During the October 2022 convening of the Arizona House’s Ad Hoc Committee on Teen Mental Health, the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) presented statewide data on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). ADHS representatives noted that Arizona currently ranks 44th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia for number of children with two or more ACEs. Data from 2018
California’s ACEs Aware initiative – authorized by a series of legislative and policy actions (AB 340 and Proposition 56) – leverages state and federal Medicaid funding to support a multi-faceted approach to educating the health care community about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. The focus of the initiative is to encourage primary care providers to screen their patients
Rachel Gilgoff, MD, is a child abuse pediatrician and serves as a member of the Pathways to Resilience Advisory Committee. She has been a clinical advisor to the California ACEs Aware initiative since 2020. Dr. Gilgoff has worked at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital & Research Center and helped develop and implement the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events (PEARLS)
Pathways to Resilience is pleased to announce the release our first major publication, a National Compendium of Trauma-Responsive Policies and Programs. The compendium summarizes a wide range of interventions, policies, programs, and governing bodies that states and communities are leveraging to prevent and address trauma and promote healing across the country. This document is designed to serve as a resource
It is important for employers to train and equip their staff to recognize trauma behaviors. In a school setting, this might mean educators are able to distinguish between a child’s survival behavior as opposed to willful misbehaving. In the justice setting — where the population served is likely to have experienced trauma — this might entail judges, chiefs, and officers
Pathways to Resilience kicked off the new year with a Learning Network Session on opportunities to promote healing-centered trauma-responsive policies and programs at the federal and state levels. During the session, we first heard about the federal landscape from Jesse Kohler and Jen Curt from the Campaign for Trauma Informed Policies and Practices (CTIPP). Tia Hartsock from Hawai’i’s Office of
To optimize the impact of trauma-informed policies and programs, states should engage all three branches of government to achieve shared goals. States like Tennessee have implemented coordinated three branch initiatives, and others are beginning to explore strategies to address trauma and promote healing by working across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Because so many individuals who interact with the
Dr. Gilgoff is a child abuse pediatrician and serves as a member of the Pathways to Resilience Expert Advisory Committee. She has been a clinical advisor to the California ACEs Aware initiative since 2020. Dr. Gilgoff has worked at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital & Research Center and helped develop and implement the Pediatric ACEs and Related Life Events (PEARLS)
On March 9, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Office of Human Service Policy in the federal Department of Health and Human Services released findings from their 2022 convening on primary prevention. The Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Convening Findings highlights the importance of moving from tertiary and secondary prevention strategies – like crisis management and escalation prevention
One in seven children in the United States experiences child abuse and/or neglect each year, resulting in an array of adverse outcomes, including chronic pain, psychological concerns (anxiety, anger and aggression, depression, and suicidal thoughts or ideation), and poor or delayed social and behavioral development. There are a variety of risk factors surrounding child abuse and neglect including poverty, violence