Safe and supportive schools help mitigate the impact of ACEs. There is both good news and bad news. It's hard to imagine a starker good news/bad news scenario than the one spelled out in a new national study on bullying. First, the good: The...
This blog post by SAMHSA's Paolo del Vecchio provides a good overview of the department's prevention programs. The focus is on mental illness but much of what he says applies to the prevention of ACEs. There is truth in the old adage that “an...
A new study published in the journal NeuroImage: Clinical suggests that youths between the ages of 12 and 18 who have committed homicide have significantly different brain structures, compared with other teenage criminals who have not committed...
The senior author of this study, Dr. Kent Kiehl of The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, commented on the findings: “As policymakers grapple with the high societal, human, and budgetary costs of violent crime and...
While ACEs occur in all income groups, some stressors such as community violence and food insecurity are acute for families living in poverty and contribute to ACEs. Nearly 800 Baltimore school children were followed in a ground-breaking study for a...
Has anyone read the article by Ian Parker in the June 2 New Yorker profiling Edward St. Aubyn, whose four so-called Melrose novels, the last one titled Mother's Milk , are based on his horrific childhood, starting with a father regularly...
Here are several excellent letters to the editor in response to the May 25 New York Times editorial “ End Mass Incarceration Now .” One letter points out a missing truth in the editorial---that many people in prisons today have...
Maternal depression places infants’ development at risk. Helping young parents reduce stress and find social supports will reduce ACEs. The authors looked at the impact of parenting stress and social support on depression among African American...
A new study finds a link between prenatal maternal stress and the development of symptoms of asthma and autism in children. Scientists have been studying women who were pregnant during the January 1998 Quebec ice storm since June of that year and...
The objective of this study was to measure the additional risk posed by ACE exposures on poor health outcomes among current smokers. .....A key finding of this study is that only among smokers with the High ACE group did the results show significant...
While the conditions described in Bangui, in the Central African Republic (CAR), are extreme, the multi-faceted approach to treatment---addressing the impact of physical and psychological conditions---applies to traumatized families here in the...
In a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , PTSD patients allowed to choose between therapies ended up costing about $1,622 less on average per patient per year compared with patients who were assigned treatment. Among...
[Photo: Rudy Salinas, PATH] David Bornstein, who does the NYTimes Fixes column, takes a long look at 100,000 Homes Campaign, which, for its incredible success, required innovative cross-sector collaboration in each city that participated. It's a great example of collective impact at work, and communities that are becoming trauma-informed can probably find a few pieces of gold here. Sometime in June, the 100,000 Homes Campaign — an initiative launched four years ago to...
[ Luis Argerich photo] Tony Platt, visiting professor of justice studies at San Jose State University in California, wrote this post about the 50 years he's been involved in trying to reform the prison system. Recently, with a steady decline in the prison population and cutbacks in prison construction reported nationwide, the American penal binge seems to have reached a point of exhaustion, primarily the result of fiscal necessity. Some commentators are so encouraged by these...
As director of the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Ashland County, OH, Steve Stone has been leading efforts for the organization to become trauma-informed. He created the Ohio ACEs Network group on ACEs Connection, and has been active...