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Pediatrician [and state legislator] George Till, introduced Vt. HB 762 in the 2013 Vermont legislative session-requiring ALL Vt. healthcare providers to screen all patients, regardless of age, for ACEs. Some implementation 'challenges' apparently occurred, as only one of the reportedly eight parts, passed that session. Last I'd heard, the bill is still active in the most recent legislative session.

One article I recently encountered addressed the issue of Physicians who have their own ACEs history, and whether "clinical supervision", in a social work sense, might be necessary to effectively assist patients with ACEs, or whether 'high speed' resolution techniques such as EMDR (with the O'Hara/Paulsen EMDR Protocols), or "LFT" used by some "First Responders" (EMT's and Paramedics/Police/Fire-Fighters/Dispatchers), involving the Vagus Nerve, or resources like the trauma-informed programming at JRI in Boston (where psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk [author of "The Body Keeps the Score:..."] works), might be necessary adjuncts. One "Somatic Experiencing" practitioner I know, in NH, works in a primary care clinic-I don't recall if its just an adult clinic, and he may be available for consult through the Somatic Experiencing network/website.

Canadian Primary Care Physician, Gabor Mate, M.D. has written and/or presented on some ACEs related concerns... as well as Vincent Felitti, M.D.-the Co-Primary Researcher during the ACE Study at Kaiser-Permanente...

If Donald Wells, [formerly?] of Mid-America Health Systems Agency, is still in the Kansas City, Mo. area, he may know of some useful info. He worked at our NH Health Systems Agency before going to Mid-America in Kansas City.

Last edited by Robert Olcott
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