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Despite sharing stories about my traumatic childhood with doctors, there was no mention of a possible connection between my experiences and my health challenges.

By Kate Yoder, Image: Grist/Getty Images, Grist, December 7, 2021 Forget the palm trees and warm ocean breeze. The upper Midwest could soon be the most sought-after living destination in the United States. The curb appeal of the Great Lakes region is that it appears to be a relatively safe place to ride out the wild weather of the future. It’s far from the storm-battered Eastern seaboard and buffered from the West’s wildfires and drought, with some of the largest sources of fresh water in...

By Frank Main, Jared Rutecki, and Casey Toner, Photo: Pat Nabong/Sun Times, Center for Health Journalism, December 6, 2021 Raymond Galloway, a 48-year-old line cook at a Chicago soul food restaurant, got arrested on the West Side twice this year carrying small amounts of heroin. Both times, the courts quickly tossed out his charges. Cook County’s judicial system, under an unwritten policy that even Cook County’s top prosecutor calls a failure, routinely dismisses minor drug possession cases...

By Karen D'Souza, Photo: Liv Ames/EdSource Today, December 8, 2021 W hen it comes to early childhood education, child’s play may well be serious business. Fun and games bring more than just joy. They may be the key to helping children thrive in tough times, experts say. Since young children don’t often have an opportunity to exercise choice and control, free play can be a liberating experience, nurturing independence and relieving stress. A growing body of research is making the case for...

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THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC by Michael Skinner “ Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” - Debasish Mridha Music has a profound way of touching us in so many ways. For myself, the power of music has given me great joy, hope and healing. Music has been a lifesaver for me and that is not something I throw around lightly. I would like to share with you how it has affected my life in so many positive ways - I am forever grateful to have the gift of music in my life. Music...

The fallout of the global COVID pandemic is accelerating suicide in our children and adolescents. Yet, the treatment for acts or threats of suicide often involves the individual child with little to no active family participation. This is a tactical mistake because suicide is systemic. It is caused or exacerbated by family trauma, family secrets, parent-child conflict, and/or isolation. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to treat both the child and...

By Guest Author, 12/08/21, positiveexperience.org/blog “ Passing the Baton ” is a collection of essays assembled by editors Mark Joseph, Frank Farrow, and Leila Fiester and posted on the website of the Washington DC-based Center for the Study of Social Policy . The collection is dedicated to Harold Richman, who committed his life and career to the quest to end poverty and inequality through policy and system changes. Each essay highlights an idea, program, or policy vision that embodies in...

By Elizabeth Crouch, Elizabeth Radcliff, Katherine Kelly, et al., Photo: Unsplash, Preventive Medicine, January 2022 Abstract Positive childhood experiences (PCEs) promote healthy social development, improve overall wellness, and help to moderate and prevent exposure to adverse childhood experiences. There has been limited research examining the association between positive childhood experiences and overweight or obesity status in children. The purpose of this study was to examine whether...

By Lucinda Rachel Grummitt, Noah T. Kreski, Stephanie Gyuri Kim, et al., Photo: Unsplash, JAMA Pediatrics, October 4, 2021 Key Points Question To what degree does childhood adversity contribute to preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the US? Findings In this systematic review including 19 meta-analyses with a total of 20 654 832 participants, exposure to childhood adversity accounted for approximately 439 072 deaths annually across various health outcomes, with the largest...

Estimates from the Combined 2019-2020 National Survey of Children's Health are now available on CAHMI's Data Resource Center Interactive Data Query The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DRC), a project of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) , under a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), is excited to announce the release of the combined 2019-2020 National...

What if nothing feels “right”? When it comes to making choices, sometimes there’s a clear winner. The decision is easy. But it seems like these days especially, every choice is harder. There are so many shades of grey. Confusion and uncertainty persist. Information is constantly changing, and we don’t know what’s accurate or what’s going to happen next. With access to COVID vaccines, it seemed like we were coming to a light at the end of the tunnel. Now as the delta variant continues to...