"When listening to one of lectures of noted physician and researcher Dr. Vincent Felitti, I realized immediately that he was talking about me. He described difficult patients to treat, ones who went to the emergency room often, underwent...
ACEsConnection member Dr. Robert Anda is mentioned in this article. "We already know that far too many of Philadelphia’s children experience systematic trauma by way violence, stress, poverty, racism and hunger. What we’re just realizing...
"Building on a body of previous research by the author and colleagues in relation to multiple adverse childhood experiences (MACE) , this paper addresses the question of ‘why multiples matter’ in relation to issues of cumulative...
Great new video! Epigenetics - Telomeres - Nature - Nurture - New science For more information visit... http://www.beginbeforebirth.org See also additional videos: How Stress Affects Our Telomeres (6 mins) The Ghost in Your Genes - BBC Horizon (50 mins)
"This forum serves as an opportunity for the public — including SAMHSA stakeholders — to provide feedback and ideas on: Suggested Guidelines for Implementing a Trauma-Informed Approach (...
"Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers the costs and benefits of interventions over the life...
Lucas County, Ohio, will receive $1.32 million in funding from the Office of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), over the next four years, to improve and enhance their juvenile drug courts by integrating the Reclaiming...
" Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families impacted today by the Connecticut school shooting. " Parents, caregivers and professionals should know that trauma can be any experience that leaves a person feeling hopeless, helpless, fearing for...
"Researchers wanted to know whether certain types of psychotherapy would reduce mental health issues among runaway and homeless youth with drug and alcohol problems....The three interventions studied by the researchers have been shown to reduce...
" NCFY recently profiled two organizations that have put in place the evidence-based Sanctuary Model of youth care. In our newest Voices from the Field podcast, we get the history of the approach. Dr. Sandra Bloom was one of the co-creators of...
"The Attorney General's Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence has released its final recommendations for a national response to address children’s exposure to violence. The report emphasizes prevention and intervention and underscores...
"The number of child abuse and neglect cases reported in the United States in 2011 fell for the fifth consecutive year, according to a new federal government report.... " But what this report tells me is that we still have 681,000 children out there...
"This is an interview with B.K. Bose, who started the non-profit Niroga Institute with a few yoga students in 2005. Niroga was asked to help work with a group of delinquent young women in an alternative high school in the San Francisco Bay Area, and...
Yesterday was a big day in the lives of the more than 10,000 children who are incarcerated in adult prisons. And the 81,000 more who are in juvenile justice facilities. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) opened public hearings on the...
"Seclusion and restraints are violent and largely preventable behavioral health practices that are now widely understood to be treatment failures. They are the direct cause of as many as 150 deaths each year in psychiatric and residential mental...