Reminder: Workgroup Meeting Tomorrow
The workgroup meets at 1 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at AFMC, 1020 W. 4th St., #300, Little Rock. If you plan to attend the meeting in person, please reply to this email and let me know.
Below is the information on how to attend virtually.
Webinar link: https://www.gotomeet.me/AFMCPA
Conference line: (646) 749-3112
Access Code: 181-269-685
ARBEST Webinar: Childhood Adversity, Resiliency and the Brain
Dr. Andrew James, Ph.D. of the Brain Imaging Research Center at UAMS, will review the factors of resiliency, how childhood trauma can change development, and how the brain protects itself against trauma-related psychiatric illness.
The webinar is scheduled for noon Thursday, Nov. 15. Register here.
Report Explores Case Studies of Communities Addressing ACEs
Community Voices: Creating a Just, Health and Resilient World (attached) is a report produced by Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC), a learning collaborative of 14 sites across the country that use ACEs and resiliency as their organizing framework. The report provides case studies of interventions from each MARC site. Project include creating trauma-informed hospitals, supporting fathers, and a collaboration between a police department and a child treatment center.
Events
Implementing Erin's Law Through Relationship Skills Education (webinar)
3 p.m. Central Nov. 14
Register here.
General ACEs Workgroup Meeting
Guest speaker: Angela Duran, Arkansas Campaign for Grade-Level Reading
1 p.m. Nov. 14
AFMC, Little Rock
Trauma-informed schools: a conversation with Jim Sporleder, former principal of Lincoln High School, featured in the documentary Paper Tigers (webinar)
5-6 p.m. Central Nov. 19
Register here.
Articles
Racism Kills: What Community-Level Interventions Can Do About It (Rewire.news)
Election Night 2018: Impact On Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Other Youth Issues (Chronicle of Social Change)
New MHA Report Shows Many in Crisis, Impact of Trauma on Youth Significant (PR Web)
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