January 2022

The following four trauma trainings are available in February. Trainings provided by PA Care Partnership and taught by Lakeside Global Institu te. Register for any or all trainings: https://lakesidelink.com/training/pa-care-partnership-training-winter-2022/ Training Descriptions: Trauma 105: An Introduction to Trauma for Parents & Caregivers Parents and Caregivers can play an important role in helping children recover from traumatic events. This workshop is designed to provide parents...

By Jessica Nunez, Photo: Diego Cervo/iStock, California Health Report, January 11, 2022 For the past two years, student life has been different. The university I attend, UCLA, transitioned to virtual learning, which meant students couldn’t see a single professor or classmate in person. For students from low-income families, like me, this change was extremely challenging. More than 70 percent of students attended school remotely during the first year of the pandemic, statistics show . This...

By JJIE Staff, Photo: Richard Oldroyd/Shutterstock, Juvenile Justice Information Exchage, January 26, 2022 Death rates were 5.9 times higher for previously incarcerated 11- to 21-year-olds in Ohio than in that state’s general population of youth enrolled in Medicaid health insurance for low-income people, according to a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Open Network. In a finding researchers said was especially startling, formerly incarcerated...

By Jackie Rocheleau, Illustration: Amanda Northrop/Getty Images/Vox, January 27, 2022 Erin Dunn gets baby teeth in the mail, sent by volunteers from across New England. Each tooth arrives at her lab in a tube packed with fluffy cotton balls, usually clean but sometimes flecked with dried blood. Dunn, a psychiatric epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who brands herself as “the science tooth fairy” to appeal to kids and encourage them to donate their baby teeth for a scientific...

By Robert Klemko, Photo: Joshua Lott/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, January 26, 2022 Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” screamed from the casino conference room speakers as hundreds of police officers stood to welcome Tomi Lahren with cheers and whistles. The 29-year-old political commentator was the most anticipated presenter at the Street Cop Training Conference in Atlantic City in October, pumping up officers at a time when shootings by police, especially of Black civilians,...

By Dani Anguiano, Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images, The Guardian, January 25, 2022 The tornado struck Joplin, Missouri , in May 2011 with such fury that afterward, even those who had lived here their entire lives struggled to recognize it. The nearly mile-wide storm wiped away entire neighborhoods and killed 161 people in less than an hour. It felled trees, leveled buildings and flung power lines and vehicles all over the roads with winds of more than 200mph. “We lost all our landmarks,” said...

By Yan Zhuang, Photo: Steven Saphore/Agence France-Press/Getty Images, The New York Times, January 26, 2022 When Laura Thompson, an Indigenous businesswoman, received a cease-and-desist letter in 2019 telling her to stop selling clothing that used the design of the Aboriginal flag because it violated the copyright, she was shocked. “I just never thought for a moment that I could face legal action for using the Aboriginal flag that I thought belonged to all Aboriginal people,” said Ms.

By Kara Grant, MedPage Today, January 25, 2022 Many first-year residents felt their new depressive symptoms were getting in the way of their functionality, researchers reported. In a cohort study of 15,566 medical interns, there was a significant increase in average depression scores relating to clinical impairment -- such as difficulty performing social, occupation, and other important tasks -- Lisa Meeks, PhD, of the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and colleagues...

By Jess Cartner-Morley, Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, The Guardian, January 26, 2022 Nothing is more radical in fashion than an even slightly rounded thigh or tummy. At Paris haute couture fashion week , Valentino challenged the catwalk’s last taboo by using models whose bodies were mostly close to average size, rather than super skinny. With the elegant understatement for which his dresses are known, designer Pierpaolo Piccioli observed simply that he “thought it was time for a...

By E. Kate Webb, Claire M. Bird, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, et al., Image: Unsplash, JAMA Network Open, January 24, 2022 Key Points Question Are experiences of racial discrimination associated with altered resting-state connectivity patterns of salience network nodes? Findings In this cross-sectional study of 102 Black adults, more experiences of racial discrimination were associated with altered connectivity of the amygdala and anterior insula, even after adjusting for annual household...

In the first three articles , we have discussed that growing up in an alcoholic or other dysfunctional home changes the lives of the children involved forever. Alcoholism is a family disease that affects everyone and harms children. In this article, we shall explore paths to healing and hope. The Connection Between Alcoholism and Childhood Trauma Drinking alcohol alone does not harm children. However, when drinking alcohol becomes an addiction, the behaviors, and circumstances of the adult...

By Dina Burstein, 1/27/22, https://positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ The HOPE National Resource Center is thrilled to announce we have been awarded a grant from the American Public Health Association (APHA). We will collaborate with the RAND Corporation to conduct scoping reviews of the literature relating to childhood exposure to both adverse and positive experiences. This six-month project will produce a final report that summarizes the research about the harmful effects of adverse...