December 2020

Effort Aims to Prevent Childhood Trauma, Break the Cycle of Domestic Violence and Promote Healing During COVID-19 and beyond Genentech, Blue Shield of California Foundation Team with Futures Without Violence to Support Community-Led Approaches to Protect Children, Support Communities Virtual Event Series Kick-Offs New Initiative Today SAN FRANCISCO – Futures Without Violence today announced the launch of the All In For Kids Fund with a $5 million seed investment from Genentech and $1.5...

Godoy LC, Frankfurter C, Cooper M, Lay C, Maunder R, Farkouh ME. Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences With Cardiovascular Disease Later in Life: A Review. JAMA Cardiol. 2020 Dec 2. I would like to share with the ACEs connection community the review paper that we recently published on JAMA Cardiology summarizing the current evidence on the association between ACE and cardiovascular events during adult life. We have also suggested a few possible ways to move the field forward. I hope...

What does it mean to be a quality Family Strengthening and Support Program? What common language can we use for working effectively with families? How can managers, direct service staff, and families work together to develop and sustain quality programs? Based on the Principles of Family Support Practice and the Strengthening Families Framework and its research-based evidence-informed 5 Protective Factors, the nationally-adopted Standards of Quality for Family Strengthening & Support...

Trauma is persistent. It is something that can continue to impact someone’s like months, years, even decades, after the inciting event occurs , this is often referred to as post-traumatic experience disorder (PTSD) . The trauma that occurs often leads to other major physical and mental health problems that can take hold and l inger throughout life. One of the major problems associated with trauma, especially childhood trauma , is addiction and substance abuse problems. What Is Somatic...

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How to Protect Your Child from Cyberbullying? Cyberbullying is a colossal up-to-date problem that greatly affects the life of the young generation. Children who become victims of cyberbullying get lots of online threats that make their lives insufferable. To protect children from such violent bullying, you need to teach your kids how to act properly online and what decisions to make. Children and cyberbullying have become inseparable concepts in recent years. It has become more widespread...

By Kristin Wong, The New York Times, August 17, 2020 “Let’s play!” my friend’s 4-year-old squealed, tugging on my arm. I was tired, so I told her, “I’m too lazy to play.” But I wasn’t allowed to be lazy because I’m big, she said. Unable to come up with a convincing rebuttal, I found a place to hide while she counted to 20. Fred Rogers said that play is “the work of childhood.” Kids take this work seriously, they’re good at it, and they can teach us a thing or two about why play is important...

From US Climate Action Network, December 2020 The newfound vibrance, diversity, and political power of the US climate movement has been a breath of fresh air, and a source of hope even as the world continues hurtling, unabated, towards a climate catastrophe. Yet, as with so many US movements, some additional attention is needed to properly place US climate policy in the global context. As we all know, climate change is a truly global problem, and requires a global solution. In fact, the...

By Claire Mitzel, Center for Health Journalism, November 25, 2020 For nearly 40 years, school attendance zones in Roanoke, Virginia, hardly shifted. The patchwork map that started crosstown busing was first created as part of a 1971 court-ordered desegregation plan, and for decades, school officials said they saw no reason to make major changes. By 2009, though, the attendance zones were long outdated. Demographic shifts meant that schools became segregated once again, and in many cases,...

Lately, compromised physical health and its adverse effects are compelling everyone to reconsider their priorities. With so many people falling victim to health problems due to exhaustion and weakness of the immune system, it follows logically that people try to get a handle on their situations. In this regard, many are turning their heads towards physiotherapy and the effects it can bring about in their lives. Since there are undeniable accounts of many patients recovering from traumatic...

Requests for sets of our fifty-one parenting tips bumper stickers keep coming in and I keep apologizing because we haven't the funds to print them. $20,000 in donations would allow us to order them in bulk and ship them out. If anyone knows of any individuals, organizations, or businesses that would like to support our activities please let me know. This kind of informal parenting education could be a tremendously powerful tool for preventing the aces associated with unsupportive and harmful...

Before you leave 2020, you may want to learn about this valuable resource. I recently shared presentation at a conference giving some of the highlights of our flagship course The Day Trauma Came to Class. One of the feedbacks I received was from an educator, who said "one of the things that I loved about your presentation is that you acknowledged that educators have stuff too." This is one of the things i love most about the EQ2iQ neuro-gamification resources and that it helps to build, not...