Tagged With "California Surgeon General"

We all have inner strengths and resilience that can help us deal with challenges and stress. To help us manage stress, PACEs Connection and ACEs Aware created a handout based on seven evidence-based stress busters , as described in the Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health . These interventions can help reduce stress, improve health, and build resilience. Please share widely! The handout is available in the...

This week, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory entitled, "Protecting Youth Mental Health." This advisory offers insights into the mental health crisis our nation's youth are facing as well as providing recommendations on steps we all can take to improve their mental health. The urgency of this crisis is further supported by the latest data shared this week by the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force, showing that youth suicides in our state had increased by more than 50% from 2019...

(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...