Senior Epidemiologist at Arizona Department of Health Services to Present on ACEs Prevalence, PCE Protective Factors, and What State-Level Data Can Tell Us July 14, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT l 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT | Virtual — Request Zoom Information by emailing Dana Brown at dana.pacescommunities@gmail.com or Carey Sipp at carey.pacescommunities@gmail.com with your email address to receive the meeting link. [Image: Arizona Department of Health Services ACE/PCE Surveillance Dashboard —...

STATE OF THE UNION, CNN, June 21, 2026 SENATOR MARK KELLY ON GROWING UP WITH AN ABUSIVE DAD In honor of Father's Day, Senator Mark Kelly opens up to Jake Tapper about the horrors of his childhood and how he broke the cycle of violence. Kelly describes how his father would drink too much and become violent. Kelly says his dad, "was often the 'woe is me' guy... There were a lot of things my parents did that very early on I was like, 'that is not gonna be me.'" GO TO:...

Every so often a framework arrives that is right in a way the field can feel before it can fully explain. Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences is one of those. Robert Sege and his colleagues took the hard-won lesson of the ACE literature — that childhood adversity drives toxic stress and lifelong risk — and asked the question that reorients everything: would positive childhood experiences mitigate it? Drawing on Bethell and colleagues’ 2019 findings, they showed a dose-response running...

I recently had the great joy of connecting with Darlene Lekowski this past February, and I was immediately struck by her warmth, courage, and big-hearted presence. Darlene is an Amazon #1 best-selling author, speaker, and business leader who has transformed decades of silence into a powerful platform for truth, healing, and advocacy. After more than fifty years of silence surrounding the Sibling S*xual Trauma and Abuse she endured in childhood, she made the life-changing decision to step...

Perhaps the communities we describe as "hard to reach" are not difficult to reach at all, the issues is that they simply remember the programmes that disappeared. They remember consultations that changed nothing. They remember promises that were never fulfilled. Trust is not built through awareness campaigns alone, Trust is built through presence. Through consistency. Through relationships that continue long after the launch event has ended. Communities do not measure credibility through...

I have a problem with the ten original aces and the community-level aces added later. It’s a woefully incomplete list. It doesn’t include many parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as disrupting or not supporting the healthy development of children. For example… having a parent or parents who never praise. having a parent or parents who allow hours of screen time. having a parent or parents who don’t require their children to help out around the house. having a parent or...

https://petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone. PETE BUTTIGIEG JUN 26, 2026 Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened. You’ve probably heard of “swatting.” It’s a cruel and...

The most vulnerable moment in healthcare is often not diagnosis, it is transition. A referral is sent, a service accepts the case and the system records progress. Yet for the patient, uncertainty begins. Who is responsible now? Who follows up? Who ensures nothing gets lost between services? Too often, healthcare organisations manage referrals as transactions rather than transitions. Patients experience something very different. They experience confusion, delay, and uncertainty. Integrated...

At Kaiser Permanente, more than 150,000 patients were asked about their childhood — not treated, not referred, not enrolled in anything. Simply asked, in a clinical encounter where the asking was done without judgment, what had happened to them as children. In the two years that followed, office visits dropped by roughly 35 percent and emergency visits by about 11 percent. No medication. No protocol. No course of therapy. The only thing that changed was that someone asked, and listened, and...

After a decade-long campaign by Long Island mother Jacqueline Franchetti, New York lawmakers have passed "Kyra's Law," legislation that would require judges to prioritize evidence of domestic violence and child abuse when making child custody decisions. The bill is named after Franchetti's daughter, Kyra, who was killed by her father in a murder-suicide after a judge granted joint custody despite evidence of threatening behavior. Franchetti spent years refining the legislation to ensure...

This is the last post, and it is the one the whole trail has been walking toward. We have followed a feeling that hides from the person who has it, into the coping that quiets a fear no one can feel, down through the gap that fires below awareness, into a container emptied by an alarm that never rests, and all the way to the last door, where the silence finally leads. At every step, the problem was the same: someone was alone with something they could not see. So the remedy has to be the...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/magazine/elder-care-parent-abuse.html By Katie Engelhart , THE NEW YORK TIMES, Published June 15, 2026 Updated June 17, 2026 Katie Engelhart interviewed two dozen caregivers who described being harmed by the parents they were caring for. .........."When Carole first became a caregiver for her father, she joined Parenting Aging Parents, a Facebook group with nearly 40,000 members, most of them women. Carole read the message board, but she didn’t see her...