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March 2018

The Public's Health: Help available to recognize and deal with toxic stress in children [mtstandard.com]

If you are a parent, you are likely hyper-aware of and concerned about the stresses in your children’s lives. Stress in children is normal — in order to develop properly, children actually require stress — stress being defined as a mental, physical or biochemical response to a perceived threat or demand. Childhood stress is actually natural and inevitable. What we parents and adults actually need to look for are the “types” of stress being experienced by our kids and other children, because...

WATCH REPLAY: Why Knowing Your Adverse Childhood Adversity (ACE) Score Is As Important To Your Health As Your Cholesterol Score-LA & Arizona Resilience Movement Leader & Therapist, Andi Fetzner MS. Learn How To Take The ACE Quiz!

I really enjoyed chatting with LA & Arizona ACEsConnection.com Community Manager & Therapist, Andi Fetzner MS Why Knowing Your Adverse Childhood Adversity (ACE) Score Is As Important To Your Health As Knowing Your Cholesterol Score. Andi & I covered how to c alculate & understand your ACE score, get strategies for Increasing resilience & preventing or healing ACE related issues! To take the ACE Survey, go to http://marygiuliani.net/adverse-childhood-experience-ace-q …/ To...

Jump In Overdoses Shows Opioid Epidemic Has Worsened [npr.org]

There's more bad news about the nation's devastating opioid epidemic. In just one year, overdoses from opioids jumped by about 30 percent, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall increase in opioid overdoses seen in hospital emergency rooms between the third quarter of 2016 and the third quarter of 2017 occurred across the nation. Some parts of the country experienced far greater increases, while a few have reported declines, the...

5 Things We Know About the People Who Live Longest [yesmagazine.org]

The average lifespan in the U.S. is about 78 years, and for the first time since the 1990s, it’s getting shorter. Despite spending much more on health care, Americans are sicker than people in other wealthy countries, with illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and stroke on the rise. So are “despair deaths” from drugs, alcohol, and suicide, according to researchers, with social isolation, poverty, and addiction laying the groundwork. A long life is not just a health issue;...

Lawmakers Keep Making Schools More Dangerous for Vulnerable Children [psmag.com]

At the end of January, a seven-year-old Latino boy in Miami, Florida, was arrested and led away from his school in handcuffs. School officials alleged that he had been playing with his food, was scolded, reacted badly, and ended up attacking his teacher. That's not great behavior, but he's a small child and posed no real risk. Rather than asking why the incident escalated and how they could change the environment to avoid such incidents, school police simply took him to prison. Later, police...

Decolonizing Birth: Women Take Back Their Power as Life-Givers [yesmagazine.org]

Zintkala Mahpiya Win Blackowl didn’t plan to have her sixth baby in a tipi on the windy plains of North Dakota during a historic resistance. Thousands of people had gathered for months in camps sprawled along the northern borderlands of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to protest the Dakota Access pipeline. But Blackowl already knew that she would birth her babies outside of a hospital, in the comfort and safety of a sacred space. “So much of how women experience birth today has to do...

In California, Momentum Builds for Radical Action on Housing [citylab.com]

Cities around the world are dealing with severe housing shortages and inflated housing costs. But nowhere is housing such a potent political issue as in California, whose unique geography, state policies, and activist culture have combined with a poorly distributed economic boom to create a “perfect storm”—the chosen words of multiple sources for this story. California is home to more than one-fifth of the nation’s homeless people, and the numbers are continuing to grow. Los Angeles County...

How The Worst Kind Of Personal Sorrow Led LA Violence Reduction Expert Aqeela Sherrills To Help Newark, NJ, Lower Its Murder Rate [witnessla.com]

Aqeela Sherrills, a former Grape Street Crip, who was one of the primary architects of t he famous Blood-Crip truce of 1992, has been working for nearly three years to lower gun violence in Newark, New Jersey, as the creator and director of something called the “Newark Community Street Team” or NCST. Sherrills, who lives in Watts, originally came to Newark at the invitation of Mayor Ras Baraka to create a small pilot project to address the city’s violence at a time when Newark’s police...

Close relationships in midlife tied to lower mortality for child abuse survivors [reuters.com]

(Reuters Health) - Child abuse survivors may be less likely to die prematurely when they develop supportive relationships by middle age, a U.S. study suggests. Child abuse is common in the U.S., with up to about one-third of kids experiencing emotional mistreatment and up to around 18 percent suffering from physical abuse, researchers note in Nature Human Behavior. Survivors of child abuse can suffer from both short-term and longer range mental health problems and may be more likely than...

WATCH REPLAY: How We Can All Help Prevent School Shootings-Expert Teen Advocate, Community Leader, So California ACEs Connection Regional Facilitator-Dana Brown

Check out the replay of the wonderful interview DANA BROWN gave me on my transformational talk show, Mary Giuliani LIVE on 2-28-18 on how we can all help prevent school shootings through understanding and implementing ACEs science. I had such a heartfelt talk with Dana Brown, an Expert Youth and Teen Advocate, Community Leader, & Southern California Regional Community Facilitator with ACEs Connection.com. Dana and I discussed the core issues that underlie these horrific school shootings...

A Wealthy Businessman Takes Teachers to Task Over the End Product....

I read this story when the Bush Administration had enacted the No Child Left Behind Policy in the early 2000's. I feel this story is more relevant today than it was in the early days of No Child Left Behind. A very successful owner of a top wholesale grocery plant, was invited to address a large group of educators on how to set high expectations to produce high quality outcomes. The businessman started out by sharing how his company trained and held their supervisors accountable to make sure...

Spirituality in Post-Traumatic Growth

One of the five domains of post-traumatic growth is spirituality. Helping us understand the role of spirituality in recovering from trauma at the Echo Frontiers of Resilience conference is Shaun Tomson . If you think the name and face look familiar then perhaps you know him from his days as a world champion surfer. Shaun needed every single one of the lessons he had learned about facing challenges in the form of towering waves and overcoming wipe-outs when he lost his 15-year-old son to a...

Dr. Marrow at Echo Changing the Paradigm Conference

I wanted to give the heads up to our ACESConnection friends about Dr. Monique Marrow who is one of the keynotes at Echo's March 21 & 22nd Frontiers of Resilience conference. Dr. Marrow will be speaking on “ Addressing Trauma in System-Involved Youth ," drawing on her extensive experience as a child psychologist in the juvenile justice system. She talks about the ' invisible suitcase ' that system-involved youth carry - a suitcase full of thoughts and perceptions about the world that have...

Trauma-Informed Philanthropy, Volume 2

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation, and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey are pleased to release Trauma-Informed Philanthropy, Volume Two , a new guide that feature s lessons learned from leading local and national efforts that provide insights on strategies for advancing the trauma-informed movement in Philadelphia. The three partnering organizations collaborated in 2016 to publish Trauma-Informed Philanthropy,...

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