Tagged With "ACEs"
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Request for Proposals - Addressing Health Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences through a Collaborative Precision Medicine Approach [opr.ca.gov]
California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, December 4, 2019 We are pleased to announce the 2019 Request For Proposals (RFP). This RFP will serve as a means to identify collaborative proof-of-principle Demonstration Projects with the aim to improve care for Californians who have been impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). This RFP incorporates demonstration project selection criteria codified by AB 1602, Chapter 24, Statutes of 2016, which establishes the California...
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RESOURCES from Harvard Center on the Developing Child
In case you missed them, here are all of the resources that Harvard Center on the Developing Child released in 2019: Infographics: https:// developingchild.harvard.edu/ resourcecategory/infographics/ What are ACEs? And how do they relate to toxic stress? What is Epigenetics? And how does it relate to child development? What is executive function? And how does it relate to child development? What we can do about toxic stress: From surviving to coping to resilience Putting science into action:...
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Childhood trauma a crucial public health issue [CapitolWeekly.net]
Preventing childhood trauma should be one of the top goals of California policymakers, a coalition of child advocates say. About 150 of the advocates came to Sacramento last week to educate legislators about the devastating effects of adverse childhood experiences. The goal was to help legislators create policies that will better protect kids. Adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, are experiences that are so harmful to children’s developing brains that they affect their lives decades...
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Children to be Screened for Toxic Stress, Trauma Under new State Initiative [bakersfield.com]
By Stacey Shepard, Bakersfield.com, January 11, 2020 Children in Kern County and throughout California may be screened for childhood trauma and toxic stress during routine pediatrician visits starting this year. The screenings are part of a new state initiative to identify adverse childhood experiences, known as ACEs, which a growing body of research shows can significantly increase the risk of poor health outcomes later in life, ranging from suicide, alcohol addiction, depression and drug...
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Children with special health care needs are more likely to have adverse childhood experiences [ChildTrends.org]
Authors: Deborah Seok, David Murphey, Fadumo M. Abdi Publication Date: December 10, 2019 The prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) is higher among children and youth with special health care needs than among their peers without special health care needs, according to Child Trends’ analysis of data from the 2016-17 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH). The survey asks parents or guardians to report whether their child has experienced any of nine ACEs. The percentage of...
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California’s Surgeon General Readies Statewide Screening for Child Trauma [chronicleofsocialchange.org]
By Jeremy Loudenback, Chronicle of Social Change, September 19, 2019 Soon after being appointed California’s first-ever surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris took off on a barnstorming tour across the state to talk about adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress, an issue she calls “the biggest public health crisis facing California today.” Before the pediatrician was appointed to her position in January by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), Harris had founded and led the Center for Youth Wellness,...
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California Selects UCSF Trauma Screening Tool for Statewide Initiative to Combat Adverse Childhood Experiences [ucsf.edu]
By Lorna Fernandes, University of California San Francisco, December 4, 2019 The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has approved the use of a screening tool for Medi-Cal patients that helps pediatricians identify Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that can lead to increased health risks in their patients. It is the only tool of its kind to qualify for pediatric Medi-Cal payments. Known as PEARLS, for Pediatric ACEs and Related Life-Events Screener, the tool was developed...
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California Wildfires Have Disrupted School For A Quarter Of A Million Students [NPR.org]
Photo: In Santa Rosa, a playground stands across the street from where recent wildfires reduced homes to rubble. Nick Giblin/AP The wildfires in Northern California cut across a wide swath of the state — including dozens of school districts, hundreds of schools and hundreds of thousands of students. At one point, classes were canceled for 260,000 students in 600 schools . And while schools are slowly coming back on line, there remain many that may not resume classes for days or even weeks.
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#CHCSchat: Getting Started with Trauma-Informed Care
This Tweet Chat by the Center for Health Care Strategies will focus on ways health care organizations can get started on becoming trauma-informed. Join us!
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HIGHLIGHT!! Live webinar: CA surgeon general and DHCS medical director discuss ACE screening training
Join a live webinar with California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and Dr. Karen Mark Medical Director, Department of Health Care Services for a Medi-Cal provider introduction to the new ACEs Aware Initiative and the www.ACEsAware.org website. The Office of the California Surgeon General and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), in the first public unveiling of the initiative, will host a live webinar to share details of the new ACEs Aware Initiative for Medi-Cal providers...
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How One Connection at CYW’s ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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How One Connection at CYW’s ACEs Conference Sparked Awareness into Action
Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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Hundreds from Humboldt Came Together for the Third Town Hall on ACEs
On November 21st, 2019 we had the pleasure of welcoming California's Surgeon General, and ACEs Champion, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris to Humboldt County for the third town hall event on ACEs and resilience hosted by Senator Mike McGuire and First 5 Humboldt. This event was an opportunity for the community to come together again to deepen awareness of the impacts of ACEs on our children and families, and what has been done over the years to address and prevent childhood adversity at local and...
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Re: ACEs | Alcohol's Harm to Others | Secondhand Drinking
The other not often talked about negative effect of alcohol is mothers who drink while pregnant, causing permanent brain damage to the child. This in turn effects everyone who cares for and interacts with the child.
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Re: ACEs | Alcohol's Harm to Others | Secondhand Drinking
You are so right, Katrina!! The fact that an infant comes out with the ability to breathe, sleep, suck, pee, poop, heart beat, open/close eyes...means brain development is occurring en utero, because EVERYTHING a person (infant, child, teen, adult) does requires neural networks (cell-to-cell communications processes). Thanks for sharing your comment and this post. Lisa
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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: HIGHLIGHT!! Live webinar: CA surgeon general and DHCS medical director discuss ACE screening training
The effect of the above-described approach is summarized this paragraph from the attached article. "Another example of the research potential of this approach to preventive medicine was demonstrated by an analysis of 135,000 consecutive adults going through Health Appraisal in a 2.5-year period. ACE Study questions relating to traumatic life experiences in childhood had recently been added to the comprehensive medical history questionnaire that patients filled out at home. A major data...
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Re: Survey: Healthcare providers, community organizations weigh in on California's ACEs screening program
Thank you for writing this article, and sharing the results of the survey. I was disappointed however to not see any mention of the potential perpetuation of structural and systemic racism as a result of conducting screenings. It is widely understood that the adult ACEs screening tool does not work well for all populations and may result in inaccurate findings for people of color. And, what about the requirement that providers include the label "toxic physiology" in patient files if their...
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Re: Survey: Healthcare providers, community organizations weigh in on California's ACEs screening program
Sarah thanks for reading the report and sharing your insights! These are exactly the kinds of conversations we hoped to spark with this effort. One of the disadvantages of using a convenience sample, and a short survey window, is that we may not have tapped into a full range of views. Knowing that the Office of the Surgeon General would soon launch ACEs Aware and that the clinical reimbursement program for ACEs screening would begin, together with the backbone of 4CA, we thought it was...
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Re: ACEs goes to prison, to help.
If we look for how we're alike, not different, we can all heal, together.
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Re: ACEs goes to prison, to help.
This video is so good! I was going to post it last week and Jane Stevens posted it. Was so glad. It was brought to my attention by a friend. I want to know more about this program and this amazing woman! Glad you posted it. It is by the compassionprisonproject.org
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Re: ACEs goes to prison, to help.
This video gives me hope for a better future. Also see this amazing video that Samual Brown posted from the same video series. https://www.pacesconnection.com...-ace-and-criminology
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Re: 5 Things to Know as California Starts Screening Children for Toxic Stress [californiahealthline.org]
And, after asking about these experiences, the asker (physician, screener, etc.) should be ready to refer the child to a skilled trauma therapist.
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Re: 5 Things to Know as California Starts Screening Children for Toxic Stress [californiahealthline.org]
As always, Dr. Finkelfor says things others might be too afraid to say: Here he points out that although it's a good thing to recognize the impact of adversities on child wellbeing, we are moving too fast and don't yet know what best practices are. He cautions that this could have "disastrous consequences.” It flies in the face of trauma informed care to possibly add injury to those already burdened with adversity.
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Re: 5 Things to Know as California Starts Screening Children for Toxic Stress [californiahealthline.org]
I am new to this community. I completely understand the worry for this overloading the current system. We are beginning a full fledged systems change for medical care, because the research demands that we pay attention to what we now know about ACEs, serious health risks and an attack on resiliency. We need everyone to be versed in trauma and resilience language and actions. My passion is in understanding and maximizing resiliency across the lifespan. I think Dr. Finkelfor is right, there...
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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: 8 Myths About Screening For 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 screenings should accompany 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: Parent with ACEs: Is it Time to Change Your Parenting Playbook [sfbayview.com]
Perhaps it is time to take Dr. Felitti's advice and begin seeking ways to improve the overall quality of parenting in communities.
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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: ACEs Screening in Pediatrics: Perspectives from the Field
Is the content of this webinar significantly different that the webinar they presented on Dec 2? Thanks!
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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: ACEs and Our Day with Dr. Vincent Felitti
Learning of the ACEs Study was hugely helpful to my "true" recovery from bulimia.
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Hannah Sherfinski: Breaking the silence: Identifying youth in need through trauma screening [madison.com]
By Hannah Sherfinski, The Cap Times, June 1, 2020 For two months, our country has been enduring the effects of COVID-19. With over 1 million COVID-19 cases reported in the U.S. and over 30 million Americans filing for unemployment, many of us are panic-stricken about our future physical, mental, social and financial well-being. Worst of all, we must cope with these fears in isolation. These intense feelings of uncertainty and desolation may trigger the body’s instinctual fight, flight or...
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Opinion: We Need a Safety Net for Children Experiencing Toxic Stress [calhealthreport.org]
By Jim Hickman, California Health Report, June 8, 2020 We need to invest in the safety-net institutions that serve and support our most vulnerable now and during times of crisis. COVID-19 is decimating our fragile, unfunded and outdated safety net, and the vital links between families and their local economic, health and social supports. The pandemic has made “underlying conditions” the new code phrase for the social and health inequities disproportionately impacting black and brown...
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I found my voice and I am going to use it
People are angry. Angry about institutional racism, angry about racial profiling, angry about police brutality, and angry about so many other displays of inequity that are happening in our country. People of color have always been marginalized in our society and people of all colors are finally saying enough is enough.
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Join the Movement: Become ACEs Aware [acesaware.org]
By ACEs Aware, June 2020 As you likely know, ACEs Aware offers a free, online training for providers interested in learning more about screening for ACEs and responding with trauma-informed care. The training provides two Continuing Medical Education and Maintenance of Certification credits. The training is case-based, including cases for pediatric, internal medicine, family medicine, and women’s health providers. Medi-Cal providers who take this training and complete the simple attestation...
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CME/CE/MOC Now Available for CYW Online ACEs Course! [centerforyouthwellness.org]
From Center for Youth Wellness, June 24, 2020 Great news! You can now receive CME credits and MOC points for taking Center for Youth Wellness’ online learning courses. Receive 1.5 CME credits for ACEs: The Science & Foundational Framework , which lays out evidence for how exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress impacts the brain and causes multi-systemic effects. This course will enable you to: Describe the link between ACEs, additional adversities and toxic...
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Northern California Youth Listening Sessions: Hearing the Voices of Youth Involved in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58eeb29cdb29d6de1df8ac76/t/5ed85f5b4c61935658893996/1591238520469/Youth+Listening+Sessions+Report.pdf Justin Martinez, 29, will be a first-generation graduate when he earns his psychology degree from San Francisco State University this month. Martinez was formerly a foster child and shared his story at a Youth Listening Session , an event where young people in the foster care and juvenile justice systems engage in honest dialogue and self-expression.
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Watch the Webinar: “Fundamentals of ACE Screening and Response in Pediatrics” [acesaware.org]
From ACEs Aware, July 1, 2020 ACEs Aware hosted a webinar on June 24th – “ Fundamentals of ACE Screening and Response in Pediatrics. ” You can watch the webinar at ACEsAware.org . Dr. Burke Harris and three other health care providers walked through two case studies to show how ACE screening can impact their clinical decision-making. Panelists: Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP – California Surgeon General Lisa Gutiérrez Wang, PhD – Director of Children’s Behavioral Health, Santa Cruz...
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Re: A Better Understanding of ACEs, Pediatric & Adult Screening, Trauma Informed Care & More Webinar on July 10, 2020 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm - Free Event – 2 CEU’s
Can you send me the link please
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Re: A Better Understanding of ACEs, Pediatric & Adult Screening, Trauma Informed Care & More Webinar on July 10, 2020 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm - Free Event – 2 CEU’s
i am trying to join webinar
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Child Life specialists empower kids in hospitals, disasters and now the pandemic
In late May, Betsy Andersen’s 7-year-old son, Ezra, had a serious meltdown. He and his six-year-old sister Abby had been enjoying an online Zoom interaction with “Miss Eileen,” “Miss Savannah,” a couple of their colleagues, and a puppet. Betsy Andersen “I could see him trailing off and then he started crying,” says Andersen, who lives in Mundelein, Illinois. But before she swooped in, she heard Miss Eileen talking to him: “She was saying ‘Hey, I see you’re having some big emotions.” Speaking...
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How a Pandemic Could Advance the Science of Early Adversity [jamanetwork.com]
By Danielle Roubinov, Nicole R. Bush, and W. Thomas Boyce, JAMA Pediatrics, July 27, 2020 The reach of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is global, a health crisis with a ubiquity never before experienced. While the physical health consequences of COVID-19 appear to affect proportionally fewer children compared with adults, its psychosocial consequences may be magnified within families who consistently weather a landscape of severe stressors or adverse childhood experiences...
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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...