ACE Archives - Shaping Youth

Talking to Kids About Headline News; The Positive Social Media Lens

April 15, 2013 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

May 19, 2016 Update-Egypt Air With May being mental health month, and speculation underway as to air crash news being tragedy or terrorism, the "help kids feel safe" touchpoint is falling flat for … [Read more...]

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ACEs Wild: Flip the Brain Script on Adverse Childhood Experiences

March 19, 2013 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

1-8-18 Update: Important new data on public health problems emerging with kids in this damaging era of immigration anxiety. I see this every week when I tutor at Americorps/Reading Partners and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ACE, Adverse Childhood Experiences, at risk youth, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Bayview Children's Health Center, black history, Center for Youth Wellness, change agents, childhood trauma, childrens health, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, health effects of living in violence, immigration anxiety, infant health, kids and public health, kids stress, Nadine Burke, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, obesity prevention, Poverty, Preschool brain science, public health policy, The Poverty Clinic, toxic stressors, urban pediatrics, violence prevention, wellness, Youth-advocacy

Flash Animation & Viral KidVid? Give Pause

November 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Nov. 3, 2009 Here's a marketing campaign kids LOVE (me too!) No secret I’m a huge Fido fan…Flash animation? Not so much. It often freezes my Firefox and fouls up the works more often than not on … [Read more...]

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