This article was written by AC member Fr. Jeff Putthoff. "The other day former NJ Governor Florio penned an editorial entitled, “Time to present Camden to the world.” He heralded development in the city, a new economic plan, a new...
"In a recent New York Times Opinionator column, James Heckman, a Nobel Laureate and a leading economist at the University of Chicago, called for investments in early childhood development as a way to reduce inequality and promote shared...
The KIDS COUNT policy report, The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success , co-released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Kentucky Youth Advocates, presents a strong case for investing in quality early learning...
"Teenagers in the child welfare system are at higher-than-average risk of abusing marijuana, inhalants and other drugs, according to a study in the November issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. "However, the study also shows that...
"In recent years, there has been growing recognition that mental health status impacts physical health and vice versa. As a result, there is growing interest in the coordination of medical and behavioral health services as part of patient-centered...
"Children of survivors of extremely stressful life events face adjustment challenges of their own, as has been most carefully studied among the children of Nazi Death Camp survivors. This "intergenerational" transmission of stress response has been...
What is Trauma? Trauma is a psychologically distressing event that is outside the range of usual human experience, one that induces an abnormally intense and prolonged stress response. Because infants and young children's reactions may be different...
"Recently an article in the New York Times caught my eye. It was about something called “toxic stress” and its effect on children. Exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACE), like abuse, neglect, and domestic violence, has long term...
"Until now, parents who adopted children on Medicaid, the government insurance for the poor, elderly and disabled, have had trouble finding mental health therapists for them once the children started lives with their new families and moved away from...
"Approximately 20% of women and 5–10% of men report being sexually abused as children, while 25–50% of all children report being physically abused. The lifelong consequences of child maltreatment include impaired physical and mental...
"...We are currently collecting data for a study called: Childhood Stress: A Qualitative Analysis of the intergenerational circumstances of child hunger. This study, funded by the USDA through the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research....
"Tonier “Neen” Cain was a victim of child abuse at age 9. From there, her life spiraled out of control. She became a crack addict, lived on the streets for 20 years, was arrested 83 times and convicted 66. "Now she is the spokesperson for...
The SoCal ACEs Group held a fruitful first meeting Nov. 1 in San Diego featuring Dr. Vincent Felitti (front left in photo) and 11 other thinkers working on trauma-informed care from the mental health, health care, social outreach,...
David Bornstein's article in the November 3, 2013 NY Times is a call for action to prevent toxic stress in young children. A longer, more detailed discussion appears in his blog post at www.nytimes.com/opinionator . The blog post references the ACE...