Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, July 2020

Launched in April 2020, Resilient Wisconsin brings together the latest evidence-based tools and trauma-informed practices. So that people living with or affected by trauma or toxic stress—and the health services professionals and programs that serve them—can find the support and resources they need. Explore all of the resources and supports of Resilient Wisconsin.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• Racial microaggressions can have a big impact
• Early life stress is associated with youth-onset depression for some types of stress but not others
• Do safe, stable and nurturing relationships work? New research has important findings for responding to ACEs
• The Cinderella phenomenon: When one child is the target of abuse
• Moral injury is impacting our frontline health care workers: Canadian and Australian PTSD Centres tackle the other battle unfolding due to COVID-19 
• How racial trauma, wealth and mental health collide in women's financial lives
• Adverse childhood experiences are associated with childhood-onset arthritis in a national sample of US youth: An analysis of of the 2016 national survey of children's health
• Parents seek strategies to help kids cope with pandemic, racial injustice
• Research delves into causes of nightmares that shadow female survivors of sexual trauma
• Adverse childhood experiences and sexually transmitted diseases in men and women
• Racism's effect on health, and the heartbreak of being a black parent right now: California's Surgeon General speaks
• 4 ways COVID-19 is causing moral distress among physicians
• Examining the association between ACEs, childhood poverty and neglect: Data from two state samples
• Coronavirus placing high stress on new, expecting moms and raising risks for mental health issues
• Adolescents from disadvantaged neighborhoods show gene regulation differences
• Trauma to trust uses ACEs science to heal wounds between community members, police
• Video Interview: Face to face: COVID-19 and clinician burnout
• Lifetime discrimination may increase risk of hypertension among African Americans

Brain and biology

• Loneliness alters your brain's social network
• Know how brain activity evolves fear into anxiety
• Traumatic stress induces prolonged aggression increase through synaptic potentiation in the medial amygdala circuits
• Study shows how traumatic experiences can leave their mark on a person's eyes

Bullying

• Cyberbullying linked to post traumatic stress for victims and perpetrators
• Responses to cyberbullying

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• Maybe it's the barrel: Mindful policing gets real
• Studies show that violence prevention saves cities money - lots of money
• 10 ways juvenile probation can meet the coronavirus challenge
• Trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder among incarcerated men
• Barton: Address childhood trauma for criminal justice reform
• Police review boards, not just cops, need training in youth trauma
• Pandemic is opportunity to reshape family courts, probation, experts say

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 14(3), June 2020
• PTSD Monthly Update - June 2020
• Resource: PTSD Treatment Decision Aid
• Long-term pharmacology for post-traumatic stress disorder
• The indwelling of trauma
• How PTSD affects memory, according to experts
• New study sees unprecedented trauma from the pandemic
• COVID-19 is taking a major toll on our mental health

Resilience

• HOPE: Filling in the science behind protective factors
• Mindfulness combined with hypnotherapy aids highly stressed people, study finds
• How two nurses' friendship is helping them stay resilient on the front lines
• Baltimore barbershops help neighbors cope with trauma
• What makes some people so resilient during a crisis? Study reveals keys to a positive mindset
• Resilience, compassion, and science for healing
• Empathy's role in improving resiliency
• Why and how we should be building resilient communities during the pandemic
• Wear your masks but don't traumatize kids!

Schools

• Teachers are living in a tinderbox of stressful conditions. These scientific approached can help
• Police violence and COVID-19 have been traumatizing. Here are tools that can help schools
• Building student understanding across racial differences
• Improving LGBTQ representation in curriculum reduces stigma, bullying 
• 'Reimagining' schools must start with prevention
• Kids languish amid school closures, but no clear solution to reopening
• Wisconsin recommends schools focus on mental health upon return next fall
• Pitting mental health against safety, national leaders point to SEL in school reopening debate
• Resource: The COVID-19 Education Response Playbook

Substance use disorder

• The bell tolls for thee and thine: compassion fatigue and the overdose epidemic
• States' use of grant funding for a targeted response to the opioid crisis
• What most people don't know about trauma and addiction

Trainings

• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Informed Care - 2 part VIRTUAL SESSION
• Trauma Informed Care Train the Trainer 8-Part VIRTUAL SESSION
• Back to School VIRTUAL SESSIONS
• Introduction to the Seven Essential Ingredients (7ei) of Trauma Sensitive Schools VIRTUAL SESSION
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Train the Trainer VIRTUAL SESSION 
• Advanced Trauma Informed Care 8-Part VIRTUAL series

Trauma-informed care

• Resource: Recommendations for trauma-informed care under the Family First Prevention Services Act
• Advancing trauma-informed care within and across child-serving systems
• How the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the importance of trauma-informed care: Q&A with Dr. Edward Machtinger
• Online workshop: Complex trauma: The connection between mental health, COVID-19, and social unrest
• Trauma-informed care serious endeavor or just new buzzword? New paradigm faces outdated system
• Doctors call for trauma-informed healthcare in fight against systemic racism
• Responding to COVID-19 through relationships and cultural understanding
• Optimizing care using a trauma-informed approach
• Employers: Is your workplace trauma-informed?
• Trauma-informed practices necessary for police, experts say
• Using trauma-informed care principles to deliver healthcare with telehealth
• Washington County: Opens new residential treatment center for teens
• The challenge of trauma-informed care in the age of COVID

Violence

• Children witnessing domestic violence need proper intervention for PTSD
• Domestic violence increased in the great recession

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