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Wounds That Time Won't Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse
This article is a recipe for prevention. In its conclusion important questions are raised about how we hold juvenile offenders accountable. It is my opinion that in regards to juvenile offenders, the science has been ignored too long. The Anna...
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WSW: How To Improve Michigan's "Kids Count" Rankings
Alicia Guevara Warren says the budget reflects what’s important in the state. Guevara Warren, the Kids Count in Michigan Project Director for the Michigan League for Public Policy, says Michigan’s leaders have to decide what those priorities are. The League has released a report on improving Michigan’s ranking in the annual Kids Count report . Michigan was 31st nationally, and last in the Midwest in the most recent assessment of child well-being. Guevara Warren says two areas - economic well...
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ACEs is not just about kids...
The ACEs study has shown the detrimental effects of trauma and how it creates the most vulnerable and marginalized adults in our community. However, even adults can "heal" from trauma due to the plasticity of the brain. Our ACEs initiatives MUST involve prevention, but also treatment for older children and adults. One form of "treatment" is having one, positive, stable relationship. The article below illustrates how connecting adults with a positive mentor-like person is transforming medical...
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Basic Presentations for Rural Communities - What are you doing in MI? - Can we change the Name of this group?
Hi Fellow ACE prevention and Community Resilience Building Advocates across the state of Michigan. I have some basic questions. I am doing my best working through an organization called MiTeam of Huron-Tuscola counties. (If anyone is associated with the Genessee/Lapeer County MiTeam on this page, could you send me a private message? I would like to see how you are approaching this subject and working across silos.) We need to develop "curriculum" or "training" (I put these words in...
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What are Your Favorite Resources You Use For Parent Education?
Here are some of mine. I like resources that I can use with parents of pediatric patients. I especially like free resources. What are some of yours? I am always looking to learn about useful resource I am not aware of. Thanks All things Zero to Three has to be my favorite. There are lots of different types of resources on the Zero to three web site. A favorite of mine to give to parents at well child visits is the Healthy Minds Handouts. These handouts were originally offered as a set for...
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What if a small rural Hospital Wants to Do the Same thing As Kids Creek Collaboration with Children and Family Services?
For those of you who are a part of that initiative, would you mind providing advice? Thanks Dr. Tina Marie Hahn, MD, FAAP
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What Michigan Counties Would be Interested in tackling a Public Health Epidemic?
Which counties would be interested in putting the ACE survey on their Health Department Websites as was done recently in a West Virginia county mentioned in today's Daily Digest? The Alpena/Presque Isle Child Abuse and Neglect...
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Paper Tigers Screening by the AAP at the National Conference
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PCO Webinar—Poverty and Child Health in the United States
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Putting the Pieces Together: Strategies for Pain Management
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Trauma, Toxic Stress, and ACEs: Why Should You Care?
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Re: Are You A Part of the Michigan ACE Initiative?
Hi Sarah, Are you doing anything to educate in your community about ACEs / Toxic Stress / Epigenetics / Mind-Body Connection / Altered but Predictable Brain Changes to the developing brain experiencing childhood adversity and developmental chaos? Early childhood is an excellent area where this information would be incredibly useful. I also see Obstetrics as another avenue to act early with a two generation approach to decrease toxic stress because toxic stress is already affecting the fetus...
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California reaches milestone with ACEs initiatives pulsing in all 58 counties. Next: All CA cities.
Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...
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Supporting Mental Well-Being through Child Care Settings - 9/30, 1:30-3:00 ET
A webinar offered by the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP) Thursday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:00 pm EDT Register today . Addressing the mental health needs of child care providers and children in care is vital in the face of the pandemic, a population-level traumatic event. CTIPP is offering a "plug and play" framework to ease the process of developing a continuum of training, reflective coaching, and consultation to build the capacity for supporting relational health...
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Examples of Current Trauma-Informed Judicial Systems
Please join us for a new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly virtual Zoom series will feature conversations facilitated by Porter Jennings-McGarity, PACEs Connection’s criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and strategies being used in this area...
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