The Sunday, Jan. 17 Providence Journal carried this outstanding front page story (plus a second feature on the ACE study). Not mentioned in this story but reported elsewhere, a few leaders from Warwick, RI visited the founders of the Peace4 Tarpon Springs for ideas and inspiration and another effort is underway in West Warwick and Woonsocket with funding from Rhode Island Health Department’s and CDC's Health Equity Zones program to support the reduction in health disparities. One of the eleven organizations receiving this funding, the Thundermist Health Center, is focused on trauma as a significant public health risk, according to the Center’s health equity director Susan Jacobsen.
PAWTUCKET — Robin Riley, 39, was 7 when an adult male relative began to sexually abuse her. It continued, regularly, for five years. Like many child victims, she told no one; chances are, no one in the small Appalachian community where she grew up would have believed her anyway.
"It never crossed my mind to be scared," she says. "It never crossed my mind that it was wrong. It never crossed my mind that it was right."
She was a child. She obeyed her abuser when he said: "Don't tell."
Click here for the rest of this story andhere for a second one, “The damage done by childhood abuse — and new insights into recovery,” by G. Wayne Miller.
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