Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact

• Number of children in foster care continues to increase
• NIH study of WWII evacuees suggests mental illness may be passed to offspring
• Dropping out of high school linked to child abuse
• Early-life stress, especially in war, can have consequences across multiple generations
• When giving birth feels like being raped all over again
• Impact of childhood trauma reaches rural Wisconsin
• Trauma may have fallout over generations
• Does childhood spanking lead to dating violence?
• Study: Louisiana children experience more adversity than in other states
• High-stress childhoods blind adults to potential loss
• Science, hope, and the future of our children
• It took decades after leaving care to get the mental health help I needed
• Uncomfortably numb: Growing up with guns everywhere in Milwaukee

Brain and Biology

Problematic alcohol use linked to reduced hippocampal volume

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• What it feels like to be kept in Los Angeles prisons when you’re a teen
• Judging, not judging: Trauma-informed courts
• NCTSN bench card for the trauma-informed judge
• Mindfulness training and therapy can reverse jail time's negative psychological effects
• Courts are using the powerful “black robe effect" to treat severe mental illness. Should they? [vox.com]
• Teen brain science doesn’t explain serious crimes, but it covers most dumb ‘offenses’
• Judge Abby Abinanti is fighting for her tribe—and for a better justice system [thenation.com]

DHS Career Opportunities

• Advanced Practice Nurse Prescriber - Wisconsin Resource Center
• Medical Consultant (LTE), Psychiatrist - Southern Wisconsin Center
  
• Nurse Clinician - Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center
• Psychiatrist - Mendota Mental Health Institute
• Psychiatrist - Southern Wisconsin Center
• Psychiatrist - Winnebago Mental Health Institute
• Psychiatrist - Wisconsin Resource Center
  
• Psychologist - Mendota Mental Health Institute
• Registered Nurse - Central Wisconsin Center
• Registered Nurse - Southern Wisconsin Center
  

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder respond differently to certain sounds, research finds
• Post-Tribal Societal Disorder: Reframing posttraumatic stress
• Traumatic stress interacts with bipolar disorder genetic risk to increase odds of suicide attempt
• Mindfulness-based stress reduction therapy holds promise for PTSD treatment
• How this Marine and the dog he rescued in Afghanistan are saving each other
• Pregnant women with PTSD have higher levels of stress hormone cortisol
• Google partners with NAMI to increase understanding of PTSD
• RCMP commissions long-term study on the impact of stress on police officers

Resilience

• Black Women in Medicine Trailer [4 mini - BlackWomenMDs]
• Video:The Resilience Effect
• Mindful yoga can reduce risky behaviors in troubled youth

Schools

• Law enforcement, Fayette County schools team up for Handle with Care
• Schools learn how to recognize, help traumatized students
• Yakima Valley organizations, teachers aim to mitigate effects of adverse childhood experiences
• Alternative disciplinary practices keeping students in Columbus City Schools

Substance Use Disorder

Medical College of Wisconsin-led project to address opioid use disorder earns funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Trauma-Informed Care

• Solving the affordable housing quandary in one Philly neighborhood
• Looking at poverty In Milwaukee through a public health lens
• Mental health experts offer support, help to sexual violence survivors
• BBC: The Natives: This is our America (1 hour - Vision Maker Media)
• What to expect before starting therapy
• Trauma-informed approaches learning communities
• Bringing trauma-informed care to children in need can ease toxic stress
• Warriors at Ease: Peterborough yoga teacher provides care to veterans

Violence

Domestic violence trauma endures for youngest victims

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