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Here's a link to the book I wrote to help kids understand social distancing and express their own emotions. This is really important or things stay bottled up inside. It is now in video version; podcast and ebook are coming. Feel free to forward to others -- kids of all ages across the nation and the globe.Reprint the link. Do an article on it. Share with friends. Circulate it. Tweet it. Free resource. Bottom line: make it viral. The cover is attached!!! I hope it helps. Navigating emotions...

I wanted to share this resource to assist families who are coping with trauma. https://healthcaretoolbox.org/tools-and-resources/covid19.html Take care and be safe,

1st Voice ACEs Canada Champion Elizabeth Perry shares why ACEs are meaningful to her and her vision for the future.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/us/new-mexico-foster-care-lawsuit.html?

Prevent Child Abuse NJ's subsidiary, the Child Wellness Institute of NJ, is hosting weekly wellness sessions for kids and families free and online. Hosted by Gina Hernandez, MA, Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and therapist, she guides the live audience through simple moves to help relieve stress and worries. It covers brain lessons, mindfulness, resilience, yoga poses and brain breaks! Feel free to share! It is recorded and can be viewed at a later time as well. This takes our "in...

Special Transforming Trauma Podcast: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Dr. Heller and Brad Kammer In this special episode of Transforming Trauma , host Sarah Buino is joined by Dr. Laurence Heller, creator of the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), and Brad Kammer, NARM Training Director and Senior Faculty. As we face the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the trio reflects on how to come together in community to support each other in times of crisis. Faced...

I just posted the PDF of a PowerPoint I'm doing for clinical staff at my agency called Trauma Treatment During the Coronavirus Pandemic (it's in the Files section). Please feel free to share if you find it useful.

The Healing Place Podcast has been conducting Facebook LIVE interviews with previous podcast guests (several of whom are ACEs Connection members). I will continue to host the conversations over the next few weeks as a free resource available to those looking for coping strategies, calming skills, and a sense of connection and grounding during this unprecedented time in our world. #PandemicSelfCare

Michael is an author, artist, mentor, and speaker who has dedicated his life to finding simple, practical tools for making permanent change. He has 40+ years of experience coaching, and has helped thousands of clients to look deeper within themselves and find answers that work for them.

This is a time of incredible stress, uncertainty and change across the world. Unlike many stressful experiences, we don’t know when the impact of the Covid-19 will ease so that life can return to something closer to normal. We just know that our lives have been impacted in ways we could not have anticipated only a few months ago. Here I want to provide you a little something that might help you get through this. When It’s Too Much Toolkit A few years ago in response to the fires in Sonoma...

We have the best community. And it feels like a community even more right now when things are scary, threatening, and uncertain. Yesterday, Jondi Whitis shared an amazing resource yesterday, by way of a comment, that's great for parents, survivors, providers, and families (all of us). I am making it a blog post in case others missed it or are overwhelmed, as I have been, by sifting through the information coming at us. The home page lets you easily find practices for calming. Here's one...

By Terry Gross, National Public Radio, March 24, 2020 Apocalyptic novelist Max Brooks is something of an expert on planning for pandemics and other disasters. The author, whose books include World War Z , Germ Warfare and the forthcoming Devolution , has toured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has reviewed government response plans related to various emergency situations — all in the course of research. "We have a network in place that we as taxpayers have been funding to...