Welcome new members of our Canadian ACEs and Trauma-Informed Network here on ACEs Connection.
Denise and I are so delighted to have you join our community.
Please introduce yourselves to everyone else if you feel comfortable doing so.
Also, please post your own blogs, letting the rest of us know what you're up to in your region or even just sharing some ideas you've been working on.
This community is for Canadians interested in advancing ACEs and Trauma Informed awareness throughout Canadian society to prevent future incidence and to support recovery for those already affected.
During this time of Covid 19 obviously many of us will have our stress response systems activated. Those who live with the effects of #ACEs and #Trauma will likely have more difficulty focusing on the silver linings in the situation, although they also will have more skills at surviving adversity than those who have not had to deal with much strife in their lives to date.
That's why it's so important to practice compassion and empathy at this time, and to be trauma informed so we recognize trauma responses and can appropriately respond to them with co-regulating attitudes.
In Canada the next 2 weeks will be telling whether or not our extensive calls for physical distancing will have been successful in slowing the spread of the virus throughout our communities.
Obviously in the meantime we need to stay the course and stay at home.
It's a great time to catch up on online exploration. Please utilize the bounty of resources available through ACEs Connection and share with the rest of us anything you find interesting. If you'd like us to clone anything you find on ACEs Connection to our page, please send the link to us through private message, and we'll arrange to post it here for easy access for all.
Although now is not the time to invite public health to focus on ACEs, it is the time for us to organize and prepare to invite public health to use the mechanisms we're all learning through covid 19 to address ACEs in the future.
We know that children are currently accumulating ACEs and those are intensified during this covid 19 pandemic. When we can't protect the children while it's happening, we can certainly prepare to help them when it's over and prevent other children from suffering similarly in the future.
Our work is ongoing and adapts to the times, but always, we are keen to prevent ACEs and support the recovery of those affected.
In solidarity. Stay safe. Stay the course. Your presence with us is valued.
Elizabeth Perry
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