Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, May 2021

Check out the Resilient Wisconsin coloring pages! Taking time to relax, reflect, and do something fun (like coloring!) can help people of all ages build resiliency. Five Resilient Wisconsin coloring pages are available on the DHS website. Use them as a self-care tool. Share them with your friends, family, and clients. Post a photo of your completed coloring sheet(s) on your social media accounts using #ResilientWisconsin!

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Resource: Routine and universal ACEs screening is key to preventing the lasting impacts of ACEs

• There’s a name for the blah you’re feeling: It’s called languishing

• Adverse childhood experiences and adult self-harm in a female forensic population

• Pandemic is leading to more depression for pregnant women worldwide: Study

• Childhood psychiatric symptom risk strongly linked to adverse exposures during gestation

• Understanding the long-term collective trauma from COVID-19

• A multipronged approach to addressing childhood adversity and promoting resilience

• For deaf kids, pandemic holds hidden consequences

• Association of childhood adversities with suicide ideation and attempts in Puerto Rican young adults

• Childhood adversities increase suicidality risk among youths from disadvantaged contexts

• Many children, youth have violence-related medical visits

Brain and biology

• Your neighborhood may affect your brain health

• Fight or flight response may hinge on protein in skeletal muscular system

• Stress slows the immune response in sick mice

• How your body remembers trauma

Bullying

• How bullying and obesity can affect girls' and boys' mental health

• Youths with diverse gender identities bullied up to three times more than peers, study finds

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Untreated traumas in arrested juveniles linger 15 years past incarceration, study finds

• Children likely to be pleading guilty when innocent

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• PTSD Monthly Update, April 2021
• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 15(2), April 2021
• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 32/NO.2

• A firefighter-turned-therapist opens up about depression and overcoming counseling stigma

• Is PTSD overdiagnosed?
• Podcast: Moral injury

• First responders talk about the often-hidden pain and trauma of working in a pandemic

• What causes dissociative identity disorder (DID)?

Resilience

• Using language to reduce stigma
• Calm a distressed mind by changing your environment
• Creating an agenda for children's resiliency and health
• Autonomy, connection, and healing vicarious trauma in direct support

• What happened to you? Conversations on trauma, resilience and healing

• Mindfulness is the best way to improve your well-being, research concludes

Schools

Trauma-informed care for school leaders: A free, interactive workshop

Substance use disorder

• Video presentation: Addiction, Culture and Implicit Biases

• Blending grief counseling with substance use disorder treatment

Trainings

• Introduction to the 7ei of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Informed Care Train the Trainer
• Register now - June 18, 2021: Day 3 - Opioids, Stimulants, and Trauma Summit (Focus on trauma)

Trauma-informed care

• Trauma-informed resource for prosecution involving juveniles

• Lean into the uncomfortable: Using trauma-informed care to engage in shared decision-making with racial minorities with hematologic malignancies

• Recognizing the role of health care providers in dismantling the trauma-to-prison pipeline
• How trauma workers are helping Indigenous communities heal from deep-rooted grief

Violence

Expert roundtable: Intimate partner violence and COVID-19

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