Childhood trauma, brain development, and the justice system

One of the largest studies ever conducted on childhood abuse and neglect is the CDC-Kaiser Permanente adverse childhood experiences (ACE) study, which showed direct correlation of ACEs to health and well-being challenges, including addiction and mental health, in adolescence and adulthood. While 64% of the general U.S. population has at least one ACE, 97% of the U.S. prison population has one or more according to the Compassion
Prison Project.

How does childhood trauma impact brain development and behavior? How does this lead to increased risk for incarceration? How can we better integrate this understanding into our justice system and into diversion and prevention efforts? And how do we heal from ACEs individually and as a society?

Join Joey Barnett, Ph.D., as he explores these topics in this recorded Lab-to-Table Conversation from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Barnett, a professor of pharmacology, has been volunteering with incarceration- and reentry-based programming since the 1980s.

The event featured panelists:

· Pierre Cabell – musician, lead facilitator for Healing
Broken Circles, and a formerly incarcerated individual,

· Trina Frierson – president and CEO of Mending
Hearts Inc., an organization working with women who are homeless due to addiction, most of whom are in the reentry community,

· Richard Simerly, Ph.D. – Louise B. McGavock Professor, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and expert in developmental neurobiology, and

· Mark Wallace, Ph.D. – Louise B. McGavock Professor and professor of psychology studying the neural basis of multisensory processing.

 

The panel connects the neurobiology of how childhood trauma impacts brain development and behavior, discusses its intersection with the justice system, and explores how we can integrate this understanding in our prevention, diversion, and restorative efforts.









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