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(LITTLE ROCK, AR) – Governor Asa Hutchinson and staff from the Arkansas Department of Human Services and its Division of Children and Family Services, along with many of its partners, gathered on the steps of the State Capitol in Little Rock on Wednesday, April 11, to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month and the fact that we all play a role in helping great childhoods happen. This was one of many events held across the state this month to help people in Arkansas better understand the...

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) plans to award up to 75 grants to rural communities as part of a new Rural Communities Opioid Response (Planning) (RCORP) initiative in FY 18. Successful awardees will receive up to $200,000 for one-year to develop plans to implement opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery interventions designed to reduce opioid overdoses among rural populations. The initiative will focus...

The Arkansas ACEs/Resilience Workgroup has engaged the spring 2018 UA-Little Rock Master of Public Administration capstone class to produce a research and analysis report to help guide the workgroup as it develops its Collective Impact common agenda. Collective Impact is the workgroup's framework for action. The class of 13 students, which also includes Nonprofit Management Certificate and MPA/JD concurrent students, has been working since January on the following activities: 1. Conduct a...

As a follow-up to their story about the Child Trends ACEs report and Arkansas' No. 1 ranking for percentage of children with at least one ACE, KUAR, the Central Arkansas NPR affiliate profiled the Arkansas ACEs/Resilience Workgroup. You can read or listen to the story here .

The Arkansas Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience Workgroup hosted its first ACEs/Resilience Summit: Every Child Deserves a Champion on Oct. 13, 2017. With more than 100 in attendance, including Susan Hutchinson, First Lady of Arkansas, the workgroup started a larger conversation about ACEs, their impacts, and what communities and organizations are doing to prevent and treat ACEs and help children and families build resilience. Dr. Alan Mease , medical director for child and...

Dr. Suzanne Frank has known about the impact of childhood adversity on young lives for decades. She’s seen the fallout in the faces of young people huddled in beds at a children’s shelter where she worked years ago. She’s seen it as the regional child abuse services and champion for the Permanente Medical Group. And she’s seen it in hospital examination rooms where, as a member of the Santa Clara County’s Sexual Assault Response Team, she’s been called in to examine shell-shocked children...

The shooting in Florida isn’t only a gun regulation issue. It’s a systems change issue. All of our systems have to change their approach to changing behavior — whether it’s criminal, unhealthy or unwanted behavior — from a blame, shame and punishment approach, to one that is based in understanding, nurturing and healing….in other words, ACEs science.

Reminder of tomorrow's ( Wednesday, January 10, 10am PST/1:00 PM EST) webinar on State Policy Approaches to Addressing Childhood Adversity Please join us for a three -part learning series hosted by the California Campaign to Counter Childhood Adversity and ACEs Connection . We'll hear from states that are making great strides towards adopting trauma-informed policies and practices. Three-Part Learning Series: Webinar 1: Overview of State Level Efforts to Address Childhood Adversity and...

After several years of watching and working with communities (cities, counties, states) across the U.S., we heard the appeal for guidelines and tools to help communities start and/or grow their ACEs initiatives. We had originally put together a loose set of guidelines called the Roadmap to Resilience, but a few months after posting that in 2015, it was clear that communities wanted something more. So after about 1.5 years of thinking, talking, testing — we rolled out Growing Resilient...

Hi all- With the beautiful new changes to our site, please take a moment to review the updated "How-Tos" below . If you can't find what you need or are having issues with the site please let me know. ( Gail ) JOIN How-To: Join ACEs Connection How-To: Join ACEs Connection Groups INVITE How-To: Invite Others to Join ACEs Connection How-To: Invite Others to Join an ACEs Connection Group SIGN IN & UPDATE PROFILE How-To: Sign In to ACEs Connection How-To: Update Your...

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First Lady Susan Hutchinson, who attended the recent First Spouses Trauma-Informed conference in Wisconsin , attended a photo op with Gov. Asa Hutchinson to commemorate the Adverse Childhood Experiences Awareness and Action Day proclamation for Oct. 13. (The proclamation is attached to this post.) First row (from left): Rev. Belinda Price, Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church; Dr. Alan Mease, Arkansas Department of Health; First Lady Susan Hutchinson; Gov. Asa Hutchinson; Janie Ginocchio,...