Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Adverse childhood experiences increase prediabetes markers in adulthood
• How parenting affects antisocial behaviors in children
• Documentary broken places uses archival footage to tell stories of ACEs and resilience over time
• NYC's first lady urges reporters to tackle mental health issues
• A guide to toxic stress
• The quest to find biomarkers for toxic stress, resilience in children - A Q&A with Jack Shonkoff
• Parent-child bond predicts depression, anxiety in teens attending high-achieving schools
• What happens when a country bans spanking?

Brain and Biology

• The neurobiology of social aggression
• New target of alcohol in the brain
• 5 steps for brain-building serve and return

Bullying

In less than two hours, many people share personal stories of bullying

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• We must encourage self-belief, self-determination for youth to experience post-traumatic growth
• I'm an activist and I get care for my trauma. You should too
• And justice for all: What works at the interface of mental health and criminal justice
• Childhood trauma may up risk for reincarceration

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• PTSD symptoms improve most when patient chooses treatment
• PTSD Research Quarterly, Volume 29/NO. 3, 2018
• Breaking the vicious cycle of sleep problems and PTSD

Resilience

• A beautiful world: Resilience comes in the most mundane of places [mprnews.org]
• Raising children near grandparents has scientific benefits (besides the free babysitting)

Schools

• School policy on ACEs: Ending the marginalization of traumatized students
• Mindfulness key in Kewaunee School District classrooms
• Research-based trauma-skilled schools model jointly released by two national organizations [prnewswire.com]
• New framework helps students control classroom behaviors

Substance Use Disorder

• Stigma surrounds addiction treatment for pregnant people in Indian Country 
• Webinar: The Role of Technology in Solving the Opioid Crisis
• Raising awareness about fetal alcohol spectrum
• Helping our children of the opioid crisis

Trainings

• Introduction to the seven essential ingredients (7ei) of trauma-informed care
• Trauma-informed care train the trainer

Trauma-Informed Care

• Trauma-informed care, once little known, becomes statewide election issue
• Governor Carney signs Executive Order making Delaware a trauma-informed state
• Caring for child refugees: 4 things you need to know
• The National Conference on Trauma, Addictions, and Mindfulness: Where Freud meets Buddha
• Abandoning restraint and seclusion has unexpected benefits, study finds
• Decolonizing trauma work, Author Renee Linklater

Violence

• Youth violence lower in countries with complete ban on corporal punishment
• Domestic Violence Awareness Month - The World Bank Group builds awareness of domestic violence with RESILIENCE [KPJR Films]
• The economic implications of domestic abuse [psmag.com]
• Why it's important to recognize male survivors of domestic abuse
• Surviving the abuse: Breaking the cycle of abuse

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