Tagged With "Trauma-Informed"
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Re: NEW BRIEF! Screening for Trauma Birth to 5
Excellent brief which raises important issues! The document referred to below about screening young children for trauma is an excellent one. Please read if you can! The references that follow the document are great, too. The document asks California to step up to implement trauma-screening policies for our youngest children. Such policies can alleviate physical and mental health illnesses and help to prevent future trauma. We should consider how to implement resilience against trauma in our...
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Re: California's First Surgeon General: Screen Every Student for Childhood Trauma [nbcnews.com]
I hope she focuses some of her energy on the primary prevention of unsupportive, harmful parenting. In other words a new kind of parenting education...one that reaches everyone, everywhere, all the time. Visit advancingparenting.org.
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Re: Opinion: All Doctors Should Practice Trauma-Informed Care [calhealthreport.org]
All health care providers should practice trauma informed care.
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Re: Policymaker Education Day, Year 2!
Hmm the link for registration ( http://bit.do/peday ) doesn't seem to work?
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Re: Policymaker Education Day, Year 2!
Hmm... I just clicked on the link and it works. Can you send me a screen shot of what shows up when you click on the link?
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Re: My hopes for a trauma-informed California
Wow - what a thorough summary of the day's activities - thank you, Domenica! (I especially smiled at this line, "I could finally hug Gail [Kennedy]" -- I had that feeling as well )
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Re: My hopes for a trauma-informed California
Wonderful summary Domenica! And I felt the same way - SO nice to connect and embrace folks that I have known virtually for some time and to meet new colleagues with a shared commitment and passion to a trauma-informed CA. Thank you Strategies 2.0 for hosting and organizing the day and thank you all who took time to attend and participate fully.
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Re: May 22nd is Trauma Informed Awareness Day in California!
This is fantastic -- "California is one step closer to becoming a trauma-informed state. ACR 235 authored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula of Fresno designates May 22nd, 2018 as Trauma-Informed Awareness Day to highlight the impact of trauma and the importance of prevention and community resilience through trauma-informed care."
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Re: How to Keep Children's Stress From Turning Into Trauma [nytimes.com]
Yes! This is necessary information right now. Thank you
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Re: How to Keep Children's Stress From Turning Into Trauma [nytimes.com]
I really wish you would put some kind of warning or stop sharing articles that need a subscription. I get interested in an article, click to see the rest of it and I can't because I don't have a subscription to the New York Times or SF Chronicle. It wastes my time. Julie Hatzell Trauma Specialist/Educator Domestic Violence Advocate Plumas Rural Services 711 Main Street Quincy, CA 95971 530 927-5873 On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 8:16 AM ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: How to Keep Children's Stress From Turning Into Trauma [nytimes.com]
Hi, Julie: Since the NYTimes allows five free articles a month (in addition to the free COVID-19 coverage), it's impossible to know where any one person is in their monthly free article allocation. And every publication is different. It is beyond our capacity to track that. Our aim is to provide enough information in the headline and summary so that if the article is important to you, that at least you're notified of it and may be able to find a way to obtain it. All best, Jane
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Re: California has Begun Screening for Early Childhood Trauma, But Critics Urge Caution [sciencemag.org]
Screenings alone won't prevent adverse childhood experiences. Physical, sexual, verbal, and psychological child abuse as well as a host of other parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as not supporting and/or disrupting the healthy development of children are such a serious problem that the solution requires a public health approach that employs primary prevention...something Vincent Felitti, co-author of the ACE Study, has repeatedly called for.
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Re: Trauma-Informed Care as a Universal Precaution: Beyond the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire [jamanetwork.com]
As an internist, I have no experience using the ACE Study findings in pediatrics, but I can share our experience integrating the ACE findings into adult medicine. An unusual Preventive Medicine Department at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego was providing highly comprehensive medical evaluation to 58,000 adults a year. Step 1 of this process involved filling out a quite lengthy medical history questionnaire at home. The ACE questions were integrated into this for 440,000 consecutive adult...
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Re: Providing Trauma Informed and Resilience Focused Seminars for Correctional Officers
Thank you for sharing this, Phil! Dave is a passionate ACEs champion and I love seeing him speaking with correctional officers. Not only do they likely encounter folks with ACEs, and experience secondary or vicarious trauma ... frequently those in the "helping professions" have had similar ACEs experiences while they were growing up. Love the participant quote and all the photos! Thanks for sharing, Karen
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Re: Child Care Bridge Program with Trauma-Informed Training
All children who enter the foster care system have experienced the trauma of abuse and neglect. They are “extraordinary” children with “extraordinary” needs. A safe, consistent, and immediate childcare setting with providers who understand the behavioral indicators of trauma and stress is a basic need that is critical to foster children’s recovery and healing. Relative and non-relative foster caregivers need a supportive and dedicated child care team because caregivers are providing the most...
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Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit [nctsn.org]
From The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, June 2020 NCTSN RESOURCE Resource Description Supports caseworkers, supervisors, and all other levels of the child welfare workforce in implementing trauma-informed knowledge and skills in their daily interactions, professional services and organizational culture. The third edition of the Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit (CWTTT) incorporates two foundational trainings, a specialized skills training for supervisors and caseworkers, and a...
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Resources to Support Children's Emotional Well-Being Amid Anti-Black Racism, Racial Violence and Trauma [childtrends.org]
By Dominique Parris, Victor St. John, Jessica Dym Bartlett, Child Trends, June 23, 2020 Most Black children in the United States encounter racism in their daily lives. Ongoing individual and collective psychological or physical injuries due to exposure and re-exposure to race-based adversity, discrimination, and stress, referred to as racial trauma , is harmful to children’s development and well-being. Events that may cause racial trauma include threats of harm and injury, hate speech,...
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Highlighting the Importance of Trauma-Informed Care: Q&A with Dr. Edward Machtinger [chcs.org]
By Meryl Schulman and Emma Opthof, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., July 7, 2020 COVID-19 and the stressors it is placing on individuals’ physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing create a new imperative for health care systems to look to trauma-informed care to support both patients and frontline workers. To learn more about how health care providers are using trauma-informed approaches to care in the current environment, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) recently...
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Trauma-Informed Telehealth in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
https://www.mdedge.com/fedprac/article/225184/coronavirus-updates/trauma-informed-telehealth-covid-19-era-and-beyond Background: The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) entered the COVID-19 pandemic crisis with an existing and robust telehealth program, but it still faces a fundamental paradigm shift as most routine outpatient in-person care was converted to telehealth visits. Veterans are a highly trauma-exposed population, and VHA has long offered effective telemental health services.
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Emergency departments look inward to deepen practices that support traumatized patients
An interdisciplinary team of clinicians from Brigham and Women’s Hospital had a bold idea in 2017. They would completely change the way things worked in their hospital’s emergency department so that the care provided to their patients was infused with a trauma-informed approach. That means recognizing how widespread trauma is and using a myriad of techniques to mitigate its harmful effects among patients, providers and staff. The realization of just how widespread trauma is came to light in...
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Baby courts: A proven approach to stop the multigenerational transmission of ACES in child welfare; new efforts to establish courts nationwide
The organization Zero To Three estimates that in the U.S., a child is taken into the child welfare system every six seconds. “Many of society’s most intractable problems can be traced back to childhood adversity. Being in the child welfare system increases the likelihood of more adversity and criminality. Baby court is a proven approach to healing the trauma of both child and parent, and breaking the cycle of maltreatment,” says Mimi Graham, Ed.D ., director of the Florida State University...
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Pathway for Trauma is Pathway for Resilience: Fresno Network's Message Inspires Hope
In Fresno, volunteers from local churches were already working with the schools, mentoring kids and running weekend recreation programs. Community-based non-profits were in conversation with educators; pastors were talking to social-service providers. The problems were clear: nearly 30% of Fresno’s residents living in poverty (the rate tops 40% for Black residents), with a 20-year gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest parts of this sharply segregated city. For several years,...
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‘Trauma on top of trauma’: Bay Area students under stress from pandemic face wildfire risks [sfchronicle.com]
By Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle, August 25, 2020 Students in the Bonny Doon school district had been back in class — virtually — for two days before the wildfires forced them to evacuate, many fleeing for their lives in the middle of the night Wednesday. Teachers and students lost homes to the powerful wildfires raging through the charming, wooded town in the Santa Cruz Mountains. School had just started, but now Superintendent Mike Heffner, who is also the principal of the...
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Pathway for Trauma is Pathway for Resilience: Fresno Network's Message Inspires Hope
In Fresno, volunteers from local churches were already working with the schools, mentoring kids and running weekend recreation programs. Community-based non-profits were in conversation with educators; pastors were talking to social-service providers. The problems were clear: nearly 30% of Fresno’s residents living in poverty (the rate tops 40% for Black residents), with a 20-year gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest parts of this sharply segregated city. For several years,...
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Root Your Culture in Values and Watch it Grow
“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history. Many well-meaning social activists overlook this essential fact. They focus relentlessly on strategy, but strategy means nothing to our bodies and our lizard brains. When strategy competes with culture, culture wins–every time.” ~Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands No one can dispute Valorie Kondos Field’s record of winning. During her 29 years as head coach of the UCLA women’s gymnastics team, she led her...
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The Resilient Beginnings Network Is Taking Grant Applications - Due Date September 18th
Interested SF Bay Area safety net organizations can apply for funding to participate in this three-year program on resilience and trauma-informed care.
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Trauma is 'Written Into Our Bodies' - but Educators Can Help [edutopia.org]
By Stephen Merrill, Edutopia, September 11, 2020 Some of the first adorable patients to trickle into Dr. Nadine Burke Harris’s pediatric clinic when it opened in 2007—long before she was named the first surgeon general of California—were referred by teachers and principals. Sitting in her examination rooms back then, in one of San Francisco’s poorest neighborhoods, Burke Harris knew almost immediately that something was amiss. Her young patients arrived with tentative diagnoses of...
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'I don’t know how we can really achieve racial equity if we’re not hearing the voices of those whom we hope to serve'
Dr. Shandi Fuller recalls that when she first assembled an all-staff meeting at the Solano County Family Health Services to show how equity and ACEs screening should go hand in hand, some staff members were bewildered. “Why are we talking about equity?” they asked. As Fuller explained to attendees at “A Better Normal,” an ACEs Connection webinar on Oct. 13, the question led her and a colleague to develop training for medical providers on this concept. The webinar was also based on extensive...
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Designing for family needs: Del Norte County & Ready4K
Del Norte and Ready4K have been working together to create a program specifically designed to support the health and educational goals of this beautiful, remote corner of CA. We're so proud to share the story of what we've created together - a story that continues to unfold. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nestled in the northwestern corner of California along the Oregon border, Del Norte County is one of the most rural communities in the most populous state in the country. It’s a land of towering Redwood...
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Trauma-responsive school thinks outside-the-box to engage students during pandemic
Before the pandemic, Sara Buckley, an 8 th grade science teacher at Park Middle School in Antioch, California, could handle students who were acting out during class. Understanding that trauma lies beneath disruptive behavior, she didn’t send kids to the principal for punishment. Instead, she’d talk with them to find out what was going on at home or outside of school—and then work out a plan for how to respond differently the next time they were triggered. They could visit the school’s...
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Re: Trauma-responsive school thinks outside-the-box to engage students during pandemic
You guys are doing amazing work. Continue to trust yourself and your teammates and believing in our youth. Check out https://girlsleadership.org/po...ive-training-online/
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Trauma Informed Care during COVID 19: Webinar
Trauma-Informed Care During COVID-19: Key Concepts and Applications for Frontline Providers November 19 th , 2020 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST https://sgim.users.membersuite.com/events/0a004b4d-0078-c579-d848-8a9912649d81/details Join us for an in-depth look at how trauma and adverse childhood experiences impact the health of individuals and minority populations, particularly the impact during COVID-19. The COVID 19 pandemic is traumatic in itself. As clinicians, we have seen its effect,...
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From Wildfires to Childhood Trauma, a Resilience Cooperative Transformed the Way Clinics Face the Unthinkable
What helped Sonoma health center staffers navigate one catastrophe after another was what they had learned about trauma in the Resilient Beginnings Collaborative.
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A hospital builds awareness about trauma, deploys acts of empathy
In late 2018, Roberta Azzo, an operations program manager at Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Midlothian, Virginia, decided to take an all-hands-on-deck approach to infusing the hospital’s culture with a trauma-informed approach to care. This involves recognizing that trauma is widespread and that it can cause all kinds of troubled behavior, learning ways to de-escalate that behavior, and preventing practices that trigger patients and staff who have experienced trauma. The hospital...
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Join Us for a Webinar - Addressing Historic Trauma in Indian Country: Funding and Implementing Trauma-Informed Programming in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dec 4, 2020 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) How does historic trauma impact contemporary Native American communities and how can Tribal communities, the federal government, and community organizations work together to address and mitigate those impacts? Van Ness Feldman and the Roundtable on Native American Trauma-Informed Initiatives* invite you to a webinar featuring Dr. Tami DeCoteau, a leader in identifying and implementing successful approaches to trauma-informed care and Van...
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Re: A hospital builds awareness about trauma, deploys acts of empathy
This is absolutely fantastic work - thank you for the inspiration!
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‘A lost generation’: Surge of research reveals students sliding backward, most vulnerable worst affected [The Washington Post]
After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were right. A flood of new data — on the national, state and district levels — finds students began this academic year behind. Most of the research concludes students of color and those in high-poverty communities fell further behind their peers, exacerbating long-standing gaps in American education. A study being released this week by...
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PRESENTATIONS/WEBINARS on trauma-informed care, parenting, and ACEs
A Trauma-Informed Approach: Three Myths Busted 1pm on January 12 Amidst all of the trauma in the world, the time for a paradigm shift is now. Join Origins Training & Consulting for an overview of what a trauma-informed approach is (and what it isn’t!) and how you can apply these concepts in your setting. Whether you have just learned about ACEs, toxic stress, and the impact of trauma or have been using this approach for years, this one-hour interactive session will give you information...
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SPECIAL LIVE EVENT: Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast
I would like to invite you a special live event from Paradigm Shift Education through he Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast on January 28, 2021 at 6pm CST. Podcast host and trauma-informed principal, Mathew Portell, will engage three experts in the field a special live podcast which will be streamed on Facebook ( Paradigm Shift Education , Trauma Informed Educators Network , and Trauma Informed Educators Network Podcast) , YouTube ( Paradigm Shift Education ), and Periscope! Dr. Lori...
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Webinar: Trauma-Informed Support via Text Message
We're excited to share this behind-the-scenes story of how the Ready4K team collaborated with First 5 Del Norte to create the country's first trauma-informed text message support program! Hear directly from Angela Glore, executive director of First 5 Del Norte, about how she and her partner organizations worked together to connect the dots between community health goals and early learning opportunities. It's a fascinating story of how this rural community set out a big, hairy, audacious goal...
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New Understanding Childhood Trauma Resource for Parents/Caregivers
Please see our new pamphlet for parents/caregivers about childhood trauma (now in eight languages), and share with friends, family and colleagues. Although designed for Massachusetts residents, the resource page can be adapted for other locations. Thank you for your help and any distribution ideas. https://www.frcma.org/about/tr...sources-and-training https://myemail.constantcontact.com/NEW-Understanding-Childhood-Trauma-Resource.html?soid=1135101415145&aid=t6mWQvwx2sA
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The 'war on drugs' was a war on people of color
In the spring of 1982, Susan Burton turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the death of her 5-year-old son, who had run into the street and was hit by a vehicle driven by an off-duty police officer . Over the course of the next 17 years, Burton was in and out of prison. “Each time I left, I felt a little more broken,” she told me recently. What would have made a difference, she said, was “if there could have been a way to have therapy from traumatic childhood events, disappointments and...
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Understanding ACEs: Stories of trauma and resilience
Over the past few months, the OCDE Newsroom has cast a light on ACE’s – or Adverse Childhood Experiences . Through the process of exploring ACEs, we’ve discovered that while childhood trauma can have an influence on who we are and how we engage with the world around us, it is resiliency that truly defines who a person becomes. Thankfully, despite tragic situations, some people take their painful experiences and use their stories for the greater good of their communities — and that is where...
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A hospital shifts toward practices that build resilience, prevent trauma triggers
The nurses at Bon Secours St. Mary’s pediatric lung clinic were puzzled. A mother kept bringing her child in because of asthma attacks, even though the boy was regularly taking his prescribed medications. The nurses wanted to know if there was anything going on in the child’s life that might explain the attacks, says Blair Bell, a pediatric specialties nurse manager who oversees the lung clinic and five other pediatric clinics affiliated with St. Mary’s. Blair Bell “After talking to the boy,...
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Re: A hospital shifts toward practices that build resilience, prevent trauma triggers
Why was Richmond the worst city in the U.S. for pediatric asthma to begin with? What is and has been causing all the childhood trauma? And have these conditions exacerbated the trauma since the pandemic?
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Road Map for Ending Domestic Violence in California: A Life Course Approach to Prevention
Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is excited to share A Road Map for Ending Domestic Violence in California: A Life Course Approach to Prevention with the ACEs Connection community. The Road Map , a policy paper supported by Blue Shield of California Foundation, draws upon our work at FUTURES as well as research and study on best practices for preventing violence. It presents four evidenced-based prevention and intervention strategies to prevent and end domestic violence in California:...
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ARTIC Scale Accepted on California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse (CEBC)
The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale has been approved for inclusion on the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare , a nationally recognized registry of evidence-based practices and measurement tools recommended for use in child welfare settings. While there are many TIC assessment tools available, very few have been psychometrically validated, and only the ARTIC has been accepted (to be officially listed in Spring 2021) to the CEBC. The ARTIC...
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How are law enforcement leaders using ACEs science to change policing?
Eleven years ago, Pennsylvania Executive Deputy Attorney General Robert Reed learned about the landmark Adverse Childhood Experiences Study , which linked childhood trauma to a higher risk of aggression, substance abuse, suicide and many life-threatening mental and physical diseases later in life. For him, it was a revelation. “The [ACE Study] gave me the language to understand what I felt, but didn’t have the language to express,” Reed said. “I had been in law enforcement for 30 years and...