Tagged With "Adversities"

Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Director of Center on the Developing Child, shares in the following video how our early childhood experiences impact lifelong health. Learn how adversities, such as poverty and discrimination, effect brain development and other systems. Then reflect on how policies and resources can be used to address the root of these challenges that are facing the Chippewa Valley.

Recently, an updated version was released of the "Understanding ACEs" handout originally created by the Community & Family Services Division at the Spokane (WA) Regional Health District. The updated flyer can be downloaded, distributed, and shared freely. Up for a challenge?! Share this handout with at least five other people this week! English Spanish Arabic Dari Farsi Family Hui, a Program of Lead for Tomorrow , provided generous support towards the creation and translation of this...

Please join us for our new series entitled: Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice. This monthly virtual Zoom series will feature conversations facilitated by Dr. Porter Jennings-McGarity, PhD/LCSW, PACEs Connection’s criminal justice consultant, with special guests to discuss the need for trauma-informed criminal justice system reform. Using a PACEs-science lens, this series will examine the relationship between trauma and the criminal justice system, what needs changing, and strategies being...