Resilient Wisconsin: Trauma-Informed News and Notes, March 2021

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ACEs, adversity's impact 

• It didn't start with you: The mystery of inherited trauma
• Adversity in childhood may lead to early aging for women
• Vital signs: Generational trauma takes toll on mental health in the black community
• Depression, anxiety, loneliness are peaking in college students
• Clergy on the pandemic front lines: 'How do we really grieve?'
• The effects of childhood circumstances on health in middle and later life: Evidence from China
• Traumatic childhood and combat experiences associated with veterans' suicidal thoughts
• New research summary: How do black men's adverse childhood experiences impact their masculinity?
• Children's mental health crisis could be a 'next wave' in the pandemic
• Filmmaker Fritzi Horstman brings ACEs awareness Compassion Prison Project

Brain and biology

• How a longevity gene protects brain stem cells from stress
• Brain activity can predict resilience against post-traumatic stress
• Nonconscious brain modulation to remove fears, increase confidence could offer relief from PTSD and phobias
• Does the brain change after therapy? UT researcher finds differences in scans after PTSD treatment
• How does your brain process emotions? Answer could help address loneliness epidemic

Bullying

Most teen bullying occurs among peers climbing the social ladder

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

• The voices of youth in San Francisco's soon-to-be shuttered juvenile hall
• Osborne Association, Buffalo Police Department partner to safeguard children of arrested parents in Buffalo and WNY

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• PTSD Monthly Update - February 2021
• NHS sets up mental health hubs for staff traumatised by COVID
• Restoring survivor's rights to pursue justice empowers them to change the narrative of abuse
• Post-traumatic stress disorder is a side effect for 30% of COVID survivors, Italian study says
• Reducing shame, promoting dignity: A model for the primary prevention of complex post-traumatic stress disorder
• Computer training to reduce trauma symptoms
• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 15(1), February 2021

Resilience

• Transforming trauma and healing ourselves from 2020
• Student Art Contest: Be You!
• Post traumatic growth: We can stand back up after trauma, heartbreak or loss and transform our life
• How to heal the 'mass trauma' of COVID-19
• Podcast: Healing yourself by healing others: A candid conversation about post-traumatic growth
• Empathy helps explain how parental support can prevent teen delinquency
• How meditation can be more sensitive to trauma
• Why self-care isn't enough: Resilience for trauma-informed professionals
• How human connections can save our youth

Schools

• Educators embrace trauma-informed instruction in fourth statewide summit
• Study suggests teacher-student bonds may be especially important for homeless kids
• How some mistakes can be generative for teachers and students alike
• Teaching during a pandemic: A model for trauma-informed education and administration
• Increasing tolerance in students who have experienced trauma

Substance use disorder

• Risk factors for opioid relapse differ between men and women
• Prescription opioid misuse tied to increased suicide behaviors in youth

Trainings

• TIC in Action (FREE)
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Implementation 2-Part Series
• Equitable Trauma Sensitive Schools 2-Part Series
• Advanced Trauma Informed Care 8-Part Series
• Trauma Sensitive Schools Networking Meeting (FREE)

Trauma-informed care

• Trauma engaged nation
• The 4 R's: Exploring trauma-responsivity and self-care
• Colorado work group establishing rules for foster care reform that eliminates group homes
• Podcast: How trauma-informed care can prevent youth incarceration
• Podcast: Healing complex trauma within native communities

Violence

• Sexual assault against boys is a crisis
• Study into links between traumatic childhood experiences and sexual violence launches
• COVID-19 isolation linked to increases domestic violence, researchers suggest

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