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What: Multi-county initiative in North Carolina funded by Healthy Blue involves resiliency initiatives in the PACEs Connection Cooperative of Communities in hopes of improving the health and wellbeing of foster children and families, as well as caregivers. A large part of this work will be to make available trainings about the science of positive and adverse childhood experiences (PACEs) and a skills-based stabilization program, the Community Resiliency Model (CRM) ® , which helps users...

The Resilient Brunswick Task Force met on Thursday, January 6, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. Bonnie Jordan welcomed folks and shared the agenda for the meeting and introduced Jamie Fox, who will be taking the place of Morgan King at 4-H and with the Resilient Brunswick Task Force. After that Kelly Purcell, shared the Help Now skill from the Community Resiliency Model. Jamie Fox is the local representative for 4-H and the Health Rocks contact person shared the Health Rocks program that is used in...

Hello Naimah - I hope this email finds you well, and that what I'm sharing will be a help to you as you prepare information for the Bids process. I am hoping we have more information for you in the coming days. For now, though, as I said in the prior email, we don't have outcomes data per se. There's not a metric showing that we've increased school attendance, prevented expulsions, or that we've reduced visits to the Emergency Room in the six counties where we are doing the work. We do have...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda April 27, 2022. 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Zyanta, Kristy Blackwell, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Check ins/Celebrations Trainings Scheduled Collaborative Screening 4/28/22 Items to Discuss/Updates: Kelly - DSS upcoming trainings - need for brainstorming plan to support trainings HBI Training Document Presentations Tracker/Healthy Blue Site - Please continue to add to the page and presentations tracker Amy/Kristy -...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda May 18, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kristy Blackwell, Carey Sipp, Amy Read, Melanie Garner, Carra Osborne, Kelly Purcell Notetaker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: Guilford County CRM for DSS for 40 people and community CRM for 30 people, Amy success with CRM for students at DC Virgo, CRM workshops scheduled with YWCA, 15 year old teaching an 11 year old CRM skills. Items to Discuss: Upcoming Trainings - Kelly Trainings YWCA June -Grandparents/Children...

Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...

Healthy Blue Initiative Team Agenda June 15, 2022 4:00-5:00 p.m. Participants: Kelly Purcell, Carey Sipp, Kristy Blackwell, Melanie Garner Note Taker: Kelly Purcell Celebrations: ROAR Meeting, Connecting leaders- Robeson County, Items to Discuss: June 7th Meeting - Reflections, next steps Brainstorm ideas for getting it directly to children and families and parents Community Leaders/members trained CRM Teacher Trainings Potential to add in other NC folks 12-15 Folks to get trained, hoping to...

The HBI Team met with members from participating counties in the initiative to share updates and information about the initiative and invite feedback from folks. See the slides and recording of the video posted below. Topic: Healthy Blue Initiative Group Meeting Start Time: Jun 7, 2022 01:58 PM Meeting Recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/S018BdTCUru3JDw8EFH-LvPRIMJ6SeLQ4dn0JFKZYz-8crpzH25WbVpdJRYbheo2.whvTvSqbShJOIPni Access Passcode: f38Bt+u3

The HBI leadership team had the opportunity to share updates and the progress that was also shared with stakeholders at the June 7th meeting, with members from the Foster Family Alliance, and members of the Healthy Blue Foster Care Division team who are the funders of this initiative. Attendees: Carey Sipp, Kelly Purcell, Amy Ready, Kristy Blackwell, Kate Schultz, Erica Burgess, John Thacker, Erica Burgess, Jamilah McClain, Naimah Dye, Dr. Keith Cradle Topic: HBI Team Meeting Start Time: Jun...

Please join us for an incredible free opportunity to become a book study leader and support your community and network to learn from the powerful and incredibly informative book called What Happened to You? written by Dr. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey about trauma, resilience, and healing. HAPPENING THIS WEEK!!!! Wednesday, July 13, 2:30-4 p.m. ET Lead Your Own What Happened to You? Book Study Register Here Here is the guide for the book study created by the Children's Trust Fund Alliance.

For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...

Amy Read of Coastal Horizons introduces the panel following a viewing of "Resilience: The Biology of Stress, The Science of Hope", at the Pender Resiliency Task Force Mini Conference Thursday, June 8 ,at Heide Trask High School in Rocky Point. A "dream team" of subject-matter expert panelists (L-R) were Ryan Estes of Coastal Horizons, Ben David, district attorney for Pender and New Hanover counties, Judge J. H. Corpening, district court judge for New Hanover and Pender counties, Taylor...

Christina Bethell, Ph.D, MBA, MPH, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI), principal author of the groundbreaking study on positive childhood experiences, and creator of the free Well Visit Planner, among other innovations. Two internationally-respected leaders and innovators in complementary aspects of early relational health and childhood and maternal health equity recently launched a partnership they believe will benefit everyone from newborn babies and...

“YES!” was the response of Gaile Osborne, executive director of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFANC), when asked for input on a new program to help foster and kinship care families learn how to support the brain development of young children. “I love these Brain Insights materials. How soon can we start?” said Osborne upon receiving the "The First 60 Days ” booklet on myths about newborns and their caregivers and the eight “ Neuro-Nurturing ” ringed books. The materials delivered...

To all of you, who, like me, love this website and want to see it and its communities flourish as we work to prevent and heal trauma; build resiliency: please know there is a move afoot by a small group of strategic partners to find a suitable host for PACEs Connection. More will be announced in the coming days. In the meantime, friends, we are figuring out email addresses and other communications logistics and opportunities. PEACE! Carey Sipp, former director of strategic partnerships ...

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...