The Junior League of Montclair-Newark and ACES: An intersection 

Among the topics to be discussed by our panel of experts :

Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences (ACES/PACES);  the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact onchildhood trauma; the effects these have had on children in out-of-home placement; and the leading work New Jersey is doing as  a trauma-informed, healing-centered state.

Please join us in learning from our distinguished speakers :

Keynote Speaker:  Dave Ellis, Executive Director of New Jersey Department of Children and Families’ Office of Resilience and nationally recognized ACES expert;

Arturo Brito, MD, MPH, leading community pediatrician ; President  and CEO of the Children’s Health Fund; former Executive Director of the Nicholson Foundation.

Jasmine Pender, Essex County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)Advocate Supervisor and former  New Jersey Department of Children and Families Case Management Organization (CMO)

Please use this link to register:

https://bit.ly/JLMN_ACES

Please email advocacy@jlmn.org  with any questions you may have.