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Sharing – Suicide Prevention: Why “Just Reach Out” Isn’t Good Enough
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Sharing – Population vs Individual Prediction of Poor Health From Results of Adverse Childhood Experiences Screening
Now, here comes a study, linked below, that has done the real scientific research and found:
“ACE scores can forecast mean group differences in later health problems; however, ACE scores have poor accuracy in identifying individuals at high risk for future health problems.”
Yes, there are statistics that show that there’s an impact at the societal level from childhood trauma. We should be addressing those issues as a society, things like child poverty, parents in the prison system, abuse, neglect, etc. because we know that as we lessen those impacts on kids, and make resources available for the kids who’s trauma we can’t prevent, we can impact the overall increases in depression, addiction, crime rates, etc. that are a direct result of childhood trauma. But, at an individual level, these things aren’t fate. How one person navigates trauma and is impacted by it, is not going to come down to just the number of traumas they dealt with as a child. When we identify one person with 4 or more ACEs according to the survey, all that really tells us is that it’s basically 50-50 whether or not they are depressed, or there’s a close to 30% chance they’ve used illicit drugs, but a 70% chance they haven’t. One person is not going to neatly fit every category and shouldn’t be treated as if they do.
NY-Based CSA Awareness/Prevention group, Justtell.org
Justtell.org has been around for at least the last two years, operating out of NYC. Their site is so cleverly designed, with artwork by its teen volunteers/staff, that it definitely needs another mention so it doesn’t fall off the Facebook crawl. Their video explains the organisation and features comment by the founder. The site is…
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