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January 2020

Why Does America Hate Its Children? [nytimes.com]

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 16, 2020 The other day a correspondent asked me a good question: What important issue aren’t we talking about? My answer, after some reflection, is the state of America’s children. Now, it’s not entirely fair to say that we’re ignoring the plight of our children. Elizabeth Warren, characteristically, has laid out a comprehensive, fully financed plan for universal child care. Bernie Sanders, also characteristically, says he’s for it but hasn’t...

Mental Health and Addiction Care are Poorly Covered by Insurance Networks [statnews.com]

By Patrick Kennedy, STAT, December 10, 2019 More than 70,000 Americans died of overdoses in 2017, yet insurers spent only 1% of their total health care dollars on treatment for substance use disorders — a decrease from two years earlier. This alarming statistic is just one of many in a new report released by Milliman, an independent actuarial firm. The report confirms that insurers have failed to adequately cover lifesaving care even as U.S. life expectancy declined over the past three...

Some Final Thoughts on Family Estrangement

In this series, in December, we have examined together what family estrangement is, some of its causes, and how we can learn to enjoy our lives despite being separated from our family of origin. In this article, we are going to focus on some concluding thoughts on family estrangement. We are also going to focus on the resources of the CPTSD Foundation that anyone can take advantage of to help overcome the pain that comes with family estrangement. A Brief Recap of the definition of Family...

Faith in the Future When ACEs are History

“WHAT ABOUT FAITH-based communities—where are they in your plan?” is a question we have gotten when we describe our ACEs prevention initiative in New Mexico called 100% Community. And, it’s one we are pleased to answer. We are often as ked what role religious organizations have in our work. It is estimated that there are approximately 350,000 religious congregations in the United States, representing a wide range of beliefs. With approximately 350,000,000 people in the country, that’s about...

Have you faced your love story?

I'm hearing my own soul here and sharing it with you. I did this 30 years ago & made a career of it. Guess I'm on a 30-year cycle.... This weekly podcast is a personalized approach to ending the intergenerational transmission of ACEs in families. The first 3 narrate the introduction to the book-in-progress on which the series is based. The remaining ones are free-form. Facing your love story is the hardest work you will ever do, and nothing else is more worth it. Thank you for being here.

ASD as a Risk Factor for Disrupted Attachment

When people hear ACES, or, adverse childhood experiences, it is likely that their mind goes to the more obvious types of adverse experiences such as physical abuse, sexual abuse, loss of a parent, or being removed from the home. But what about the less obvious adverse experiences? Those that are small, yet have a cumulative impact on a child’s sense of safety and security. Those that interfere with the essential bonding between child and caregiver. Those that risk or contribute to disrupted...

Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma [yahoo.com]

By Beth Ann Mayer, Yahoo Lifestyle, January 16, 2020 Uchenna Umeh knew she needed to file for divorce in 2009. The relationship was not working, and she did not want her three children, then ages 9, 7, and 2, to grow up in that environment. As a pediatrician, she also knew divorce can cause childhood trauma, so she put all three in therapy. Two of her three boys struggled at first but overcame the trauma as they moved into adulthood. Her middle child didn't show outward signs of trauma until...

'It's OK not to be OK': Café Offers Mental Health Help, Supports Suicide Prevention [wgntv.com]

By Erin Ivory, WGN9, January 15, 2020 While the coffee is good, "Sip of Hope" serves up much more than a cup of joe on the Northwest Side. Through a partnership with Dark Matter Coffee, the café donates 100% of its proceeds to mental health education and suicide prevention. "It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from... five out of five people have good days and bad days," owner Johnny Boucher said. "It's OK not to be OK." [ Please click here to read more .]

What if?

What if we could measure the effects of our interventions and resources on the body and minds of our clients in real-time? I started my career just as the quality improvement and best practice movement started to influence service delivery and funding in the helping professions. While so much good evolved out of these movements, it remains difficult to measure outcomes, especially in the short-term. Often, we are left hoping our short-term efforts serve as small steps on the journey to more...

Take Us to a Better Place: Stories [rwjf.org]

By Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, January 2020 Coming January 2020. Sign up for your free copy! A Culture of Health Captured in Fiction Take Us to a Better Place is a soon-to-be-released collection of 10 short stories that touch on topics as wide-ranging as health care, immigration, cultural identity, and gentrification. At once vivid and hopeful, heartbreaking and perilous, these deeply human stories will linger long after you finish. We hope they spark new conversations about a Culture of...

Budget Breakdown: Money For Diversion, Probation, Reform, And More [witnessla.com]

By Taylor Walker, Witness LA, January 14, 2020 On Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled his plans for the 2020-2021 budget, a $222.2 billion proposal that features important changes to probation and pretrial diversion, jail reforms, and a potential prison closure, among other big changes in the world of justice. Below, WitnessLA has compiled some of the highlights from the governor’s proposed criminal justice spending. Based on Newsom’s January budget proposal, spending for the...

Homeless Students Suffer Consequences of Housing, Food Insecurity | Homeless, Butte County [chicoer.com]

By Natalie Hanson, Chico Enterprise-Record, January 16, 2020 At least 70% of Oroville’s high school students are considered socioeconomically-disadvantaged. In Chico, Between 400 and 500 children are categorized as housing insecure at any time during the Chico Unified School district’s school year. Across the county, thousands of students often rely on each district for help just to get to school and to get a meal. In these statistics a tragic side is seen in the Butte County homelessness...

Duke's Division of Community Health Uses Film in its Fight Against Child Abuse [dukechronicle.com]

By Megan Liu, The Chronicle, January 15, 2020 “We all like to think of childhood as this time of joy and innocence. But for many of us, it’s just not true.” Those are the opening lines of the trailer for “Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hopes,” a documentary that discusses the biological dangers of childhood abuse and neglect, which have been linked to everything from depression and substance abuse to cancer and heart disease. The documentary, screened at the 2016...

Last Chance to Sign Up for tomorrow's ALL NEW FREE Webinar-Beating The Holiday Blues By Training Your Brain AKA Neurofeedback

Last Chance to Sign Up for tomorrow's ALL NEW FREE Webinar-Beating The Holiday Blues By Training Your Brain With Brain- Trainer International Founder: Pete Van Deusen When: 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 during the holidays and other stressful periods. 2. How brain training creates new habit patterns in the brain that move it toward optimal functioning...

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