Trauma-Informed Care News and Notes: November 2019

ACEs, Adversity's Impact 

• Podcast: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• Vital Signs: Estimated proportion of adult health problems attributable to adverse childhood experiences and implications for prevention - 25 states, 2015-2017
• Animal study shows how stress and mother's abuse affects infant brain
• LGBTQ, traumatized homeless youth more vulnerable to being trafficked: Report
• How do these pediatricians do ACEs screening?Early adopters tell all
• When family relationships become toxic: The trauma of enmeshment
• Toxic stress: Issue brief on family separation and child detention
• NPPC's pilot site case studies: Lessons learned from ACEs screening implementation
• Young adult women abused as adolescents report higher levels of pain
• Parental depression forecasts kids' later physical health
• Toxic parents and absent parents produce the same kind of people
• Adverse childhood experience: The downstream effects of forcible parental separation are all too predictable
• When trauma won't quit: Understanding complex posttraumatic stress
• Pappas, Shaheen back legislation to address impacts of childhood trauma
• The hidden problem behind maternal mortality
• Florida International University: Researchers show adverse childhood events contribute to lower self-control among teens
• Associations between childhood maltreatment and offending behaviors later in life
• Breaking the cycle of adverse childhood experiences and the culture of silence
• Strained family relations and worsening chronic health conditions
• Past trauma may haunt your future health
• Childhood trauma is a public health issue, CDC declares
• Parenting with ACEs: How you can support your toddler

Brain and Biology

• Consuming alcohol leads to epigenetic changes in brain memory centers
• Neuroscience reveals: How gratitude literally rewires your brain to be happier
• Patients with mood, anxiety disorders share abnormalities in brain's control circuit
• Video: Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs. Survival Brain
• New pathways in brain's amygdala
• Chronic adversity dampens dopamine production

Bullying

• Power of family resilience to protect from bullying
• Anti-Bullying Month is over, but the problem isn't going away

Courts, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, and Probation

Can we build a better women's prison?

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Webinar: Digital Tools for Trauma and PTSD Recovery
• The relationship between addiction and and PTSD in combat veterans
• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 13(5), October 2019
• PTSD Monthly Update - October 2019

Resilience

• Growing resilient communities 2.1 debuts! 
• How does the New York Foundling's crisis nursery prevent maltreatment and entry into foster care?
• The books that helped me transition from trauma to triumph: A book review series- "The Power of Now"
• Build resilience in children and support caregivers
• Video: Love is not enough
• Surprising benefits for those who had tough childhoods
• Teens who have loving bond with mother less likely to enter abusive relationships
• Protective factors overview
• CDC says physicians can play a role in mitigating childhood trauma
• Video: Protecting against stress and trauma: Research lessons for law enforcement
• Rethinking 'resilience' and 'grit' 
• Healing hurt people: Helping victims of violence heal from their trauma and become community peer health workers
• The one insight that will set you on the path of overcoming childhood trauma in adulthood

Schools

• Today's preschool incorporates more than ABC's
• School exclusions and knife crime: Why we should be listening more to vulnerable children
• The role of co-regulation in discipline
• 10 simple steps for reducing toxic stress in the classroom

Substance Use Disorder

• New Publication: First-Episode Psychosis and CO-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
• Podcast: The craving mind: Dr. Jud Brewer on treating addiction with mindfulness
• NCAD Spotlight: Intergenerational trauma requires deeper understanding of patient's family history
• The nation's response to addiction: Moving from rescue to recovery
• To understand drug trends, ask some users

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care
• Trauma Informed Care Train the Trainer

Trauma-Informed Care

• Free Live Event: You're Not Alone: A documentary about youth mental health
• Join the 2020-2021 Trauma-informed, Resilience-oriented Approaches Learning Community
• Caring for long term health needs in women with a history of sexual trauma
• Grant Announcement: National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative - Category II
• Grant Announcement: National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative - Category III
• From trauma-informed to asset-informed care in early childhood
• What survivors of complex trauma want you to know
• Trauma informed policing
• Trauma-informed care as a universal precaution - beyond the adverse childhood experiences questionnaire
• Developing trauma-informed care for people living with HIV
• The perils that loom with trauma-informed care

Violence

• Abuse is all around us: Domestic violence and sexual assault
• Crisis advocates offer advice for fleeing intimate partner violence

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