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October 2020

Academy on Violence and Abuse(AVA) take the Global Health Summit LIVE Online October 22-23 [avahealth.org]

This year AVA provides a highly interactive 2-day LIVE online Summit. Join us as Keynote(s) U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) presents on Ending Alaska's Relationship with Violence and Abuse and Vincent J. Felitti, MD returns with the topic of, The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-being, Disease, and Social Function: Turning gold into lead. Register today to directly interact with speakers with your own questions in Q&A sessions after each speaker.

WEBINAR: Powerful program strategies to support foster care youth transition to adulthood on 10/15

Noon on October 15 Register HERE Join Child Trends and the United Friends of Children on Thursday, October 15, at 12 p.m. PT for a webinar on findings from a recent evaluation of a program aimed at supporting youth with foster care experience during their transition to adulthood. The webinar will discuss youth and practitioner perspectives of two programs run by the United Friends of Children in Los Angeles County: The Scholars Program, aimed at helping youth graduate high school and...

NAMI Basics Parents of Youth Mental Health Education

NAMI Basics is a class for parents and other family caregivers of children and adolescents who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who are experiencing symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed. A nationally-developed program taught by trained volunteers who have lived experience with children. The duration is 6 weeks. The cost is Free. Foster parents successfully completing all 6 sessions will receive CEU credit. Course Topics include - The biology of mental illness...

Making the Case for Love, Compassion, and Positive Childhood Experiences [positiveexperience.org/blog]

Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand and Chloe Yang, 10/14/20, positiveexperience.org/blog A growing body of work recognizes the important health effects of highlighting and creating positive childhood experiences. Today’s blog post makes the scientific case for this, based off of an interview with Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, professor of pediatrics and anesthesiology at Stanford School of Medicine. Below, Dr. Anand details how positive childhood experiences buffer against adverse ones and explains the biological...

Addressing ACEs, Trauma and Adversity in Rural America: Participating in National Rural Health Day

For those of us committed to preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), our work keeps getting more challenging each day. We know from our 100% Community surveys that our parents struggle to access the basic services of survival: medical care, mental health care, food security programs, housing security programs and transportation to vital services. This means the children and teens we work with face not only abuse and neglect in the home, but social adversity once they step outside...

A County-Tribal Partnership to Improve Family Experience with Courts [imprintnews.org]

By Kim Schneider, The Imprint, October 12, 2020 A Minnesota tribal community and county have announced a partnership that aims to better serve Native parents and kids in family and criminal cases through more coordinated court processing. The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and Itasca County, located in northern Minnesota, will design and pilot family-centered solutions for people in criminal or dependency court cases. One of the project leaders, Minnesota Ninth District Judge Korey Wahwassuck,...

Top Scholars Expect Continued Crime Declines, Despite Decreased Incarceration [imprintnews.org]

By Michael Fitzgerald, The Imprint, October 8, 2020 A novel new research projection suggests crime rates will decrease in the coming years if demographic and economic trends hold steady — even if people are imprisoned at lower rates. The analysis from three top criminologists evaluated trends like inflation and teen birth rates, concluding that those factors “outweigh the impact of imprisonment rates on crime.” Further, they found, “a state’s level of imprisonment has little to do with what...

Fairfax’s James Redford explores play as wellness in documentary [marinij.com]

By Vicki Larson, Marin Independent Journal, October 8, 2020 After making three movies together that focused on the challenges, stresses and resilience of childhood, it occurred to filmmakers James Redford and Karen Pritzker — well, what about adults? Adults seem to be increasingly stressed, even before the pandemic, although wellness has become a multi-billion-dollar industry. Is there anything adults can do to help keep stress in check? Yes, they discovered — play, which they highlight in...

New book I just published

I wanted to update everyone that I have now published my new book. It is called Unlocking the Puzzle of PTSD. A Holistic Guide to Restoring Inner Peace. Unlocking the Puzzle of PTSD is a unique and comprehensive Holistic manual and workbook to understand and treat PTSD. The book is for health professionals as well as for lay people interested in the subject. It includes information about PTSD, Complex PTSD and trauma from a Holistic (mind, body, spirit) perspective. It presents easy to use...

California Alliance and Catalyst Center Fall Institutes: Better Together: Resilience Through Connection [cacfs.org]

The California Alliance and the Catalyst Center are going virtual! New Fall Institutes with the theme Better Together: Resilience through Connection will bring together Alliance member organizations, educators, mental health professionals and caregivers serving California’s most vulnerable children, youth and families. Instructions for the Fall Institutes Day One "Leadership in Uncertain Times" has been sent out. If you did not receive them, contact Max Geide at mgeide@cacfs.org. To enter...

Where Do I Go?

“If he wins I'm going to Canada.” ”I need to find and marry someone with E.U. citizenship.” “I'm going to apply for grad school in one of the Scandinavian countries!” “My family always kept dual citizenship, just in case we ever needed it.” These are just a few of the comments I have heard when people contemplate what they’ll do if Donald Trump wins the 2020 election. I would be dishonest if I said that leaving the United States had not crossed my mind. After all, I want to provide my...

How we stop systemic racism from killing Black mothers [usatoday.com]

By Mary-Ann Etiebet and Raj Panjabi, USA Today, September 28, 2020 Erica Garner died on Dec. 30, 2017, just four months after she gave birth to a baby boy and three years after her father Eric Garner died in the chokehold of a New York City policeman. After having multiple heart attacks (the first came shortly after childbirth ), she experienced one of the hundreds of pregnancy-related deaths that year in the United States. She died in a country where Black women are more likely to die due...

Infant Mental Health: How Parents Can Ensure Their Baby's Emotional Well-Being [babygaga.com]

By Alexandra Sakellariou, Babygaga, October 11, 2020 Mental health is important no matter what age you are, which is why it’s important for parents to be aware of their infant’s mental health . Early interactions with our environment and those in it greatly shape our emotional well-being , including our ability to process and express emotions in addition to forming and maintaining relationships with others. It’s important that parents and caregivers are aware and attentive to a young child’s...

It takes a village to raise a child [arabnews.com]

By Sara Al-Mulla, Arab News, October 7, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has been awfully stressful for families with children. Many parents have had to struggle with unemployment, financial insecurity, and a lack of recreational activities, with minimal support from child care services or their social networks. Research shows that these factors intensify parental burnout, as well as increase the likelihood of child abuse or neglect. It is especially important, therefore, to offer a suite of...

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