There is increasingly a greater understanding that one’s work life impacts their personal life and vice versa. The two do not exist in separate bubbles. Adverse childhood experiences — potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood — can impact how people cope with stress, how their brains develop and how much risk they have toward certain health issues, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . ACEs include violence, abuse and growing up in a family with mental...

Please take a moment to vote for the Hopeworks Youth Healing Team, bringing trauma informed education to Camden! The Scattergood National Innovation Award has our Camden youth against professional researchers and institutions! Voting closes at the end of this week. You know how hard our young people work! Please vote for the Hopeworks Youth Healing Team at https://innovationaward. secure-platform.com/a/gallery? roundId=1079 Our youth are one of 5 finalists for a prestigious national award.

Once you see ACEs and trauma you find them everywhere.

How implementing trauma Informed care is like building an IKEA shelf. I just moved across the country to the Philadelphia area to start working as an Americorp VISTA in Camden, New Jersey. I am working with the Healing 10 collaboration to bring a trauma informed paradigm to Camden, arguably one of the most traumatized cities in the US. At the moment, I am in the midst of both trying to understand my new job in trauma informed care and set up my apartment in a new city. Obviously, trips to...