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We developed ACEs Connection's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Tool — called the Inclusion Tool, for short — to ensure that ACEs initiatives across the world focus on being inclusive when forming a steering committee, recruiting leaders, providing education about ACEs science, recruiting members, or providing resources and services within their communities. The more inclusive your ACEs initiative is, the more diverse it will be, giving your initiative a real shot at achieving equity and...

ACEs initiative participants in communities where there is tension between the community and law enforcement will want to join Becky Haas in a compelling conversation on law enforcement, ACEs science, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Haas is a nationally recognized adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science initiative builder and trainer. She and colleagues Renee Wilson-Simmons, the head of the ACE Awareness Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee, and Maggi Duncan,...

Nadine Burke Harris, California’s Surgeon General, has a lot in common with the vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris—Jamaican heritage, surname, home state—and a commitment to addressing ACEs and toxic stress. As reported in the New Yorker article by Paul Tough, “The Poverty Clinic,” Dr. Harris told Kamala Harris, then San Francisco district attorney, about ACEs in 2008 and in response, she offered to help. District Attorney Harris then introduced her to professor of child and...

Durham Resources and Happenings Do you have an announcement about a new resource, program, or event? This is the spot to share it! Follow up conversation on trauma-informed organization assessment: At our May DART meeting we did a 3-month visioning exercise. We will begin to work on some of these activities between meetings in smaller teams. Before our next meeting, we will be looking at assessment of trauma-informed care within organizations. If you would like to be a part of the...

In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.

Table of Contents Durham Resources Resilience in the News ACEs and Resilience Research Funding Opportunities Webinars, Conferences, and Trainings Durham Resources and Happenings Do you have an announcement about a new resource, program, or event? This is the spot to share it! Durham Substance Use Resource Guide A new Durham substance use resource guide is now available from TRY and Durham County Department of Public Health. Additionally, a housing resource is also available. Find the...

Our version of a “Path to a Just Society” is our first attempt at creating a common language and identifying points along the path to a just society. The Race and Equity workgroup of PACEs Connection started the project in early 2021, following a staff meeting where we realized that we, our organization and the movement needed this. We think it can help all of us gauge where we are, where we want to be, and what’s needed to get to the next level of integrating practices and policies based on...

Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...

Diana Fishbein, PhD, founder and co-director of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives (NPSC) , and John Roman, PhD, co-director. NPSC is the new 501 (c) (3) home of PACEs Connection, . PACEs Connection, with more than 60,900 members, is being revitalized by two former employees who have found a strategic and mission-aligned national nonprofit home. “We are thrilled to play a role in maintaining and growing this vitally important social network — the primary source of...