As 2021 comes to a close, we want to take a few moments to reflect on this busy and fruitful year as we ask you to remember PACEs Connection in your year-end giving.
Despite this physically and emotionally challenging time, we have so very much for which to be grateful, and we would love to share our gratitude list with you. When we practice gratitude, we’re actually practicing a very PACEs-Connection thing to do: helping our brains. Brain imaging studies, says Dr. Daniel Amen, show that “practicing gratitude literally helps you have a brain to be grateful for.”
We are grateful for…
- YOU, our members, for all of your incredible work educating and engaging people in your communities around PACEs science. We’re particularly excited about the more than 5,000 members who joined our movement this year. We are now 54,101 strong!
- The increase in understanding how positive childhood experiences (PCEs) should be incorporated with ACEs science, which led to us changing our name to PACEs Connection. It’s thrilling to find ways to watch how organizations integrate research about PACEs science, just as they did with ACEs science.
- Everyone who has participated in our 150 webinars over the last 20 months, including our Education Upended, PACEs Reacts, A Better Normal, and Historical Trauma in America series. We’ve been honored to explore a variety of timely topics with you, from structural racism to self-care, from starting a PACEs initiative in your community to restorative justice.
- The 56 new PACEs communities (for a total of 440) as well as the nine initiatives that have joined our Cooperative of Communities (for a total of 15, with 30 more in the pipeline). It’s been so rewarding to see the acceleration of this movement across the country and around the globe!
- Advances in the PACEs movement, including the remarkable number of state laws that incorporate PACEs science, all 50 states doing their own ACE surveys, a national ACEs awareness campaign, a state campaign, two national best-selling books ("What Happened To You" and "The Body Keeps the Score"), and at least one state-wide project to engage all pediatricians to integrate PACEs science into their practices.
This growth and our opportunities for 2022 could not be happening without you. In our partnership with you, our members, we continue to accelerate the PACEs movement, to learn more about how you are preventing and healing trauma, and incorporating positive, community-led, culturally appropriate, anti-racist, equitable experiences into your lives and work. Thank you for letting us know what is working, and for sharing your challenges, best practices, and resources.
As you remember PACEs Connection in your year-end giving by making your tax-deductible gift, we hope that you’ll also share what you’re grateful for. We’ll post gratitude comments anonymously, and celebrate our gratitude as a community.
Thank you again for supporting PACEs Connection, and for making a difference in the lives of so many in our communities around the world.
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