Media Coverage of ACEs & Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
Dr. Burke Harris is a frequent speaker and interviewee on the topics of ACEs, toxic stress, and trauma-informed healthcare.
Whether talking with Oprah, Ezra Klein, or Angelina Jolie, her message is consistent and clear: ACEs are the most effective way to measure childhood trauma, toxic stress is the mechanism by which childhood trauma affects our long-term health, and only by understanding ACEs and toxic stress can we begin to heal.
The Me You Can’t See: A Path Forward
Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry join forces to guide honest discussions about mental health. In Episode 6 of Season 1, A Path Forward, they reunite with advisors and participants — including Dr. Burke Harris — for a wide-ranging conversation about mental health and where we go from here.
The Press Democrat: Childhood trauma experts share insights with Sonoma County educators and counselors
Former California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris on Thursday shared her insights on childhood trauma, resilience and healing during a lecture-style event organized by the Sonoma County Office of Education.
Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope
The original research was controversial, but the findings revealed the most important public health findings of a generation. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior.
Directed by James Redford, Produced by Karen Pritzker, James Redford, KPJR Films (Sausalito, CA: Ro*Co Films, 2015), 1 hour
Compassion Prison Project and CA Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke-Harris Raise ACE Awareness in CA Prison
Valley State Prison California on Track to Becoming U.S. First Fully Trauma-Informed Prison
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 23, 2021 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Compassion Prison Project (CPP) piloted its innovative new series “Trauma Talks,” an educational video program with accompanying workbook this week. CPP’s mission is to create trauma-informed prisons and communities by bringing trauma awareness education and proven healing modalities to the men and women living and working in prison. Statistically, those involved in the prison system have some of the highest number of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) in society.
SFGATE: Dr. Nadine Burke Harris gets to the heart of children’s stress
October 1, 2015
As Dr. Nadine Burke Harris treated child after child, something told her she wasn’t getting the full picture.
Most of her young patients at the Bayview Child Health Center were from the surrounding, predominantly African American neighborhood in southeastern San Francisco. Their home lives were largely plagued by poverty, domestic abuse and chaos, and later in life, many of them developed chronic illnesses. But were the two related?
About seven years ago, Burke Harris read a study that finally connected the dots. Childhood exposure to trauma was strongly and scientifically linked to all kinds of ailments and risky behaviors: heart disease, hepatitis, autoimmune disease, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, depression and suicide. Read Full Article
SFGATE: Google gives $3 million to Nadine Burke Harris’ Bayview clinic
October 1, 2015
Google’s philanthropic arm will give $3 million to pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris’ Bayview clinic, which has earned international acclaim for its work linking the physical ailments of low-income children to their traumatic experiences.
The three-year grant is a boon for Burke Harris’ Center for Youth Wellness, which has a $5 million annual budget. The facility focuses on what is known as adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress — issues like neglect, abuse, exposure to violence and household dysfunction that can damage a child’s developing brain and body. Burke Harris said that 1 in 10 of the children she sees has experienced not just one of those traumas, but four or more. Read Full Article
