Tagged With "Valencia College"
Blog Post
ACEs Connection Central Florida Launches at First Annual Conference
Photo by James Encinas Raising yellow “Visions & Commitments” cards, 550 attendees at yesterday’s Creating a Resilient Community: From Trauma to Healing Conference pledged their enthusiastic support to create a more resilient Central Florida. The standing-room-only crowd heard Dr. Vincent Felitti deliver a morning keynote address detailing the findings of the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study) . He also shared moving testimonials of people who are...
Comment
Re: ACEs Connection Central Florida Launches at First Annual Conference
We appear to be in the beginning of a BEHAVIORALLY TRANSMITTED OBESITY EPIDEMIC! I just attended an amazing meeting with Dr. Felitti, co-author of the famous Kaiser-Permanente Study showing the HUGE impact on health, including weight, that a high ACE -Adverse Childhood Experiences - score has on everything from heart disease to cancer - Including depression, suicides, work and school attendance and performance, lifetime earned income and reducing longevity by an average of 20 years for those...
Blog Post
Sofiya Asedrem supports PACEs Connection to help address root causes in her fast-growing Florida community & make mental health a human right.
Note: PACEs Connection is in dire financial straits. We need you, our almost 58,000 members, to help cover the loss of foundation funding that was promised and did not come through . Unfortunately, staff pay and hours have had to be cut for December. The good news is that, since sounding the alarm this summer, we’ve raised more than $52,000. Thank you to all who’ve donated. To get a sense of who your fellow members are, who is donating, and why, please read and share this seventh in a series...