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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...

TAKE THE CHALLENGE: BECOMING TRAUMA-INFORMED This week marks an important milestone in the continued development and evolution of the Fresno County Trauma & Resilience Network (TRN). In early 2017, Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP) had the great privilege of convening a small group of community stakeholders (agencies, CBOs, institutions, and initiatives) to discuss what we at ENP had had been learning about the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study. The previous decade of living...