Tagged With "police brutality"
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We Stand in Solidarity with the Worldwide Protests for Racial Justice
In response to the police brutality and racism that caused the deaths of George Floyd , Ahmaud Arbery , Breonna Taylor and countless other African Americans and people of color, ACEs Connection supports the worldwide protests demanding racial justice. Integrating practices and policies based on the science of adverse childhood experiences (ACES) — being trauma-informed — requires us to be racially just. Our organization's vision is a world where all people thrive. Our goal is to prevent...
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Re: We Stand in Solidarity with the Worldwide Protests for Racial Justice
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Re: We Stand in Solidarity with the Worldwide Protests for Racial Justice
Thank you, I'm sharing these resources on social media.
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Re: We Stand in Solidarity with the Worldwide Protests for Racial Justice
Thanks Michael for sharing these resources!
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Re: Medical Authorities with Academic Blinders look the other Way: Reject ACES
Ms Mead I am so grateful for your heartfelt comments. It must have taken a lot of thought and energy to put together such an extensive essay. Your intimate passion and concern come through and I share it. I am glad you found a way (in spite of personal circumstances) to put your wisdom and caring to use. I would riff of your desire to see our society become "more trauma informed" to say I honestly think we live in a relatively brutal and unjust, selfish and violent society. Child abuse is...
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Policing in schools: Redefining public safety to be supportive & healing, instead of punitive & criminalizing
A recent video , shared on the national news, shows a 16-year-old Florida student being slammed to the ground by a police officer working at her school. It’s one of many such incidents of school-based police violence against students captured in videos around the country. Some of the victims are as young as five years old. About 47% of U.S. schools employ armed police officers , known as school resource officers, who are there to keep students safe. But students who attend these schools...