Infant Traumatic Stress

Thank you for reaching out, Jo both here and a private message to me.   I am so sorry for the pain of your childhood and thank you for your dedication and work to make a difference in Kentucky.  Jo, please share more information about how folks can learn more about your non-profit.  Please see our "how tos" to for how to navigate the site.  Also, if you would like to find others in your geographic area, you can find that here: https://www.pacesconnection.com/...s-connection-members

Anyone in Kentucky doing similar work and want to connect with Jo?

Thanks for being a part of our community, Jo!

Warm wishes, Gail

Hi Jo,

This is such an important topic. Linda Chamberlain talks about an incident that made her aware how important working with infant witnesses to violence is. Have you encountered her work at all? 

Hi Jo:

I am glad you spoke up. How are you hoping to connect more? In person? In comments online? In what you read? Are you hoping to post more here? Or maybe you're not quite sure yet...

It's a big site and there are lots of members. It took me a while to get the hang of this site and to connect more. Have you had much chance to explore within the communities? Sometimes those can help you find the local people doing work in or near your community, or help you to find people who might want to start a community. Feel free to browse in any of them. 

There are also interest based groups like Parenting with ACEs or Practicing Resilience that are smaller and where people maybe interact with one another by sharing writing, commenting, chatting or sending emails.

You can also do searches to maybe find more topics of interest. There's been a lot published and linked to from this site! And you can start sharing like you did and keep asking questions! 

What you experienced so young is horrible. I'd love to learn more about your book and how the process of writing and publishing it was and is for you. I'm a big fan of writing our way to health and to connecting more to ourselves as well as others.  

Cissy

Hi Jo,
Thank you for your inquiry. I would like to scaffold onto what Gail (how to's for this site) and Donielle (important topic) shared.  
I used to share your perspective that infant mental health (prevention & early intervention) seemed to be missing from the ACEs science conversation.  I was concerned that when important work did not specifically call out ACEs science - such as infants and early childhood trauma - that ACEs science is missing.  
Sometimes that is true, but often when I've looked a bit deeper, I found that ACEs were addressed.  
One example which I think is relative to your area of interest is the UC Davis Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program in Napa, CA.  Click here to learn more.  Napa County ACEs Connection is a group you may want to check out:  Click here to see their site. 
I am hopeful that voices such as yours will continue to speak up and speak out helping others see the significant intersection between early childhood adversity and trauma with long term mental and physical health.   
Thank you for championing such an important topic!
Karen 

Hi

my name is Kate White. I work for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. I have developed a trauma informed model of care from the baby's perspective. I am happy to speak with you. Please email me at educate@birthpsychology.com. You can see more at http://www.birthpsychology.com

Kate White

We're so grateful you're part of our community Jo! Thank you for being here and thank you for your imperative inquiry. Adding to the excellent suggestions shared by Cissy, Donielle, Karen, Kate, and Gail, please also consider posting your book, "Healing the Wound That Won't Heal: The Reality of Trauma" on our Books! Educational DVDs! Documentaries! community.

Please find a couple more blog posts for your consideration Jo.
- Services for Families of Infants and Toddlers Experiencing Trauma: A Research-to-Practice Brief, ACF.HHS.gov          
- Music Therapy and Child Trauma
- The body keeps score: early childhood trauma

My heart aches for your tragic loss of your Father. I'm so sorry Jo... Please know our community of ACEs Connection members are all focused on our healing journeys as we learn from and share with others. There are so many champions raising awareness in their communities. Thank you for being one of them!

Hi, I am a CASA and I am very aware of the importance of trauma in early childhood, and how hard these early traumas can be to heal.  Have you tried Neurofeedback?  It engages the right brain, which is the part of the brain actively developing in very early childhood.   My CASA youth has had an incredible response to this therapy.  She used "Neuroptimal" which is a non-directive system that allows the brain to adjust itself towards greater integration/regulation in response to the auditory feedback.  Very gentle and yet also very effective.

HI... I want to acknowledge this really really difficult beginning and early time you experienced. I am an Infant and Early Childhood Trauma specialist, and have produced a 13 Module, 78 hour Video Series "Healing Early Developmental Trauma".  I would be happy to speak with you...my email is myrna@myrnamartin.net and my  website is www.myrnamartin.net.  warmly, Myrna

Greetings, the SaintA Training Team recommends checking with the ChildTrauma Academy as a resource. One of our NMT trainers wanted me to share this link: http://childtrauma.org/cta-library/

Hope this helps!