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For both kids and grown-ups, hope can be a powerful force in healing from trauma. Having hope—and maintaining hope despite difficulties—is a valuable coping strategy. To read the full article, click here.

When a family member struggles with addiction, the whole family struggles. Children often think it’s their fault; they feel shame, embarrassment, guilt, and loneliness; they may feel invisible. It takes special effort to start important conversations and answer children’s questions. To continue reading, click here .

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. Working together, we can help create neighborhoods, communities, and a world in which every child can thrive. Learn more about preventing ACEs in your community by assuring safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.

By Traci Pedersen, PsychCentral, 24 September 2019 Exercising several times a week may delay brain deterioration in people at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Researchers found that among people with an accumulation of amyloid beta in the brain (a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease), those who had exercised regularly for one year experienced slower degeneration in a brain region crucial for...

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By Kirk Williamson, Benton-Franklin Community Health Alliance, October 1, 2019 I’m not trained in public health. Rather, I’m a recovering radio broadcaster who landed in the Benton-Franklin Community Health Alliance as it was finishing up the 2017 Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). Now, we’re at the bow-tying stage of the 2019 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and gearing up for the 2020 CHIP. For me, the process is all about the voices. What are they saying? What are they NOT...