Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes

Register Now! This event is open to all people interested in learning more about the role of trauma in the misuse and abuse of drugs. The registration fee is $75 per person for the full conference. The registration deadline is March 26, 2019. Visit the DHS website for the full agenda, a link to the online registration form, and hotel information. This event has applied for continuing education hours through the National Association of Social Workers, Wisconsin Chapter.

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Children with autism more likely to face maltreatment, study finds
• Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - II
• 4 ways to begin to recover from childhood emotional neglect
• Dr. Felitti Podcast: How childhood can haunt us
• Video: Toxic stress derails healthy development
• Gauging how family, community impact children's mental health
• Toxic stress is the hidden public health crisis California's new surgeon general wants to solve
• Mitigating the effects of childhood trauma
• Trauma runs through gun violence among black youth, researcher says
• How traumatized children see the world, according to their drawings
• How childhood trauma teaches us to dissociate
• MRC-funded research reveals extent of trauma and PTSD in in young people
• How childhood trauma could be mistaken for ADHD
• Trauma: 9 things we fail to understand

Brain and Biology

• Shedding light on the pathway to put the traumatic past behind
• Epigenetics and child development: How children's experiences affect their genes
• Mother's behavioral corrections tune infant's brain to angry tone

Bullying

Children that are bullied, sexually abused, more likely to smoke, drink as adults

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

• Scrubbing the past to give those with a criminal record a second chance
• Juvenile probation officers should not be fixers, but levers to resources for youth
• Incarcerated girls are letting their voices soar with poetry
• Fixing our broken juvenile justice system
• How to treat depression in prison--and why it matters

DHS Careers

• Coordinated Services Teams Initiatives Coordinator 
• View all current DHS career opportunities

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• For parents of ill children, a growing recognition of PTSD
• How does trauma affect police officers?
• 'It takes a piece of you': First responders answer the call when help is needed, and now many are speaking up about how traumatic situations and PTSD have impacted their lives
• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 13(1), February 2019
• PTSD Monthly Update - February 2019

Resilience

• These researchers want to focus on preventing childhood trauma through public health
• Trauma therapy meets theater
• Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults
• Mitigating the effects of childhood trauma

Schools

• Free Webinar: Creating school-health-community partnerships to improve the lives of children
• Nowhere to hide: "The elephant in the [class]room"
• Secondary traumatic stress for educators: Understanding and mitigating the effects
• Trauma-informed practice resource for schools

Substance Use Disorder

• LAST CALL! Attend the 2019 DHS Opioid Forum, March 19-20, 2019
• The multiple pathways to addiction and recovery
• Peer support, healing hands may curb prescription opioid misuse
• Webinar: Supporting women in recovery: A trauma-informed approach to substance use treatment
• Collateral damage of the opioid crisis: Grandparents raising grandchildren-what they need and how to help
• When trauma leads to addiction

Trauma-Informed Care

• Creating Sanctuary: Reducing violence in a maximum security forensic psychiatric hospital unit
• Researchers: Tool can identify human trafficking victims
• Adaptive change in behavioral health organizations serving survivors of trauma
• UB researchers using virtual reality to treat students with trauma
• Conference: Trauma-Informed Conference and Ceremony in Window Rock
• Free Webinar: Announcing the new ARTIC Scale - online with expanded features
• Understanding this theory is essential to being trauma-informed
• How neurofeedback is helping is helping trauma patients
• The Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT): Helping clients move beyond trauma
• What is traumatic stress and why is everyone talking about trauma-informed care?

Do not reply directly to this email message. If you have a question, email Scott Webb. Visit the DHS website for more information on trauma-informed care.