Two pretty remarkable developments show how the ACEs movement continues to gain momentum. As part of the Campaign for Counter Childhood Adversity (4CA), about 100 people from about 20 California counties visited the offices of more than 80 California state legislators — Democrat and Republican — to educate them about ACEs science, to talk with them about their interests can be informed by ACEs science, and pointed out the accomplishments that had been made in their own districts.
Those 100 people divided into groups of three to six to fan out across the Capitol. They comprised parent advocates, youth, county public health workers, people working in re-entry projects, and from NGOs serving children and families. They handed out community profiles they put together that showed the impact of ACEs in their counties, as well as the changes that have occurred in schools, health care and youth justice. (Here’s the report of San Diego’s day.) We’ll be posting a how-to for other states who are interested in doing the same.
We’re also seeing some interesting numbers on
ACEsTooHigh.com, our companion news site, and here on our social network
ACEsConnection.com that reflect the burgeoning interest in ACEs science and trauma-informed/resilience-building practices. The article about Dr. Dan Sumrok (
Addiction doc says: It’s not the drugs. It’s the ACEs) has had more than 900,000 page views since it was posted on
ACEsTooHigh.com and on
ACEsConnection.com two months ago, and will probably pass the one million mark this week. It’s definitely struck a nerve, just as the article about
Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA (just past a million page views) did in 2012. That led to the making of the documentary,
Paper Tigers. On
ACEsTooHigh.com,
Got Your ACE Score? has passed 1.1 million page views, has nearly 1,500 comments, and has spun off a private Facebook group for ACEs survivors. Donna Jackson Nakazawa’s post on
ACEsTooHigh.com,
Childhood trauma leads to lifelong chronic illness — so why isn’t the medical community helping patients?, has more than 1.5 million page views. (Donna wrote Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal.)
As the members of ACEs Connection have increased — to now nearly 16,000 — the monthly page views have topped two million! We’re busy getting the word out, engaging more people in the ACEs movement, and making changes, and that’s terrific!
And here are the last week's post from the fabulous members of ACEs Connection:
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