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		<title>The crime fighter&#8217;s revolution &#8212; police in Canadian town use trauma-informed approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;.but they don&#8217;t call it trauma-informed. They call it Community Mobilization. This is a must-read about a police department in the small Canadian town of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, pop. 35,000, that was dealing with 35,000 calls a year, which was double the number in 2001. The calls were on track to double again in eight [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2291&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A theory of change from Harvard&#8217;s Center on the Developing Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontiers of Innovation, part of Harvard University&#8217;s Center on the Developing Child, was launched in May 2011 at a meeting of 65 researchers and policymakers from diverse fields. They came with &#8220;minds wide open&#8221; to bridge their silos and developcreative approaches to help the most vulnerable children in society. This network has grown to more [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2285&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Other Side&#8221; &#8212; video celebrates 50th anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 16:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Council posted this excellent video at the end of April. They describe it as an &#8220;evocative rendition of the journey from despair and loneliness to hope and community, as told by those who&#8217;ve recovered from mental illness and addictions.&#8221; Indeed it is. The video describes two big shifts in mental health &#8212; the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2280&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How I practice psychotherapy with minimal intrusion from the DSM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 23:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura K Kerr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started critiquing the DSM about 16 years ago. At that time, I was conducting research for my dissertation on mood disorders as well as team-teaching an advanced graduate seminar on the phenomenology of madness. Back then, mood disorders were called depression and manic depression. Both terms resonated with what it felt like to suffer the lows of depression [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2266&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Important souls: Anna&#8217;s story a sad tale through an abusive mental health system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anna Jennings was an artist who suffered trauma, including sexual abuse, as a child. When she entered the mental health system, she suffered further trauma at their hands. As the description on the YouTube page of this video says: Out of her tragic death, and the deaths and abuses of many other trauma survivors, rose [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2263&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empathy&#8230;or &#8220;if we could see inside other people&#8217;s hearts&#8221; &#8212; a touching video</title>
		<link>http://acestoohigh.com/2013/05/24/empathy-or-if-we-could-see-inside-other-peoples-hearts-a-touching-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This touching video was put together by the Cleveland Clinic and posted as &#8220;Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care&#8221; on Feb. 27, 2013 on the clinic&#8217;s YouTube channel. (Everyone Matters wrapped their logo around it, gave it a catchier title &#8212; &#8220;If we could see inside other people&#8217;s hearts&#8221; and published on their YouTube [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2254&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A community play called ZERO tips Sacramento, CA, into tackling school suspensions</title>
		<link>http://acestoohigh.com/2013/05/16/a-community-play-called-zero-tips-sacramento-ca-into-tackling-school-suspensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[_____________________ TRACY (student) &#8211; I was suspended for “willful defiance”. MARTHA (James&#8217; mother)- “Willful Defiance.” Isn’t that what you had last time? JAMES &#8212; Uh huh. MARTHA &#8212; What’s that mean? JAMES &#8212; Everything. TRACY &#8212; Anything.     &#8212;  (ZERO, Act One, by Julie Marie Myatt) Last August, Darryl White, president of the Black Parallel [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2236&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly 35 million U.S. children have experienced one or more types of childhood trauma</title>
		<link>http://acestoohigh.com/2013/05/13/nearly-35-million-u-s-children-have-experienced-one-or-more-types-of-childhood-trauma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost half the nation&#8217;s children have experienced at least one or more types of serious childhood trauma, according to a new survey on adverse childhood experiences by the National Survey of Children&#8217;s Health (NHCS). This translates into an estimated 34,825,978 children nationwide, say the researchers who analyzed the survey data. Even more concerning, nearly a third of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2208&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Believing women and children</title>
		<link>http://acestoohigh.com/2013/05/06/believing-women-and-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when I began interviewing people at organizations that are using the results from the CDC&#8217;s Adverse Childhood Experiences Study to change their practices, I talked with a representative of SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). She said a very interesting thing that stuck with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2194&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trauma past and present, and how to move on from trauma in the future</title>
		<link>http://acestoohigh.com/2013/05/01/trauma-past-and-present-and-how-to-move-on-from-trauma-in-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 18:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jestevens</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are three articles that might be of interest, from separate parts of the country, but interconnected in the growing awareness of how to understand, treat and prevent trauma. The first story looks at how those who were traumatized passed their trauma on to their children. The second story looks at how children who have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=acestoohigh.com&#038;blog=8183298&#038;post=2190&#038;subd=acestoohigh&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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