January 2020

ACEs, Adversity's Impact Grief vs. traumatic grief California launches "ACEs Aware" initiative to address the public health crisis of toxic stress from childhood trauma After Bryce Gowdy's suicide, lets elevate the conversation about poverty's effects on youth Association of adverse experiences and exposure to violence in childhood and adolescence with inflammatory burden in young people Hard choices: How moving on and off reservations can increase the risk of homelessness for American...

From Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health, January 2020 The Data Resource Center (DRC), under a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of the combined 2017-2018 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) data sets and codebooks through childhealthdata.org ! The combined 2017-2018 NSCH is the second multi-year data set since the redesign of the NSCH in...

I walked away from my elderly mother in that moment. And did not speak to her for the next three months. And it hurt my soul to do so. I cried. I shook off Catholic guilt. Yet I stayed firm. And as each day passed, I became more determined in my resolve to give her the space she needed to save herself. It was time for her to clean up her own mess and face those long-avoided demons of her own childhood.

By Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, January 2020 The significance of trauma has become an increasingly accepted tenet of complex care. While there is general agreement on the core principles of trauma-informed care and that trauma can negatively impact an individual’s health and well-being, there are many ways to apply a trauma-informed approach in different settings. Presenters Katy Davis from the University of California San Francisco Women’s HIV Program and Michelle Adyniec from...

Sarah Bennett, the author of Trauma-Sensitive Early Education, joins the show to talk about her book and how she integrated trauma-sensitive approaches into her work as a 1st-grade teacher. traumainformedlens.org

Detroit (CNN) Story by Holly Yan , CNN Photographs by Brittany Greeson for CNN Tuesday January 21, 2020 In the shadows of Detroit's tallest skyscrapers, dozens of homeless people shiver in the 17-degree cold. Ferocious wind gusts of 15 mph feel like cold knives stabbing the face. Such conditions claim the lives of countless homeless people every winter -- especially those without warm coats. Now, a nonprofit aimed at solving that problem has accidentally led to one of the most successful...

By Amy j. Elliot, Hannah C. Kinney, Robin L. Haynes, et al., Science Daily, January 20, 2020 SIDS is the sudden, unexplained, death of an infant under one year of age. Many studies have shown that the risk of SIDS is increased by maternal smoking during pregnancy. Some studies have also found that prenatal alcohol exposure, particularly from heavy drinking during pregnancy, can increase SIDS risk. Now, the NIH-funded Safe Passage Study provides a look at how SIDS risk is influenced by the...

By Yen Duong, North Carolina Health News, January 17, 2020 I knew going into my third pregnancy that it’s not a walk in the park: around two-thirds of pregnant women experience morning sickness, almost everyone experiences fatigue from building a placenta, the immune system changes, and sleep problems arise. But I never expected that it would be this bad. For months, I vomited four to six times a day, turned my nose away at almost all foods, couldn’t sleep at night for endless replays of...

By Matthew Udine, Parkland Talk, January 20, 2020 Last year, I set out to understand how my local community was dealing with the traumatic events that took place on February 14, 2018. In conjunction with Parkland Cares, a local nonprofit organization, I collaborated with the mental health professionals servicing the community and observed elevated levels of isolationism, substance abuse, and other anxiety associated symptoms. During the past holiday season, I spoke with affected students...

By Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, January 20, 2020 On the subject of his vocation, Philip Roth liked to quote Czeslaw Milosz: “When a writer is born into a family, that family is finished.” It’s a great aphorism, pithy and cavalier, as emphatic as a gunshot. To write is to declare a loyalty that runs deeper than blood, to make a pledge to the self and its expression; to write well is to tell the truth about what you have seen, starting with where—and who—you come from. That, anyway, is...

By Larissa Marulli, Moms, January 21, 2020 According to a physiatrist and many studies, painful childhood memories affect us negatively far into adulthood. Issues from childhood affect both our physical and emotional health as we age. A book by psychiatrist Allen Wheelis titled How People Change looks into this phenomenon and gives some much-needed insight. In this book, Wheelis is able to describe childhood events that affected him well into his 60s. Adverse childhood experiences (ACE) have...