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January 2020

ACEs Science Champions Series: Byron Hall: A mentor rich with experience counsels teen parents in NC

Byron Hall mentors adolescent parents for the Community Enrichment Organization , a nonprofit in Tarboro, NC, which partners with a program that supports to keep adolescent parents in school. One of the parents he mentors is 13 years old. At the age of 17, Hall was an adolescent parent himself, growing up with a single parent in the Bronx, NY, then an African American community where drug-dealing and prostitution were common. For the counselor, helping these young men and women, who are...

Two studies shed light on state legislators’ views on ACEs science and trauma policy

New and returning lawmakers take the oath of office on day one of Washington state's 2017 legislative session. — Jeanie Lindsay/Northwest News Network As advocates prepare to see how ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) science, trauma, and resilience play out in the 2020 state legislative sessions — many beginning in January — they are undoubtedly asking: “What does a legislator want?" It may be a stretch to play on Freud’s question: “What does a women want?", but the query captures how...

Raising Awareness About ACEs

As we all know, Adverse Childhood Experiences , or ACEs, can cause a rise in a number of different mental health disorders. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, ACEs are common problems and the effects of which can add up over time. For instance, 61 percent of adults had at least one ACE while 16 percent had four or more types of ACEs. Preventing ACEs can help children thrive and can even lower the risk of conditions such as depression, asthma, cancer, and more in...

FREE Strategies 2.0 Trainings provided by First 5 San Bernardino

The following are FREE Strategies 2.0 Trainings at First 5 San Bernardino in 2020: http://strategiesca.org/ The Culturally Proficient Professional – 1/23/2020 Thursday 8:30am-4pm Partnering with Families: Case Management 101 – 2/13/2020 Thursday 8:30am-4pm Home Visiting Essentials – 2/25/2020 Tuesday 8:30am-12n Family Strengthening Certificate Training Series (Must attend all session listed below to obtain the certificate): Intro to Protective Factors – 4/2/2020 Thursday 8:30am-4pm Concrete...

Nonprofits, Medical Professionals Tackle Human Trafficking as a Health-Care Crisis [washingtonpost.com]

By Erin Blakemore, The Washington Post, January 4, 2020 An emergency room patient has a broken bone. Could she suffer from human trafficking, too? Thanks to a growing call to treat trafficking as a public health problem, an ER worker who treats a trafficking victim might be able to connect the dots. Trafficking occurs when someone exploits someone else sexually or makes them perform labor against their will. According to the United Nations’ International Labor Organization, an estimated 24.9...

Receipt of Addiction Treatment After Opioid Overdose Among Medicaid-Enrolled Adolescents and Young Adults [jamanetwork.com]

By Rachel H. Alinsky, Bonnie T. Zima, Jonathan Rodean, et al., JAMA Pediatrics, January 6, 2020 Question What are the characteristics of youths (adolescents and young adults) who experience nonfatal opioid overdose with heroin or other opioid, and do these youths receive timely evidence-based treatment? Findings In this cohort study of 4 039 216 Medicaid-enrolled youths 13 to 22 years of age, among 3606 individuals who experienced opioid-related overdose and had continuous enrollment for at...

In Appalachia, Crafting a Road to Recovery with Dulcimer Strings [nytimes.com]

By Patricia Leigh Brown, The New York Times, January 3, 2020 The heritage of handcrafted stringed instruments runs deep in this tiny Appalachian village (pop. 770) stretched along the banks of Troublesome Creek. The community has been known as the homeplace of the mountain dulcimer ever since a revered maker, James Edward (“Uncle Ed”) Thomas, pushed a cartload of angelic-sounding dulcimers up and down the creek roads, keeping a chair handy to play tunes for passers-by. Music is the region’s...

What Should Schools do When a Second-Grader Makes a Threat? [latimes.com]

By Kristen Taketa, Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2020 Last month, Parkview Elementary School mom Amber Dunevant was told that one of her 7-year-old daughter’s classmates had put her daughter on a “kill list.” Dunevant said she saw the list in the school principal’s office. She saw that it had the names of her daughter and a few other students written on green construction paper. Chula Vista police said they investigated and believed the threat was not credible; they found that the...

Bay Area Doctors Target Health Consequences of Childhood Trauma [sfchronicle.com]

By Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2020 A screening tool developed by Bay Area pediatricians to identify adverse childhood experiences, ranging from homelessness and food insecurity to physical and sexual abuse, will now help doctors statewide address trauma affecting patients’ health. The California Department of Health Care Services approved the tool — called PEARLS, for Pediatric ACEs and Related Life-Events Screener — last month. As of Jan. 1, its use is covered by...

New SNAP Rule Impacts College Students by Limiting Benefits and Adding Confusion [npr.org]

By Rachel Treisman, National Public Radio, December 21, 2019 Some low-income college students are among the 688,000 food stamp recipients projected to lose benefits as a result of a Trump administration rule announced Dec. 4. While the rule explicitly targets "able-bodied adults without dependents," it also limits food assistance for a share of college students at a time when campuses across the country are grappling with how to respond to food insecurity. The new rule makes it harder for...

California ACR 140: Positive Parenting Awareness Month, Jan 2020

Child advocates across the State of California are working on the passage of Assembly Concurrent Resolution 140 (ACR 140) authored by Assembly Member Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay). The initiative seeks to designate January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month across the state and build upon the county-level proclamations that have spread from Santa Cruz County where it was conceived and launched 8 years ago. Positive parenting is a known remedy for the public health problem of child...

The Relentless School Nurse: The Circle Way to the Heart, Soul, and Brain

Carolyn Corbi is a spitfire who is passionate about social justice, urban education, and the power of community to lead change. I have known Carolyn for more than twenty years in my family life, but I am now connected to her in my professional life too! How lucky that we reunited over a shared purpose to bring Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) education to schools. As a life-long learner, I am always seeking opportunities to expand my school nurse educator tool-kit. Carolyn is an expert...

FREE Webinar, How To Beat the Post Holiday Blues Using Neurofeedback

New FREE Webinar How To Beat The Post Holiday Blues By Training Your Brain With Brain-Trainer International Founder: Pete Van Deusen Fri, Jan 17, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EST In this 1 hour webinar you will learn: 1. How human brains are vulnerable to mood swings, depression and anxiety especially when their is a history of childhood trauma, as well as during the holiday season and other stressful periods. 2. How brain-training creates new habit patterns in the brain that move it toward...

Survey Ending Soon! Please take a moment to respond to our ACEs In Education Survey!

Welcome back friends! If you have not already done so please take a moment to respond to our survey. As curator of our education community site, I am seeking input from the community on what we would like the future of the ACEs in Education site to be. I would like to first understand how you currently use the site and then get feedback on your vision for ways to maximize its usefulness. Please take a moment to fill out this brief survey and help guide our shared learning forward! You need...

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