Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, June 2020

Explore the Resilient Wisconsin website! Understanding resilience Trauma-informed practices Trauma and toxic stress Risk and protective factors Social determinants of health Adverse childhood experiences Promote the Resilient Wisconsin initiative! Visit the Resilient Wisconsin: Partner Resources webpage for social media posts and more.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• American Academy of Pediatrics says racism is a threat to kids of all ages
• The association between exposure to childhood maltreatment and the subsequent development of functional somatic and visceral pain syndromes
• Childhood trauma affects the timing of motherhood
• Will we see a 'wounded generation' because of COVID-19?
• Racial trauma is a public health emergency
• Inequities amplified by COVID-19: Opportunities for Medicaid to address health disparities
• How experiencing traumatic stress leads to aggression
• Childhood food neglect and adverse experiences associated with DSM-5 eating disorders in US national sample
• What home confinement means to children
• Calling health care workers 'heroes' harms all of us
• Dr. Tahmeena Ali: Child development is everybody's business: Lessons from the pandemic
• Pandemic affecting adolescent development; we must help them handle new traumas 
• The never-ending loop: Homelessness, psychiatric disorder, and mortality
• Associations between maternal adverse childhood experiences, executive function, and emotional availability in mother-child dyads
• High stress related to cornonavirus is the new normal for many parents, says new APA survey
• Impact of children's loneliness today could manifest in depression for years to come
• Hannah Sherfinski: Breaking the silence: Identifying youth in need through trauma screening
• Adverse childhood experiences and smoking during adolescence and adulthood
• Young homeless people are struggling to stay safe during the pandemic
• Improving the adverse childhood experiences study scale
• Vital signs: Addressing childhood trauma requires discussing racism's impact

Brain and biology

• The neurobiology of social distance
• Connecting the brain to the rest of the body: Early childhood development and lifelong health are deeply intertwined
• The Brain Architects Podcast: Mental health in a locked-down world
• Looking under the hood: How brain science informs addiction treatment
• Where stress lives
• Expression of certain genes may affect vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder
• Chronic stress? Limiting inflammatory signalling to specific brain circuits

Bullying

Bullying on the rise nationally, school official says

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Pandemic is chance for leaders to collaborate on transforming youth justice
• Correctional health is public health: Jails and prisons are vectors for COVID-19

DHS career opportunity

Community Programs Quality Improvement Specialist

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 31/NO. 2, 2020
• A perfect storm for medical PTSD: Isolation, intensive care, and the coronavirus pandemic
• A tsunami of dementia could be on the way
• Post-traumatic stress disorder: Findings from the Australian National Survey on Mental Health and Well-Being
• The relationship between traumatic exposure, family dysfunction, and post-traumatic stress
• Resource: PTSD treatment basics
• Prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder and other psychiatric diagnoses in three groups of abused children (sexual, physical, both)
• Cannabis temporarily relieves PTSD symptoms, study suggests
• Medics forced to 'dissociate' by the trauma of COVID-19 work
• What most people don't understand about mental health

Resilience

• The kind of hunger people don't talk about
• How can kindness reduce stress?
• How to build resilience as a trauma survivor
• How 8 business leaders are keeping employee mental health in mind during the cornoavirus pandemic
• The healing powers of gratitude
• Maintaining emotional sobriety during COVID-19
• Interview: Compassion training could help parents and their children
• Video: An Introduction to Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness

Schools

• Antioch: During COVID-19, how does a trauma-informed school pivot to distance learning?
• Video: The science behind brain breaks
• When SEL is used as another form of policing

Substance use disorder

• 75,000 Americans at risk from overdose or suicide due to coronavirus despair, group warns
• Addiction services face closures, cutbacks amid COVID-19 outbreak
• Resource: Kit for Kids
• When coronavirus pandemic passes, we'll stiff face the opioid epidemic
• Social distancing can be dangerous for people in addiction. Can a knock on the door help?

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Informed Care Train the Trainer 8-PART VIRTUAL SESSION
• Back to School VIRTUAL SESSIONS
• Trauma Sensitive Schools VIRTUAL Networking Meeting

Trauma-informed care

• What is trauma-informed yoga?
• COVID-19 Lessons: The alignment of palliative medicine and trauma-informed care
• Beyond PPE: Protecting health care workers to prevent a behavioral health disaster
• Mitigating the pandemic - social work was built for this
• I learned the impact of prolonged exposure to stress from my foster child
• An innovative trauma-informed curriculum for sexual assault care

Violence

Domestic violence reports on the rise as COVID-19 keeps people at home, study shows

Do not reply directly to this email message. If you have a question, email Scott Webb. Visit the DHS website for more information on Resilient Wisconsin.