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OBJECTIVE : This study tests the association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and multidimensional well-being in early adulthood for a low-income, urban cohort, and whether a preschool preventive intervention moderates this association. METHODS : Follow-up data were analyzed for 1202 low-income, minority participants in the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective investigation of the impact of early experiences on life-course well-being. Born between 1979 and 1980 in...

Lisa Kogan-Praska is president of Catalpa Health, a collaboration formed of three health organizations to serve Fox Cities' youth mental health needs. These are her wishes for youth mental health in the state: Funding for school-based mental health and alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse programs and services. Funding to cover the cost of delivering mental health care, especially for patients with medical assistance health care coverage. Additional reimbursement to provide case management...

Racial housing segregation is worst in the northeast and Great Lakes regions, according to a new report, and it’s making people sick. This year’s edition of County Health Rankings , an annual rating of the health of all the nation’s counties, added the segregation measure because it has “been linked to poor health outcomes, including greater infant and adult mortality, and a wide variety of reproductive, infectious, and chronic diseases,” the report authors write. [For more of this story,...

Clinicians use a common tool to assess the extent of toxic stress a child has experienced during his or her childhood. It’s called the Adverse Childhood Experience test, or ACE for short. It's a simple tool made up of just 10 yes or no questions. The lower the score, the better. In a meta study conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente, researchers tracked the health outcomes of adults based on the extent of the adverse experiences they dealt with...

From Tugg.com, March 17, 2016 Tugg Edu is proud to present the highly anticipated ACEs documentary PAPER TIGERS to the educational marketplace. Directed by James Redford ( THE BIG PICTURE: RETHINKING DYSLEXIA, RESILIENCE ), PAPER TIGERS follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families. With over 450...

Most of us don’t have interactions with the police. For those of us who are minorities, we have reason to be fearful. While my oldest son was going to school in Arizona, he was stopped twice for what we teasing tell him was “Driving While Indian (DWI).” There was no reason to stop him other than his brown face. And as a young paperboy who reported someone climbing into a window in the early morning, then waited for the police to arrive, I had my first negative experience. As I sat in the...

Immigration policy played a decisive role in the outcomes of three regional elections in Germany this past Sunday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party in particular, the Christian Democratic Union, suffered losses attributed to its leader’s welcoming stance toward refugees fleeing war in Syria, Iraq and other war-torn regions. Germany took in more than a million migrants and refugees in 2015—more than any other country in Europe. But taking each nation’s population into consideration, Germany...

[Photo by Felipe Bastos/Flickr] People between 45 and 65 may be the loneliest segment in the U.S. And researchers are using brain scans to show that friendships are vital to staying healthy and engaged in your middle years. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: At some point, most people feel lonely. But according to some surveys, the middle years are the loneliest period of life. Feeling isolated is also dangerous and it can be fatal. As journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty found for our series on midlife,...

[Photo by jasleen_kaur/Flickr] Medical students are more prone to alcohol abuse than their peers not attending medical school, especially if they are young, single and under a high debt load. That's according to a study on medical student burnout by researchers at Mayo Clinic. The findings appear in the journal Academic Medicine. "Our findings clearly show there is reason for concern," says Liselotte Dyrbye, M.D., Mayo Clinic internist and senior author of the paper. "We recommend...

By: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Clinical Supervisor, LPC Deschutes County a nd Jennifer Weeks, Maternal Mental Health Specialist Jennifer Weeks works as a bi-lingual, behavioral health and trauma specialist embedded within the WIC clinic at Deschutes County Health Services. In less than two years, she has served more than 400 women who may not have otherwise sought care due to the stigmas and fears associated with new mothers seeking mental health services. Prior to joining Deschutes County...

Findings of the ACE Study have had a swift and substantial impact on MCH policy, practice and research. This issue of the journal is intended to provide a forum to enhance knowledge of the Study and its implications across the field. Topics of interest include: The aims and findings of the ACE Study, The implications of the Study and use of Study findings to shape MCH practice in clinical, program and policy settings, The import of the Study in relation to life course theory and the social...

Linda Chamberlain is an epidemiologist, author, professor, dog musher and founder of the Alaska Family Violence Project. She is also a translator, determined to bring the “aha” moments of brain science and trauma to everyone in compelling and relevant ways. That might mean posters about ACEs hung in outhouses in a rural Alaska community. “We have to be really flexible on how we define training and education,” she says. “It can be a conversation at church…We have to meet people where they are...