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CDC ACEs Research & Evaluation Fellowship application due April 24
This is a reminder that applications for the CDC Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) Research & Evaluation Fellowship ( announced last month on ACEs Connection ) are due April 24. The new fellowship position reflects a growing ACEs capacity within the CDC. The announcement states “The selected candidate will assist with research related to evaluating comprehensive community-based prevention strategies for primary prevention of ACEs (i.e., potentially traumatic experiences, such as child...
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Check out Trauma Informed News and Notes
Here is a link to something that is posted monthly on the home page of ACEs Connection from a guy that collects research, etc on ACEs Science and Trauma informed care & Practices. http://www.acesconnection.com/blog/wisconsin-dept-of-health-services-trauma-informed-care-news-and-notes-april-30-2018 If this is something folks would like me to re- post on the UC Davis site every month, please indicate in the comments section below. Thanks! gail
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Coping As A Community: COVID-19 - Zoom Webinar with Dr. Andres Sciolla
DATE: Thursday, April 9, 2020 TIME: 12:00PM Many people have questions about ways to cope with stress experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this, the UC Davis Office for Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has organized a weekly webinar series focused on Inclusive Practices, Holistic Health and Wellbeing. Please join me and Dr. Andres Sciolla, MD as we discuss Stress, Trauma and Resilience this Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 12 PM via Zoom. You can register at...
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Doctor-patient role-playing featured in ACEs Connection webinar
On an ACEs Connection webinar on Monday, Dr. Andrew Seaman, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University, showed how he navigates his students through the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). And, in an unusual twist for a webinar, Seaman and O’Nesha Cochran, a peer mentor with the Mental Health Association of Oregon, role-played doctor-patient interactions to show how to develop the skills to communicate with patients with high ACE scores. About 90 people...
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Doctors and Racial Bias: Still a Long Way to Go [nytimes.com]
The racist photo in the medical school yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia has probably caused many physicians to re-examine their past. We hope we are better today, but the research is not as encouraging as you might think: There is still a long way to go in how the medical field treats minority patients, especially African-Americans. A systematic review published in Academic Emergency Medicine gathered all the research on physicians that measured implicit bias with the Implicit...
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Trump has traumatized thousands of children. Now we have a responsibility [Sac Bee via UC Davis Center for Regional Change]
The Trauma of Separated Families A recent op-ed in the Sacramento Bee written by UC Davis Human Ecology Professor Leah Hibbel and human development graduate student Andrea Buhler-Wassmann discusses the recent executive order to end the separation of immigrant children from their families, and calls attention to the trauma already experienced by separated families. The authors state that "The U.S. government is responsible for traumatizing these families and has a moral obligation to fix the...
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U to host conversation on adverse childhood experiences among MN students [Twin-Cities.UMN.edu]
The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)— childhood experiences of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction—on the health and wellbeing of college students nationwide is relatively unknown. And yet, approximately two-thirds of University of Minnesota students experience at least one adverse childhood experience before entering college. On Friday, Dec. 2, the U of M will host a one-day conference that brings together college administrators, educators, students, public health...
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U to host conversation on adverse childhood experiences among MN students [Twin-Cities.UMN.edu]
The impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)— childhood experiences of abuse, neglect and family dysfunction—on the health and wellbeing of college students nationwide is relatively unknown. And yet, approximately two-thirds of University of Minnesota students experience at least one adverse childhood experience before entering college. On Friday, Dec. 2, the U of M will host a one-day conference that brings together college administrators, educators, students, public health...
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UC Davis ACEs Connection Community
Dear UC Davis community member, Research shows that the majority (62%) of Californians have experienced at least one type of childhood trauma as identified in the groundbreaking Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Further, a significant percentage of Californians have experienced as children more than two (23%) and more than four (16.7%) of the identified traumas. The data paint a sobering picture for the UC Davis community – a significant percentage of students, staff, and faculty...
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UC Davis Commencement address - Michelle Melton
Gail's note: I met Michelle a year ago at a UC Davis Guardians Scholars program meeting and was so impressed with her grace, compassion and intellect. I have stayed in touch with her and learned that she was the commencement speaker for the UC Davis undergraduating class of 2019. Read more about Michelle and please watch her video. I am honored to stay connected with her as she heads off for her next adventure across the country to graduate school at Univ of Buffalo! And I have already...
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UCD Event: Re-Thinking Race, Identity, and Opportunity to Learn: Foundation for Transformative Justice.
The UC Davis School of Education is hosting an evening lecture on October 19 at 5:00pm that might be of interest. Dr. Carol Lee from Northwestern University will be giving a talk on the Davis campus titled Re-Thinking Race, Identity, and Opportunity to Learn: Foundation for Transformative Justice. If you’d like to join you just need to RSVP here: https://education.ucdavis.edu/tje/Lee Feel free to share with anyone you think may be interested! Hope to see you there!
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University students seeking counseling learn about their ACEs
Dr. Diane Suffridge, a clinical psychologist and director of the University Counseling Services at Dominican University in San Rafael, Calif., has been interested in trauma for many years. But last summer that interest took a sudden and interesting turn. A student counselor she advised had written a research paper on the link between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) health and mental health outcomes in foster youth, and it gave the student a new view of the patients she counseled at the...
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Webinar Oct. 17 — Integrating ACEs science in pediatrics: Early adopters share lessons from the field
An ACEs Connection webinar co-sponsored with 4 CA In 2017, California became the first state in the country to pass a law supporting universal screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the 5.3 million children in the state’s Medicaid program. As clinicians around California await the state’s announcement of what this new policy will entail, many are wondering what it takes to integrate ACEs science in a pediatric practice. Meet Drs. Deirdre Bernard-Pearl, R.J. Gillespie and...
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Webinar - Postsecondary Success for Parents on November 8
Ascend is pleased to invite you to a webinar on Thursday, November 8 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST to learn more about a new initiative we are launching along with briefs featuring recommendations for policymakers and practitioners working to advance solutions for students who are parents. REGISTER HERE Parents are a key segment of today's postsecondary students . According to research from the Institute for Women's Policy Research , approximately one in four college students -- 5 million...
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Wisconsin Dept of Health Services - Trauma-Informed Care News & Notes, June 25, 2018
ACEs, Adversity's Impact Mother's attitude to baby during pregnancy may have implications for child's development Video: Weight gain and trauma: Is there a connection? with Emily Rosen Parents’ scars from childhood trauma can affect their kids’ health, researchers find How childhood trauma contributes to skyrocketing suicide rates Social rejection is painful and can lead to violence Study on social interactions could improve understanding of mental health risks To prevent trauma in our...
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Wounds from childhood bullying may persist into college years, study finds [News.illinois.edu]
Childhood bullying inflicts the same long-term psychological trauma on girls as severe physical or sexual abuse, suggests a new survey of college students. The study, which involved 480 college freshmen through seniors, indicated that the detrimental effects of bullying may linger for years, negatively affecting victims’ mental health well into young adulthood. While most of the scholarship on bullying has focused on kindergarten through 12th-grade students, the struggles revealed by college...
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You'll Never Be Famous - And That's O.K. [NYTimes.com]
Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis. Having idealistic aspirations is, of course, part of being young. But thanks to social media, purpose and meaning have become conflated with glamour: Extraordinary lives look like the norm on the internet. Yet the...
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Re: Seven-year follow-up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation [sciencedaily.com]
Do we know anyone from this project ?? The project is led by Clifford Saron, research scientist at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, in collaboration with a large group of researchers.
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Re: Wisconsin Dept of Health Services - Trauma-Informed Care News & Notes, April 30, 2018
Check out research by topic!
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A Better Normal, Tuesday, June 2nd at Noon PDT: Higher Education and Trauma During COVID-19
Please join us for the ongoing community discussion of A Better Normal, our ongoing series in which we envision the future as trauma-informed. College graduates across the world have been celebrating their big day virtually this month, missing out on the right of passage that marks their stepping into new realms of adult and professional life. Many students and recent graduates are feeling the negative impact of the current pandemic: being housing displaced, adjusting to virtual classrooms,...
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Higher Education’s Role in Promoting Racial Healing and the Power of Wonder (criticalimpact.com)
As protests erupt across the country and around the world demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who was killed while in Minneapolis police custody, higher education must play a leadership role in addressing the issues at their center—racism and white supremacy. The devastating video that shows Mr. Floyd pleading for his life follows high-profile news reports of the killing of Breonna Taylor, a young black woman who was shot in bed by Memphis police engaged in a botched search for a...
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#ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM [shutdownstem.com]
On June 10, 2020, we will #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives. In the wake of the most recent murders of Black people in the US, it is clear that white and other non-Black people have to step up and do the work to eradicate anti-Black racism. As members of the global academic and STEM communities, we have an enormous ethical obligation to stop doing “business as usual.” No matter where we physically live, we impact and are impacted by this moment in history. Our...
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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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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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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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Medicine and medical science: Black lives must matter more The Lancet
The following quote appeared in an editorial in The Lancet on June 13, 2020: "What can medical journals do? Our task is to educate ourselves and others about racism. We must support Black and minority ethnic health workers. And we must use evidence and our values to speak out for Black and minority ethnic communities. The Lancet is a journal with a deep colonial history: the journal has published work that supported the health of settler colonialists and that prioritised their health over...
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Whole People Watch Weekend on ACEs Connection (Dec. 11th - 13th)
The Transform Trauma with ACEs Sciences FREE Film Festival continues this weekend. Please join us to watch parts 1, 2, and 3 of the PBS Whole People series at your convenience, on ACEs Connection, by clicking play on the videos below: Whole People | 101 | Childhood Trauma | Episode 1 (27 min) Preview: Whole People | 102 | Healing Communities | Preview | Episode 2 Whole People | 102 |Healing Communities Episode 2 (27 min) Whole People | 103 |A New Response | Episode 3 (27 min) This is one of...
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Healthcare providers learn skills to prevent burnout, build resilience
It’s an enormous understatement to say that healthcare workers today are suffering. Every day, you hear interviews with nurses, physicians, social workers, and others in healthcare saying they’re pushed to the breaking point and beyond. But, by using skills taught in the Community Resiliency Mode l (CRM), even people under severe stress can weather the onslaught, do their work, and get along with colleagues. CRM is an evidence-based training program that’s being used by millions of people in...
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Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in both research and practice [ucdavis.edu]
By UC Davis Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, January 2021 Addressing Privilege and Anti-Blackness in Academic Medicine invites participants to consider how racial inequities persists in the health care research system. This interactive session will explore ways that UC Davis Health can be a part of the solution. Participants will bring their expertise and experiences so that we can identify sites for personal and collective action. Topics covered include: Legacies of...
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You are invited- Healing Network Recognition and Restoration workshop
Trauma-transformed is hosting a series of virtual sessions for supporting and promoting Healing Networks in the Monterey/San Benito; Sacramento; and San Bernardino/Riverside/Inland Empire regions. The sessions are open to those who support the community in the focus regions and are designed to recognize, reclaim, and lift up our inherent and collective blessings and resilience. The first session “Recognition and Restoration” is being held on March 25 from 10:00 am-1:00 pm for those in the...
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Psychiatrist Andres Sciolla wants to expand ACEs work to include social determinants of health
Andres Sciolla, a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at UC Davis Medical School, hopes that an expanded version of ACEs becomes completely integrated into the medical profession in the future. By “expanded,” he explains: “Medicine would have to integrate sustainable and practical ways to address social determinants of health,” such as affordable housing, basic income, and access to affordable health care. Sciolla earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Chile...
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The Hidden Biases of Good People: Implicit Bias Awareness Training
The Dibble Institute is pleased to present an introductory webinar by Rev. Dr. Bryant T. Marks Sr. of the National Training Institute on Race and Equity , which will provide foundational information on implicit bias. It will focus at the individual level and discuss how implicit bias affects everyone. Strategies to reduce or manage implicit bias will be discussed. Broadly speaking, group-based bias involves varying degrees of stereotyping (exaggerated beliefs about others), prejudice...
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On 11/17, don't miss Part II of Growing as a Community: Healing our Trauma and Managing our Toxic Stress
Join UC Davis Health, the Office of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for Part II of the conversation on Growing as a Community: Healing our Trauma and Managing our Toxic Stress.
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