ACEs Connection envisions a resilient world where ALL people thrive. We are an anti-racist organization committed to the pursuit of social justice. In our work to promote resilience and prevent and mitigate ACEs, we intentionally embrace and uplift people who have historically not had a seat at the table. ACEs Connection celebrates the voices and tells the stories of people who have been barred from decision-making and who have shouldered the burden of systemic and economic oppression as the...

Origins offers a number of training and consulting services. We developed The Basics as a half-day session to provide the foundation to support trauma-informed and resilience practices across sectors and industries. The session includes an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, the neurobiology of toxic stress, the impact of social and historical trauma, and the science of resilience. We have tested The Basics with two cross-sector audiences, in Los Angeles and Phoenix.

By NationSwell Team, NationSwell, January 29, 2020 At age 5, Claudia emigrated with her family from Chile to the United States, but the experience was hardly the American Dream. She lost her sister to a drug overdose and experienced PTSD from living with domestic violence. But instead of these experiences breaking her, they broke her open and helped her create a better life. She knew she was not the only one living with trauma in her Newark, New Jersey school. So after college, she returned...

I am 27 years old. I am a survivor, a writer and a mental health advocate in my home town of Frederick MD. I am becoming more involved in the municipal and county-level politics. Occasionally I speak at the meetings and I applied to join the mental health advisory board for the Frederick County. I read about history of trauma psychology, religion, social theory, history, mysticism and psychoanalysis. I listen to the lectures of trauma psychologists on youtube. I am writing a psychoanalytical...