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I am Co-Director of the Neurofeedback Advocacy Project. We implement neurofeedback in 3 agencies in Oregon, one of which Sponsors Inc provides transitional housing and other support to felons just released from prison. The other two sites were the forensics unit of the county Behavioral Health Department and a community mental health center serving a economically hard pressed small town. We collected ACE scores on all participants. The scores were nearly identical at 5.9. In addition to ACE's scores, we collect scores of the number of DSM current Psychosocial Stresses and the number of concurrent symptom clusters (e.g. Anxiety, sleep, depression). Again, the scores on these measures for our sample of felons, male and female matches those from the other sites.

Not directly related to your question but the results to date show significant improvements on client-select, client-rated behavioral health concerns from the treatment. We have added four more sites to the original study and are enrolling several more. We are definitely looking into recruiting sites in prison settings and in the juvenile justice system. If you could point us to such agency sites, it would be a great help.

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