RESOURCES

LEARN HOW WE CAN PROTECT OUR CHILDREN

ALEINU CAMPAIGN
Provides Jewish youth-serving organizations with the education and practical tools they need to prevent child maltreatment and take responsible action should instances or suspicions of maltreatment emerge.

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BESSEL VAN DER KOLK, MD
Best-selling trauma research author of The Body Keeps the Score

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PACEs Connection (formerly ACEs Connection)
The largest social network on trauma-informed care and recovery, providing information and resources as well as support for hundreds of local, state and national ACEs initiatives.

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The ACE Study

The Largest Investigational Study
on Childhood Trauma

"When people are behaving in apparently self-destructive ways, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them, and time to start asking what happened to them.”

- Dr. Robert Anda and Dr. Vincent Felitti, Founders of the Adverse Childhood Experience Study

The CDC-Kaiser Permanente’s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) links 10 types of childhood trauma with the adult onset of chronic disease, mental illness, and violence.

The 10 ACEs are: physical, sexual, emotional abuse; physical, emotional neglect; living with a family member who’s addicted to alcohol or other drugs, is depressed, has other mental illness or who’s imprisoned; witnessing a mother's abuse; divorce or separation.

For people who have four types of childhood adversity — an ACE score of 4 — alcoholism risk increases 700 percent; attempted suicide increases 1200 percent. Heart disease and cancer nearly double. People with high ACE scores have more marriages, more broken bones, more depression, more prescription drug use, more obesity.

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BIPOC RESOURCES

We acknowledge the need to create equal access to mental health and substance use resources that are culturally-competent and specific to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities.

Black Therapists Rock - Reversing racial trauma through collective healing. Join the movement to foster self compassion, confidence, and inner peace for 100,000 black healers.

Live Another Day - Provides non-biased lists of highly rated treatment providers and trusted resources for mental health and substance use. Includes culturally competent resources that address specific needs and support to help ensure no one is left out.

Detox Local - A nationwide directory of medical detox providers, including mental health and substance use resources specifically for the AAPI (American Asian and Pacific Islander) community.

"Understanding many of the fundamental processes that underlie traumatic stress opens the door to an array of interventions that can bring the brain areas related to self-regulation, self perception, and attention back online. We know not only how to treat trauma but also, increasingly, how to prevent it.”

- Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Excerpt from The Body Keeps The Score

Learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences

Nadine Burke Harris TED Talk - 4,135,148 views - How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime.

Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress. Credit: KPJR Films

Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects: "This story has had more impact on me than practically anything I've ever done."

Talks at Google

More Exceptional Resources About Trauma-Informed Care

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Healing Childhood Trauma

If you think you have suffered from toxic stress as a child, it is important to seek out qualified trauma-informed-care professionals. Here is an initial list of treatments among other modalities that we have researched to be extremely healing for trauma.

Psychology Today - 8 Ways People Recover from Post Childhood Adversity Syndrome