Tagged With "Childhood Trauma is Tied to Health Risks"
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Re: Welcome Members of Northern Michigan ACEs Action
Tina, Great information! Dr. Perry has done some amazing work in the field and I have found his lectures very informative and useful. We work hard at the Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center to educate others and view our clients through the trauma lens to understand behaviors. Thank you for your work and information sharing. Amelia
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Re: Under One Roof
From Dr. Bruce Perry, MD (Understanding Traumatized and Maltreated Children) Clinical principles for effective work with children have additional critical elements. One is helping the child understand what they feel and why they behave a certain way in given situations. Traumatized children frequently act impulsively and misunderstand why this has happened. They will often explain this (as will the adults around them) as the by-product of them being stupid, insensitive, bad, selfish, sick or...
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Re: Study from Pediatrics: Some new moms get too little advice from doctors (usatoday.com)
(Here is a Link to the Full Text PDF from Pediatrics, July 27th 2015) Maternal Report of Advice Received for Infant Care BACKGROUND: Advice has been associated with increased adherence to recommended infant care practices, and may represent a modi fi able factor to promote infant health. METHODS: A strati fi ed, 2-stage, clustered design, with oversampling of black and Hispanic mothers, was used to survey a nationally representative sample of 1031 mothers of infants aged 2 to 6 months.
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Re: AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
Dr. Hahn I will not be able to attend this meeting on such short notice. But I will happy to attend a future meeting, hoping evening times will be a option. Thank you! Tracy Romel, LLMSW Behavioral Health Consultant On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:15 PM, ACEsConnection < communitymanager@acesconnection.com> wrote:
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Re: AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
I wanted to put this here so that the NE Michigan Group could have some Ideas of how to move forward beyond the school system but that might be able to be tied in through Alcona too? We could try to collaborate with the CAC (Grand Rapids) ---- and Alcona maybe Jacki Fitzgerald ---- and then maybe Western Michigan (NCTSN K-Zoo sight) --- to move the trauma informed care collaboration into NE Michigan. So here is the newsletter from the Child and Family Services in TC. Behavioral Health Team...
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Re: Outreaching where the bears live.
I brought a gal (Nancy Gaucher) who was an ex-Detroit police officer to Medstart (a U. of Michigan CME program organized by students) to speak about rural homelessness in the UP. Nancy started "Voices for Youth". I am not sure if it still exists but she was alarmed to find so many teens which she called, and I agree, "throw-away" kids living in the woods. These kids had left circumstances of violence at home and so I truly believe it is important for all of us to understand that these...
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Re: Kalamazoo schools expulsions, suspensions rate among state's highest (m-live.com)
It's time for schools and communities and agencies and individuals to become trauma-informed building resilience into communities and each one of us.
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Re: Northern Michigan Building Resilience
We have formed a trauma task force in our community and are doing our best to pull it together. ACES Connection has been key in our start up. We will keep growing, learning and spreading what we learn.
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Re: Healing ACE's
Would love to read the books, David. Thanks for your note- will definitely review the resources. I too am a school psychologist of many years here in Michigan and am grateful for the ACEs work. Prior to my tenure in schools, I worked in mental health, including community settings, state hospitals and a psychiatric prison. My broad base of experience- both personal and professional- have helped me understand the real limitations of these governmental organizations in relieving suffering in...
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Re: Trauma-Informed Care is Not a Program For Your Clients
I agree. There is not one BDP that suits all. I have seen people "run child clients" thru: the TF-CBT workbook By Alison Hendricks, Judith A. Cohen, Anthony P. Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger (which is a good tool) , have the pizza party and declare "mission accomplished". It doesn't necessarily work that way. I agree that healing includes our ability to sit with clients in their trauma, "hold the safe space" for them to figure it out. I definitely need to continue to do work when new...
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Re: Breaking Through: Video and User's Guide to Understand and Address Toxic Stress
Carlene very nice thanks. So if Dr. Panknin and I got Alcona Health Centers to screen parents and kids for ACEs could you help us with who the docs would refer to? Thank You
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Re: Family Struggles May Affect Boys' Brain Development (Healthday.com)
Since we know trauma and ongoing stress have a significant impact on a young brain, it is imperative we intervene. Much of our intervention is of course focused on the child, however; we must also focus on the adults in that child's life. Many times the chaos can be mediated by implementing interventions and support for the adult/parent in the home. By helping the parent chaos may be minimized.
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Re: Want to make Michigan a top 10 education state? Here are some suggestions (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org)
The schools need to become trauma informed! I'm gonna go through the Lincoln Data out there and put the results here which we can put in our next pres to the admin for APS and hopefully extend to Rogers City, Hillman, and Alcona!!!
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Re: Check out "What if ACES were the basis for mental health treatment?" (madinamerica.com)
What if We Could PREVENT Most Mental Health Problems? By Dr. Sandra L. Bloom | August 20th, 2015 | Posted on realmhchange.org The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACEs Study) may turn out to be the most important scientific finding of the late 20th century, opening up windows of opportunity that could vastly improve mental health care, physical health care, and virtually all of our current major social problems. The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we...
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Re: Innovative, New Approach in Charlevoix County, Michigan Court
Awesome!!!! (With my one caveat --- I HOPE the organization understands that meds do little for trauma and focus heavily on the other strategies like MBSR, Yoga, Trauma-drauma and the expressive arts, equine therapy etc to build SAFE environments, minds and bodies that youth can habitate then develop strong sense of a positive self so youth can heal... They may even consider other strategies at some point in the future like Neurofeedback or biofeedback with breath and heart rate variability...
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Re: A Mother's Rage
Cathy- What a brave post! I applaud your honesty in sharing and writing about your experience. As a foster care survivor and having worked in criminal law for so long, I often believe that families are often forgotten victims. I am looking forward to meeting you (in person) at the upcoming webinar and brainstorming ways in which we can introduce trauma informed care to our community!
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Re: Watch the Drug Epidemic Overdose Spread in America
The question is, "what was the trauma that caused a person to begin abusing drugs?" and as communities are we willing to address to that root issue first? Are we more focused on punishment or healing?
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Re: Poverty Impacts Brain Development
Live Online Event: How does poverty affect health decisions? Posted on July 1, 2014 by TEDMED Staff Poverty affects every aspect of life and has particularly bad repercussions on human health. The stress of poverty has detrimental effects on the body — and especially the brain. Two landmark studies are among the many to show poverty’s harsh impact. In the Whitehall Studies, researchers at the University College of London sought to understand how the health of men in the British Civil Service...
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Re: The Crisis in Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Rooms (The Center for Young Healthy Minds)
And as I stick to, These problems can only truly be solved by prevention of mental health issues in the first place, many of which begin as behavioral problems in infancy and toddlerhood, often as a result of exposure to ACEs/Toxic Stress. Prevention is the only viable, long-term solution. Prevention also saves a lot of psychological anguish and long term harm. It is no different than giving advice for kids to use car seats, bike helmets etc. There is less likely a long term injury sustained...
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We had our Paper Tigers Showing on Tuesday. ...
We had our Paper Tigers Showing on Tuesday. This is a short update. We had 65 people there. It was a huge showing for our area. PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN A LOT MORE!!! I have several evaluation forms to...
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12 Myths of the Science of ACEs
The two biggest myths about ACEs science are: MYTH #1 — That it’s just about the 10 ACEs in the ACE Study — the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study . It’s about sooooo much more than that. MYTH #2 — And that it’s just about ACEs…adverse childhood experiences. These two myths are intertwined. The ACE Study issued the first of its 70+ publications in 1998, and for many people it was the lightning bolt, the grand “aha” moment, the unexpected doorway into a blazing new...
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30 people can end ACEs in your county. Why aren’t they?
No, we don’t need the president nor congress. We do need the following people in your county to stop business as usual and focus on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). City mayors City counselors County commissioners School board members These local elected leaders—many of them your neighbors and colleagues—have the capacity to collectively understand the emotional and financial costs of ACEs and trauma. We can’t have family-friendly cities and counties while we live in an...
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A Mother's Rage
I recently viewed Lady Gaga's new video, Till It Happens to You . I have stifled my rage for a number of years now, because it wasn't my trauma and the healing process is about meeting someone where they are. But, I am a mother. It is my trauma....
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Breaking Through: Video and User's Guide to Understand and Address Toxic Stress
Here's a link and info about a presentation from the National Center on Health, Office of Head Start, that may be of use to those of us looking for material appropriate for community awareness talks. I like that the PDF user guide has a...
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Abused as a small boy. Now what?
When the fidgety, anxious, 5-year-old boy from northern Michigan came in about a year ago to see pediatrician Tina Hahn, it was soon apparent to her this was a case medication alone would not solve. “He was trying to hide under the chair. He looked panicked and overwhelmed. He was in that fight or flight mode,” said Hahn, who was then in practice in Alpena. The boy, she learned, had been taken away from his mother when he was 3, from a home rife with drug use, alcoholism and severe physical...
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ACEs: A Second Chance? [MAHP.org]
Recently, my wife and I viewed the movie Seabiscuit for the umpteenth time—as it is a favorite. Each time I’ve watched the movie, I notice something I haven’t noticed before. This time, I focused on the message that was being repeated over and over again. To paraphrase that message: we all go through tough times, but we need to keep going in order to succeed and having a second chance is necessary. But is that true? Or does that have to be true? The answer to that question in the context of...
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ACEs Connection Info -- Tour, How-Tos, Overview & FAQs
ACEs Connection Welcome Tour What you get What you can do ACEs Connection How-Tos Directory How-To post a blog How-To add a picture How-To change your email settings And more ACEs Connection Roadmap to Resilience Toolkit Directory Assets mapping Logic model MOUs And more ACEs Connection Network Overview ACEsConnection.com and ACEsTooHigh.com ACEs, trauma-informed, and resilience-building Collective impact community of practice And more ACEs 101 FAQ ACEs, toxic stress, and epigenetics...
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ACEs Research Corner — October 2018
[Editor's note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a web site -- abuseresearch.info -- that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on ACEs. Every month, she's posting the summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only ACEs. Thank you, Harise!! -- Jane Stevens] Harris HR, Wieser F, Vitonis AF, Rich-Edwards J, et. al. Early life abuse and risk of endometriosis. Hum Reprod. 2018 Sep 1;33(9):1657-1668. PMID: 30016439 Using...
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ACEs Science in Education: The Next Big Challenge is Systems Change #ACEsCon2018
One of the first sessions of the 2018 ACEs Conference: Action to Access discussed the barriers and opportunities for increasing access in the field of education. The main question was: "How can one achieve systematic changes within the field of education?" The session was moderated by Michelle Flowers, a passionate advocate, and the principal of Kinney High in Rancho Cordova, CA, which is part of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District. It included a dynamic and diverse panel of education...
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ACEs Webinar: Jim Sporleder on Trauma-informed Schools
To join this webinar, register here . Trauma-informed schools: a conversation with Jim Sporleder, former principal of Lincoln High School, featured in the documentary Paper Tigers Date: Monday, November 19, 2018 Time: 3:00-4:00 pm PDT /6:00-7:00 pm EDT Jim will answer some prepared questions followed by an open question and answer period with participants. Topics that Jim will discuss include: How do you increase staff and community buy in for a trauma-informed school? How do you determine...
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AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 7.30.15
4 pm Call to order and introductions (Jeannette Polkinghorn sends regrets, but will be involved again in School year); Review and approve the agenda. 4:10 Updates and organizational matters Bob Thompson on Emotions Anonymous Tina Hahn on...
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Agenda for Thursday's Trauma-Informed Meeting
AGENDA FOR THE MEETING OF THE NE MICHIGAN TRAUMA INFORMED COMMUNITY: 6.25.15 4 pm Call to order and introductions 4:10 Updates and organizational matters. ACES Connection Group Report from educational Team Report from community outreach...
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All Sides with Ann Fisher - Trauma and the Developing Brain, Dr. Bruce Perry on Ohio Public Radio
Description Spend some time in an elementary school classroom, and you’ll meet easygoing kids, and kids who lose control. Some aspects of temperament are established in infancy, but self-control problems can signal abuse, neglect or...
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Are Michigan doctors ignoring the state's "biggest public health problem?" (stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org)
Dr. Vincent Felitti, father of the seminal Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that has informed so much of State of Opportunity’s reporting and recently this NPR series , was recently in Michigan for a conference on how adverse...
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Article of the Year, Spanking is an ACE
Child Abuse & Neglect Article of the Year 2017 Child Abuse & Neglect, The International Journal, is pleased to announce the winner of its ‘Article of the Year’. The papers shortlisted for this title have demonstrated outstanding contribution to research on child welfare and we wish to recognise these scholars and research topics within the community. The papers selected for this title were voted on by the editorial team and editorial board (33 votes) of Child Abuse & Neglect. For...
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Behavioral Health Team Now At Kids Creek Children’s Clinic, Traverse City
Behavioral Health Team Now At Kids Creek Children’s Clinic Child and Family Services is pleased to announce two exciting new initiatives for northern Michigan. With our partners at Kids Creek Children’s Clinic in Traverse City and...
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Bill would ban gay conversion therapy at youth boot camps (thehill.com)
House lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban the practice of gay conversion therapy and other forms of child abuse at youth boot camps and residential treatment programs. The bill unveiled Tuesday by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and...
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Black Neighbors Band Together to Bring in Healthy Food, Co-op-Style (truth-out.org)
Malik Yakini is executive director of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network , a coalition of people and groups that promotes urban agriculture, co-operative buying, and healthy eating . His organization is helping Black people in the city take matters into their own hands by creating their own grocery store, The Detroit People's Co-op. The grocery will sit in the city's North End neighborhood, where about 92 percent of residents are Black and nearly 40 percent have a household...
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Broken Crayons Still Color - Northeast Michigan Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative
Hello everyone! Although we had a rather small attendance at our meeting last Thursday, we moved forward on our stated goal of defining an achievable goal to be accomplished within the Alpena Public School System within the coming school year....
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Build a “Trauma-Informed Nation,” an opportunity to learn and plan around the country (By Elizabeth Prewitt)
If you are now (or want to be) part of “Building a Trauma-Informed Nation,” join a national conversation to spur action for two half-days September 29-30 (11:30 am-5:30 pm ET each day). You have the option to attend a...
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Building a Trauma-Informed Nation - Be a Part - Become an Amplifier Site or Sign up Individually
JOIN THE FEDERAL PARTNERS COMMITTEE ON WOMEN AND TRAUMA TO CATALYZE A TRAUMA–INFORMED NATIONAL STRATEGY The United States is experiencing a public health crisis: an epidemic of trauma, violence and toxic stress. In response, efforts to...
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Can School Heal Children in Pain? (acestoohigh.com)
After learning about the overwhelming effects of childhood trauma, I decided to make a film about a school that’s adopted a “trauma-informed” lens. Documentaries are no walk in the park. They take a lot of time and money; they have a...
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Changing Foster Care-A Survivor's Approach
Plagued and embarrassed by my name, made worse by a nomadic childhood that made it impossible to build lasting relationships, I developed tough skin at an early age. Along the way I learned to deal with disappointment, push through discomfort,...
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Changing lives from the very start: Report identifies best measures to help at-risk kids (capitalgainsmedia.com)
Special Report on Early Childhood Policy in Michigan The 3-year-olds attending The Children's Center 's Head Start preschool program in Detroit are all giggles and smiles, exploring their surroundings with that special brand of bright...
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Check out "What if ACES were the basis for mental health treatment?" (madinamerica.com)
What would happen if the mental health system fully recognized the pervasive and profound impacts of trauma on their clients? How might a deeper appreciation of the multi-faceted sequelae of childhood maltreatment and toxic stressors reshape...
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Child’s behavior may be linked to parent’s adverse childhood experiences [contemporarypediatrics.com]
Parents who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction, are more likely than parents without these experiences to have children with behavioral health problems, according to an analysis of data from several large, nationally representative surveys of US households that addressed ACEs and children’s behavioral problems and diagnoses. Of the more than 2500 children for whom researchers had data, one-fifth had a parent who reported...
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Childhood trauma and its effects: Implications for Policing
Childhood trauma unrecognized or ignored can have life changing implications, forging terrible, new links in the vicious, generational, chain of trauma. We can be the difference to break the chain.
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Childhood Trauma is Tied to Health Risks, but Michigan Doctors Don't Ask [bridgemi.com]
By Ted Roelofs, Bridge, December 13, 2019 By now, the medical evidence is clear: Childhood trauma can have profound effects on physical and mental health. Even so, Michigan physicians like Timothy Kval remain all too rare. Working out of a Muskegon clinic, Kval evaluates more than a patient’s symptoms, blood pressure readings and cholesterol scores. He also screens adult patients for past traumatic events like physical abuse, neglect, domestic violence in the home or the loss of a parent...
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Coming to a MI County Near You?
The Pathways to Potential Approach We believe everyone has the potential to achieve their dreams. Some just need extra support and assistance along the pathway to achieve their potential. In 2012, we created Pathways to Potential. Pathways is an...
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Community Resilience Cookbook
Hi members. I have already sent this link to many of you, however, I wanted to also place it here so we can see, step by step, the baby steps that some communities have already taken to become trauma-informed and build community...