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Please find attached the 2016 booklet for the Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) project, including Buncombe County and the other 13 communities that have been selected to participate in this 2 year learning collaborative. This is a great summary of the work happening in all 14 communities across the country. I am looking forward to working with you all to share your story with the world!

On February 22, Dr. Josh Gettinger (Family Medicine doctor & Faculty with MAHEC Family Medicine Residency) along with Melissa Baker (Director of Community Population Health at MAHEC) gave a presentation to a group of retired individuals about the science of ACEs. This was part of Hermann Gucinski's class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville campus. "The Best Science Changes the Way We See the World" ... this was the title of the first slide, over an image of the...

In order to learn from what others are doing across the nation, I wanted to share this information found on Texas Children's Hospital website: http://www.texaschildrens.org/about-us/preventive-outreach/child-abuse-pediatric-team Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Coalition : Members of the CAP team participate in the ACE Coalition with the aim to mobilize health and community leaders in the greater Houston area to confront and reduce adverse childhood experiences by their identification and...

http://mountainx.com/news/misbehaving-kids-what-you-probably-dont-know/

This election year, child advocates are challenging candidates for elective office to talk about their proposals for ensuring safe, stable and nurturing environments for our children. Our state only ranks 35th in child well-being: More than 130,000 child-abuse and neglect reports are made annually; our child poverty rate is 25 percent; and 24 percent of North Carolina’s children have experienced two or more Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs, to name a few issues that should be...

David Thompson, Buncombe County Schools Student Services Director, in Asheville, North Carolina, gives a talk at the Public School Forum of North Carolina about a curriculum that helps students overcome trauma in their lives. Attached is the accompanied article written about the talk and a YouTube video of his talk.

The   Mountain Area Health Education Center  (MAHEC) hosted the first  Adverse Childhood Experiences Southeastern Summit  September 24-26.  Almost 400 attendees and 50 presenters from across the United States (and...

Congratulations to all involved in the successful application for funding to support the work of the Buncombe County ACEs Collaborative.   The award was made to Buncombe County Health and Human Services to expand the innovative work of the ACEs...

ANNOUNCING: Call for Abstracts for Presentations & Posters at the Adverse Childhood Experiences Southeastern Summit 2015: Building Resilient, Interdisciplinary Workforces, Communities & Families on September 24-26th in Asheville, NC. Summit details and instructions on abstract submission: https://sys.mahec.net/ce/aces.aspx . Join keynotes Dr. Robert Anda who will present on where we are and where were going related to ACEs in the US and...

  Would you like to know what causes about a quarter of all cancers and heart disease? Are you curious why some people die 20 years too early? Is it hard to understand why there is so much anxiety, hopelessness and unhappiness out there? Or why...