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March 2017

Child Trauma Advocates Grapple with Historical Trauma [SocialJusticeSolutions.org]

For a growing number of educators, researchers and advocates, helping children and families heal from child trauma means talking about a subject that makes many Americans uncomfortable: racism. In recent years, the idea of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has gained traction in child-serving organizations as a way to understand behavioral issues and poor health outcomes faced by children with traumatic life experiences, such as abuse, neglect or household dysfunction, like having an...

Taking on 'toxic stress' [HeraldPalladium.com]

Getting children the support they need to overcome damaging stress will help turn Benton Harbor schools around, Superintendent Shelly Walker told almost 100 school staff and community members Monday. “This is not a phenomenon only in Benton Harbor,” she said. “We have communities all over the nation that are ill-equipped to address the multiple needs of our students in our school systems.” Walker said professionals from Lakeland Health have spoken recently about how constant childhood trauma...

Shelter that Houses Immigrant Children to be Shut Down [MiamiHerald.com]

South Dade’s temporary shelter for unaccompanied minors will close on Saturday, federal officials say, and those children who have not been placed with a relative or sponsor in the U.S. will be transferred to a permanent shelter elsewhere. The temporary site, which housed hundreds of immigrant children at the former Job Corps facility near Homestead Air Reserve Base, opened as a shelter in June 2016. It took in kids ages 13 to 17 who were detained while crossing the Mexican border without...

Officers receive weeklong training to recognize mental health issues [KPLCTV.com]

It's a routine occurrence - law enforcement dealing with mental health issues. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office said on average, deputies respond to two-to-four calls every day. On Monday, training to become Crisis Intervention Team - or CIT certified - began for 30 law enforcement officers from various agencies in Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jeff Davis parishes. "This is just a way for us to learn how to deal and interact with those cases," said Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff's...

Brain Imaging, Machine Learning May Help Predict Mental Illness Risk [PsychCentral.com]

Researchers are combining brain imaging data and supercomputers to identify patterns in neuroimaging data that may help predict risk for mental disorders such as depression or dementia. Depression affects more than 15 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, each year. It is the leading cause of disability for those between the ages of 15 and 44. [For more of this story, written by Rick Nauert, go to ...

Nurses Groups Partner to Better Address Students' Mental Health Issues [AssociationsNow.com]

A new partnership between the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and the National Association of Schools Nurses hopes to enhance school nurses’ ability to address children’s mental health issues. One-in-five children has had a seriously debilitating mental illness, according to a statement from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. And school nurses frequently are on the front lines. “It’s often the nurse at school who picks up on mental health and substance abuse issues,” said...

Addressing the silent impact of war: WHO expands mental health care services across Syria [EMRO.who.int]

Forty-year-old Ghada* from Aleppo faced devastating loss after loss that led to her becoming acutely depressed. Just weeks after her home was destroyed in a shell attack, her father and brother were killed when a shell hit their building. Soon after, her son was kidnapped and she was forced to sell her destroyed home and land to secure his release. Ghada began displaying symptoms of extreme fear whenever she heard sounds of shelling, even those in the distance. She became extremely anxious...

If they can do it, so can we! Resources for system change.

I don't know about the rest of you but it seems every day now I open up the ACEsC page and get excited by the new developments being made in the area, and new resources becoming available -- video resources for attachment?! Do you realise how much you'd have to pay the "PopPsych" pages for that??! Holy gosh!! There're so many good things becoming available. Coming from a country where some people have been struggling for years to "get things going" it's literally stunning. Yesterday I posted...

“Healing Early Developmental Trauma”: New Video Series

This 13 module video series is 78 hours of video, course notes, references, articles and other relevant resources, plus monthly online support calls. Module 1: Attachment. Attachment is the scientific name for a biological communication system that gets set up between a baby and their family from the prenatal period through the first few years. Myrna is having a special sale off the full series for Spring: MARCH 21 to MAY 21, 2017 at 30% off the regular price.

Healing From Child Abuse is Like Peeling an Onion

Healing from child abuse or chronic trauma doesn’t happen step-by-step, as if you were climbing a staircase. The healing process is more like peeling an onion. Child abuse is sustained trauma that happens day after day. It forces you to disconnect from your mind, body, and heart. This helps you survive the abuse, but it also hides your authentic self. Every day for years you disconnected from reality and from your true identity, while enduring the abuse. Every year added a new layer of...

New Resource - Pre-Father Care: Prenatal Care for Fathers

Hello! I am writing to share a wonderful new resource from the Vital Village Network’s friend and partner, Charles C. Daniels, Jr. Charles is the Founder and CEO of Fathers’ Uplift, which works to assist fathers in overcoming barriers (financial barriers, addiction barriers, oppressive barriers, emotional barriers and traumatic barriers) that prevent them from remaining engaged in their children’s lives. Charles’s book “Pre-Father Care: Prenatal Care for Fathers” is now available for...

PIQUERO: Minority juvenile offenders often face inequities in mental health treatment [LuftkinDailyNews.com]

Every day, our jails and prisons take in large numbers of offenders who have serious mental health issues. But how good are we in diagnosing and treating their illnesses? Traditionally, not very good…and the record gets worse with respect to providing the most appropriate treatment. And as a recent study that I was part of published in the Journal of Youth & Adolescence showed, it is even more distressing when we examined diagnosis and treatment among racial/ethnic groups. In this study...

Texan Hikes Hundreds of Miles to Fight Stigma of Mental Illness [ReportingTexas.com]

A bushy-bearded man in shorts, T-shirt and a heavy backpack entered the Texas Capitol earlier this month. He had a special delivery for the governor, the man said, and he had come a long way to deliver it. Tom Kennedy, 64, hiked almost 300 miles from Houston to Austin—via San Antonio, no less—to hand-deliver about 700 postcards written by Texans to the office of Gov. Greg Abbott. The effort was to raise awareness about the stigma of mental illness. “When I was a child there was a huge stigma...

Unity Conference 2017: The Collective Power of CHWs, CHRs and Promotores

Unity 2017 is a national conference designed for and about community health workers, community health representatives, and promotores. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Collective Power of CHWs, CHRs and Promotores.” The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO) at The University of Southern Mississippi, with support from Sanofi US, the Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health, Baylor Scott and White Health, KDH Research & Communication, MHP Salud,...

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