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[Ed. note: This is from Hae Young Park, Acting Director of the Division of MCH Workforce Development, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration] We are pleased to announce a new notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Program. Please share broadly with your stakeholders and grantees. The purpose of this program is to promote behavioral health integration in pediatric primary care by supporting the development of...

[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Tilson EC. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): An Important Element of a Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis. N C Med J. 2018 May-Jun;79(3):166-169.

photo /CreativeCommons How do parents' perception of their children's resilience match up with their ACE scores? What is the scientific evidence that separating children from parents causes trauma? How does a trusted adult and other supports counteract the impact of high ACE scores? Looking at the National Survey of Children's Health for answers about bullying

Mental-health problems among college students have been climbing since the 1990s, according to the American Psychological Association. And with services increasingly stretched at campus health centers, students have been taking action themselves through peer-run mental-health clubs and organizations. The approach appears to be paying off, a new study finds. In what they describe as the largest study of its kind, researchers found that across 12 California colleges, such student-run efforts...

Behavioral risk factor surveillance system state survey on exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): Who declines to respond? [Children and Youth Services Review] "A wealth of research has examined the prevalence and impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) via various research methodologies. Some of these studies have also examined the presence of nonresponse bias, showing minimal nonresponse bias effects. More recently, many states and the District of Columbia have used the...

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Mother's attitude to baby during pregnancy may have implications for child's development Video: Weight gain and trauma: Is there a connection? with Emily Rosen Parents’ scars from childhood trauma can affect their kids’ health, researchers find How childhood trauma contributes to skyrocketing suicide rates Social rejection is painful and can lead to violence Study on social interactions could improve understanding of mental health risks To prevent trauma in our...

The Trauma of Separated Families A recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee written by UC Davis Human Ecology Professor Leah Hibbel and human development graduate student Andrea Buhler-Wassmann discusses the recent executive order to end the separation of immigrant children from their families, and calls attention to the trauma already experienced by separated families. The authors state that "The U.S. government is responsible for traumatizing these families and has a moral obligation to fix the...

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Driving to Policymaker Education day yesterday, I caught Beth Ruyak's interview of urban sociologist Dr. Jesus Hernandez from UC Davis Dept of Sociology. Has anyone reached out to him about our Resilience work in Sacramento and UC Davis? His interview was very informative. He traces the origins of social ills in Sacramento back to decades-old policy decisions that racially divided the city into neighborhoods with disparate access to resources and economic opportunities. Viewed on a map, this...

On an ACEs Connection webinar on Monday, Dr. Andrew Seaman, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University, showed how he navigates his students through the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). And, in an unusual twist for a webinar, Seaman and O’Nesha Cochran, a peer mentor with the Mental Health Association of Oregon, role-played doctor-patient interactions to show how to develop the skills to communicate with patients with high ACE scores. About 90 people...

When Mario Martinez went to Liberty University, a private Christian college in Lynchburg, Virginia, the affluence astonished him. A student’s car would break down and she’d have a new one within a couple of weeks. “It was mind blowing,” he said. “To see that people can have so much.” And Liberty – with a median family income of about $75,000 a year – isn’t even that rich compared to what you will find at America’s most prestigious private colleges, where incomes are closer to $200,000 a year...

When the question of screening patients for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) was first raised a couple of years ago, Santa Barbara pediatrician Andria Ruth had mixed feelings about it.