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By Amy Dworsky, Colleen Schlecht, Gina Fedock, et al., Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, March 2020 The dramatic increase in the number of women in state and federal prisons in recent decades has led to calls for gender-responsive policies and practices that address the needs and circumstances of incarcerated women and recognize the central role that motherhood plays in many incarcerated women’s lives. This brief describes the results of a project undertaken by researchers from...

Santa Rosa, CA, resident Lisa Marden watches her 15-month-old baby gleefully play with magic markers and relays how she’s been coping with feeling anxious. (We're using a pseudonym to protect the family's privacy.) “I’m just super stressed out with everything, and as soon as I eat anything, I get nauseous, so I’ve been eating snacks instead of meals,” she explains to Liz George, a field nurse with the Maternal/Child Field Nursing team of Sonoma County, CA, who has been seeing Marden on home...

By Alanna Dancis, Santa Fe New Mexican, March 7, 2020 My husband and I have spent the last two years fostering a little boy. He had been abused and neglected and over those two years we worked hard to heal his emotional and physical wounds. We straightened out some medical issues he had, cheered him on as he learned to walk and talk, and wove him into the fabric of our family life. He was raised as the brother to our biological son. With 10 days of notice, he was removed from our home and...

By Marlena Wilson, WJBF, March 9, 2020 Sally Goza. From Adverse Childhood Experiences to protecting your child’s mental health. And, of course, you cannot turn on the television or the radio or pick up a newspaper without hearing about the coronavirus. Dr. Goza talks about it, how it impacts children, and what you need to know going forward to make sure that you keep your family in the best health possible. Brad Means: She is Dr. Sara Goza. Her friends, because she’s from the state of...

By Scoop Team, Scoop Empire, March 8, 2020 Severe negative experiences of the past may leave you emotionally unstable. These events can reoccur in your mind, even as you grow older. But you can always seek the help of professional therapists to help you cope with past traumas. The journey to a better life without past adverse events haunting your mind starts by knocking on the doors of a reliable therapist’s clinic. Here are four ways therapy can help you deal with the horrors of your past.

https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/Study-provides-insights-on-how-early-life-trauma-can-contribute-to-functional-neurological-disorder

Movie screenings of documentaries, such as Paper Tigers or Resilience are popular ways to introduce communities to PACEs science. Cissy White provides details about how to put on a screening event.

Please welcome these two new communities to ACEs Connection . ACEs & African Americans ACEs Connection at Boston University School of Public Health (MA) ACEs & African Americans This group is focused on the descendants of Africans dispersed throughout the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trades. Topics include adverse childhood experiences, historical trauma, intergenerational transmission of trauma, African American parenting practices, health disparities, the effects of...

Although participant Safety was explored (using the SBTILP model process) prior to the shoulder sociometry exercise, I have stopped using exercises where people touch.

By Ellen C. Perrin, JAMA Pediatrics, March 9, 2020 Numerous national surveys, cohort studies, and meta-analyses have documented the etiologic and experiential connections between childhood abuse, physical illness, and mental health disorders1,2 spanning from childhood to adulthood. Yet pediatric training and practice typically focus primarily on the identification and treatment of physical health conditions. The recent advent of enthusiasm for integrated care is a welcome nod to the marked...

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, March 9, 2020 The fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is once again in the hands of the US Supreme Court. On March 2, the court announced that it would hear a case challenging the health law, a wide-ranging measure that “touches the lives of most Americans, from nursing mothers to people eating at chain restaurants,” wrote Reed Abelson, Abby Goodnough, and Robert Pear in the New York Times. This will be the third time the court will...

By Shahida Arabi, PsychCentral, March 1, 2020 Most of us are familiar with Pavlov’s conditioning experiments. Pair a bell with food enough times, a dog starts salivating at the ring of the bell even without the food present because it’s now associated with the food they desire. But what happens in abusive and toxic relationships is a far more insidious and malicious type of conditioning – what I like to call “destructive conditioning” – conditioning which pairs what are meant to be innocuous...