As we continue to share our ongoing report from the National Summit on Adverse Childhood Experiences, held last month in Philadelphia, It was an exciting moment when "Mapping the Movement" was unveiled. It is a project
Beyond this Summit, ISF in partnership with Aces Connections intends to build and support increased connections. This map is symbolic of much work and many efforts and amazing dedication. But it's also real, interactive, searchable -- a tool for you to use, to continue making connections. You can go to explore this interactive tool and "get on the map!" "Mapping the Momentum" or you can find it on ISF's homepage.
I hope you are as inspired as I am by the amazing work taking place in all the corners of this country. Warmly, Martha Davis Executive Director, Institute for Safe Families
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On The ACEs Frontier: WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE COUNTRY
The National Summit on Adverse Childhood Experiences, held in Philadelphia May 13 and 14, featured a giant map projection that showed all the locations where physicians, child advocates, educators and others are putting ACEs into policy and practice.
CRI has created innovative tools including an interactive website, a parent handbook, a kids' coloring book and a deck of cards packed with quick, concrete strategies for parents and children to boost coping skills and build resilience.
During a school in-service day in Walla Walla, classroom teachers, administrators, cafeteria workers, nurses and janitors learned some basic brain science, including the idea that a stressed child can't respond, learn or collaborate with others.
Burke Harris's Center for Youth Wellness, a subspecialty clinic for ACEs and toxic stress, takes that work a step further, providing home visits, psychotherapy, biofeedback, mindfulness and coping skills training to children and families.
Susan Dreyfus, president and CEO of Families International, said that a comprehensive and transformative response to ACEs must focus on three primary goals: reducing the number of people living in poverty; increasing the number of people living safe and healthy lives; and putting more people on the path to educational and job success.
"Next year's map," she vowed, "will show us all we are achieving in moving this social movement across America." |
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