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By Veronika Tait, Psychology Today, October 4, 2019 Groundbreaking research conducted in the 1990s found that the greater number of negative childhood experiences a person had, the more likely they were to experience poor health outcomes later in life such as heart disease, liver disease, and cancer. A new study published in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect has found that positive experiences, such as having a teacher who cares about them, can buffer against these negative outcomes.

By Nick Corasaniti, The New York Times, October 3, 2019 Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey rolled out a broad set of policy proposals on Thursday that seek to significantly reduce child poverty, including by offering a $300 monthly cash allowance to most families with young children. Though many of the Democratic presidential candidates have introduced proposals to help working families, few of Mr. Booker’s rivals have offered a policy specifically aimed at cutting the child poverty rate. The...

By Ping Chen and Mullan Harris, JAMA Pediatrics, October 7, 2019 Key Points Question How are adolescent family relationships associated with trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence into midlife for women and men? Findings In this cohort study of 18 185 individuals (9233 females and 8952 males), those who experienced positive adolescent family relationships had significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms from early adolescence to midlife (late 30s to early 40s) than did...

Please welcome these four communities from CA and WA to ACEs Connection . More information about each one of them is below. You can also find theses communities among this list of all our communities . Riverside Resilience (CA) The Riverside Resilience initiative started in 2016 when county and community leaders came together to understand how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma influence health and wellbeing. The goal of the initiative is to launch a cross-sector collaboration...

By Rachel Lee, California Health Care Foundation, September 20, 2019 In California, nearly two out of three adults with a mental illness do not receive mental health services, and only 1 out of 10 adults with a substance use disorder receives any kind of treatment. These gaps in care have drawn the attention not only of policymakers, but also health technology investors and entrepreneurs. Last year, health tech start-ups, including Quartet Health, Lyra Health, and Pear Therapeutics, raised...

By Traci Pedersen, PsychCentral, September 12, 2019 More than half of older Chinese-American immigrants experience depressive symptoms, which in turn may be linked to increased disabilities and chronic health conditions, according to two new studies from Rutgers University in New Jersey. The studies examined the link between psychological well-being and the onset of disability and comorbid chronic medical conditions among a group of roughly 3,000 Chinese Americans age 60 and older. Their...

By Rick Strom, TYT Sports, October 7, 2019 It's time to end bullying. Rick Strom breaks it down. [ Please click here to watch video clip .]

By Deke Farrow, The Modesto Bee, October 4, 2019 Alana Scott likes to share a story about Tanya King. King, 47 and a student at Modesto Junior College, was interviewing for a scholarship to take a five-week Living WELL program, said Scott, a founder of the nonprofit organization WELL, or Women’s Education and Leadership League. King saw another candidate, Veronica Nunez, arriving and greeted her. Scott asked King how she knew Nunez, and learned that they’re MJC classmates and that King had...

By Xenia Shih Bion, California Health Care Foundation, October 7, 2019 California should move swiftly to improve the quality of care in the managed care plans that serve 80% of Medi-Cal’s nearly 14 million enrollees, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Led by Professor of Medicine Andrew Bindman, MD, with support from CHCF, the researchers examined 41 quality measures and found that more than half of the quality measures stayed the same or declined...

By K. Hecht, P. Berman & A. Hosack Humm, I have used the brown and the yellow. What color would be good for ears? Davy was concentrating hard; his tongue sticking out as he tried to draw carefully what he was imagining in his head. He was at the kitchen table drawing his good daddy- Mr. Carson. Davy had literally dragged a laughing Mr. Carson in from the living room and told him he needed to sit very still until his picture was drawn so that Davy didn’t make any mistakes. Mr. Carson was...

"If substance use disorder or an overdose is thought of as a pebble dropped in water, the ripple effect after an overdose can spread wide, with those closest to the overdose victim—children and families—being the first and hardest hit"

CDC Toolkit: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Leveraging the Best Available Evidence Access other technical packages for violence prevention at: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/communicationresources/pub/technical-packages.html?deliveryName=USCDC_2023-DM9684