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REGISTER NOW! April 28 Webinar - "Racism and Discrimination as a Risk Factor for Toxic Stress" [acesaware.org]

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Noon - 1 p.m. Register Here On April 28, 2021, join us for the first in a series of webinars that will explore research demonstrating how racism and other forms of discrimination can serve as risk factors to activate a toxic stress response, and lead to health conditions that have been empirically associated with exposure to Adverse Childhood Experiences ( ACEs ). Presenters: Nadine Burke Harris, MD, MPH, FAAP – California Surgeon General Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH –...

Benefits of Yoga & Mindfulness [echotraining.org]

We carry our story - from toxic stress to excitement - in our body. Peter Levine states, "Trauma is not in the event itself; rather trauma resides in the nervous system." So, what if you could use your body as a resource to relax and restore wellness? At our upcoming Yoga for Trauma Recovery training, we will teach people how to use their body (or guide others) to practice resonant breath, rhythmic exercises, and tools to heal from trauma. In addition, we will also be having our first ever...

Learning from the Landscape: Strategies in Early Childhood Health Equity [nichq.org]

April 29, 2021 from 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM (EDT) During the last decade, there has been an increasing understanding of how the social determinants of health (e.g., systemic and environmental challenges such as poverty, poor housing, and poor health care) affect the health and well-being of young children and their families. The multi-faceted nature of these challenges led many communities and states to build – or expand – initiatives from multiple sectors, disciplines, and systems to join to...

Violence against Indigenous women is 'a crisis.' Deb Haaland's new Missing & Murdered Unit could help, advocates say. [thelily.com]

By Cecilia Nowell, The Lily, April 20, 2021 Growing up in Canada, Agnes Woodward, who’s Plains Cree and originally from Kawacatoose First Nation, always knew that her family cared deeply about missing and murdered Indigenous women. In the 1990s, she watched as her aunt Mona and a few others began trying to draw attention to the lacking police response when Indigenous women went missing: They would hold up images of missing friends on street corners. In 1992, they organized the first march in...

Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health [annualreviews.org]

By Jack P. Shonkoff, Natalie Slopen, and Davie Williams, Annual Review of Public Heath, April 2021 Abstract Inequalities in health outcomes impose substantial human and economic costs on all societies—and the relation between early adversity and lifelong well-being presents a rich scientific framework for fresh thinking about health promotion and disease prevention broadly, augmented by a deeper focus on how racism influences disparities more specifically. This review begins with an overview...

** NCTSN April 2021 Spotlight ** [nctsn.org]

Military children are faced with many challenges, including but not limited to extended separations, deployments, frequent moves, and loss. The relationship with a parent or primary caregiver is critical to a child’s sense of self, safety, and trust. While many military children adjust well after a death, other children have ongoing difficulties that interfere with everyday life and make it difficult to recall positive memories of their loved ones. A child may have a traumatic reaction after...

Live Webinar: How Trauma Affects Risk for Chronic Illness (Tuesday April 27, 6pm PDT with live Q&A)

When I first learned about the ACEs I thought my ACE score was zero even though I'd been researching the effects of adversity on risk for chronic illness for a few years by then. In addition, none of the illnesses in that first study seemed to apply to me. I was experiencing increasingly disabling fatigue that would eventually be diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). This illness, still often thought to be psychological, had already contributed to my leaving my career as a family...

Just Thinking About Cooperation Can Make You Less Prejudiced [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

By Jill Suttie, Greater Good Magazine, April 20, 2021 As human beings, we tend to favor people we think are like us or have something in common with us—and we’re often wary of people who are different. Evolution made us this way so that we could find allies against outside threats. The problem comes when this old instinct to prefer our “in-group” leads us to discriminate, dehumanize, or act violently toward others we perceive as “the other” or members of the “out-group.” Surprisingly, it...

How Schools Can Help Kids Heal After A Year Of 'Crisis And Uncertainty' [npr.org]

By Cory Turner and Christine Herman, National Public Radio, April 21, 2021 Kai Humphrey, 9, has been learning from home for more than a year. He badly misses his Washington, D.C., elementary school, along with his friends and the bustle of the classroom. "I will be the first person ever to have every single person in the world as my friend," he said on a recent Zoom call, his sandy brown hair hanging down to his shoulder blades. From Kai, this kind of proclamation doesn't feel like bragging,...

Association of Multigenerational Family History of Depression With Lifetime Depressive and Other Psychiatric Disorders in Children Results from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study [jamanetwork.com]

By Milenna T. van Dijk, Eleanor Murphy, Jonathan E. Posner, et al., JAMA Psychiatry, April 21, 2021 Key Points Question Does having multiple prior generations affected by depression increase risk of psychopathology in children, and can it be reliably measured in large, diverse samples using informant-reported family history? Findings In this secondary analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study including 11 200 children from 9462 families, the highest risks of depressive and...

Supporting healthier minds through learning and development [chieflearningofficer.com]

By Eizabenth Loutfi, Chief Learning Officer, April 22, 2021 There is a concerning surge of adults in the U.S. who are reportedly struggling with mental health or a substance use issue amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Though strategies such as social distancing and the use of stay-at-home orders are useful in reducing the spread of the virus, they are also partially responsible for the uptick in isolation and loneliness, which has increased stress and anxiety among almost everyone,...

ASU researchers set price tag on illness linked to childhood trauma

A new study done at Arizona State University has, for the first time, quantified the health-care cost of women in Arizona who experienced trauma as children, pegging the amount at $260 million for 2019. The research, done by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy , showed that exposure to three or more “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs, such as drug abuse or violence in their homes, was associated with $260 million in Medicaid spending – about 16% of the total for 2019. The work is...

Melissa Merrick and Jim Mercy

Melissa Merrick of PCAA and Jim Mercy of the CDC answer this question. Adverse childhood experiences are correlated with poor physical and mental health outcomes and most, if not all, of the ten original aces are associated with unsupportive and harmful parenting. This suggests that the most important takeaway from the ACE Study and the one that is not being addressed is that many aces can be prevented with public health approach parenting education. Perhaps national parenting education...

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