k The blockbuster Advers e Childhood Experien ces (ACEs) Study has become the fulcrum of a powerful and diverse consortium of interests bent o n preventing and addressing childhood trauma. Groups ranging from...
Flanked by fig groves and vineyards and surrounded by electrified fences and thick coils of barbed wire, the Central California Women’s Facility is the largest women-only prison in the state. Inside the low-slung cinderblock...
For three months this year, I spent time with some of the sickest and most expensive patients in America — the people who pinball around the health care system, racking up costs that we all indirectly pay through federal and state taxes that go...
The survey on the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) in Russia was conducted in a sample of young adult students (N=1580) in higher education institutions and colleges (640 men and 940 women). The average age of men was 20.75 ±...
Minneapolis was selected by the National League of Cities (NLC) to participate in the City Leadership for Building an Early Learning Nation technical assistance initiative. Mayor Betsy Hodges' Cradle to K initiative will use the assistance to...
A favorite pastime of media outlets and their audiences alike is dragging out vintage advertisements from decades or years past and remarking on how profoundly sexist they are. These 25 are outrageous! The 45 here are...
Last year, Portlander Jessica Coshatt was asked to speak at the National Health Care for the Homeless Conference in New Orleans. “So I agreed to do it,” said the 28-year-old peer wellness specialist for homeless youth. “Then I...
More than a third of women and more than a quarter of men in the United States have been raped, physically assaulted, or stalked by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. Unfortunately, one strategy for reducing those numbers,...
Violent crime rates have decreased dramatically over the past three decades, largely due to crime prevention efforts that focus on the root causes of violence, researchers say. Murders in the United States have dropped by more than half, from a...
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As I have written before, my advocacy for increased recognition of ACE's is tempered by a scientific process. When I look at outcomes, I focus not only on "negative" outcomes, but have expanded the impact of unresolved childhood trauma to include...
I have shamed myself. Not deliberately, but nevertheless actively. I never dreamed that one day I would research and write about healing psychological trauma. Or the perils of the mental health field. Or its pearls. It was really a matter...
Through times of trauma and distress, often all a child needs is to be showered with love. It may sound corny, but for the estimated 100,000 children who are sexually exploited per year around the country, it can be transformative....
Dante was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Aim Higher, Inc ., an organization that provides disability services, hastily assessed Dante with a standard questionnaire, asking him vague questions such as, “Does he/she display aggressive...
Students returning to class at the University of Texas System’s campuses this fall will be participating in the nation’s most comprehensive study on sexual assaults ever conducted in higher education. The University of Texas System...