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Prevalence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Chicago Public School Students in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey
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Korpics, Jacqueline; Altman, Lara; Feinglass, Joseph; Stillerman, Audrey – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can impair health and other outcomes. To obtain district-level data about the prevalence and impact of ACEs in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), we advocated for CPS to add a short ACE screener to the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and analyzed the results. Methods: Responses to the screener…
Descriptors: Incidence, Early Experience, Trauma, Child Abuse
School-Related Outcomes Associated with Seeing Someone Shot: Do Friends Make a Difference?
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Fisher, Benjamin W.; Turanovic, Jillian J.; Benitez, Ivan – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Witnessing violence can negatively affect students' outcomes, but their friendships may mitigate those effects. This study investigated the extent to which seeing someone shot in the last year related to seven school-related outcomes. Additionally, it examined the extent to which prosocial and deviant friends moderate these relationships. This…
Descriptors: Violence, Weapons, Outcomes of Education, Friendship
No Place To Be a Child: Growing Up in a War Zone.
Garbarino, James; Kostelny, Kathleen; Dubrow, Nancy – 1991
War and violence are part of day-to-day life for many of the world's children. This book explores the lives of the children of Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and inner-city Chicago. Through research on the psychological and developmental effects of trauma in early life and interviews with children in war zones…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Child Development, Child Health