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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between Tarpon Springs Community Trauma Informed Community Initiative And Community Partners/Members   PREAMBLE:   VISION: Tarpon Springs is a community where children and families are safe, healthy, cared for and...

Handouts that provide an ACEs overview, and handouts for parents, providers and members of the business community.

Here are elevator pitches, from several sources:   From our friends at Fenton Communications:   60-second version As you probably know, if bad things happen to you to as a child, it can impact your health for the rest of your life.  ...

Peace4Tarpon, Tarpon Springs, FL -- Peace4Tarpon....O ffer the peace/piece you can.   Children's Resilience Initiative, Walla Walla, WA --  Resilience Trumps ACEs and Empowering community understanding of the forces that shape us and our...

NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience)   We envision a just world in which individuals and communities have the power, resources and support to create and take part in robust systems of care. Those systems—health,...

Maine Resilience Building Network  To promote resilience in all people by increasing and improving our understanding of traumas and stressors such as ACEs and why they matter. NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) The National...

NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Create a common language informed by robust data and brought to life by compelling stories of healing and recovery. Use key messages to inform and inspire policymakers, practitioners, funders,...

NCAR (National Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience) Inclusivity: We believe that community voices, alongside those of policy-makers, practitioners and researchers, should contribute to dialogue and change.  Equity: We believe that every...

Working document, 3/20/15 Walla Walla, Washington   MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between the Children’s Resilience Initiative and Community Partners PREAMBLE VISION:   All young people thrive and parents raise their children with...

Recommended Roles Facilitator: See draft agenda below  Note taker: Type notes on laptop at meeting Uploader and photographer: Upload notes to ACEs Connection group as a blog for comment by group, populate ACEs Connection group with content from...

What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...

As part of their involvement with the Change in Mind Initiative, a project of the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Palix Foundation in Alberta, CUPs reframed their entire organization’s theory of change to align with brain science research and developed an integrated care model for families and adults living in adverse conditions. The integrated care process is designed to build clients’ executive functioning by helping clients prioritize the problems to be addressed,...