The National Child Traumatic Stress Network announces: The National Center is pleased to announce the release of a series of briefs from the Juvenile Justice Roundtable on special topics related to trauma-informed juvenile justice systems. As a...
"This chapter [written by Bruce D. Perry] examines therapeutic work with maltreated children from a neurodevelopmental perspective. The overarching premises of this perspective are that an awareness of human brain development and functioning provides practical insights in to the origins of the abnormal functioning seen following adverse developmental experiences (e.g., abuse, neglect, and trauma), and, furthermore, that an understanding of how neural systems change suggests specific...
"A study of a cross-section of youth mental health services across Canada has found that two in five young people receiving services are experiencing significant concurrent mental health and substance use problems. The project, led by the Centre for...
"Every year, more than 1 million children are exposed to sexual or physical abuse or neglect in the United States. 1 Childhood physical or sexual abuse is associated with adult health problems, including somatic symptoms and medical symptoms, such as...
"Researchers at Emory's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing have identified underlying biological changes among minority and low-income pregnant women that occur in response to chronic stress. These changes lead to a reduced ability to control the...
Abstract Researchers have not yet reached agreement about the validity of several competing explanations that seek to explain ethnic differences in juvenile violent offending. Ethnicity cannot solely explain why boys with an ethnic minority background...
"Youngsters at one refuge have written and produced a song, which they have released on iTunes..." "Unfortunately, this isn't uncommon. Around 750,000 children are believed to witness domestic abuse each year in the UK and, according to Citizens...
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ACEsConnection member Father Jeff Putthoff is featured. "Recently, Father Jeff had the opportunity to speak to the Institute For Congregational Trauma and Growth in Santa Barbara, CA. It was a great day of sharing and of meeting another...
Jay is a participant of the Baby Elmo program , which teaches parenting skills to incarcerated juvenile parents. Fourteen percent of incarcerated juveniles have children, according to a 2012 survey by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency...
The number of Massachusetts children removed from their homes for abuse or neglect has fallen sharply in recent years, even as reports of child abuse or neglect have climbed, government figures show. The trend has prompted concerns that more children...
Congressman Paul Ryan recently said that Republicans “don’t have a full-fledged” plan to fight poverty “because we need to do more listening to people who are in the trenches fighting poverty .” He had the perfect...
If, as ACE Study experts propose, poverty is caused by ACEs, then this story on Philly.com raises some interesting issues. When people were placed in neuroimaging machines and shown photos of the poor and homeless, their brains responded as though...