June 2020

By Raven Ishak, Hello Giggles, June 22, 2020 The word “trauma” can evoke different experiences for different people—a past sexual assault , the death of a loved one , an abusive parent . When it comes to experiencing trauma , no two people’s experiences are ever the same. And over the past few months, due to the devastating effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we—as a society—have undergone (and are still undergoing) a wide-ranging trauma that can feel impossible to carry. Since...

By Shiow-Wen Yang, Mary A. Kernic, Beth A. Mueller, et al., JAMA Pediatrics, June 22, 2020 Key Points Question Are young children whose parents have severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, at greater risk of injury compared with children of parents without severe mental illness? Findings In this cohort study of the 1 999 322 singleton births in Taiwan from 2004 to 2014, children of parents with severe mental illness had higher rates of...

By Daniel Tan and Paulette Cha, Public Policy Institute of California, June 22, 2020 Many in California and across the nation are protesting the use of force against African Americans by law enforcement. Black Californians are also dying at disproportionately high rates due to complications arising from COVID-19. As immediate and alarming as these current inequities are, racial disparities in policing and health are among the many long-standing disparities across multiple dimensions that...

ACEs Connection is proud to announce we have reached 200 Speakers & Trainers participants in the ACEs Connection Speakers & Trainers Bureau! What is the ACEs Connection Speakers & Trainers Bureau? The ACEs Connection Speakers & Trainers Bureau is a service that provides subscribers of ACEsConnection a Database of ACEs speakers and trainers for hire. The development of the Speakers & Trainers Bureau was in response to a great need expressed by our communities. ACEs...

By Thomas F. Boat and Kelly J. Kelleher, JAMA Pediatrics, June 22, 2020 Two contradictory trends have emerged over the past quarter century. New brain and behavior science fueled an explosion of evidence on the effectiveness of promotion and prevention for child mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Meanwhile, young people in the US increasingly are identified as experiencing depression, anxiety, and other behavioral disorders. Increases of youth self-harm, 1 use of emergency departments...

By The Clackamas Reveiw, Oregon City News, June 16, 2020 Long-term work to mitigate the health, social-emotional and academic impacts of childhood trauma in Gladstone got a $575,000 grant. Another $40,000 from the Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care will address two immediate needs for the Gladstone School District: nutrition support and technology. "This is the largest grant our district has ever received, and it could not have come at a better time," said...

By Luke Denne, NBC News, June 21, 2020 Robert Taylor has lived on the banks of the Mississippi River in Reserve, Louisiana, his entire life. Both of his parents worked in the local sugar refinery when plantations made up this stretch of the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. But where sugar cane once grew, chemicals now spew from smoke stacks. When the petrochemical industry moved in, the predominantly Black community’s health began to suffer. “We didn't know why. We were just...

By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, June 19, 2020 When word circulated earlier this month that Donald J. Trump would resume his campaign rallies on June 19th, with an event in Tulsa , Oklahoma, the confluence of date and location suggested that his typically leaden-handed racial trolling had taken on new levels of nuance. On its face, the choice of Tulsa defies political logic. In the upcoming Presidential election, Oklahoma is neither in play (Trump currently holds a nineteen-point lead there)...

By Carey Goldberg, June 22, 2020, WBUR. Dr. Molly Hayes says she doesn’t feel exhausted. "Honestly, I don’t feel physically tired," she says, "but it just feels like sort of a let-down." As director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hayes worked nearly nonstop through the thick of the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, she says, she’s not depressed, but "it feels weird. For three months we were all systems go almost 24 hours a day. And then it just felt like...

Creative Behavior Systems, an organizational change company provides in person or web based consulting, speaking engagements, professional development with a trauma informed holistic and systematic approach in supporting culture through practice of building trust and truth in community to heal, connect and diminish inequities to create environments where trauma and adverse childhood experiences’ prevalence is diminished for educators, organizations, families and individuals.

America’s early learning infrastructure was fragile even before COVID-19. But the pandemic has pushed it to the brink of collapse. Half of all child care sites are currently closed and the ones that remain open do so at great risk to the health of providers and their families. With no other option but to stay home with their infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, millions of parents will be unable to return to work, paralyzing efforts to restart the nation’s economy. What has suddenly become...

From Association of Health Care Journalists, June 10, 2020 For an in-depth look at how to report on the effect the novel coronavirus is having on Native Americans, AHCJ will host a webcast with Donald Warne, M.D., M.P.H., the director of the Indians Into Medicine program and director of the master of public health program in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of North Dakota. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, S.D., Warne will explain how the virus...