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Changes to the look of the ACEs Too High Network and ACEsTooHigh News!

Vincent Felitti wasn't the only one to kindly point out that the ACEs Too High Network and ACEsTooHigh News looked too much alike. But he was the first.

And so when I looked -- really looked -- at both sites after launching them four weeks ago, I had a "no-duh" reaction. Of course they look too much alike. And it was difficult for many of you to figure out which was which and why there were two sites.

Today, they look different, and they're labeled differently....clearly I hope! This is the ACEs Too High Network, where people who are working to lower ACE scores gather to share information, learn about upcoming events, meet new people, and work in groups on projects (the first group -- State ACE Response Project -- was started today). 

The purpose is to facilitate and speed the flow of information among professionals and community advocates, to share best and worst practices  and, generally, to support the implementation and integration of ACE concepts into our organizations and communities.

My role is to manage the community conversation -- to show people how to make best use of the  network and to find topics that would be of interest to the general public on the news site. For example, a few days ago, one of the network's members, Mary Holden, posted a link to Project Unbreakable, and noted how it was an interesting site. It's a very interesting site, and so I did an interview with its creator and her mentor, and posted a story on the news site. 

ACEsTooHigh News is a news site for the general public. There, you'll find stories and articles about how people are implementing and using ACEs concepts -- in communities, in states, in the arts, in medical practice, in religious practices, etc. Individuals can also tell their personal stories on the site. It's a place for story-telling, for the big picture, to inform people about the ACE Score and how to use it, and engage people in adding ACE concepts to the overall discussion of health and health policy. 

Its software platform doesn't allow the kind of sharing of information by many people, "friending", internal messaging and forming groups that the network's platform allows. It's more of a traditional news site. 

I'm the editor, and, for now, the only reporter. I'm hoping to add another journalist before the middle of the year.

As time goes on, you'll see that the content on the news site isn't as detailed as that which appears here on the network. Content from the news site is often cross-posted into the network, but content from the network is not cross-posted onto the news site, because the people who read the news site want more general information. News site content will also be made available to other news sites.

If someone from the network would like to do a guest post on the news site, I'd be glad to facilitate that. The more voices for child trauma prevention, trauma-informed care and trauma-sensitive classrooms and organizations, the better. 

Please let me know if you have any questions.

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Please do not stop mandatory reporting in the US! You are the light, the hope, and the model in France! It is the first step to reduce the ACES!

 

I can witness what is happening in France where physicians may be exposed to judicial retaliations of rich perpetrators after reporting child abuses because there are nearly no mandatory reporting with full immunity guaranty enacted in our legislation.

 

What is asking first a child who discloses physical and sexual abuses in France, it is “please I want them to stop”. Of course training for detecting and giving treatment is needed. But if you are trying to perform a therapy while incest is going on, the consequences on mental and physical health increase. More the child may think that the physician has not understood any thing after his/her disclosure, is not reliable, may be “on the side” of his perpetrator, etc. He may become fearful to others for a long time, etc, etc.

 

We all have to be aware of the recurrent cycles of suppression of works in child abuse. France is one of the first examples of the ACEs’ backlash. Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879), a French professor of forensic medicine, dean of the Paris Medical School, published several books and papers on cases of child abuses. However he became the subject of waves of criticism by his successors in forensic medicine after his death in 1879. Fournier, 1880) (Bourdin, 1883) (Motet, 1883) described several papers about false allegations of children accusing them to be liars and succeeded in suppressing Tardieu’s work from French medical schools for almost a century. David Chadwick has explained very well this first backlash in his book:

http://www.amazon.com/Child-Abuse-Doctors-David-Chadwick/dp/1878060694

 

Freud visited Paris when the French backlash started. He also became the subject of criticisms and isolation after he described, in 1896, hysteria in relationship with histories of sexual abuse, even in respectable families and he reversed his first theory into the Oedipus complex while the French enacted a bill on the “vicious children” in France in 1904. I have tried to describe this in a book, L’Enfant Cassé, The Broken child:

http://home.scarlet.be/~tsc72306/LIVRES/Bonnet.htm

 

Here is a summary of the book in an interview:

http://psycho.univ-lyon2.fr/sites/psycho/IMG/pdf/doc-1013.pdf

 

The ACE study shed light on the hidden trauma in childhood and their complexity that is very very important, in particular for convincing members of French parliament to enact mandatory reporting like it is in the US!

 

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