Wisconsin Dept of Health Services - Trauma-Informed Care News & Notes, Aug. 6, 2018

ACEs, Adversity's Impact

• ‘First do no harm’. We create too many ACES by moving vulnerable children around like boxes
• Parents’ adverse childhood experiences and their children’s behavioral health problems
• Deportation and family separation impact entire communities, researchers say
• Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools (1 hour - pbs.org)
• Heitkamp: Bipartisan bill to combat human trafficking in Indian Country (newsmavin.io/indiancountrytoday)
• Patients' traumatic lives prompt Kaiser Permanente to consider social complexity scores

Brain and Biology

• What toxic stress does to a child’s brain — and how to heal it
• Webinar:ACEs: The Role of Life Experiences in Shaping Brain Development
• The Compassionate Brain (free online event series)
• How indirect violence gets under a child’s skin — and into the brain

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

Behind bars, mentally ill inmates are often punished for their symptoms

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Physicians aren’t ‘burning out.’ They’re suffering from moral injury
• Does my child have posttraumatic stress?
• 'Winnie the Pooh' was created by a vet explaining war to his boy

Resilience

•  There are 5 strengths that can keep every family strong: Five for Families

• Webinar: Improving Workplace Experience and Reducing Burnout in Integrated Care Environments - with Dr. Steven Hayes

• Webinar: Prevention in Practice: Building Communities that Strengthen the Resiliency of Future Generations
  

• Preventing & treating childhood trauma in central Minnesota

• The underrated healing power of a healthy relationship

Schools

•  Film examines how schools address childhood trauma
• 'Those kids:' Understanding trauma-informed education
• Child welfare ideas from the experts #7: Moving toward trauma-informed schools [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Trainings

• Fall Conference: Healing Trauma, Healing Communities

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care 

• Mandt Training

• Wisconsin Association of Family and Children's Agencies Fall 2018 Trainings

Trauma-Informed Care

• Broadening our understanding of trauma: Why context matters
• Webinar: Office Hours for Complex Care: How to Support a Workforce Through Trauma-Informed Supervision and Mentorship
• Prioritizing opportunities to advance the field of trauma-informed care
• Webinar: The Trauma Informed Judicial System: Creating Safe Spaces for Tribal Youth