CDC Launches New Online ACEs Training
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Veto Violence website recently launched an online introductory training on ACEs. The training's two modules cover an overview of ACEs and the public health approach to preventing ACEs. Plans are to release specialized training modules for physicians, nurses, health education specialists and general health professionals in the future.
Infographic: How Trauma Affects Memory
We have two kinds of memory: implicit (emotional and procedural) and explicit (semantic and episodic). Experiencing trauma can affect each of these different types of memory in different ways. The attached infographic from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine explains the different types of memory, an example of each, how trauma can affect memory and the associated part of the brain.
ACEs Summit Videos Now Online
Selected sessions from the main day of the 2018 Arkansas ACEs and Resilience Summit were recorded and are now available online at afmc.org/acesummit. Due to sound issues, we weren't able to record the health breakout session. Slide decks from the pre-conference, Tuesday evening session and main summit sessions are also available for download at the summit web page.
Be sure to save the date for next year's summit: Sept. 26-28, 2019.
Events
Achieving Postsecondary Success for Parents: A New Partnership and Report Recommendations (webinar)
1 p.m. Central Nov. 8
Register here.
Implementing Erin's Law Through Relationship Skills Education (webinar)
3 p.m. Central Nov. 14
Register here.
General ACEs Workgroup Meeting
1 p.m. Nov. 14
AFMC, Little Rock
Articles
How Supportive Housing Uplifts Families in Crisis (RWJF)
Robert Block: We need to be building adult capabilities to improve child outcomes (Tulsa World)
Treating Childhood Trauma Becoming a Public Policy Priority (Governing)
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