Tagged With "Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz"

School officials are considering expanding a social and emotional learning program districtwide as part of safety and security efforts. Incorporating the Choose Love Enrichment Program in every school is one of many recommendations made by the Fayetteville Safety and Security Task Force to the School Board last month. Scarlett Lewis founded the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Foundation and has worked with educators, researchers and others to create the program. She began her work after her...

A Season for Giving Thanks As we celebrate Thanksgiving later this week, I wanted to express how thankful I am for each of you, for your support of the workgroup, and your desire to learn more about ACEs, how to prevent and address them, and what you can do to make the lives of families and children better in Arkansas. ACEs work can seem like a massive and daunting task, so I wanted to share with you two recent victories. Rachel Hritz is a workgroup member and kindergarten teacher at Amboy...

One Little Rock man is helping African American men fight depression one barbershop at a time. Lorenzo Lewis started the non-profit The Confess Project in hopes of establishing a network of men who support and strengthen one another through discussion. Lewis has been busy on the road traveling to various states with The Confess Project. "We've noticed that different communities have different complex issues but this is a nation's problem," says Lewis. He's visited states like Tennessee,...

What an incredible model for support! "It's a really organic conversation that happens between myself and one of my colleagues as we begin to tell stories about our own journeys to mental health and wellness," says Lewis about how he gets started. By creating a dialogue in this environment and teaming up with Dillon to offer advocacy training to barbers about mental health, Lewis says he's already seeing a positive impact. "People really respond the way you kind of want them to respond,"...

Southeastern ACEs Connection and national CTIPP leaders on the quarterly leader call welcomed guest speaker Rebecca Lewis-Pankratz (top left) for their quarterly call. Also among those present were (top row l-r) Carey Sipp, Jesse Kohler, Jesse Hardin, (second row, l-r) Patti Tiberi, Mebane Boyd, Jen Drake-Croft, Dan Press, (third row, l-r) Mimi Graham, Christopher Freeze, Margaret Stagmeier, (fourth row, l-r) Emily Marsh, Liz Peterson, Alyssa Koziarski and Janet Pozmantier. Also present was...