Trauma at the Border [5 min - Brave New Films] – This 5-minute take-action video by an advocate group named Families Belong Together urges people to find an action on FamiliesBelongTogether.org commenting that families belong together not in cages. This video further elaborates how the U.S military is preparing to indefinitely hold families following President Trump’s executive order ending the separation of children from their parents at the border. Three pediatricians in this video explain the long-term damage that can be done when children are imprisoned even with their families. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste the following into your browser, https://www.acesconnection.com/clip/trauma-at-the-border-5-min-brave-new-films
Childhood Trauma Can Mean Early Death. This California Mom Wants to Beat the Odds – KQED News – Emotional neglect, physical abuse, divorce, a household riven by addiction — science shows that traumas like these in childhood cause poorer health later in life, both mentally and physically. After a very difficult upbringing and early adulthood, Sabrina Hanes is doing everything she can to overcome the trauma she experienced and give her daughter, Aroara, the best possible life.
Relationships That Heal: Building a Community to Combat Childhood Trauma – ACEs Connection – Laura Porter, a former county commissioner in Washington State is now the co-founder of ACE Interface, an organization that provides schools and communities with the tools to combat childhood trauma. She asked teenagers in a survey: If you could have one helpful thing in your life, what would it be? It was part of her research to get a handle on what was happening with young people in her community.
Disaster relief is about more than healing physical trauma. It's about emotional recovery too. – Yahoo – Disaster relief is most commonly thought of as providing food, water, and shelter to those affected by calamitous events beyond their control. But as communities in places like Texas and Puerto Rico are learning, disaster relief that only alleviates physical wants is not enough to put their communities back on their feet.
Shasta County, CA using videos to educate, activate & celebrate – ACEs Connection – Four videos highlighting some of the work happening in Shasta County. According to one of the providers speaking towards the end of one video - patients/clients had positively "profound" responses to learning about their ACEs - and they felt empowered to do what they could do to not have their children have the same experience.
Building Strength And Resilience After A Sexual Assault: What Works - NPR – Emily R. Dworkin, a senior fellow at the University Of Washington School Of Medicine in Seattle, studies how the social interactions of trauma survivors can affect their recovery. She was also the lead author of a paper published in the journal Clinical Psychology Review in 2017 that looked through more than 100,000 studies conducted in the last 50 years and found nearly 200 relevant ones on the relationship between sexual assault and mental health to analyze.
Select NCTSN Resources Related to Teen Sexual Assault – NCTSN – How common is teen sexual assault? What constitutes consent? What exactly is coercion? What role do drugs and the Internet play in sexual assault? How can teens stay safe? What to do if your teen is assaulted? For answers to these questions and much more, follow the link to Select NCTSN Resources Related to Teen Sexual Assault. This 3-page list of fact sheets and webinars offers information and tips for professionals, parents, and teens related to teen sexual assault, acquaintance rape, sexual abuse, and child traumatic stress.
Why Don’t They Tell? Teens and Sexual Assault Disclosure - NCTSN – Why do teens fail to get help after a sexual assault? A new fact sheet, Why Don’t They Tell? Teens and Sexual Assault Disclosure, gives the most common reasons: not wanting others to know, distrusting that police will take them seriously, or fearing reprisal by the assailant. This 4-page resource gives caregivers and those who work with teens information on the benefits of disclosure and how to support teens after disclosure of a sexual assault.
Mining the “lessons learned” from trauma legislation successes - ACEs Connection – The planned agenda for the “Learning Series: Policy Approaches to Childhood Adversity” workshop at the 2018 ACEs Conference: Action to Access went out the window when an unexpected guest— California Assembly member Joaquin Arambula, MD—was invited to open the session and join the other participants in lively exchanges about their advocacy experiences and perspectives on hot button issues such as parental separation and economic supports for families.
New MHA Report Shows Many in Crisis, Impact of Trauma on Youth Significant - PRWeb – For the fifth year in a row, Mental Health America (MHA) released its annual State of Mental Health Report, which ranks all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on several mental health and access measures. MHA’s report also shines the spotlight on childhood trauma and its impact long-term, and releases data that shows how much trauma can impact youth in school.
The Trauma-Sensitive Parenting Summit & Commentary - ACEs Connection – The book “Parenting from the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive”, which was published fifteen freaking years ago co-written by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell. Siegel will be the keynote opening up the Trauma-Sensitive Parenting Summit. It discussed parenting and different techniques for parenting children who have gone through trauma with special attention to children who are adopted.
In this instructive webinar, see how actual therapists handle crises that arise in a therapy session. The webinar depicts a critical turning point in treatment, illustrating the complexity of developmental trauma and raising the question as to whether a therapeutic relationship can be repaired.
As foster care teens enter adulthood, obstacles mount, report finds Washington Post – Teenagers transitioning from foster care to adulthood face obstacles that leave them trailing their peers in education, employment, housing and early parenthood, according to a report that for the first time gathers foster care data from all 50 states.
How Native American Children Benefit From Trauma-Informed Schools – In Montana, a school that serves mostly Native American children is in one of the State’s 10 Wraparound programs. The schools in this Wraparound program are using trauma-sensitive practices to address children’s mental health, behavioral, and academic issues. The goal of this program is to create schools where adults from the principal to the lunch room personnel consistently respond to children with empathy and compassion. According to the National Association of School Psychologists, trauma-sensitive schools create safety for students who may have experienced trauma.
Healing Health Care: Addressing Trauma in Primary Care – Remarking that addressing trauma in an individual’s life isn’t a matter of the latest treatment fad as it can be a matter of life and death, this article demonstrates how evident it is for primary care to identify and address trauma. As such the National Council’s Trauma-Informed Primary Care: Fostering Resilience and Recovery project, supported by Kaiser Permanente, is developing and piloting a change package offering primary care practices field informed methods, tools and resources to advance understanding and address the impact of trauma.
A Brief Guide to Self-Harm and Unhealed Childhood Trauma - blogs.psychcentral.com – Self-harm is a commonly misunderstood psychological phenomenon. Some people believe that those who harm themselves are simply stupid because why else a person would do that. Others think that self-harm is only attention-seeking behavior. Some even call it selfish.
Violence and Trauma in the Lives of Children – ABC - CLIO – Network colleagues Joy D. Osofsky and Betsy McAlister Groves have edited this significant two-volume book which explains the neurological, emotional, and behavioral impacts of violence and trauma experienced by newborns, infants, children, and teenagers. Providing readers with information on detecting and preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and helping children who have lived through them
A Brief Guide to Self-Harm and Unhealed Childhood Trauma - blogs.psychcentral.com – Self-harm is a commonly misunderstood psychological phenomenon. Some people believe that those who harm themselves are simply stupid because why else a person would do that. Others think that self-harm is only attention-seeking behavior. Some even call it selfish.
ACE study shows big impact on physical and mental health outcomes, NRToday.com – This is the first in a three-prat series exploring the effects of ACEs on children’s health. ACEs measure 10 factors and environments that children are exposed to (maltreatment, neglect, parental loss, mental health, addictions), and how exposure is linked to chronic health conditions in adulthood.
Wisconsin Childhood Trauma Data Explodes Myth of ‘Not in My Small Town’, JSOnline.com – The article details the risk of opioid deaths in Rock County, Wisconsin. The author attributes the rise of overdose deaths to the economic downturn, prevalence of ACEs, and denial of heroin use in the small town. The area has developed a program called “Hope for Heroin” in which recovering addicts share their experiences with users in moments of crisis.
Lasting Damage: The Public Health Funder Linking Childhood Trauma and Illness, InsidePhilanthropy.com – Children who experience ACEs are more likely to have trouble calming themselves down, focusing and keeping friends as well as more likely to experience adverse long-term health effects. The article outlines a number of different foundations and organizations such as the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health and Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation who focus on supporting children and young people affected by trauma.
Early Trauma Institute, AcesConnection.com – Author Jo Spencer wrote the book, “Healing the Wound That Won’t Heal: the Reality of Trauma” after her father died after suffering extreme PTSD after World War II. She founded the non-profit the Early Trauma Institute with the mission of increasing public awareness about infant and childhood trauma. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link into your browser http://www.acesconnection.com/blog/early-trauma-institute
Trauma, SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions – SAMHSA considers trauma an important health area and recognizes its position as a risk factor for intimate partner violence and suicide. This site provides resources for clinicians/staff, organizations, patients/consumers, and policymakers and leadership.
Inside the Native American Foster Care Crisis Tearing Families Apart, VICE.com-- Based on the Indian Child Welfare Act, Native American children in the foster care system are supposed to be placed with Native American foster parents. However, there is currently an extreme shortage of Native foster families and therefore, native children are being placed with non-native families, causing a complex and multifaceted issue both legally and culturally.
The devastating, under diagnosed toll of toxic stress on children—Humble Opinion, AcesConnection.com-Dr. Nadine Burke Harris speaks of the harm that under diagnosed toxic stress on children can cause and is emphasizing this to teachers, social workers, parents, and more. Just because stress is diagnosed in a child, does not mean it is diagnosed at the correct extent. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link into your browser https://www.acesconnection.com/clip/the-devastating-underdiagnosed-toll-of-toxic-stress-on-children-humble-opinion
Treating Childhood Trauma 60 Minutes Oprah, CBS.com-In this 60 Minutes Report, Oprah speaks to childhood trauma and its impacts through interviews with professionals, those who have experienced childhood trauma, and through analyzing the community in which she grew up, Milwaukee. She focuses on childhood trauma and its everlasting impacts, along with creating trauma-informed systems.
Coercion, AcesConnection.com-This is a personal article written by one of Harvey Weinstein’s victims, who discusses the life long struggle she will have. She also discusses how she feels sorry for the other victims, and describes how the abuse made her feel. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link into your browser http://www.acesconnection.com/blog/coercion
7 Signs You Have Mild PTSD Rather Than Anxiety, Bustle.com-This resource discusses seven signs to look out for when distinguishing between anxiety and mild PTSD. Signs include not being able to sleep well, feeling depressed but not understanding why, and avoiding people, places, and events. The impact of trauma can feel like anxiety to many, when in fact it can be mild PTSD.
Court: Trauma Impedes Native American Education Programs, Feds Must Address It, ChronicleofSocialChange.org – A federal court ruled that the federal government is obligated to meet the mental health and wellness needs of Native American students as a part of its educational obligations to those children. The ruling recognizes the impact of complex trauma and ACEs on a child’s ability to learn to the extent that these children may be disabled, requiring special education programs.
Overcoming ACEs By Lifestyle, News.LLU.edu-Rhonda Spencer-Hwang DrPH, MPH, discusses the links between Adverse Child Experiences and health conditions. She discusses how certain aspects, such as poverty, are difficult to reduce in an environment, but it is feasible to help peoples’ responses to ACEs. Her research study and findings were presented to Healthy People 2017.
Tips for Survivors of a Disaster or Other Traumatic Event: Coping with Retraumatization, SAMHSA.gov – Retraumatization is reliving stress reactions from a traumatic even when faced with a new and similar incident. This tip sheet details signs and symptoms of retraumatization as well as the benefits of health and guidance on management. The document outlines triggering events and risk factors for retraumatization and then further details symptoms, dividing them into thoughts, physical signs, behaviors, and emotions. Finally, the sheet has a list of helpful resource such as hotlines, treatment locators, and other trauma-related resources. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste this link in your browser https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA17-5047/SMA17-5047.pdf
Understanding and Addressing Trauma and Child Sex Trafficking, NCTSN.org – Child sex trafficking is a severe form of trauma that has long-term and immediate consequences. Over one million children are victims of commercial sex exploitation and this Policy Brief defines child sex trafficking and outlines the risks, consequences, and what can be done about child sex trafficking.
Understanding Neurobiology of Psychological Trauma, Pathwaysrtc.pdx.edu – The downloadable document outlines the effects of psychological trauma on neurobiology. Chronic stress or early life adversity during childhood shows a correlation with physical and mental health difficulties later in life. The article discusses topics like neu
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