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childhood adversity

11/16/2016

Nadine Burke Harris Carries Message about Child Trauma to White House and Back

Jeremy Loudenback

The efforts of pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris to address of trauma experienced early in life have vaulted her to national attention. In September, Burke Harris earned recognition from the Heinz Foundation for her work to establish a system to screen and treat children who are dealing with toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as abuse, neglect, poverty and violence.

11/20/2015

New Voices Bring Promise to Childhood Adversity Challenge

Opinion

Serena Clayton

At the Center for Youth Wellness policy convening on childhood adversity in San Diego last Thursday, I kept asking myself if we were having a new conversation or an old conversation, but with different people at the table.

7/9/2014

Center for Youth Wellness: Central to Broader Battle Against Child Trauma

Brian Rinker

San Francisco’s Bayview district is best known for its gun violence, drugs, pollution and poverty, and not much else. But a community health clinic’s radical approach to healing children may change all that by turning the impoverished neighborhood into an epicenter for trauma-informed care.

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