Trauma and ACEs

Everything on trauma and aces

2026 · 54 articles

• What Physicians Can Do: Healing, Preventing, and Championing Child Safety

  July 24, 2026

• What Teachers Can Do: Trauma Informed Classrooms That Transform Students’ Lives

  July 20, 2026

• Working With Childhood Trauma (what parents can do)

  July 20, 2026

• America’s Child Brides: Jerry Lee Lewis, Legal Loopholes, and the Rights We Deny Our Children

  July 20, 2026

• What You Can Do Series – School Principals

  July 19, 2026

• KARA Conversations – Growing Childhood Trauma Awareness Where You Live

  July 12, 2026

• United Nations Youth Conference (2007 – what’s changed for abused children?)

  July 12, 2026

• What Mandated Reporters Can Do: Turning Knowledge Into Protection, Action, and Healing

  July 12, 2026

• Childhood Trauma, Suicide, and a CPS System Flying Blind

  July 11, 2026

• When Trauma Walks Into Class: Student on Teacher Violence, ACEs, and the Cost of Ignoring Childhood Abuse

  July 9, 2026

• Leadership and Child Protection

  June 28, 2026

• Childhood Trauma and Lifelong ACES Impact

  June 24, 2026

• Childhood Trauma Is a War Injury: How ACEs Rewire the Brain and Fuel Crime

  June 16, 2026

• KARA Digital Toolkit: Free and Low Cost Tech for Traumatized Children and Teens

  June 7, 2026

• How Foster Care and Group Homes Fail America’s Most Troubled Children

  June 6, 2026

• What School Counselors Can Do: Protect, Heal, and Empower Children

  June 6, 2026

• All About Adverse Childhood Experiences: Trauma, Testing, And Resilience (podcast)

  June 1, 2026

• What Teachers Can Do: Trauma‑Informed Classrooms and Child Protection

  May 26, 2026

• How Child Abuse and Trauma Sabotage Education, Public Health, and Public Safety

  May 21, 2026

• Invisible Cost Child Abuse ACEs Healthcare Impact

  May 21, 2026

• International Rights of the Child Treaty (& why jails are full)

  May 17, 2026

• Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting

  May 13, 2026

• Adverse Childhood Experiences: Trauma, Testing, And Resilience (KARA podcast)

  May 9, 2026

• Creating Local Events For Child Advocacy

  May 8, 2026

• What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives - 3

  May 1, 2026

• Numbers Too Big To Believe (the cost of untreated childhood trauma)

  April 29, 2026

• Family First & Child Neglect Studies and Reporting 2

  April 18, 2026

• Modern Slavery in the UK: How the Law Still Fails Children

  April 14, 2026

• Foster Facts and Resources For Families: Healing, Advocating, and Saving Young Lives

  April 13, 2026

• Ethan’s Story: How Foster Care Failed a Traumatized Child

  April 11, 2026

• Trauma Breathing for Kids: A Practical Toolkit for Caring Adults

  April 11, 2026

• What Principals and Administrators Can Do to Keep Children Safe and Help Them Heal

  April 8, 2026

• What Social Workers Can Do: Reclaiming Hope and Safety for At‑Risk Children

  April 7, 2026

• One Safe Adult, One Stable Place: The Hidden Power of Stability for Children

  April 6, 2026

• Why Minnesota’s Youngest Students Are Turning Violent: Childhood Trauma in K–3 Classrooms

  April 6, 2026

• Five Daily Habits That Help Traumatized Children Feel Safe at Home

  April 5, 2026

• What Foster Parents Can Do: Healing, Advocating, and Transforming Lives

  April 2, 2026

• Children Watching War: The Hidden Trauma for Kids

  April 1, 2026

• Hungry Like a Wolf

  March 26, 2026

• From Classrooms to Homeless Shelters: How Our Choices Hurt Children

  March 24, 2026

• When Your Anxiety Becomes Your Child’s Anxiety: What Parents of Traumatized Kids Need to Know

  March 18, 2026

• Why Teaching in America Is Harder: Poverty, Trauma, and Turnover vs. Northern Europe

  March 16, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - What Therapists Can Do

  March 11, 2026

• Child Abuse, Foster Care, and Youth Self-Harm and Suicide

  March 10, 2026

• The Physics of Child Protection in America

  March 9, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - School Counselors Can Do

  March 5, 2026

• Child Abuse Sad Stories & Statistics (1ST 45 days in 2026))

  March 4, 2026

• The Quantum Mechanics of Childhood Abuse & Trauma

  February 28, 2026

• INVISIBLE CHILDREN CAMPUS PROGRAM (Minnesota Colleges)

  February 27, 2026

• Habits and Needs of High ACEs Children

  February 17, 2026

• What You Can Do Series - School Boards

  February 1, 2026

• Holding the Line For Children In Need of Protection

  January 14, 2026

• Deep Dive Into "Child Neglect" & CPS Deregulation

  January 13, 2026

• Children & War Winter 2026

  January 10, 2026

2025 · 22 articles

• What Happens if "Child Neglect" In Child Protective Services Is Removed or Diminished

  December 16, 2025

• Mental Health Video & Podcast Resources for Abused & Neglected Children & Trauma Survivors

  December 7, 2025

• Free & Near Free Mental Health Resources For Abused Children & Trauma Survivors

  December 6, 2025

• School Counselors & Why We Need Them

  November 3, 2025

• The Value of Shared Information (share this with your State Representative)

  September 25, 2025

• Domestic Violence to a Five Year Old (living in a house of terror)

  September 18, 2025

• High Cost of Ignoring Childhood Trauma (Podcast)

  September 13, 2025

• What's It Like Being A Foster Child In Child Protection? (podcast/video)

  September 11, 2025

• America's Childhood Trauma and ACEs Impact (podcast)

  September 6, 2025

• All About ACEs (Podcast)

  August 30, 2025

• Podcast - What Happened to You? Understanding ACEs & Childhood Trauma

  August 16, 2025

• ACES Economic Burden on Healthcare (PODCAST)

  August 9, 2025

• Things I Know at 77

  July 30, 2025

• The Assault on Child Protection PART 3 (what this will cost)

  July 16, 2025

• The Assault on Child Protection - Part 2

  July 14, 2025

• Numbers Too Big to Believe (KARA Podcast)

  May 31, 2025

• Seeking Stories About Childhood Trauma

  May 17, 2025

• KARA's Foster Care Podcast Series

  May 15, 2025

• 77 Years of Child Abuse (podcast)

  April 12, 2025

• Hidden Crisis of Child Abuse and Trauma During the COVID Lockdown KARA Podcast

  March 23, 2025

• 77 Years of Child Abuse

  January 27, 2025

• Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg

  January 8, 2025

2024 · 8 articles

• Suicide, Child Abuse and Christmas

  December 14, 2024

• Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in November)

  November 24, 2024

• Parsing the Data (how child abuse impacts your community)

  June 3, 2024

• Child Suicide - Quick Facts

  May 31, 2024

• Education in 2024 - Educating At Risk Children (what tomorrow looks like)

  April 4, 2024

• America's CHILDHOOD TRAUMA and ACES Impact

  March 14, 2024

• Professionalism In Child Protection

  February 24, 2024

• A COVID WAVE? (the double whammy of 2 years of ACEs on children and community)

  February 18, 2024

2022 · 5 articles

• Today's Tip of The Tip of Children's Mental Health Iceberg

  December 28, 2022

• Childhood Trauma + Historical Trauma = Generational Trauma

  November 23, 2022

• TRAUMA EMPOWERMENT (what I've learned)

  November 17, 2022

• When Hope Dies (child suicide & self harm - part 1)

  September 15, 2022

• BY ANY MEASURE

  January 5, 2022

2021 · 7 articles

• Mental Health Help

  September 16, 2021

• Recent Child Self-Harm & Suicide (state reporting summer 2021)

  September 4, 2021

• Trauma & Child Self-Harm

  June 1, 2021

• COVID Complicates the Mental Health of Traumatized Children

  May 28, 2021

• Draft KARA Book Chapter 1

  March 27, 2021

• A Marshall Plan For Traumatized Children Post COVID

  February 18, 2021

• Collateral Damage - ACEs - Education - COVID

  February 8, 2021

2020 · 15 articles

• Schools Closed - What We Need to Know

  November 19, 2020

• Restorative Justice - Veterans & Children (saves money and lives)

  October 25, 2020

• Policing, COVID & Abused Children (share with your law enforcement contacts & save a child)

  October 9, 2020

• Abused Children, COVID & Law enforcement

  September 26, 2020

• What Child Abuse Looked Like in America Last Week (a snapshot)

  September 24, 2020

• Signs That You Are a Mental Health Worker

  September 14, 2020

• Kids At Risk Action August Update

  September 3, 2020

• MN Child Abuse/Child Protection Summer Update

  August 13, 2020

• Facebook Replacing Mandated Reporters for Child Abuse?

  August 7, 2020

• Domestic Violence Statistics, Covid & Child Abuse Trends June 2020

  July 15, 2020

• Posts & Video From ACEs Connection (+trauma informed resources for Covid19)

  May 20, 2020

• Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part III

  April 20, 2020

• Trauma-Informed Resources during COVID Quarantine (thank you ACES Connection)

  March 20, 2020

• Making Minnesota A Trauma Informed State (trauma informed resources during covid 19 quarantine)

  February 23, 2020

• Child & LGBTQ Suicide & Self-Harm (stories, statistics & trauma informed resources)

  February 9, 2020

2019 · 9 articles

• Group Home's (the nightmare of mental health services for abused children)

  December 2, 2019

• KARA & 4th Annual Law Enforcement & Social Services Conference

  October 15, 2019

• Minnesota Child Abuse & Child Protection Sept 2019

  October 10, 2019

• INVISIBLE CHILDREN Book II - America's Public Health Crisis (why we should care)

  July 17, 2019

• Be A Squeaky Wheel For Children

  June 14, 2019

• It's Enough To Make You Sick

  April 6, 2019

• Trauma Awareness and Resilience Training in a Single Day

  March 21, 2019

• Mistaking Childhood Trauma for ADHD

  March 11, 2019

• Recent Infant Abuse Death Reports & Statistics

  January 1, 2019

2018 · 31 articles

• Teachers As First Responders

  December 1, 2018

• Almost 80 & Still Terrorized by Childhood Trauma

  October 29, 2018

• September 2018 Child Sex Abuse & Trafficking (I)

  October 24, 2018

• National Suicide Prevention Month and Children

  September 11, 2018

• Only Evil Governments Torture Other People's (Immigrant) Children

  September 11, 2018

• TC NonViolent Event - Invisible Children September 25th

  September 10, 2018

• Child Trauma and Abuse; A Quick Study & Resources

  August 24, 2018

• Medicating Very Young Children July 2018 (part 6)

  August 16, 2018

• Child Trauma and Torture Reporting for July 2018 (part 5)

  August 13, 2018

• Part 2 Child Abuse & Trauma in America (Sarah Westall & Mike Tikkanen video interview)

  July 31, 2018

• Child Burns, Torture and Trauma for June 2018

  July 14, 2018

• Speaker's Bio

  July 9, 2018

• Child Death & Sex Abuse May 2018 (7) find your state here

  July 2, 2018

• Child Trauma & Torture, May 2018, find your state here (6)

  July 1, 2018

• Prozac, Poison & Children (May 2018)

  June 28, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (9) child death

  June 12, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (7) child sex abuse

  June 6, 2018

• Child Welfare by State (statistics & news April 2018 (5 - foster child)

  May 29, 2018

• Minnesota's At Risk Children Stories and Statistics 2018

  May 23, 2018

• Child Abuse & Trauma March 2018 (XI)

  April 27, 2018

• Child Abuse, Death & Trauma March 2019 (IX)

  April 21, 2018

• Child Abuse & Trauma (March 2018) VII

  April 14, 2018

• Death of 6 Year Old Justis Burland Arnett

  April 12, 2018

• Child Well Being Statistics, Stories & Trauma March 2018 (V)

  April 9, 2018

• Child Well Being & Abandonment March 2018 (III)

  April 5, 2018

• Child Well Being & Trauma March 2018 (part I)

  April 1, 2018

• Child Abuse &Trauma - Oprah & Sixty Minutes

  March 9, 2018

• Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part IV (child abuse & trauma articles and statistics)

  March 8, 2018

• Sad Stories Feb 2018 Part I (child abuse - child death stories & statistics)

  March 1, 2018

• January Sad Stories 2018 Part III

  February 15, 2018

• MN At Risk Children's News July - September 2017 (V)

  January 13, 2018

2017 · 14 articles

• December 2017 Sad Stories Part I (child abuse stories & articles from your state)

  December 31, 2017

• Sesame Street Teaching Coping Skills & Trauma Healing

  October 8, 2017

• Traumatized Children - Nurturing vs. Punishment (Hooray Wisconsin)

  October 3, 2017

• Bringing Transparency to Child Trauma & Abuse Ending Child Abuse Where You Live

  September 23, 2017

• August Sad Stories Part I

  September 20, 2017

• A Star Tribune Mistake (impacting millions of children each year)

  September 11, 2017

• July Sad Stories Part I

  August 4, 2017

• June Sad Stories 2017 Part I

  July 9, 2017

• May Sad Stories Part I

  June 9, 2017

• Sad Stories April 2017 Part III

  May 2, 2017

• Sad Stories March 2017 Part IV (child protection news from around the nation)

  April 1, 2017

• February Sad Stories Part II

  February 19, 2017

• Punishing Traumatized Children (the beatings will continue until the morale improves)

  February 9, 2017

• Body Memories - Why Child Sex Abuse Never Ends (letters from survivors and non survivors)

  January 5, 2017

2016 · 15 articles

• International Child Protection News September 2016

  October 8, 2016

• Best ACEs Articles for August 2016

  September 14, 2016

• Minnesota Child Protection News August 2016

  September 10, 2016

• Deliberate Burns Make Up 10 % of All Childhood Burn Cases

  September 6, 2016

• International Child Protection News August 2016

  September 5, 2016

• International Child Protection News July 2016

  August 8, 2016

• Minnesota’s Back Story; Treating Children’s Mental Health

  August 7, 2016

• Best ACEs Articles for July 2016

  August 1, 2016

• Why Schools Fail (another year of bad results)

  July 31, 2016

• Minnesota's Mental Health Crisis (spot on reporting by our Star Tribune - Many Thanks)

  June 5, 2016

• April 2016 Sad Stories

  May 10, 2016

• ACES Connection (articles from April)

  May 2, 2016

• Trauma Informed States (how to make child protection, education & health care work for children)

  April 4, 2016

• If You Don't Do This, Who Will? (children can't stop child abuse)

  March 24, 2016

• Children, Trauma & School (what's it like to teach tortured children?)

  January 15, 2016

2015 · 8 articles

• Bringing Child Trauma to National Policy

  December 3, 2015

• Survivors Of Childhood Trauma Videos by Dr Vincent Felitti & ACES

  October 15, 2015

• Dirty Little Secrets

  October 1, 2015

• The Power of Coping Skills & Life Without Them

  August 10, 2015

• DR Felliti Explains The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse (read and listen)

  March 3, 2015

• 1% of U.S. Family Courts Are Safe Baby Courts

  February 25, 2015

• Child Abuse - Trauma TED talk (the video)

  February 20, 2015

• Conversation at ACEs Connection (We Are Paying For This)

  January 28, 2015

2014 · 6 articles

• Dear Governor Dayton's Task Force On Child Protection (for the record)

  November 26, 2014

• Child Abuse Stories Across the Nation

  November 10, 2014

• Why Are So Many Six Year Olds On Prozac?

  September 2, 2014

• Founder of ACEsTooHigh and ACEsConnection Jane Stevens

  August 20, 2014

• Childhood Trauma & Psychosis (another study; University of Liverpool)

  February 17, 2014

• Growing Up In An Abusive Home (the ACE study) Dr Felitti

  January 29, 2014

2013 · 1 articles

• I Wish You'd Never Been Born & Other Adverse Childhood Experiences (Videos)

  September 19, 2013

2012 · 2 articles

• Healing Through Creative Arts, Education & Advocacy (or, things I stole from the Surviving Spirit Website)

  December 29, 2012

• Child Trauma Academy Newsletter

  April 19, 2012

2011 · 1 articles

• America's Children, Mental Health, Addiction, Medication

  January 2, 2011

2010 · 4 articles

• After Traumatic Event, Early Intervention Reduces Odds of PTSD in Children by 73 Percent

  October 23, 2010

• Response to Star Tribune Article

  September 12, 2010

• Drugs Without Therapy Is Ineffective & Can Be Dangerous

  April 25, 2010

• The Impact of Trauma and Neglect on the Developing Child: Focus on Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

  April 19, 2010

2009 · 2 articles

• Addressing PTSD In At Risk Children

  December 12, 2009

• Ruben Rosario: Immigration Raids Traumatize Children

  March 30, 2009