August 2018

The East Tennessee ACEs Mobilization Team conducted their first meeting on June 1 st , 2018 at the Family Justice Center in Knoxville, TN. Knowledge Mobilization efforts support the culture change related to philosophy, policy, program and practice that ultimately foster healthy child development and meet the Building Strong Brains Training goals. The Tennessee Building Strong Brains Goals are to: Increase the potential that every child born in Tennessee has the opportunity to lead a...

Janai Mestrovich, Ashland, OR, (BS/MS, Family & Child Development) has been teaching Early Childhood Education and Social/Emotional Learning for 42 years. She specializes in '3D' experiences that help her students visualize and feel the lesson as part of the SuperKid Power curriculum. The 'breathing sphere' opens and closes to show kids how the body/lungs/diaphragm work inside them and Janai opens and closes it as she counts out numbers for inhale, hold and exhale. In the 'staying calm...

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) is excited to announce the call for abstracts for our 26th Colloquium. Held in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2019, APSAC's 26th Colloquium will bring high-quality learning opportunities to child maltreatment researchers and practitioners across experience levels and professions. When preparing an abstract, sessions should be designated as beginning, intermediate, or advanced level content. Priority will be given to presentations...

ACES on campus: https://www.insidehighered.com/news

Abuse, assault, and neglect in early childhood impact every major system in the human brain from the brainstem to the cortex, from the sense of balance to the sense of self. These disruptions in brain development have far-reaching implications for the treatment of those who have suffered these histories. If you are already using neurofeedback or considering adopting it with those who have suffered from early childhood neglect and abuse you. will find all of the latest research that supports...

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety take on our lives? In this episode, we explore how anxiety affects our bodies, relationships, and lives. We investigate its causes, what it feels like, and what we can do to treat it. Also heard on this week's episode: Psychologist Tamar Chansky talks about what causes childhood anxiety and what parents can do to help. Her books is called Freeing Your Child...

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/mental-health/what-wildfires-do-to-our-minds-20180807

Please help us welcome Ingrid Cockhren as the newest member of our ACEs Connection team. Ingrid is our new Midwest community facilitator. She comes to us with seven years of experience in ACEs science, childhood trauma, brain development and psychology. She has been working with children, adolescents and families for the last 15 years and is currently the chair of Parent and Community Education of ACE Nashville, a collective impact ACEs initiative. She is a psychology professor at Tennessee...

https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/northbay/sonomacounty/8612421-181/kaiser-hope-1-million-grant

I found the gift within the struggle.

The Metro guard told me he’d never seen anything like it in all his years working for DC’s Metro system, people chalking love, togetherness, inclusion messages just off the top of the escalator at the Foggy Bottom Metro stop, the place where the white nationalists will step when they get off the metro, and where they’ll begin their march to Lafayette Square across from the White House Sunday at 5:00. We – people from various faith communities – gathered the night before at Western Ave.

In a recent article "Technology and ACEs Prevention: How We Upgrade Our Vital Work", Gregory Sherrow brought our attention to the possibilities that computer technology, artificial intelligence and computer visualization could help people recover from childhood trauma. There were many ideas proposed, some are fascinating while other are controversial and even disturbing. Personally, I never enjoyed video games. One of my friends have told me that there is a virtual community that uses all...