The Consequences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Through a Lifespan

by | Aug 15, 2018 | Announcements, KPFA, Podcasts, Radio Shows

Listen now to today’s show (8/20/18) on “About Health”  KPFA 94.1FM

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=292381

The ACE’s study is one of the largest investigations conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. The study is a collaboration between the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.

How have the adverse experiences of your childhood impacted your physical and emotional health as an adult? Some steps in healing is understanding and untangling what happened, talking about the trauma, and learning resiliency skills. When a child is acting out in school, or an adult is abusing drugs or alcohol we can ask, “What happened to her, instead of what’s wrong with her.”

Guests:

Lisa Frederiksen is the author of hundreds of articles and 11 books, including “If You Loved Me, You’d Stop!,” “Addiction Recovery: What Helps, What Doesn’t,” and “Secondhand Drinking: the Phenomenon That Affects Millions.” She is a national keynote speaker with over 30 years speaking experience, consultant, and founder of BreakingTheCycles.com. She has spent more than 15 years studying 21st century brain research in order to write, speak, and consult on a range of brain-related topics, including: ACEs, toxic stress, trauma, substance use disorders, secondhand drinking, mental illness, brain development, and addiction treatment and recovery. Some of her consulting has been overseas in countries such as Kenya, Slovenia, and Mexico. Lisa is an active member of the ACEs Connection~Resilient Sac Community.

Wendie Skala, BSN, MS. When she first became a nurse she specialized in intensive care and emergency nursing. Wendie flew for Stanford Life Flight for 10 years and honed her skills in prehospital transport of critically injured patients. She joined the Air Force Reserve in 1999 and achieved the rank of Lt. Col. while serving 7 deployments overseas in support of OPERATION IRAQI AND ENDURING FREEDOM. Along with transporting wounded warriors, she assumed command and control roles and functioned as the Chief Nurse for air operations in Afghanistan, and she earned her Masters’ Degree in Military Science. In 2009, she took on the role as the Injury Prevention Coordinator for Kaiser Permanente’s first trauma center in South Sacramento. There she implemented the Sacramento Violence Intervention Program that provided services for shot, stabbed, and almost assaulted to death victims of violence along with her other work preventing motor vehicle crashes and older adult falls. Some of the programs she championed in the community included the Alternatives to Violence Program and Standing Up Resilient Sac, an ACEs Connection Collaborative. In her role at Kaiser Permanente, Wendie worked with law enforcement, schools, non-profits, and government agencies to educate about ACEs and Trauma Informed Care. She has presented nationally on the subject and is a contributing author and educator of the American Trauma Society’s Injury Prevention Course. Currently, Wendie is Adjunct Faculty at Samuel Merritt’s School of Nursing in Sacramento and continues to work with ACEs Connection and Resilient Sac.

Resources:

Get your ACEs score: https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/

https://www.acesconnection.com/g/resource-center/collection/resource-list-topic-trauma-informed

https://acestoohigh.com

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/index.html

https://www.acesconnection.com/blog/the-developing-brain-and-adverse-childhood-experiences-aces

https://www.acesconnection.com/g/sacramento-county-ca-aces-connection/clip/tribute-to-dr-vincent-felitti-the-california-endowment

https://www.acesconnection.com/

Donna Jackson Nakazawa, author of ‘Childhood Disrupted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcZ_uLIB7V8

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean

Nadine Burke Harris, MD is the author of the book “the deepest well, Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the impact on adult health and well being

by | Apr 22, 2015 | Announcements, Appearances, KPFA, Radio Shows

 

On April 27th I hosted the radio show  “About Health”  on KPFA, 94.1 FM You can listen to the show online at https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=111818

My gratitude to our guests and to the listeners and callers.

 

ace_pyramid_home-1

Learn about the research and clinical application of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study.

“This study is one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess associations between childhood maltreatment and later-life health and well-being. The study is a collaboration between the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente’s Health Appraisal Clinic in San Diego.” —Center for Youth Wellness

My guests were

Janine Greer, MA., Health Educator at the Center For Youth Wellness in San Francisco and Dr. Zea Malawa, Pediatrician at the Bayview Child Health Center in San Francisco.

Resources

“More than 17,000 Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) members undergoing a comprehensive physical examination chose to provide detailed information about their childhood experience of abuse, neglect, and family dysfunction. To date, more than 50 scientific articles have been published and more than100 conference and workshop presentations have been made.” —Center for Disease Control

“This community of practice uses trauma-informed, resilience-building practices to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and to change systems to stop traumatizing already traumatized people.” 

The Center for Youth Wellness has set a goal of one million views to demonstrate the momentum behind the movement.  

My gratitude to Vince Felitti, MD for his passionate and hard work. It’s about time that more people are benefiting from his groundbreaking research.

Dr. Felitti was working with people who were overweight, and he discovered that 55% of the people he surveyed reported to have suffered child sexual abuse. Take a listen to his story of how this research started:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20&v=Me07G3Erbw8

Can Family Secrets Make You Sick?

by | Mar 3, 2015 | Uncategorized

“In the 1980s, Dr. Vincent Felitti, now director of the California Institute of Preventive Medicine in San Diego, discovered something revolutionary about the ripple effects of child sexual abuse. He discovered it while trying to solve a very different health problem: helping severely obese people lose weight.” Please listen to this NPR story, and don’t forget to talk to someone you trust if it reminds you of some of the things you faced as a child.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/02/377569413/can-family-secrets-make-you-sick 

npr_122_wide-4e1488cd734c8812a6b304f99847aa6a1c68f932-s600-c85

We know that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have life-long consequences. ACEs (such as child sexual abuse, neglect, and domestic violence) cause suffering and emotional pain, and many physical ailments throughout a person’s life span.

Finally, the profound study done by Dr. Vincent Felitti, is now making the news and getting attention. One of the reasons it got ignored by many for so long is that his results pointed to the consequences of sexual abuse in children—not a subject many people want to talk about. This is something he said to me when I interviewed him on Childhood Matters, over 10 years ago. http://www.nurserona.com/the-relationship-between-adverse-childhood-experiences-and-adult-health/ Also on this radio show is Rhonda James when she was at Community Violence Solutions.

Imagine a time when all doctors asked their patients about their ACEs score, and tailored their health care to their real needs.

Now, thanks to many organizations, people are talking about ACEs and implementing policies that are trauma informed. Below are some links that report on work that is being done.

Each of us can spend time reflecting on our own ACE score, and notice how we have healed, and where we still need support in order to live a full and healthy life.

And as parents, we can help to repair some of the trauma that our children suffered. It’s never to late to reach out to others with compassion and love, and to practice self-compassion as well.

I’m deeply grateful to the people in my life who have helped me heal.

Nurse Rona

Watch this passionate TED talk done by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, a Pediatrician in the Bayview in S.F. and a national spokesperson for ACEs.

http://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/about.html

http://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/phl/resource_center_infographic.html

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean

Join ACEs Connection for daily stories from around the country. You will be inspired by what people are doing. http://www.acesconnection.com/home

 

Asthma and Other Health Concerns

by | May 2, 2009 | Radio Shows

Asthma affects over six million children in the United States, and the majority of them develop symptoms before the age of five. What factors contribute to the onset of asthma and other diseases? What can parents and teachers do to keep their children healthy? And as the summer approaches, what questions do you have about your child’s health and safety? Join Nurse Rona and guests as they discuss symptoms and cures for health conditions.

• Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek Medical Center.
• Dr. Nadine Burke, MD, MPH, medical director at the Bayview Child Health Center.

DOWNLOAD Entire Program (128Kbps MP3 53M)