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By Patrice Worthy, Photo: Oakland Avenue Urban Farms, The Guardian, March 5, 2022 For the last 10 years, residents in the south Baltimore neighborhood of Cherry Hill who struggled to access affordable food had a reliable place to go. Visitors to the Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden, a 1.5-acre urban farm, would find cheap, fresh vegetables and a strong sense of community. But in the spring of 2021, the farm received an eviction notice. For Eric Jackson, servant director of the Black Yield...

We at PACEs Connection are excited to announce our new director of communities, Mathew Portell. Portell has officially joined this week and will now be leading our Growing Resilient Communities and Cooperative of Communities programs. Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. Before accepting the role of director of communities, Portell was the principal of Fall-Hamilton Elementary, an...

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your client's traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. This webinar is free to all registered participants.

Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is one of the most well-known and successful family therapy evidence-based models in the world. Historically, the model has only been made available with grants or other governmental funding through the Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice, or larger behavioral health providers. FFT Partners, one of only two authorized FFT training organizations in the world, is making available for the first time, FFT for the Private Practitioner . FFT is listed on most major...

I believe my world is connected to your world, and together we can co-create the world we wish to see by acknowledging our lives, feelings and consciously deciding to put our energy on what we want instead of ruminating in what we don’t want and past issues. Re-framing situations is so powerful.

The new PACEs Science 101 summarizes only part of the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences. It leaves out much of the social epidemiology and social science of positive and adverse childhood experiences that, along with neuroscience, are at the heart of PACEs science. As a result, it largely fails to address primary prevention through policies that can diminish inequities in the distribution of adverse and positive childhood experiences in a population.

By Laura Gallant, 3/8/22, positiveexperience.org/category/blog/ Today, Tuesday, March 8, is the second day in our Week of HOPE. This week is intended to spread awareness of HOPE – Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences TM and help people learn about the difference that positive childhood experiences can make for children, families, and those who serve them. Today’s theme is HOPE in Practice. Our main event for today is our Annual HOPE Summit – Growing HOPE, registration is open until the...

By Micah Danney, Photo: Micah Danney/JJIE, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, March 1, 2022 Three months after the gang he’d been devoted to lured Charles Kennebrew to a supposed meeting about gang business, then jumped and brutally beat him, the 37-year-old stood staring at a slave auction block in Washington, D.C. Farther along, the now former gangster and others in their group of formerly incarcerated men navigated the National Museum of African American History and Culture e xhibits...

From ACEs Aware, Image: ACEs Aware, March 4, 2022 The ACEs Aware initiative has released a new data report detailing the number of Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screenings conducted for children and adults in California between January 1, 2020, and March 31, 2021. The report also tracks the number of clinical team members that completed the “ Becoming ACEs Aware in California ” online training between December 4, 2019, and September 30, 2021. The ACEs Aware Screening, Training, and...

By Kristian Hernández, Photo: Ross D. Franklin, PEW, March 2, 2022 Brian Swanton is the president of Gorman & Company, a development firm that builds and manages low-income housing nationwide, including some 2,000 affordable housing units in Arizona, where he is based. The demand for such apartments greatly exceeds the supply. Every year, Swanton said, managers of his properties turn away thousands of families who want to rent units, because there’s none available. During the coronavirus...

By Thomas Cangelosi, Image: Hartford Courant, Hartford Courant, March 5, 2022 According to a recent NBC News poll, when asked about America’s present direction, the top answers were “downhill,” “divisive,” “negative,” “struggling,” “lost,” and “bad.” Further, in the face of this dark outlook, according to the poll, the public’s interest in the upcoming midterm elections is down. In other words, many feel alienated, powerless, hopeless or apathetic about changing the course of our nation’s...

Photo Credit: Shutterstock The world may not be ready to empathize with Vladimir Putin as he inflicts unprovoked carnage on the Ukrainian people, but Jane Stevens has an explanation for his callous indifference. Stevens is the founder and editor of ACEsTooHigh , a news site that reports on the impact of adverse childhood experiences . Stevens says Putin’s childhood was laden with ACEs – “lack of food, inadequate housing, bullying, neglect, parental depression, etc. And he obviously inherited...