The following comes from US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell. Colleagues, I write today to share the news that after nearly 6 years of service, Pam Hyde will be stepping down as the Administrator at the Substance Abuse and Mental...
One evening last week, a restaurant owner in Washington Heights and two customers stood chatting on the sidewalk about the changes in the area over the last 25 years. The restaurateur, Peter Walsh, was telling the people, who were coming from a...
Chilo Ketlhoafetse struts around an eighth-grade classroom like the coolest guy in Botswana, warming the students up to talk about an awkward subject. He calls out "Nomhlaba!" and they respond "Auwe!" — nonsense words from a local...
From the moment I heard Michael’s voice on my answering machine, I felt intrigued and intimidated. “Hey, Doc,” he said, though I am neither a doctor nor a character in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. “Word on the street is that...
You're probably at least a little bit racist and sexist and homophobic. Most of us are. Before you get all indignant, try taking one of the popular implicit-association tests . Created by sociologists at Harvard, the University of...
I am not sure if anyone has seen this or if this was shared before because I have been MIA for a while .. but I got this today and thought it was too cool not to share .. ...
ChildWise Institute has been advancing awareness and knowledge of the ACE Study for almost 4 years now. Through us, Montana became the 4th state In the nation to have an ACE Master Trainer Program. We have 21 Master Trainers all across the...
Sharing your feelings with others will make you look weak. It’s best not to fight if you want to have a good relationship. Sharing your feelings or troubles with another person burdens them. Talking about a problem...
I grew up with a father who was a bully. It was okay to speak if I agreed with him, but I wasn’t allowed to freely speak my mind. I kept quiet for longer than I should have, long after I left my parent’s home. I encourage all...
It took six weeks for George Zimmerman to get arrested for killing Trayvon Martin. The police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was never indicted; neither were the cops who killed Eric Garner in New York City. In...
The following is a script from "Denied" which aired on December 14, 2014, and was rebroadcast on August 2, 2015. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Michael Rey and Oriana Zill-de Granados, producers. Two years and a half years ago, we were...
Jewish activists in Scotland have started a campaign to support the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors across the world, saying the trauma of the extermination camps continues to haunt the descendants of those who suffered there....
Remember the “It Gets Better” campaign aimed at stigmatized gay and lesbian youth? It turns out that the assertion should come with an asterisk: All that bullying and abuse may have long-term consequences. When 1,103 North Americans...
I last wore a bikini nearly 25 years ago when I was eight months pregnant. That summer it was brutally hot, and the stucco bungalow we were renting in Los Angeles didn’t have air conditioning. In lieu of driving to Santa Monica and...
One of the remarkable phenomena about this trauma-informed/resilience-building/ACEs movement takes place in the 739 comments (to date) on Got Your ACE Score? on ACEsTooHigh.com, the companion news site to ACEsConnection.com. People do their...