Tagged With "State of Our Health"
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5 Year El Dorado County ACEs Collaborative Action Plan Workbook for 10/2018-10/2023 - Updated 08/2019
Attached is the updated 5 Year El Dorado County ACEs Collaborative Action Plan Workbook for 10/2018-10/2023. Updated as of 08/2019.
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A Tale of Two Trees: Growing Community Resilience
Attached is the presentation from the El Dorado ACEs Collaborative meeting on 11/29/18.
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Supporting Families Impacted by Addiction
RFQ ANNOUNCEMENT: Celebrating Families! California Expansion Project Update: Due to the expanding ACEs response in California, and subsequent interest in Celebrating Families! we are extending the due date for proposals to May 24 th. Invitation to Expand Celebrating Families!™ Statewide The California State Office of Child Abuse Prevention (OCAP) recognizing the effectiveness of Celebrating Families! (CF!), has awarded Prevention Partnership International (PPI) a $100,000, 2-year challenge...
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Advance Practice at the ACEs 2016 Project Showcase
From the organizers of the 2016 ACEs Conference , San Francisco, CA, October 19th -21st, 2016. Please consider submitting your project today! We know building connections and learning across fields is the best way to advance practices that support children. That’s why we’re very excited to invite you to submit your work to the 2016 Conference on Adverse Childhood Experiences Project Showcase . We’re looking to highlight research, programs, tools or other initiatives that: Highlight the role...
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At El Dorado ACEs Collaborative meeting, NPPC talks ACEs, new connections forged
More than 65 people showed up in person in Placerville or via teleconferencing from South Lake Tahoe on Feb. 21 to learn about the National Pediatric Practice Community on ACEs (NPPC), a program of the San Francisco-based Center for Youth Wellness . Among the discussion points made by NPPC Program Manager Leena Singh were the connection between ACEs and health outcomes, the need for doing universal ACEs screening, and the necessary infrastructure to implement ACEs screening, according to...
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Bridges Out of Poverty 1-Day Training in Sacramento on October 12, 2017
Great opportunity for training. A 1-day Bridges Out of Poverty training is being offered in Sacramento on October 12, 2017 for only $25 . See the attached flyer for more information and register at: https://voabridges.eventbrite.com/
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Budget Hearing on Trauma Screening (Assembly Bill 340)
Our state is leading the way in addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)! This year, California will become the first state to require and pay for ACEs screening for children under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment program, per recommendations from the Trauma Screening Advisory Workgroup created as part of Assembly Bill 340 . The Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services hearing on Monday, February 25th will discuss the recommendations from the AB 340...
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"Building Violence Free Schools & Communities " ONE DAY CONFERENCE!
Tulare County CAPC is proud to provide this ONE DAY conference on "Building Violence Free Schools & Communities" featuring 3 nationally know speakers with first hand experience and expertise in the field of violence prevention. Dr. Melissa Reeves (Columbine, CO shooting) Scarlett Lewis (Parent of a child lost in Sandy Hook shooting) and Clayton Douglas (former student who planned a shooting) will provide us with critical knowledge and skills in violence prevention. **** FLYER AND...
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California issues update on state residents' ACE scores from 2011 & 2013 surveys
The latest adverse childhood experiences survey from the California Department of Public Health shows that 42% of the population has an ACE score of 3 or higher; 16% have an ACE score of 4 or higher. Those with an ACE score of 4 or higher are: 3x more likely to be current smokers 4x more likely to have a depressive disorder 2x more likely to have asthma 2x more likely to be obese 4x more likely to have COPD 3x more likely to have a stroke Here are a few other highlights from the six-page...
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Child Advocates of El Dorado County receives national certification
Child Advocates of El Dorado County received a 2017 certification by the National Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Association. The certification recognizes that Child Advocates of El Dorado County is in full compliance with National CASA’s high standards for quality child advocacy. “The National CASA quality assurance process is very rigorous, and reflects our commitment to ensure every child served has a powerful volunteer advocate working on their behalf and a strong program...
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Community Discussion For Families
Are you a foster/resource family? A guardian/kinship family? An adoptive family? What are your family's needs...more support...respite...social activities...trauma-informed therapists...adoption support? We want to hear from you! Join us for an evening discussion which will be facilitated by the North American Council on Adoptable Children. Together we can strengthen our families! Handouts on adoption tips will be provided. Resource/foster families will receive training hours for attendance.
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Community Discussion For Professionals/CBOs About Family Needs
Do you work with families who are caring for children who are in foster care, in guardianships, or have been adopted? What can our community do in order to better meet these families' and children's needs? Join us for a discussion that will be facilitated by the North American Council on Adoptable Children. With your input, we will explore the Community Champions Network concept that can strengthen our community. When: Tuesday, September 25th from 1:00pm-3:00pm Where: The Cameron Park...
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Connections Matter
By Kathleen Guerrero, executive director, First 5 El Dorado Commission Connections matter. Brain connections, caring relationships and thriving communities contribute to healthy communities. The Community Hub Partnership Team believes El Dorado County can build healthy communities by understanding and being intentional about connecting families. Positive interactions are the foundation for healthy brain development at any age. The Harvard Center for the Developing Child finds brain...
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Cracked Up: 3 Exciting Announcements [crackedupmovie.com]
By Michelle Esrick, Cracked Up Movie, April 2020 — A letter from Director Michelle Esrick — Dear friends, My heart goes out to everyone during this extremely challenging and unprecedented time. We are all experiencing what a traumatic event this is for everyone around the world -- from the reports we all hear on the news, to stories from family and friends, and for me personally being hospitalized with Covid-19. Many trauma survivors, including myself, are experiencing higher levels of...
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CYW releases "Children Can Thrive: A Vision for California's Response to ACEs"
The Center for Youth Wellness released a new report “Children Can Thrive: A Vision for California’s Response to ACEs”. This report is a follow up to last November’s Children Can Thrive Summit. ...
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Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands? Come to our no-cost mental and school mental health Winter Institute!
Do you live in Arizona, Hawaii, California, Nevada or the US Pacific Islands?If so...Check it out! 👇 NO COST. MENTAL HEALTH & SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH WORKFORCE. AMAZING FACULTY. JANUARY 14, 15, & 16th! LONG BEACH, CA. JOIN US. 🤝 👏 Learn more here: http://bit.ly/mhttc-winterinstitute-flyer Register here: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07egq2f9gaebafa6bd&llr=8wdk4ubab
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Do you or a loved one need mental health help amid the coronavirus crisis? Here's who to call [sacbee.com]
By Andrew Sheeler, The Sacramento Bee, April 7, 2020 With unemployment soaring, a statewide stay-at-home order and no end in sight for the coronavirus pandemic, this is a trying time for the mental health of all Californians. To that end, the state maintains a resource at covid19.ca.gov that includes advice and multiple hotlines to call. The site also offers some advice to people struggling at home. That advice includes limiting social media and news intake, and being mindful of your sources...
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El Dorado ACEs Collaborative 2 Year Work Plan Summary of Accomplishments
To celebrate the completion of our 2 year ACEs Action plan the El Dorado ACEs Collaborative has put together a 1-pager of some of our accomplishments. See attached and contact Lynnan Svensson <lynnan.svensson@edcgov.us> for more information.
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El Dorado ACEs Collaborative One-Pager
Attached is information on El Dorado ACEs Collaborative. First page!
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El Dorado ACEs Collaborative’s 2nd Birthday Celebration: A Guest Speaker Better than Cake!
I recently joined El Dorado County as a Public Health Nurse for the Community Hubs program. The Community Hubs program, developed with awareness of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), is focused on bringing resilience to our community. There is so much about Public Health that I’m already passionate about and ACEs/resiliency is one of my favorite topics. Yesterday, I attended the El Dorado County ACEs collaborative for the first time. It was AMAZING! Around 80 members joined in Placerville...
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El Dorado County Data Dashboard: Child Adversity and Well-Being
A product of the Essentials for Childhood Initiative (EfC), the Child Adversity and Well-Being Dashboards contain indicators of child adversity, health and well-being utilizing data available on kidsdata.org . For more information about the dashboards, please refer to the California Data Dashboards page. The El Dorado County Data Dashboard contains select indicators of child adversity and well-being. The dashboard is a product of the Shared Data and Outcomes Workgroup of the California...
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El Dorado County Trauma and Resilience Network One Pager
Attached find a 2018 version of El Dorado County community profile detailing information about your community ACEs initiative. This will be shared with CA legislators at the Trauma-Informed Policymaker Awareness Day on May 22nd in Sacramento. I attach it here as a PDF ready to print and share! I also have uploaded into 'Resources for Downloading' the same PDF, and an editable Word document so that you can update or otherwise improve it. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out...
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Family Support Hubs Open [Villagelife.com]
There was reason to cheer inside the El Dorado Hills Library last Wednesday. Community Hub 1 officially opened — one of five hubs housed in public libraries in each of the five county supervisorial districts. In the fall of 2016 the Community Hubs project was launched in El Dorado County. It’s a partnership between First 5 El Dorado Children and Families Commission, El Dorado County libraries, El Dorado County Office of Education and the El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency.
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For all you Facebookers
Greetings! Have been part of our County ACEs Collaborative as part of the community work sector group. We've put together a FB page (clearinghouse of sorts) for all things related to trauma, recovery, and resilience for anyone interested in accessing a more "mainstream" social networking channel. If you'd like to join, please see our requirements under DESCRIPTION re: Policy of Honor & Practice, & support the Values, Mission & Vision and answer yes. Here's link-...
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Free Monthly Dance Event at El Dorado County Fairgrounds
DOSE OF DANCE (flyers attached here & under resources link) (Brought to you by the El Dorado ACEs Collaborative Community Sector Work Group) WHO: All are welcome! WHAT: FREE, early morning dance event to “set the tone” for your month. Water and snacks available to purchase or bring your own. WHEN: 6-8AM on the following dates- 2/4, 3/4, 4/8, 5/6, 7/1, 8/5, 9/9, 10/7, 11/4, 12/2 WHERE: EDC Fairgrounds Organ Room (enter through iron gates on Placerville Drive, Organ room left of the Forni...
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Free: safeTALK training's June 28, 2017
Good afternoon team, I would like to announce our first of many safeTALK training's. Suicide Prevention Network has partnered with Volunteers of America (VOA) to facilitate this training. It is about 3.5 hours and is useful for anyone in South Lake - whether it be member, caregiver or employee. Please spread the word. This training is free! Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you so much! -- Thank you, Alisa Merino Program Coordinator Suicide Prevention Network 1625 HWY 88...
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FREE TRAINING - Trauma Informed Approaches for Community Leaders
El Dorado County Health and Human Services is partnering with the National Council for Behavioral Health to provide one full-day FREE training for local businesses and county leaders focusing on the following topics: Needs of our current workforce Workforce concerns, including burnout, and how to respond Need for trauma-informed leadership Explore the components of trauma-informed leadership 5.5 CEUs will be available for Social Workers and Nurses. Training will be held from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
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Free Workshop: Understanding and Responding to Crisis and Trauma in Children
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019, 6:00pm-9:00pm El Dorado Center, 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville, Building C, Room 102 Bring $2 cash for the parking permit machine Please RSVP to Juline for this free workshop at Juline.aguilar@flc.losrios.edu to ensure a seat and handouts. Resource Families will receive 3 annual training hours. Crisis Intervention is an RFA annual topic. Our presenter is Dr. Lorraine Fox, a clinical psychologist from San Diego with decades of experience working with children and...
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Got time for a little brainstorming with ACEsConnection?
On Friday, March 20, 2020, you're invited to join me to talk about how we, as a community, can continue to guide and educate ourselves about to deal with the effects of the spread of Covid-19, and how to continue those efforts with people who don't yet know about ACEs science. And, given this last week, how we can provide more support to stay in the front of our brains instead of feeding our amygdala.
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Governor Newsom announces Nadine Burke Harris to be CA's first-ever surgeon general
Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the appointment of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a national leader in pediatric medicine, to serve as California’s first-ever surgeon general. There is overwhelming consensus in the scientific community around early warning signs and childhood determinants of serious health outcomes. As surgeon general, Dr. Burke Harris will urge policymakers at every level of government and leaders across the state to consider the social determinants of health, especially...
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Hanna Boys Center to host renowned UCSF physician, who believes childhood traumas can lead to disease [PressDemocrat.com]
A nationally renowned Bay Area physician, known for his impassioned belief that childhood poverty leads to disease, is bringing that message to the Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma next month as part of an ongoing networking series. Bertram Lubin, associate dean of Children’s Health at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, will speak from 7:30-9 a.m. June 8 alongside Barbie Robinson, Sonoma County’s director of health services and Dayna Long, another physician from UCSF Benioff Children’s...
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Highlights and Resources from the February 7, 2019 Strategies 2.0 Sierra Regional Learning Community: Promoting Resilience using a Trauma-Informed Approach, Emphasizing Partnerships with Behavioral Health Systems.
Growing knowledge and networks for professionals working with families The third Sierra Learning Community in the four-part Building Resiliency Series focused on: Promoting Resilience using a Trauma-Informed Approach, Emphasizing P artnerships with Behavioral Health Systems. Together we explored successful approaches to support the behavioral health needs of children and families living in rural communities. View the recording of the event by clicking here: 2.7.19 Sierra Learning Community...
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Highlights from the September 27, 2018 Sierra Learning Community
Highlights of the September 27, 2018 Sierra Learning Community Link to the recording: View the 9.27.18 Learning Community Event For the first of four Sierra Learning Communities focused on resiliency, Matthew Reddam, LMFT, from Trauma Transformed presented on the Trauma Informed Systems Approach, and how it can be utilized to foster resilience in agencies, communities and the families we serve. Matt shared how a trauma informed system is one that realizes, recognizes, responds and resists...
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How the Resources Center Works
Hey, All! In case you didn't hear the news, our new Resources Center is up and running. This is a work in progress, but you can find a host of resources to support your work. Please see Jane's initial post below! - Jen Welcome to the ACEsConnection.com Resources Center! As of October 2016, we are launching this new version. We think that it's a skeleton of its future self, i.e., we'll be adding more categories and more information to each category. Our goal is to make this useful, but not so...
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Join 4CA in educating policymakers about ACEs! May 1 in Sacramento.
Join us on May 1 for the 3rd Annual 4CA Policymaker Education Day! Register now: bit.ly/4CA2019Register
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Re: Sierra Learning Community Convening - Trauma Informed Care 11/09/17
Thank you! Lynnan Svensson, MSNc, RN, PHN Nursing Program Manager MCAH Program Director El Dorado County Health & Human Services Agency 941 Spring St., Suite 3 Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 621-6185 desk phone (530) 642-0892 confidential fax On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:31 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: El Dorado County Trauma and Resilience Network One Pager
This is cool! Thanks Gail :-) Lynnan Svensson, MSN, RN, PHN Nursing Program Manager MCAH Program Director El Dorado County Health & Human Services Agency 941 Spring St., Suite 3 Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 621-6185 desk phone (530) 642-0892 confidential fax On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 2:43 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: UPDATED: El Dorado County ACEs Colaborative Action Plan Workbook for 10/01/16-10/01/18
Thanks Melissa! Can you send out to our steering committee too? Maybe along with the parking lot document? Thanks again, Lynnan Svensson, MSN, RN, PHN Director of Public Health Nursing MCAH Program Director El Dorado County Health & Human Services Agency 941 Spring St., Suite 3 Placerville, CA 95667 (530) 621-6185 desk phone (530) 642-0892 confidential fax On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 1:43 PM, ACEsConnection <communitymanager@ acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Ready to join All Children Thrive - California?
Learn about the statewide All Children Thrive Initiative. Fact sheet and enrollment contact included.
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ACEs Aware Grantees By County
ACEs Connection will begin highlighting ACEs and Resilience initiatives by county. We're starting this effort off by listing the recent ACEs Aware grantees by county.
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Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
Coping with Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: One-Pager
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SAVE THE DATE! CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY: Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care [avahealth.org]
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...
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ACEs Aware Seeking Applicants to Support Clinical Work [acesaware.org]
ACEs Aware Seeking Applicants to Support Clinical Work Apply by September 15, 2020 ACEs Aware , led by the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) and the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), is hiring for three new positions to further the mission of supporting Medi-Cal providers across California with training, clinical protocols, and payment for screening children and adults for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Aurrera Health Group is the project management...
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CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY: Parental ACEs and Pediatrics: Transforming Well Care [avahealth.org]
CALIFORNIA ACES ACADEMY (CAA) , funded by ACEs Aware, is providing free online training to Medi-Cal providers and others featuring: Practical strategies for integrating trauma-informed health care into your team’s practice that improves patients’ well being and the productivity of your practice. Meet colleagues with experience and success providing trauma-informed health care in their practices. Learn from national and local experts. Talk to other professionals from your region in small...
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Portraits of Professional Caregivers documentary available for viewing from ACEs Connection this weekend
Our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science film festival launches this weekend. We are thrilled to share the documentary , P ortraits of Professional CAREgivers: Their Passion, Their Pain on Saturday, September 12th, and Sunday , September 13th. The documentary will be streamed from our Transform Trauma with ACEs Science Communit y . Click here to join. Registration is not required for viewing. You need to be a member of ACEs Connection and join this community site to watch the film this...
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Opportunity for Public Comment on the All Children Thrive RFA
Public comment opportunity for the All Children Thrive RFA - Closes on September 22
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ACEs & Trauma-Informed Pediatric Care in COVID-19 [ucsfbenioffchildrens.org]
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Portal & Center for Child & Community Health Register now and be eligible for 5 hours of AMA Category 1 CME credit and ABP MOC Part 2 credit. Saturday, October 10, 2020 8am - 3:30 pm Recognizing & Addressing Childhood Trauma - Dayna Long MD Trauma-Informed Care Principles in COVID-19 - Saun-Toy Trotter MFT & Ken Epstein LCSW, PhD Patient Perspective - Jen Leland MFT & Joan Jeung MD Early Adopters Discuss...
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Free Resilience Training for MediCal Providers
Dovetail Learning is offering resilience training for MediCal providers to increase provider resilience to mitigate the affects of vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue that comes with doing the ACEs screening itself. We Are Resilient™ is a research based set of skills for providers and patients to become their most resilient self. Here is the link to register for Part 1 of 2 for a 90 minute training: We Are Resilient™ Training (free to medical providers) in October (date TBD) For a little...
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Healthy Tahoe: Confronting trauma for a healthier future [tahoedailytribune.com]
By M. Rhonda Sneeringer, Tahoe Daily Tribune, September 25, 2020 We all face challenges and obstacles in life. Some, unfortunately, endure greater or ongoing trauma. Children are especially vulnerable to toxic stresses and traumatic events, and multiple studies show that adverse childhood experiences can have serious consequences on children’s health and well-being into their adult lives. The first and groundbreaking ACEs study was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser...
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NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND: The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-Being, Disease and Social Functioning: Turning Gold into Lead (Dr. Vincent J. Felitti) [avahealth.org]
The ACE Study reveals how typically unrecognized adverse childhood experiences are not only common, but causally underlie a number of the most common causes of adult social malfunction, biomedical disease, and premature death. Moreover, it enables one to see that the Public Health Problem is often an individual’s attempted Solution to childhood experiences about which we keep ourselves unaware. A renowned physician and researcher, Dr. Vincent J. Felitti is one of the world’s foremost experts...