Recommended Videos for Additional Learning

Lost Childhood - Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family

Emerald Yeh

30-minute documentary examining adult alcoholism through the eyes of children. Host/Producer
Emerald Yeh interviews kids at a special summer camp retreat for children of alcoholics, then follows up
with two of them 17 years later to see how they turned out as adults and what lessons they have to
share. One in four children grows up in a family with alcoholism or alcohol abuse. "Lost Childhood"
demonstrates simple but effective measures that can change their lives. This video features industry
expert and child advocate Jerry Moe and his camp that supports children impacted by addiction with
many exercises featured in NACoA Children’s Program Kit.

TED Talk: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains
that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse
issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point
where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer.
An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on.

Harvard University: Center on the Developing Child

The Center on the Developing Child’s diverse activities align around building an R&D (research and
development) platform for science-based innovation, and transforming the policy and practice
landscape that supports and even demands change. We do this because society pays a huge price when
children do not reach their potential, because half a century of policies and programs have not produced
breakthrough outcomes, and because dramatic advances in science are ready to be used to achieve a
promising future for every child.

How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning

[https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/how-early-childhood-experiences-affect-lifelong-
health-and-learning/

Stress and Resilience: How Toxic Stress Affects Us, and What We Can Do About It

InBrief: Resilience Series

InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health

NACoA Webinar Series: Eliminating the Adverse Impact of Alcohol and Drug Use on Children and Families

Why Focus on the Children of Addiction?

Facilitating Recovery for Parents and Children Impacted by Addiction

Supporting Children Affected by Parental Addiction: The magic of Educational Support Groups
Embracing & Engaging Key Systems to Support Children and Families Affected by Addiction

Multi-Generational Addiction and the Children