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The Other Victims: First Responders To Horrific Disasters Often Suffer In Solitude [khn.org]

The day a gunman fired into a crowd of 22,000 people at the country music festival in Las Vegas, hospital nursing supervisor Antoinette Mullan was focused on one thing: saving lives. She recalls dead bodies on gurneys across the triage floor, a trauma bay full of victims. But “in that moment, we’re not aware of anything else but taking care of what’s in front of us,” Mullan said. Proud as she was of the work her team did, she calls it “the most horrific evening of my life” — the culmination...

Learning Violin Helped Me Survive Prison [themarshallproject.org]

First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-stop, and nighttime is often louder than daytime, because at night many inmates cry out, haunted by their trauma. I often felt like joining them. For the first three years, the cacophony in here drove me absolutely bonkers. I walked around like a zombie — neither dead nor alive. I had a long beard and no one to talk to. My hygiene was so bad that a newfound friend counseled me on the...

What Families Need To Know About Screen Time This Summer [npr.org]

This piece combines and updates two posts from spring 2018. During the summer, it's safe to assume children are using technology more than usual. Managing all that bleeping and buzzing activity causes anxiety in many parents. Here's a roundup of some of the latest research, combined with some of our previous reporting, to help guide your decision-making around family screen use. [For more on this story by ANYA KAMENETZ, go to...

Feel Like The Last Friend Standing? Here’s How To Cultivate New Buds As You Age. [khn.org]

Donn Trenner, 91, estimates that two-thirds of his friends are dead. “That’s a hard one for me,” he said. “I’ve lost a lot of people.” As baby boomers age, more and more folks will reach their 80s, 90s — and beyond . They will not only lose friends but face the daunting task of making new friends at an advanced age. [For more on this story by Bruce Horovitz, go to https://khn.org/news/feel-like-the-last-friend-standing-heres-how-to-cultivate-new-buds-as-you-age/ ]

After Reveal investigation, officials call for closure of Phoenix child detention facility [revealnews.org]

Following an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, officials in Arizona are calling for the closure of a Phoenix office building used by a government contractor to hold immigrant children. Neighbors first saw immigrant children being ushered into the vacant Phoenix office building, which is leased by defense contractor MVM Inc., on June 4, Reveal reported Friday. Although it’s unclear how long children remained in that office, neighbors report they didn’t see...

Parents’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Their Children’s Behavioral Health Problems [pediatrics.aappublications.org]

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) include stressful and potentially traumatic events associated with higher risk of long-term behavioral problems and chronic illnesses. Whether parents’ ACE counts (an index of standard ACEs) confer intergenerational risk to their children’s behavioral health is unknown. In this study, we estimate the risk of child behavioral problems as a function of parent ACE counts. METHODS: We obtained retrospective information on 9 ACEs...

Amid Staggering Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates, Native Communities Revive Traditional Concepts of Support [rewire.news]

“We stopped keeping statistics on the number of Native moms and babies that are lost in our region; it was just too upsetting,” said Millicent Simenson, co-founder of Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming. In light of growing awareness of the negative impact of institutional racism on health for women of color, especially Black women , a new analysis argues the experience of Native American women closely parallels that of African American women. An emerging community-centered and culturally...

Do you use drugs and alcohol to manage your emotions?

I really dislike the word addict to describe someone . I believe that people are more than just their addiction! Yes, many of my clients are trauma survivors who use (or have used) drugs and alcohol (or food or self-harming behavior) to feel less badly and they are/have been addicted to their drug of choice, but they are people in pain. More than just the word addict is needed to describe them. The truth is, if someone is using drugs or alcohol, it’s likely the best coping mechanism they’ve...

5 ways advocates can use Twitter to elevate the link between racism and childhood trauma [bmsg.org]

Nearly 12 years after Twitter first launched in 2006, it has become a global behemoth with 330 million monthly active users, supporting 500 million Tweets every day . Tweets are now a part of daily life, whether they are public conversations about social movements, individual commentary about current events, or political announcements from elected officials. Because advocates are increasingly leveraging social channels like Twitter to influence policy decisions, researchers at Berkeley Media...

Brazil’s audacious plan to fight poverty using neuroscience and parents’ love [qz.com]

Osmar Terra is a tall man with a deep voice and an easy laugh—one that disguises the scale of his ambition to transform Brazilian society. A federal representative for nearly two decades, he is the driving force behind the world’s biggest experiment to prove that teaching poor parents how to love and nurture their infants will dramatically influence what kind of adults they become, and give Brazil its best shot at changing its current trajectory of violence , inequality, and poverty. Terra,...

After His Brother Commits Murder, a Journalist Revisits Their Childhood [nytimes.com]

Issac J. Bailey was pulling together his memoir at a time when America was in the midst of racial upheaval. Over the past few years, alarming deaths of black people at the hands of the police spawned a boisterous national movement — Black Lives Matter — demanding systemic change. And one of the central tenets of this new era of activism requires that we respect all black lives, those of poor felons no less than those of rich entrepreneurs. It seems a fitting moment, then, for Bailey’s book,...

U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials [nytimes.com]

A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly. Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother’s milk is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes. Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant formula...

How White People Handle Diversity Training in the Workplace (www.medium.com) & Note

Cissy's note; Every time I get annoyed that more men are not leading conversations about sexual violence, sexism or are saying defensive or disparaging things about the #MeToo movement, I check myself. I ask myself how much I've been talking, sharing, learning, and challenging myself about racial bias and my own white advantage. It's never enough. Can I really expect people to be better than I am doing? Can I hope people will challenge their own assumptions, culture, experiences and...

ARTIC Scale Webinar Recording Now Available

A recording of the June 12th webinar "Measuring Trauma-Informed Care Using the ARTIC Scale" is now available at the Traumatic Stress Institute website. Registration for the June 12th webinar and the upcoming one in July both filled to capacity. We will likely offer it again in the Fall. But, it you want the information immediately, please view the recording. The Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale is a widely-used psychometrically valid measure of professional attitudes...

With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System [npr.org]

People addicted to prescription opioids or heroin are far more likely to have run-ins with the law than those who don't use opioids, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open. The study provides the first nationwide estimate for the number of people using opioids who end up in the American criminal justice system. The results suggest a need to engage law enforcement officials and corrections systems to tackle the opioid epidemic. The connection between the criminal justice...

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