Subgroups Meet Oct. 10
The ACEs workgroup's policy, education/training and data subgroups will meet at 1 p.m. Oct. 10 at AFMC, 1020 W. 4th St., #300, Little Rock. All are welcome to join a subgroup.
If you plan on attending in person, please respond to this email to let me know so that we can expedite the sign-in process when you arrive. If you would like to attend via webinar/conference call, let me know so that I can get you the login/call-in information.
The next general workgroup meeting will be at 1 p.m. Nov. 14.
Center for Youth Wellness Launches Website for Parents
The Center for Youth Wellness, founded by ACEs expert Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, has launched Stress Health, a website to educate parents about ACEs, toxic stress, and how they can help themselves and their children.
To promote the website, CYW has created a powerful two-minute short film titled, "The Things We Carry," that shows how ACEs can affect people into adulthood, but ends on a hopeful note when it shows the protagonist working to break the cycle with his own family. The awareness campaign will run through next year and will focus on moms born between 1981 and 1996, the age range of moms who accounted for more than 80 percent of births in 2016.
New Interactive Maps/Tools Available
At the summit last week, Dr. Renee Boynton Jarrett talked about how the Vital Villages Community Engagement Network used GIS mapping tools to identify both positive and negative aspects of neighborhoods that influence children's health. Vital Villages uses the Child Opportunity Index as their base map, but only the Central Arkansas metro region is mapped for Arkansas. Two new maps/tools were recently launched that may be more useful:
- The Opportunity Atlas -- The Census Bureau, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard and Brown universities, created this map to provide census tract-level information about children’s outcomes in adulthood using data covering nearly the entire U.S. population. For each tract, researchers estimated children’s outcomes in adulthood such as earnings distributions and incarceration rates by parental income, race, and gender. You can upload your own data sets that can be incorporated into the map.
- Neighborhood Life Expectancy -- Created by the United States Small-Area Life Expectancy Estimate Project (USALEEP), this tool creates census-tract level life expectancy estimates that are compared with county-, state- and national-level estimates. You can use this tool to explore differences in life expectancy among neighborhoods in a single community.
Summit Update
We had a very successful summit, with 336 total attendance between the main summit activities and the special Tuesday night session. Slide decks and videos will soon be posted to afmc.org/acesummit. We'll let you know when everything is up.
Save the date for next year's summit: Sept. 26-28, 2019, in Little Rock.
Events
2018 Arkansas Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect
Oct. 10-12
Hot Springs Convention Center
More information here.
Trauma and the Opioid Epidemic: This is Your Brain on Drugs. This is Your Brain on Trauma. (webinar)
2-3 p.m. Oct. 18
Register here.
Substance Use, Trauma and Domestic Violence: Critical Issues, Promising Approaches (webinar)
2-3 p.m. Central, Oct. 23
Register here.
Collective Impact 101 Training
8:30-11 a.m. Oct. 24
The Jones Center, Springdale
Register here.
Break the Silence: Raising Awareness about Domestic Violence, Suicide, and Opioids
Presented by Ikarus Youth Outreach and Women and Children First
Noon to 2 p.m. Nov. 17
Whetstone Boys and Girls Club, 46 Harrow Dr., Little Rock
For more information: harrismike1911 at hotmail.com
Articles
“Motherless Children Have the Hardest Time”: Epigenetic Programming and Early Life Environment (AAP)
The quest to find biomarkers for toxic stress, resilience in children (ACEs Connection)
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