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Introducing the Hampshire County (MA) Roads to Resilience Community

 

For over a year, about 12 people from Hampshire County met to plan a Roads to Resilience conference. The long-term plan was to create a trauma-responsive Hampshire County (MA) by working collaboratively with and in the community.

Roads to Resilience

The kick-off conference was attended by hundreds and led by Laura Porter, co-founder of ACE Interface. Porter informed attendees about the neuroscience of ACEs and how others use it to become trauma-informed, trauma-responsive, and to create self-healing communities - work she's been doing with many communities over the past decade.

Laura Porter

Before the conference concluded, there was a poster brainstorming session, by sector, which resulted in a community created plan to make Hampshire County more trauma-informed and resilient.

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Today, a larger community is working together to make that plan a reality.

The next meeting of the Trauma-Informed Hampshire County partnership is on Thursday, December 6th from 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. It's hosted at Clinical & Support Options at 8 Atwood Drive in Northampton. Visit the community site for more or to add other calendar events, resources, blog posts, questions, or comments. 

Hampshire County (MA) Roads to Resilience Community  
This initiative has a new online community platform located right here on ACEs Connection to support their work. Here's how they describe their mission:  

Hampshire County Roads to Resilience is a newly formed group of individuals and organizations across multiple sectors all committed to educating, promoting policy changes and providing the necessary resources to the people of Hampshire County towards building resilient and trauma-informed communities. Though our work it is our hope to:

  1. Prevent risk factors surrounding trauma and increase protective factors that build resilience;
  2. Address stigma and create a culture and environment where people feel safe;
  3. Connect community members by encouraging/creating a sense of shared responsibility towards the health and well-being of children and families;
  4. Improve the health of those affected by adverse childhood experiences.

Click here to join this community. The community is open to everyone. The work is collaborative. 

Community Contacts: 

Please reach out the Kristal, Andrea or Heather for questions about this initiative. 

@Kristal Cleaver       @Andrea Mancuso    @Heather Warner

Community Managers

They are all wonderful to work with and it's super exciting to have local ACEs initiatives here in my home state of Massachusetts. 

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