Roundup
November 1, 2023
The PACEs 16-hour Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) accelerator certification program is focused on supporting and developing individual advocates and organizational agents of change in transforming their communities and organizations using PACEs science, trauma-informed awareness and resilience frameworks.
By Kahshanna Evans, PACEs Connection Director of Creating Resilient Communities
Volunteering can uplift at-risk youths in many different ways. It can be a crucial support system and a lifeline for some desperately seeking help.
By Charlie Fletcher, PACEs Connection member
Resilient Georgia and the have partnered together to create and launch a wellness training for infant and early childhood professionals in Georgia.
By Kristin L. Denning, PACEs Connection member
I have written the attached for educators and parents, wherever they are located, to help them deal with this shooting, school and business closures and lockdowns.
By Karen Gross, PACEs Connection member
A very huge component of Emotional Neglect in marriages that we must talk about is Sexuality.
By Jabulile Mutale, PACEs Connection member

Wednesday Digest
New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR)
The Marshall Project
Bloomberg CityLab
Associated Press (AP)
Atmos

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 6 of the 30 that she found for this week. You can read them all here.
Gaylor EM, Krause KH, Welder LE, et al.
Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors Among High School Students - Youth Risk Behavior Survey, United States, 2021. MMWR Suppl. 2023 Apr 28;72(1):45-54. PMID: 37104546
Using data from a national survey, “from 2019 to 2021, female students had an increased prevalence of seriously considered attempting suicide (from 24.1% to 30%), an increase in making a suicide plan (from 19.9% to 23.6%), and an increase in suicide attempts (from 11.0% to 13.3)…Prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behaviors remained stable overall for male students from 2019 to 2021.”
Orr C, Kelty E, Fisher C, O'Donnell M, Glauert R, Preen DB.
The lasting impact of family and domestic violence on neonatal health outcomes. Birth. 2023 Sep;50(3):578-586. PMID: 36190166
Of 1230 Australian women who gave birth within 12 months of experiencing family and domestic violence (antenatal = AFDV), compared to groups with a past history (HFDV) and no history of (NFDV), women in the AFDV group had higher proportions of factors associated with poor neonatal outcomes including smoking (42.4%), substance use (23.0%), and mental health disorders (34.8%). Neonates born to AFDV mothers had significantly higher odds of congenital anomalies (OR: 1.51), low birth weight (1.74), and preterm birth (1.48) compared with neonates born to no FDV mothers.
Janczewski C, Mersky J, Plummer Lee C.
Intergenerational transmission of child protective services involvement: Exploring the role of ACEs and domestic violence among families who receive home visiting services. Child Abuse Negl. 2023;144:106384. PMID: 37542996
From a sample of 3039 Wisconsin caregivers who received home visiting programs, 22.8% were also involved with CPS.  CPS prevalence rates were associated separately with caregiver personal ACEs as well as DV in the home.
Chen M.
"Are You-?" "Are You?" Queer Advocacy at Contemporary Neoliberal Rape Crisis Centers. Violence Against Women. 2023:10778012231192606. PMID: 37545388
“This article draws on semistructured interviews with 23 LGBTQ+ advocates to explore how they navigate their sexual, gender, and racial identities at rape crisis centers today. Results show that LGBTQ+ advocates choose the ways that their sexual and gender identities are visible or invisible at their agency, usually to improve LGBTQ+ survivor services.”
Rattan J, Bartlett TR.
Potential influence of nurses' implicit racial bias on maternal mortality. Public Health Nurs. 2023 Sep-Oct;40(5):773-781. PMID: 37141152
“An increasing body of research describes the phenomenon of implicit racial bias among providers and how it may affect communication, treatment decisions, the patient care experience, and health outcomes. This synthesis of literature reviews and distills current research on the presence and influence of implicit racial bias among nurses…and interventions that can mitigate its effects.”
Rides At The Door M, Shaw S.
The Other Side of the ACEs Pyramid: A Healing Framework for Indigenous Communities. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 25;20(5):4108. PMID: 36901119
“We provide a holistic Indigenous Wellness Pyramid …to guide pathways toward healing in Indigenous communities.”

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