Arkansas has the highest percentage of children with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the nation. Examples of ACEs include abuse, neglect, family instability, poverty and exposure to violence. ACEs can have an increasingly negative impact on health and well-being over the life course. However, with protective factors within families and communities such as safe, stable, and nurturing relationships, everyone can development resilience to help them thrive. Learn how you and your organization can work with others across the state to prevent and address ACEs and help build resilient families and communities.
Keynote speakers:
Howard Pinderhughes, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, is the morning keynote speaker. His research includes the intersection of historical and community trauma and ACEs.
Renee Boynton Jarrett, MD, ScD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine and founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network, is the afternoon keynote speaker. Her work focuses on the role of early-life adversities as life course social determinants of health. She has a specific interest in the intersection of community violence, intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect and how neighborhood characteristics influence these patterns.
Who should attend:
• State and local elected officials • State and local agency staff • School administrators • Community- and faith-based organizations • Mental health, public health and school health professionals • Health care professionals
A special evening session will be held from 5:30-8pm on Sept. 25 at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church for: • Early childhood classroom teachers and staff • K-12 classroom teachers and staff • Foster/adoptive parents • Parents of children with special health needs Free childcare and meals will be provided for this session.
$35 for Tues. and Wed. sessions, $20 Wed. only; admission is free for Tues. evening session
FOR MORE INFORMATION: 501.212. 8644 or jginocchio@afmc.org
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