Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

Job Posting

Child and Family Therapist Opening at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin-Wausau Office

ACEs, Adversity's Impact

Low birthweight linked to higher death rates in infants and adolescents

For Foster Kids, a Push to Make Medical Care Treat Psychological Pain

Black Americans See Gains in Life Expectancy

How Much Do Racial Wealth Gaps Affect the Next Generation?

When All Kids Eat for Free

Screening for postpartum depression: Research review and update

Government Assistance Is Easy to Get Only When You Don’t Need It

Children of depressed parents at high risk of adverse consequences into adulthood

Parental education, childhood experiences associated with HbA1c in diabetes

County Public Health to use $50,000 grant to measure adverse childhood experiences

Depression Strikes, Stays With Many Caregivers of Critically Ill

Prenatal stress could enhance protective mechanisms of babies

Lessons from 100-lb weight loss: dignity, respect and love

Moms’ Mental Health Matters

Losing Identity During the Refugee Crisis

Human trafficking in the child welfare system: Federal funding opportunity

We all can help ensure positive early childhood experiences

Creating a 21st Century Child Well-Being System

America's Health Segregation Problem

Brain and Biology

Early life stress accelerates maturation of key brain region in male mice

Webinar: The Science of Recovery: Introduction to Brain Development and Neuroplasticity -  Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Study links parental depression to brain changes and risk-taking in adolescents

Size of brain region is associated with response to PTSD treatment

QI in the Field: Helping Parents Promote their Babies’ Brain Development

Video: Poverty, the Brain, and Mental Health [97 minutes - Am. Museum of Natural History]

Immunization with bacteria promotes stress resilience, coping behaviors in mice

Bullying

Interventional policies and practices needed to prevent bullying and its harm

New report: Bullying Is a ‘Serious Public Health Problem’

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

After the Doors Were Locked

Grief and Trauma

Opioid Addiction Is a Huge Problem, but Pain Prescriptions Are Not the Cause

What Do EMDR, Running, and Drumming Have in Common?

Your ‘New Normal’: Trauma Recovery Without Avoidance

3 Steps to Healing Trauma that Everyone Should Know

Why I Don’t Use the Word ‘Forgiveness’ in Trauma Therapy

Parenting

Troubled moms and dads learn how to parent with ACEs

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Prince Harry And FLOTUS Brilliantly Shut Down Mental Health Stereotypes

Supporting Each Other / Women with #FacesOfPTSD

PTSD linked to low levels of fat hormone

Genetic variants may put some soldiers at higher risk of PTSD

Why bad experiences are remembered out of context

PTSD and Families: PTSD Monthly Update, May 2016

Resilience

Helping Children Recover and Thrive during National Mental Health Awareness Month

Which Neighborhoods Win by Building Affordable Housing?

Poster: Wellness: Connecting All Aspects Of Behavioral Health

These 5 Domains of Posttraumatic Growth Can Help You Thrive

What it means to be mindful and how it can help your kids

Hope Tree inspires healing, growth

The Four Keys to Well-Being

How Kids Learn Resilience

6 Words You Should Say Today

Research highlights strategies that can help foster children transition into new homes

Guest Commentary: Pacific County Resiliency Corps is building stronger communities

Schools

High Schools for Addicts

It’s Mental Health Month. Check Out These Schools That Are Making Mental Health Services a Priority

Petaluma schools implementing new approach to work with struggling students

It's Time to Reframe How We Think About Education and Health

Trauma-Informed Care

Focus on traumatic childhood helps victims

A day in trauma-informed court: Parents work to regain custody of their kids

Trauma-informed care: A public health approach 

"What is to give light must endure burning" -- Viktor Frankl

Peace4Tarpon Hosts First Responders Summit

Webinar: Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness as Recovery Maintenance - Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Funding Opportunity: SAMHSA is accepting applications for up to $50 million in Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma Grants

Post-conflict reconciliation led to societal healing, but worsened psychological health

Considering a Research-Informed Theoretical Framework for Trauma-Informed Approaches

Cultural Competence and Trauma Informed

Violence

Shaping the way Europe prevents violence against women

Training for trauma of sexual, domestic assault survivors to be held in Marshfield

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