Featured Social Worker Dr. Linda Olson, CDV and Calmkins
Dr. Linda Olson is a psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and social worker with over 30 years of experience in private practice and an emphasis on treating childhood trauma, focusing on Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV). Dr. Linda Olson is a psychologist, licensed...
CDV and Parental Substance Abuse: Dual Adversity Impacts
How CDV and Parental Substance Abuse Combine Childhood domestic violence and parental substance abuse often happen in the same home. When they do, the effects become more than the sum of their parts. A child exposed to domestic violence may already feel unsafe or...
LET’S USE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AS A PLATFORM TO SPREAD AWARENESS OF HOW ACES LIKE CDV IMPACT MINORITIES
The awareness of how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) impact mental health in children and sustain the impact into adulthood has come a long way since the original landmark study, conducted by the Center for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente in the 1990s,...
How Growing Up in a Violent Home Can Leave You Feeling Hopeless
Hopelessness: One of the Most Pervasive Lies You Learn Growing up with Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) With a global pandemic that lingers on, impacting multiple facets of our lives, many may at times feel HOPELESS. But when you grow up with Childhood Domestic...
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, give thanks and even the playing field
On this day, we celebrate our gratitude to Martin Luther King, Jr. His life’s work helped fuel a wave of significant national change towards racial equality, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. On this day, we celebrate our...
Alaskan Children Are Swept Up by a River of ACEs…But There’s Hope & Help
Cathy Giessel is a lifelong Alaskan, registered nurse, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, healthcare services volunteer and board member of Alaska Behavioral Health. To punctuate the gravity of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) (like Childhood Domestic Violence) in her...
COVID-19 – CALLED 11TH ACE BY SOME – SETS BACK RESILIENCY-BUILDING FOR AT-RISK YOUTH…BUT SOME COMMUNITIES ARE FIGHTING BACK
Mary Ann Hansen, director of First 5, a nonprofit that supports early childhood development, grew up in Humboldt County and has deep connections with helping families in her community overcome adversity - a daunting task as Humboldt’s rates of Adverse Childhood...
Nation’s First Office of Resilience Launched in New Jersey to Combat ACEs
New Jersey’s Pioneering Efforts New Jersey, under the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), is the first state in the nation to launch an Office of Resiliency. Its goal is to create a community-driven statewide plan to combat major adverse childhood...
Reports of Domestic Violence & Foster Placements Drop During Pandemic: Covid-19 Masking Incidence, Experts Suspect
How CDV Impacts Home and School Life Kids who experience childhood domestic violence and other adversities at home often prefer school to being at home, and many join various extracurricular activities to delay the inevitable even longer. Adrian Tucker, now an...
Recent Survey on Childhood Domestic Violence in Ohio Offers Recommendations to Curb Impact
Young Children Often Most Impacted by Exposure to Domestic Violence According to the CDC, each year more than 6% of all children in the US are exposed to domestic violence. And strikingly, among the most affected by are the youngest. In 2020, Case Western Reserve...