2017 Meetings Minutes
2017 Meeting Minutes attached
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21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant
The Northwest Side Housing Center will be submitting a grant proposal to the Illinois State Board of Education for the 21 st Century Community Learning Centers grant. Our partners will be Mary Lyon and Schubert elementary schools; as well as the PCC Wellness Center at Steinmetz. The application is due February 15 th , 2018.
2017 in Review: Highlights of a Productive and Exciting First Year
In March 2017, more than thirty Belmont-Cragin stakeholders, including community residents, parents, local politicians, faith leaders, and representatives from community development, education, physical and mental health care, social services, after-school programming, philanthropy, universities, and the police, met to explore how adopting a Childhood Adversity/Resilience/Healing framework could enhance existing community work and collaboration in the Belmont-Cragin. Since March, the group...
First Steps Toward Becoming a Trauma-Informed Community on Chicago's Northwest Side
On March 16, 2017, the Northwest Side Housing Center (NWSHC), Steinmetz High School, and PCC Community Wellness Center co-hosted a community convening in the northwest side Chicago Belmont-Cragin community to begin to explore the idea of becoming a trauma-informed community. About a year ago, the three co-hosts were exposed to ideas related to adversity, trauma, and healing through the Nadine Burke-Harris TED talk, a screening of Paper Tigers , and a day-long workshop with Jim Sporleder,...
Growing Resilient Communities 2.0
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...
Directory of ACEs Connection How-Tos
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...
ACEs primer -- great five-minute video that explains ACE Study
This was produced by KPJR Films, and edited by Jen Bradwell.