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We support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems. During the past year we have focused attention on each of our core areas: Prevention, Support, Community and Tools.
By Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection, CEO
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Ariel Clinical Services, a Colorado agency that provides services across the state, participated in the Traumatic Stress Institute's IDD-centered Learning Collaborative (LC) in 2021 with three other client agencies.
By Christine Greene, PACEs Connection member
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Please read how a focus on celebrating DIGNITY experiences in childhood provided an opportunity for children, parents, teachers all to be discussing the same thing. We were all children first and our childhood experiences stay with us throughout our lives.
By Lucien Lombardo, PACEs Connection member
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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The Marshall Project
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Center for Infectious Disease and Research Policy (CIDRAP)
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Housing Matters
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The New York Times
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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 30 that she found for this week. You can read them all here.
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Donnelly KA, Goyal MK.
The Epidemiology of Violence Exposure in Children. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2023;70(6):1057-68. PMID: 37865430
“Exposure to violence remains a significant issue for children in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many of these exposures. Violence unequally impacts children of color and LGBTQ youth. Pediatricians can and must continue to advocate and intervene to decrease pediatric violence exposure and its effects.”
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Joseph J, Buss C, Knop A, et al.
Greater maltreatment severity is associated with smaller brain volume with implication for intellectual ability in young children. Neurobiology of stress. 2023;27:100576. PMID: 37810429
Of 49 children aged 3-5 years with maltreatment exposure, “Higher maltreatment severity was significantly correlated with smaller intracranial volume…primarily due to smaller gray matter volume. Furthermore, smaller gray matter volume was associated with lower IQ at study entry and predicted IQ one year later. The observed associations were independent of potential confounding variables, including height, socioeconomic status, age and sex…likely setting a path for far-reaching long-term disadvantages. Insights into the molecular and neural processes that underlie the impact of maltreatment on brain structure and function are urgently needed to derive mechanism-driven targets for early intervention.”
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Rhodes CA, Thomas N, O'Hara KL, et al.
Enhancing the Focus: How Does Parental Incarceration Fit into the Overall Picture of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs)? Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2023 Dec;51(12):1933-1944. PMID: 37875642
Using data from a large national survey, “children with incarcerated parents had higher odds of experiencing other ACEs, higher odds of having mental health problems, and experienced fewer PCEs compared to children without incarcerated parents. Further, although PCEs were associated with a lower odds of mental health problems for both children with and without incarcerated parents, they did not mitigate the negative impact of parental incarceration on mental health outcomes…important implications for the development of multilevel intervention strategies that seek to promote resilience and reduce risk for this population.”
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Rose H, Womick J, King LA.
Purpose maintained: ACEs and meaning in life. J Pers. 2023 Dec;91(6):1425-1441. PMID: 36748110
From a series of studies including college students and non-student adults, “Adverse childhood experiences consistently predict lower feelings of coherence [a sense of one's life making sense] and significance [a sense of life's inherent value and having a life worth living], but are unrelated to purpose [a sense of core goals, aims, and direction in life]. Purpose may represent a motivational strength emerging out of childhood adversity.”
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Racine N, Deneault AA, Thiemann R, et al.
Intergenerational transmission of parent adverse childhood experiences to child outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse Negl. 2023:106479. PMID: 37821290
In this research review, parental ACEs were associated with child mental health problems, and internalizing and externalizing difficulties, but not cognitive or language skills.
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Beal SJ, Greiner MV, Ammerman RT, et al. Patterns of substance use among adolescents in and out of foster care: An analysis of linked health and child welfare administrative data. Child Abuse Negl. 2023;146:106473. PMID: 37801757
After controlling for multiple factors, 2787 youth in foster care had higher odds of engaging in substance use and at an earlier age than those not in care. “Placement stability and family care settings reduced odds of lifetime substance use.”
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PACEs Connection News & Events
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
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