Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact

• Video: Health Connections Special: ACEs - Adverse Childhood Experiences [29 min - KRCB North Bay Public Media]
  
• Column: Children’s mental health critical
  
• Wealth disparity and family income impact the brain development of female youth
• Chicago’s gun violence crisis is also a mental health crisis
• Report reveals that about 1 in 8 children lived with at least one parent who had a past year substance use disorder
• 'Our society is broken': what can stop Canada's First Nations suicide epidemic?
• Childhood socioeconomic status associated with arterial stiffness in adulthood

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Tribal youth in the juvenile justice system
• Juvenile justice system promises rehabilitation, delivers crippling debt to California youth
• Recent rulings in 6 states signal new momentum for ending solitary for juveniles

DHS Career Opportunities

• Mental Health Services Coordinator - Bureau of Prevention Treatment and Recovery
• Quality Improvement Analyst - Central Wisconsin Center
• State Targeted Response to Opioid Crisis Project Coordinator - Bureau of Prevention Treatment and Recovery.
  

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• UW-Madison study: Participation for youth with PTSD and their mothers in a direct and observational learning study
• Psychedelic drug being looked at to treat PTSD
• PTSD Monthly Update - August 2017
• Clinicians' Trauma Update: Issue 11(4), August 2017
  
• Alterations in blood-based miRNA in veterans affected with combat-related PTSD
  

Resilience

• Yoga and meditation improve mind-body health and stress resilience
• Parenting style reduces kids' distress in war
• In an angry world, no strength without kindness, or kinship

Schools

Exclusion from school can trigger long-term psychiatric illness

Trauma-Informed Care

• Cultural Humility: A key element of trauma-informed care
• Walker, Gallagher talk trauma-informed care at Green Bay Boys & Girls Club
• Enhancing trauma-informed approaches in behavioral healthcare
• To be a trauma-informed city takes a cultural shift and partnership
• Understanding trauma and dysfunction to break abuse cycle
• What is trauma-informed psychotherapy?
• Sanderson Apartments is one of nation’s first buildings designed under principles of trauma-informed care

Violence

 How not to react when survivors of sexual trauma disclose

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