"Our brain cells, or neurons, have a remarkable capacity to connect, disconnect, and reconnect in response to every experience we have. If our childhoods are dangerous or chaotic, our brain cells connect to each other in networks that increase our...
ACEsConnection member Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is quoted. "The San Francisco 49ers today announced a three-year, $300,000 commitment to a youth clinic being constructed in the city's Bayview District...." "The donation "is going to make a huge...
"Childhood abuse and previous exposure to violence may increase a soldier's risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a new study...." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_131788.html
Medical cards for survivors of trauma to share with their healthcare providers. http://www.traumainformedresponse.com/uploads/medicalcard5.pdf
"Senator Dick Durbin will be holding a hearing on ending the “school-to-prison pipeline” next Wednesday. We’re heartened that this issue is being taken seriously on a national level and hope it leads to effective policy change."...
Powerful image of fight or flight response; artist F. Hedges.
"Results: Child maltreatment is responsible for 1500 deaths in children under 5 years of age in the 53 countries of the WHO European Region. Deaths are the tip of the clinical iceberg and millions of children are affected annually. In spite the...
"According to the National Survey on Children’s Exposure to Violence, most of our society’s children are exposed to violence and trauma in their daily lives. Each year, millions of children and adolescents in the United States are...
"Medicine has for too long focused just on the physical dimensions of the patient," said Smith, who co-authored the paper. "Those clinical questions are important and necessary, but we're trying to demonstrate that when you let patients tell their...
"The impact of adverse childhood events and determinants on the quality of adult health is clear. Social determinants are inextricably linked to health equity and, ultimately, social justice. In the United States, childhood obesity, dental...
Mentions the 100+ year history of denial of child abuse started by Freud. "Freud, however, was a smart cookie. His knack for inquiry may have only been surpassed by his ability to climb social hierarchies and impress elites with his ideas. Freud...
“They highlight that girls in the juvenile justice system are diverse, as are their service needs, and that interventions must be flexible enough to accommodate multiple groups,” she adds. For example, providers tend to focus on...
"In more than 60 articles since 1998, internist Vincent Felitti, MD, pediatrician Robert Anda, MD, MS, and others have studied the relationship of childhood adversity and a variety of lifelong physical and emotional outcomes. 1 - 2 Using a...
"Abused children are at high risk of anxiety and mood disorders, as traumatic experience induces lasting changes to their gene regulation. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich have now documented for the first time that...
Author Dr. Jelena Obradovic, Stanford Project on Adaptation & Resilience in Kids (SPARK), Stanford Univ. School of Education . "The focus of this article is to present current progress in understanding the interplay among adversity, physiological sensitivity to context, and adaptive functioning, with an emphasis on implications and future directions for resilience researchers. It includes a review of current literature that demonstrates (a) links between various levels of adversity...