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2 New Communities Join ACEs Connection: January of 2020
Please welcome these two new community initiatives from Idaho and Virginia to ACEs Connection . More information about each one of them is below. Caroline Virginia Community Resilience Network: Our local community network is newly formed in the Richmond, Va region and have a ton of support from local agencies, sheriff, Superintendent of Schools, and faith leaders who are passionate about changing the culture and trajectory of our community one family at a time. You are welcome to join the...
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2018 Strengthening Families Training Institute: TOGETHER WE BUILD HOPE
Did you miss our 2019 Statewide Training? Plan to join us in 2020! See the attached conference materials to read more. Sample from event: Fathers Speaking Up and Speaking Out What’s it like to be a father in the 21st century? What are the challenges? We’d probably all agree that just as it’s not your father’s Oldsmobile, or root beer, or ginger ale, today’s father is not his father’s kind of father. But what does that mean? What is his role with kids? What if the Dad is co-parenting? Are...
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CRI's Search for National Resilience Champions
CRI is the nation’s first Resilience community network and a national leader in the effort to create and support inclusive, equitable and healthy communities who understand, model and promote the common language of safety, connection and love. Contextual community resilience is our emphasis and helping to share that message is our passion. Why did CRI create a national resiliency award? Malcolm Gladwell defined a tipping point as ‘the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling...
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Investments in New Hanover County’s Resiliency Paying Off During Time of Pandemic
Cliff Barnett, Wilmington city council member; pastor at Warner Temple AME Zion, and chair of the Family Faith and Community committee for the New Hanover Resiliency Task Force (RTF), shares experience in using sign language during a regularly scheduled RTF meeting. (Other photos are from recent monthly RTF meetings). With training, community’s front lines are proving resilient to and aware of trauma’s impact WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA April 7, 2020 Two years ago, the Resiliency Task Force...
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Leaders in Learning: Nampa elementary students show the fruit of philanthropy [2 Idaho News]
By Abigail Taylor, July 23, 2019, 2 Idaho News NAMPA, Idaho (CBS 2) — While school is out for the summer, the hard work of the students at Central Elementary School in Nampa is continuing to live on. This year, for the first time, each grade-level chose a community service project to dedicate themselves to. “I think it’s a great idea,” said Stacey Wilkerson, grandmother of a student at Central Elementary. “It’s better than video games!” Now, the students are seeing their philanthropy bear...
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New cooperative effort to fight for better mental health [KIVI]
By Roland Beres, July 23, 2019 for Finding Hope [KIVI TV] BOISE, Idaho — 6 On Your Side is committed to raising the level of discussion around mental health issues in our state in our special reports called Finding Hope. Now, one organization is tying together dozens of other organizations to help people navigate a bureaucratic sea. It's a new cooperative effort from a very diverse group with the Speedy Foundation at its heart.When Idaho Olympian Speedy Peterson died by suicide in 2011,...
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The Center for Youth Wellness Launches Childhood Adversity Screening Program with Leading North Carolina Health Systems [PR Newswire]
Charlotte pilot program with Atrium Health and Novant Health supports state's goal to address social, economic and environmental health to improve child and family health outcomes The Center for Youth Wellness (CYW) announced it is partnering with two leading U.S. health systems in the Southeast to launch a screening program on childhood adversity. CYW's National Pediatric Practice Community (NPPC) has done on-site training at the headquarters of Atrium Health and Novant Health in Charlotte,...
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TIC: News and Notes for March 2020
ACEs, Adversity's Impact Lessons learned integrating ACEs science into health clinics: Staff first, THEN patients Launching a revolution Stress is a key to understanding many social determinants of health Is trauma driving some eating disorders? Adverse childhood experiences: What we know, what we don't know, and what should happen next Childhood maltreatment initiates a developmental cascade that leads to relationship dysfunction in emerging adulthood Report reveals link between poverty,...
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Idaho Family & Community Engagement Conference
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Re: State Incentivizing Doctors to Perform Adverse Childhood Experience Screenings
There is a small pilot project being done here in Boise. Dr Tom Patterson is the lead on that. I know they started fairly recently screening parents of babies at their four month appointment. The idea is that if they can identify parents with high ACE scores, they can put them in touch with more resources and perhaps prevent intergenerational ACE transmittal.
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Beyond Paper Tigers Conference LIVE webinar June 24-25
CRI is proud to announce its 5th annual BPT Conference is going virtual. The theme this year is Resilience through Diversity: The power of trauma-informed DEI practices. BPT is a medium to share and learn from communities around the world. Over two days you will have the option of attending: 6 live presentations, 2 keynotes, 15 pre-recorded on-demand presentations, and on-demand screenings of 'Paper Tigers', 'Resilience' and the premiere of the documentary 'Visceral' with live Q&A...
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HOPE Conquers ACES now has a YouTube Channel
The silver lining to the covid 19 pandemic is that it forced us to develop new skills to take our knowledge and training to an online platform. Since April, the Idaho Children's Trust Fund has been hosting weekly webinars featuring a different trainer from our Hope Conquers ACEs Community of Practice and even some community partners. We have been putting the recordings of these webinars on YouTube and they are now available to watch on our YouTube channel! Please note: Our two partners...
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ACEs screening is about building relationships, says early adopter
Whether or not to screen for ACEs in primary care is an important debate—and I hear and respect the passion from both sides of the argument. I fall in the “pro-ACE assessments” camp, but with some important caveats. I think that assessments for ACEs are dramatically different from screening for autism or developmental delays. In my opinion, assessments for ACEs in primary care should be primarily about building relationships.
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California reaches milestone with ACEs initiatives pulsing in all 58 counties. Next: All CA cities.
Karen Clemmer, the Northwest community facilitator with ACEs Connection, was already deeply interested in the CDC/Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study when she and a colleague from the Child Parent Institute were invited to lunch by ACEs Connection founder and publisher Jane Stevens in 2012. But that lunch meeting changed everything. Karen Clemmer “Jane helped us see a bigger world,” says Clemmer. “She came with a much wider lens. She didn’t look only at Sonoma County, she...
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New Resource: Trauma-Informed Nutrition Factsheet
A newly developed factsheet, “Trauma-Informed Nutrition: Recognizing the Relationship between Adversity, Chronic Disease, and Nutritional Health” has just been released. This factsheet is intended for Registered Dietitians (RDs) and was designed to support and describe the connection between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), the impacts of trauma and its relationship to chronic disease, and trauma-informed nutrition practices. This factsheet was developed through a collaborative...
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Congress urged to address trauma in the 4th COVID bill
Now that the July 4 th congressional recess has ended, negotiations around the fourth major COVID relief bill are underway between the Congress and the Administration. How the chasm between Congress and the White House will be bridged is a path uncertain, with massive differences between the House and Senate complicating the work. As the pandemic rages across the U.S., there is now at least a consensus that action is needed. But no agreement exists on a payroll tax cut, unemployment...
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Greater Richmond Trauma Informed Community Network, first to join ACEs Cooperative of Communities, shows what it means to ROCK!
In 2012, Greater Richmond SCAN and five other community partners hatched a one-year plan to educate the Richmond, Virginia, community about ACEs science and to embed trauma-informed practices. Eight years later, the original group has evolved into the Greater Richmond Trauma-Informed Community Network (GRTICN) with 495 people and 170 organizations. And they're just scratching the surface.
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Does VP Candidate Kamala Harris know about ACEs? You bet!
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...
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We Are Healing Trauma: 2020 Virtual Summit for Survivors
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Idaho Mentoring Program Supports Young Men in U.S. as Refugees [publicnewsservice.org]
By Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service - ID A new program in Boise is helping young men who have arrived in the United States as refugees. The mentoring project, run by the nonprofit group “Economic Opportunity” helps men ages 18 to 25 with the transition into adulthood and American culture. Project manager Moses Mukengezi understands the transition -- he came to the U.S. from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a refugee in 2007. "Some of them come from single parent families or they're the...
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ID Project Prepares Young Refugee Women for Workforce
January 26, 2021 By: Eric Tegethoff, Public News Service - ID BOISE, Idaho -- The Starling Project, a Treasure Valley program, is helping young women from refugee communities into the workforce, and hopefully to narrow the state's gender pay gap. The Starling Project from Economic Opportunity by Jannus pairs mentors with college women ages 18 to 25 who arrived in Idaho as refugees. Rachel Axtman, senior project manager with the group, said one of their most impactful programs is...
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New Documentary ‘Resilient Idaho’ Offers Hope After Traumatic Experiences
Child abuse, neglect and growing up in a seriously dysfunctional household are all Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACEs for short. Left unresolved or untreated, these experiences can create childhood trauma and toxic stress that can last a lifetime. In collaboration with Idaho Public Television, the Idaho Resilience Project has released "Resilient Idaho: Hope Lives Here", a new documentary examining the research on ACES and how ACES affect people here in Idaho. Most importantly, the film...
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A Better Normal Friday, March 26, 2021: PACEs and HOPE with Dr. Christina Bethell
Please join us for our next installment of A Better Normal, our live webinar series in which we imagine and create our society as trauma-informed! You may have seen we changed our name recently from ACEs Connection to PACEs Connection. Please join us to learn all about the groundbreaking research of Positive Childhood Experiences and how this is going to transform the work we are all doing. >>Click here to register<< PACEs and HOPE Live Event Friday, March 26, 2021 Noon PT / 1pm...
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FREE WEBINAR: The Impact of Mind Matters: Preliminary Evidence of Effectiveness in a Community-Based Sample
Becky Antle, Ph.D., Professor of Social Work and esteemed University Scholar at the University of Louisville, won The Dibble Institute’s national competition to evaluate Mind Matters: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience in 2019. As a result, Dr. Antle and her colleagues have conducted a randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of Mind Matters on a host of outcomes related to trauma symptoms, emotional regulation, coping and resiliency, and interpersonal skills for at-risk...
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The 2023 Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program is now Open For Registration
PACEs Connection is excited to kick off our 2023 Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Annual Accelerator Program.
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EXCITING NEWS – PACEs Connection is BACK!
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...