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We know a high ACE score is connected to “substance-related disorders,” but it’s often overlooked that food can be that substance of choice, too. Learn why overeating and the resulting weight gain can be a symptom of unresolved ACEs and what Dr. Alman & Dr. Felitti are doing with Relish Life to bring a powerful, scientifically proven solution to the world.

Trenton – New Jersey’s ACEs Collaborative today announced that screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by care providers should be used as a means to provide assistance and referrals to children and families, not as a diagnostic or treatment tool. In a position paper released today, the Collaborative – a coalition of state-based foundations, the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, and its Office of Resilience – advised that ACE screening results are an opportunity for...

The New Jersey ACES Collaborative1 is committed to pursuing a standard of excellence in the engagement, partnering, and servicing of New Jersey residents and communities. This commitment demands we continuously review and assess the unique and comprehensive ways we provide that service. In 2019, the Collaborative released Adverse Childhood Experiences: Opportunities to Prevent, Protect Against, and Heal from the Effects of ACEs in New Jersey. This report identified five areas of...

We're hiring part-time, contracted program assistant to support our Trauma-Informed ACEs Screening and Intervention Evaluation (TAISE) project! See attached job description for details. $25/hour, 14 hours/week, contract ends 8/2024.

By Guest Author, 10/14/21, positiveexperience.org/blog The HOPE National Resource Center is excited to kick off a public workshop series of HOPEful Conversations . Join us as we get practical about what HOPE looks like in a variety of different settings from healthcare and early childhood to communities, K-12 education, and social services. We will be opening the series on November 10 from 1-2 p.m. ET . Members of the HOPE team will talk about the basic HOPE framework and some of their...

On Thursday, October 7, 2021, First Lady Sarah Stitt opened the Hope Summit in Enid, Oklahoma as part of the state’s Hope Rising Oklahoma Initiative. The theme was “Hope Rising in Enid” and over 300 people spent the day at the Stride Bank Center learning the framework of hope science: goals, pathways, and willpower.

Published in JAMA Pediatrics, this study links exposure to Childhood Adversity to Early Mortality; Nearly Half a Million Annual U.S. Deaths | Columbia Public Health https://www.publichealth.colum...crJuzhgBnLZ_8PbKtW4o

Self-harm is one of the most challenging subjects to talk about, but millions of people will continue to suffer in silence if we do not. This series on self-harm has been one of the most difficult I have ever written, and I know it has been challenging to read. This piece is dedicated to examining why people self-harm and the proposed remedies to end the pain. Why Do People Self-Harm? Trying to understand why someone would harm themselves with cutting or some other form is difficult at best.

By Katie Moran-McCabe and Scott Burris, The New England Journal of Medicine, October 14, 2021 S afe, affordable housing is a foundation of good health; it is essential to people’s ability to thrive in school and work and necessary for building strong families and communities. Housing markets and policies in the United States have failed to supply enough affordable, healthy housing, and they address housing shortages with perhaps the cruelest and most inequitable of legal practices: eviction.

By Michael Sainato, The Guardian, October 13, 2021 The gas in Diana Morgan Magda’s house was shut off in May. Now when she wants to take a bath she uses an electric kettle to heat the water. It takes an hour. Magda, who lives in Girard, Ohio, relies on social security disability benefits for her sole income. Like many Americans , she can’t pay all her bills, living expenses and medication with the benefits she receives, and through the pandemic she fell behind on utility bills. Millions more...

By Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2021 The city of Los Angeles was founded 240 years ago by a group of 44 settlers who had traveled overland from Mexico, or so the story goes. But like many origin myths of the American West, L.A.’s founding story is also one of erasure — a tale that conveniently elides what was already there for the fertile fiction of a blank slate. The pobladores called their settlement something like “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de...

By Patrick Smith, WBEZ Chicago, October 11, 2021 Chicago’s plan to bring down its staggeringly high levels of gun violence leans hard on an anti-violence strategy known as street outreach. The outreach workers, often former gang members, try to intervene in ongoing gang conflicts by convincing young men to put guns down, to forgo revenge. They have “lived experiences” that give them the perspective and reputation needed to gain entry into the groups driving the city’s gun violence. Judy...