Special Announcements

Join La Maida Project for a free online session to explore how community, self-care, and regulation generate physical and mental health! Jan 24, 2024 (Wednesday) 10:00 AM - 11:15 PM PST on Zoom

Click here to make your donation today. PACEs Connection is a social network that recognizes the impact of a wide variety of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in shaping adult behavior and health, and that promotes trauma-informed, healing-centered and resilience-building practices and policies in all families, organizations, systems, and communities. We support communities to accelerate the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences to solve our most intractable problems.

" If we want health, we must promote health ." ~ Dr. Jeff Linkenbach The research on positive experiences across the lifespan and their impacts on individual, family, community and public health is growing, and exciting new applications are emerging. We hope you will join us each day from Noon to 1:00pm Central Time, February 5th-9th, as The Montana Institute hosts the 2nd Annual online Montana Winter Institute to explore these issues together. The first two days will shine a spotlight on...

Since 2003, I have led a cartoon initiative called Cartoon Storytelling in which participants use real life experiences as prompt for a new story. Through a variety of creativity and writing exercises, participants learn about the art of cartooning while also creating a new story driven by a personal search to understand something about themselves. The stories are often motivated by a personal pain -- a response to being bullied, grappling with self-esteem issues, healing a damaged...

Click here to make your donation today . "Giving Tuesday is a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world." Today is an opportunity for those in the worldwide PACEs movement to use their individual power of generosity to support their communities . Today, on GivingTuesday, we invite you to show your support for PACEs Connection by making a monthly pledge of $10 or $25 a month. The gift of a monthly pledge is a way to show your support for the work that takes...

Giving Tuesday is November 28th, 2023. "Giving Tuesday is a movement that unleashes the power of radical generosity around the world." Your amazing support, as members, partners, supporters & donors, this year has allowed PACEs Connection to continue to build our network to over 60,000+ dedicated members and 450+ geographical and interest-based communities . Our platform creates a safe space for all to share their best practices while inspiring the growth of the worldwide PACEs movement...

(NOTE: Copy below comes directly from promotional email. ) Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul. Join Bessel van der Kolk, MD, along with Licia Sky, BFA, LMT, in a transformational clinical trauma training. Attend and learn from one of the most renowned trauma experts - one who has spent decades working both as a researcher and...

“The way we show up among our peers, in our communities, and in our societies will either foster a culture of belonging or it won’t. Avoidance, apathy, gaslighting, and disconnection may have gotten us where we are now, but they won’t get us where we’re going,” says PACEs Connection’s newest staff member, Kahshanna Evans, as she begins her role in helping people who want to start or revitalize PACEs Connection communities learn how to do community development. Evans brings a passion for...

I look forward to building on these shared values with the PACEs Connection team: to empower people, families, communities, and organizations with the human-focused tools and living resources needed for a better world.

Grief is inevitable, essential, and universal. Like many of you, we at PACEs Connection have experienced a multitude of losses through the past several years. As a team, we have experienced financial instability, we have lost family and friends, and we have mourned our pre-Covid lives. We recognize that we are not alone. In the spirit of collective healing, PACEs Connection invites you to attend the Collective Trauma, Grief & Healing Conference. This unique and interactive conference...

This is a topic I'm extremely passionate about. Those who know me, know that any form of mistreatment/harm to a human being, especially women and children, I'm deeply passionate about. Unfortunately, going by people's responses when you bring it up and even just how women are taught generally about marriage, it's a topic our Zambian society doesn't see as anything serious, yet it is a HUGE SILENT KILLER! To make it worse, even some professional and Christian counselors dismiss the reality of...

Introducing the Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program at PACEs Connection, a 16 hour program, free and open to the public, to learn key topics in organizing PACEs science informed resilient communities.