different than giving advice for kids to use car seats, bike helmets etc. There is less likely a long term injury sustained...
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Re: Bruce Perry Lecture 1 and 2
This information can help us learn what happens to maltreated and traumatized children and what we can do to protect, nurture and help these kids learn. In the clips section, I will place some of Dr. Perry's videos which are highly educational from his "Seven Slide Series". Series 2: Six Core Strengths for Healthy Child Development by Dr. Bruce Perry from the Child Trauma Academy: Series Introduction The origins of this series, Six Core Strengths for Healthy Child Development, came from the...
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Re: Dr. Bruce Perry on Ohio Public Radio
Description Spend some time in an elementary school classroom, and you’ll meet easygoing kids, and kids who lose control. Some aspects of temperament are established in infancy, but self-control problems can signal abuse, neglect or trauma. This hour we’ll look at how early experiences change brain chemistry, and what happens when neuroscience meets behavioral therapy. Guests: Bruce Perry, Senior Fellow of The ChildTrauma Academy Jane Whyde, Executive Director, Franklin County Family and...
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We had our Paper Tigers Showing on Tuesday. ...
We had our Paper Tigers Showing on Tuesday. This is a short update. We had 65 people there. It was a huge showing for our area. PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN A LOT MORE!!! I have several evaluation forms to...
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12 Myths of the Science of ACEs
The two biggest myths about ACEs science are: MYTH #1 — That it’s just about the 10 ACEs in the ACE Study — the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study . It’s about sooooo much more than that. MYTH #2 — And that it’s just about ACEs…adverse childhood experiences. These two myths are intertwined. The ACE Study issued the first of its 70+ publications in 1998, and for many people it was the lightning bolt, the grand “aha” moment, the unexpected doorway into a blazing new...
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30 people can end ACEs in your county. Why aren’t they?
No, we don’t need the president nor congress. We do need the following people in your county to stop business as usual and focus on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). City mayors City counselors County commissioners School board members These local elected leaders—many of them your neighbors and colleagues—have the capacity to collectively understand the emotional and financial costs of ACEs and trauma. We can’t have family-friendly cities and counties while we live in an...