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PACEs Connection is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed, healing-centered and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems, and communities.
By Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO
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“YES!” was the response of Gaile Osborne, executive director of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFANC), when asked for input on a new program to help foster and kinship care families learn how to support the brain development of young children.
By Porter Jennings-McGarity, PACEs Connection, Director of CQI & Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice Consultant
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This editorial is a follow-up to Suzanne Zeedyk’s video presentation on ACES and Attachment Awareness in Scotland to the Kindred Fellowship Program (KFP) in June 2022 and Kindred’s feature with her in 2020.
By Lisa Reagan, PACEs Connection member
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Big Think
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The Washington Post
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California Healthline
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Economic Times Healthworld
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Greater Good Magazine
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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 33 that she found for this week. You can read them all here.
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Tran NM, Mann S, Cortez MG, Harrell B, Nettuno L.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental health by gender identity in the United States, 2019-2021. Prev Med. 2023;175:107705. PMID: 37722459
“The sample included 141,615 adults, 556 of whom identified as gender minority. Gender minority respondents were 18% more likely to be exposed to 3+ ACEs relative to cisgender respondents. Among respondents exposed to 3+ ACEs, gender minority adults were 25% more likely to report current frequent mental distress and 26% more likely to report a lifetime depression diagnosis.”
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The Long Shadow: A Historical Perspective on Racism in Medical Education. Acad Med. 2023 Apr 19:10.1097/ACM.0000000000005253. PMID: 37071703
The authors trace racist ideology through the history of medicine, examine how it manifests in medical education in the United States today, and how it affects admissions, assessments, faculty and trainee diversity, retention, racial climate, and the physical environment. The authors then recommend steps for confronting racism in medical education.
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Castaneda Y, Jacobs J, Margellos-Anast H, et al.
Developing and Implementing Racial Health Equity Plans in Four Large US Cities: A Qualitative Study. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023 Nov-Dec 01;29(6):780-790. PMID: 37290120
“In the United States, health departments have begun to develop and implement strategic health plans focused on equity. However, the extent to which these plans result in actual initiatives (both internal and external) varied across cities. The current study increases our understanding of how different partners are working to implement structural changes, programs, and policies to reach equity-related goals in our largest urban areas, providing valuable insight for urban health advocates across the country.”
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Hernandez-Meier J, Xu Z, Kohlbeck SA, et al.
Linking emergency care and police department data to strengthen timely information on violence-related paediatric injuries. Emerg Med J. 2023 Sep;40(9):653-659. PMID: 37611955
Combining ED, police department (PD) and EMS data for a US city, “Many violence locations in ED and EMS data were not present in PD records. A combined PD, ED and EMS database resulted in new knowledge of the geospatial distribution of violence-related paediatric injuries and can be used for data-informed and targeted prevention of violence in which children are injured-especially in and around schools and parks.”
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Gilgoff R, Schwartz T, Owen M, Bhushan D, Burke Harris N.
Opportunities to Treat Toxic Stress. Pediatrics. 2023 Jan 1;151(1):e2021055591. PMID: 36450652
“The field of ACEs and toxic stress has advanced beyond “What is wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?” and “What is right with you?” We believe we need to go one step further and also ask, “What is healing for you?” The answer is multifactorial and can include evidence-based interventions that specifically target an individual’s underlying neurologic, endocrine, metabolic, immune, and genetic dysregulation if they have toxic stress. We believe the field of pediatrics has a vital opportunity to advance a multidisciplinary approach to treatment and healing from toxic stress.”
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Findley E.
"It's already stressful being a foster parent": A qualitative inquiry into foster parenting stress during COVID-19. Child Abuse Negl. 2023;146:106455. PMID: 37717544
“Findings from this study demonstrated foster parents experienced both shared and unique parenting challenges during COVID-19. Three areas for further consideration and development in practice included improving online service delivery, strengthening guidance for online parent-child visitation, and enhancing support for foster parents of children with special needs. Developing social support and self-care practices should continue to be ongoing priorities for foster parents and foster parent-serving agencies.”
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