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By Adam Piore, Newsweek, March 2, 2020 In the mid-2000s, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris opened a children's medical clinic in the Bayview section of San Francisco, one of the city's poorest neighborhoods. She quickly began to suspect something was making many of her young patients sick. She noticed the first clues in the unusually large population of kids referred to her clinic for symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—an inability to focus, impulsivity, extreme...

Join me live on Facebook @GrandfamilyToday Thursday, March 5, 2020, 9 pm EST for my birthday give back: Developing Self-Care Sense

photo credit: Evgeny Atamanenko/Shutterstock.com By Alice M. Kenny (pseudonym) (The article below is an excerpt from my new book, Crazy Was All I Ever Knew: The Impact of Maternal Mental Illness on Kids . I have used a pseudonym to protect the privacy of family members.) As a child, I lived in dread that something would set my mother off and she’d fly into a violent rage, unleashing a torrent of abuse. I was physically abused by my mother, but I considered the beatings tolerable. It was the...

Call for Presentations Southern Trans Health and Wellness Conference Dec 3-4, 2020 Benton Convention Center Winston-Salem, NC The Southern Trans Health and Wellness Conference is designed to highlight best practices, innovative research and authentic community partnerships to center the lived experiences of impacted populations and to support the health, racial equity, equality and wellness of transgender, non-binary, intersex and gender-expansive communities. We are currently seeking...

Japan is now the 59th country to ban spanking in an effort to address the number 1 risk factor for ending physical child abuse! Japan's parliament enacted a revised law banning parents and other guardians from physically punishing children following several fatal cases of abuse dealt out in the name of discipline. Child maltreatment fatality is a strong indicator of child welfare in a country. This is the rate at which parents murder their own children. Here is how we measure up against...

The Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) is excited to share the seventh episode of In the Arena with NOW , a podcast series that lifts up the voices of community leaders who are “in the arena” -- in classrooms, playgrounds, Congressional halls, hospitals, and neighborhood streets -- working to make sure that all children and families can live healthy, thriving lives. Episode 7: Community Data into Action: An African American Breastfeeding Blueprint Headquartered in Atlanta,...

Domestic Violence Intervention of Lebanon County is pleased to present the Central PA premiere of the new and award-winning documentary film "Cracked Up" in recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month in April. In Cracked Up we witness the impact adverse childhood experiences can have across a lifetime through the incredible story of actor, comedian, master impressionist and Saturday Night Live veteran, Darrell Hammond. Behind the scenes Darrell suffered from debilitating...

This 3-Part series was created to support schools and organizations in planning and implementing effective program evaluation for trauma-informed care (TIC) interventions. Enjoy these excerpts from Part 2 . CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ALL OF PART 2 AND THE WHOLE SERIES FOR FREE Part 2: How to Measure Trauma-Informed Care ________________________________________ The Measuring Trauma-Informed Care Series was created by the Traumatic Stress Institute (TSI) , a global leader in TIC implementation and...

Joe and Dardi Hendershoot, cofounders of Hope 4 the Wounded will be the special guests on "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" this Sunday evening at 8:00 pm Central Standard Time. Joe Hendershott, Ed.D., is a sought-after speaker about the effects of trauma on learning and behaviors, & working with wounded students™. As founder of Hope 4 The Wounded, he also provides consulting, staff training, an online course, & has authored three books: Reaching The Wounded Student, 7...

By Margarita Tartakovsky, PsychCentral, February 23, 2020 Anger is a tough emotion. It feels so urgent and all-consuming. And we feel like we have to act on it. Right. Now. And so, we do. We say something cruel or sarcastic. We yell. We slam doors. We become stone-cold silent and refuse to communicate. We replay the situation or interaction over and over. And we get madder and madder. But even though our anger feels overpowering and overwhelming, we can avoid having a rage-filled, knee-jerk...

By Lillian Mongeau, The Hechinger Report, February 29, 2020 Ameykay Stocks, a mail carrier and mother of five, has sent all of her children, now ages 5 to 16, to her local public schools here from the year they turned 3. Few families in America have such an option. Nationally, only 68 percent of 4-year-olds and 40 percent of 3-year-olds were enrolled in preschool in 2017, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.* Most, but not all, preschool programs receive some public...

By Margaret Sullivan, The Washington Post, March 1, 2020 Among the many outlandish statements President Trump has made since taking office, one in particular stands out for me. Speaking in Kansas City, Mo., in the summer of 2018, he urged the attendees of the VFW annual convention to ignore the journalism of the mainstream media. “Just stick with us, don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” he said. “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s...