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

When helping others is your calling, asking for help can be difficult. We’re helping Wisconsin’s police officers, firefighters, dispatchers, emergency health care providers, and others learn how to recognize and deal with the effects of secondary trauma through a free training and resource guide.

ACEs, adversity's impact 

• PTSD effects on Native children who witness domestic violence

• More than 1.5 million children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic

• Singer Camila Cabello & CA Surgeon General discuss ‘public health crisis’ of childhood trauma

• Effects of childhood adversity linger during college years

• Multiple risk factors tied to childhood suicide

• Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

• The search for postpartum depression biomarkers

• AHA news: Childhood trauma may affect heart health in low-income black adults

Brain and biology

Pediatric PTSD is characterized by age- and sex-related abnormalities in structural connectivity

Bullying

School leaders brace for mask bullying in the fall

Courts, juvenile justice, corrections, and probation

Formerly incarcerated teens share their research, ideas to improve the juvenile justice system

DHS career opportunities

• Lead crisis coordinator
• Prevention coordinator

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

• Clinician's Trauma Update Online - Issue 15(3), June 2021
• PTSD Research Quarterly - Volume 32/NO.3
• PTSD may play a role in the development of Lupus

• People with PTSD finding relief with a shot in the neck

• Signs and symptoms of PTSD in women
• Signs and symptoms of PTSD in men
• The relationship between autism and PTSD

• Race-based trauma is real for people of color. Here are some actions you can take that can help

• Interaction of insomnia and somatization with post-traumatic stress disorder in pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic

• How a radical new approach to dealing with sexual assaults may heal trauma

• Psychological distress and resilience in first responders and health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resilience

• Restoring well-being with ecstatic dance
• Mindfulness training linked to better sleep in at-risk kids

• 4 somatic therapy exercises for healing from trauma

Schools

• Making restorative justice work

• Q&A: Why trauma-sensitive teaching matters even more in 2021

• Threat assessments: Preventing school violence or creating student trauma?

Substance use disorder

Choosing appropriate language to reduce the stigma around mental illness and substance use disorders

Trainings

• Trauma Sensitive Schools Introduction
• Advanced Trauma Informed Care Series

Trauma-informed care

• How trauma-informed care is transforming addiction treatment

• What the Britney Spears case says about trauma-informed legal care

• Chattanooga police receive 'Cops Care Bags' to help children at traumatic events

• How trauma informed care could help identify and treat ADHD

• Surgeons say trauma informed care can “break cycle of violence”

• Childhood abuse among transgender youth: A trauma-informed approach

• On-demand webinar: A deep dive into trauma-informed care systems

• AAP releases policy statement for provision of trauma-informed care in pediatric health care systems

• With $2 million grant, SaintA to offer mental health services at Boys & Girls Clubs sites

• 5 ways to create compelling messages about childhood trauma using data

• Trauma-informed care should be the medical standard

Violence

Rep. Moore leads on bill to help pregnant women experiencing intimate partner violence

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