Roundup
September 27, 2023
But that’s providing help for only half the people involved in the problem.
By Jane Stevens, PACEs Connection member
Babies are born ready to learn, they want to explore, touch, taste, smell, poke, pound, and throw everything they can get their hands on.
By Deborah McNelis, PACEs Connection member
La Maida Project (LMP) is hosting three upcoming experiential workshops aimed to create a trauma-responsive and ACEs-aware culture in all the communities and settings where you engage.
By Kelly Benshoof, PACEs Connection member
A song about overcoming the pirates in our lives and the healing journey we embark upon.
By Michael Skinner, PACEs Connection member

Wednesday Digest
Greater Good Magazine
The Washington Post
Mother Jones
EdSource
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Research Corner
Ed. note: Dr. Harise Stein at Stanford University edits a website — abuseresearch.info — that focuses on the health effects of abuse, and includes research articles on PACEs science. Every month, she posts summaries of the abstracts and links to research articles that address only PACEs. Here are 3 of the 13 that she found for this week. You can read them all HERE.
Jaen J, Lovett SM, Lajous M, Keyes KM, Stern D.
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities. Child Abuse Negl. 2023;143:106328. PMID: 37379730
“The estimation of the effects of ACEs measured in adulthood on adult outcomes comes with methodological challenges, including the control of confounding and possibility of selection bias. It is necessary to be very clear about the causal structure of the exposure-outcome relationship being studied, as well as the temporality of the events, since the identification of the presence of these biases and the correct choice of variables used in the analyses will depend on it. Directed acyclic graphs could be a useful tool for the identification and selection of covariates when studying the impact of ACEs on adult outcomes.”
Jackson Y.
Future Directions in Child Maltreatment Research. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2023:1-10. PMID: 37383011
“Scientific interest in child maltreatment is shared across many disciplines including but not limited to social welfare, medicine, law, and biology. As a result, the current state of the field although robust, is limited by a lack of shared definitions, common approaches to research, and inclusion of widely differing sample types, making the results often nonreproducible and of limited generalizability. The goal of the current paper is to provide…a guide to the complexity of child maltreatment research and to suggest possible solutions.”
Dreyer BP.
Achieving Child Health Equity: Policy Solutions. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2023;70(4):863-83. PMID: 37422319
“Policy solutions to address child health equity, with evidence to support the policies, are presented. Policies address health care, direct financial support to families, nutrition, support for early childhood and brain development, ending family homelessness, making housing and neighborhoods environmentally safe, gun violence prevention, LGBTQ + health equity, and protecting immigrant children and families. Federal, state, and local policies are addressed. Recommendations of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics are highlighted when appropriate.”

PACEs Connection News & Events
October 4, 11, & 18, 2023
PACEs Connection Presents: Addressing the Epidemic of School Shootings Series

PACEs Connection will gather experts for a three-day series on Addressing the Epidemic of School Shootings. Each of the three days will address different topics: prevention, impact, and response.
September 2023
Thursday, September 28, 2023

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