Tagged With "pediatric medicine"
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Incarcerating Youth Should Be 'Last Resort' During Pandemic [thecrimereport.org]
By Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report, May 7, 2020 On any given day, approximately 43,600 people younger than 18 years of age are held in youth detention facilities across America. Even under normal circumstances, many detention facilities are unable to provide a clean and safe environment for these young individuals, and the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated the trauma these children experience in detention, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Incarcerating young people...
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Effectively Building Parental Skills and Capabilities to Manage and Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Grant Proposal
Summary Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) have been identified as being avoidable, costly, and the largest threat to population health at the global level (Bellis et al., 2019). Identifying, mitigating, and even preventing ACE’s from happening, is a current task at hand for public health officials. Trauma-informed approaches have been identified as useful strategies in dealing with ACE’s. This grant proposal focuses on mitigating and preventing ACE’s by tackling them at the level of...