Dr. Mimi Graham will be a guest speaker at Charlotte County's year-end virtual stakeholder meeting Thursday, November 5, 2020.

"Dr. Mimi Graham, is Director of Florida State University Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy, a center of excellence in trauma, infant mental health, human trafficked pregnant teens, and policy & best practices during the pivotal first 1,000 days of life.  She pioneered a statewide infant mental health movement building clinical capacity, co-founding the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health and infusing infant mental health across systems as showcased in Florida’s Cutting-Edge Trauma Initiatives.   As a member of the Florida Supreme Court Committee on Children, she spearheads Florida’s Early Childhood Court Initiative, integrating mental health into courts to break the multigenerational cycle of ACEs.  She is a Fellow of Zero to Three National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families and recipient of the 2019 Voice for Children Award, 2017 Florida Tax Watch Productivity Award for Early Childhood Court, and the Children’s Advocate Award, Legal Services of North Florida and the Florida Bar’s Medal of Honor."

The Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County, FL took on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in January 2019 through their Healthy Charlotte initiative and under the guidance of Mrs. Jennifer Sexton. After a successful 2-year Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) that laid the groundwork through education, in early 2020, the community choose to continue their ACEs efforts through a new 5-year CHIP plan (2021-2025), which will be made available January 1, 2021.

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Mimi Graham to our stakeholder meeting in November to speak to our community about how we can move our ACEs initiative forward while impacting all sectors of our community.

All Healthy Charlotte meetings are free and open to the public. To RSVP, please send an email to HealthyCharlotte@flhealth.gov with "11/05/2020 Stakeholder Meeting RSVP" in the subject line. A few days prior to the meeting, a link will be provided.