Tagged With "South Carolina"

Please welcome these three new communities from South Carolina and Washington to ACEs Connection . More information about each one of them is below. Resilient Benton-Franklin (WA): Serving the Benton and Franklin area, we are strongly committed to serving as a network for community members across various sectors to collaborate in preventing and addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). We aim towards creating a resilient and trauma-aware community. Community Manager: @Carla Prock Risk...

By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, November 13, 2019 On any given day in Greenville County, S.C., the 22-mile Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail thrums with the sound of spinning bicycle wheels. Starting at the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 10-year-old greenway brings cyclists, walkers and runners all the way to the heart of the city and the cascading waters of Falls Park on the Reedy River. Along the way are markers of progress and rapid change. New riverside hotels. Luxury lofts in...

A research brief based on a 2018 study exploring the factors for success for individuals in South Carolina who experienced trauma as children was recently posted to the Children’s Trust website. Alyssa Koziarski, a Children’s Trust research and evaluation assistant and the primary author of the brief, answers five questions about the significance of this research. [ Please click here for full article ] [ Please click here to read the full research brief ]

South Carolina and Wisconsin’s optional ACE Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) module and the supplemental ACE questionnaires provided a unique opportunity to examine the relationship among ACEs, extreme childhood poverty and mental and physical health in adulthood, as poverty is not included as an ACE in BRFSS ACE module. This study used the 2014 Wisconsin BRFSS and the 2016 South Carolina BRFSS to (1) assess the prevalence of ACEs and poverty and (2) examine the association...

By Julia Kauffman, July 17, 2020, WLTX. Dawn MacAdams says if schools reopen this fall, they all need a full time nurse to handle potential COVID-19 cases. COLUMBIA, S.C. — We’ve heard from teachers, administrators, parents and even kids on what they think about reopening schools. But what about school nurses? Dawn MacAdams, the immediate past president of the South Carolina Association of School Nurses and coordinator of health services for Richland School District Two, said staffing of...