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Dr. Candice Jones talks about the racial disparities in health care on NightNews. She addresses access to health care as one of the social determinants of health. These social determinants are affected by racism and can cause health problems for people of color--especially Black people--in the U.S. Check out the video here. Photo by Hush Naidoo Jade Photography on Unsplash

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.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO RACHEL'S MESSAGE. Rachel Allen, PJI Director, announces the 4th Annual Creating A Resilient Community Conference taking place on April 21st and 22nd, 2022. This year's conference will feature keynote speaker, local epidemiologist and physician, Dr. Asim Jani to outline the paradigm shift needed to create community resilience and well-being in Central Florida. For more information about the conference, click here . To register for the conference, click here . General...

California Judge Katherine Lucero is reimagining the youth justice system with an eye towards more compassion and support. Now the director of the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, Lucero focuses on what happened to children in the juvenile justice system, not the choices they've made that have brought them there. For more information, please check out Julie Reynolds Martinez and Jeremy Loudenback's article on The Imprint.

The Department of Children and Families along with The Ounce of Prevention Fund Florida is happy to announce Protective Factors and True Colors training throughout Circuit 12 (Manatee, Sarasota and Desoto Counties) April 11, 12 and 15 th . We are honored that the Manatee County Children’s Advisory Board and the Family Safety Alliance are hosting the trainings . Save the dates as registration is March 14 – April 7 through Eventbrite. The trainings are FREE. Protective factors are conditions...

Women of the PACEs science movement featured for Women's History Month! In consideration of Women's History Month, the entire month of March is dedicated to the women creating a legacy in the worldwide PACEs movement. In this episode, we will talk with Dr. Sandra Bloom. For the past 40 years, Bloom has done pioneering work in the field of traumatic stress studies. From 1980-2001, Bloom served as founder and executive director of the Sanctuary programs, inpatient psychiatric programs for the...

Dr. Candice Jones' book, High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well Behaved Kids , details ways that parents can create a family discipline plan. Dr. Jones' states that parents often default to the ways in which they were disciplined as children, which can be harmful. Instead, the family discipline plan Dr. Jones advocates is one that takes into account a child's developmental stage and a parent's motivations. For more information, check out Dr. Jones' website . Bio:...

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.

Orange-Osceola State Attorney Worrell has created a special victims unit to manage domestic violence and sex crimes cases in the Ninth Judicial Circuit. Assistant State Attorney William Jay will lead the unit, which was created to reduce the backlog of cases. There has been a nationwide increase in domestic violence cases since the pandemic began in 2020. PJI recently hosted State Attorney Worrell as part of a panel of local leaders to discuss how domestic violence is being addressed in...

PJI stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people who will pay an unconscionable price in the geopolitical war that Vladimir Putin is waging against their country. May the sanctity of our shared humanity and interdependence influence global leaders as they determine how to respond to this tyranny and provide for all refugees with dignity. Whether it’s a violation of a nation’s sovereignty or a civil war, armed conflict as in Ukraine, Sudan, the Congo, Yemen, Palestine and Iraq is...

In light of recent events, Resilient Guilford Network is sharing resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in response to the war on Ukraine. Some are specific to military families, while others are more general resources. Please see the links below and let us know if you have questions and how we can help support your local efforts. Deep breaths as we start a new week together. We look forward to staying connected and are grateful for all you do. General Child...

We are excited to present the fifth workshop session this Friday and hope you can join us live! Of note, we are now offering participation certificates to those who can be with us live on Friday afternoons and to make that easier we have also decided to shorten this workshop session to 3 hours ! Please help us in #BuildingTheMovement by sharing this workshop series with colleagues and help us reach our next milestone of 3K registered. Day 5 - Building the Movement with Populations with High...