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Kansas PACEs Connection is dedicated to connecting and supporting organizations, systems, and communities who are interested in better understanding the prevalence of ACEs and trauma, recognizing the impact that these have on individual and organizational health, and developing policies and practices that promote resiliency and healing.

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Alive and Well KC Trauma Awareness Training

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Trauma Awareness Training

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A Public Health Approach to Preventing ACEs and Toxic Stress

Vanessa Lohf ·
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Toxic Stress are considered by many to be the #1 Public Health issue of our time. These experiences are often at the core of many other issues that we see in our communities such as interpersonal and community violence, substance use and misuse, suicide, and any number of chronic health issues such as diabetes, cancer, even Alzheimer’s. While it often seems like an overwhelming task, taking on public health crises is something that advocates in the U.S. have...
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Create the Context for Healthy Children and Families through Policies (EfC Goal #4)

Vanessa Lohf ·
We are going to wrap up our series on the Essentials for Childhood Framework with perhaps one of the toughest parts of the work – influencing policy. One of the best ways to assure that all of our great work doesn’t disappear when the winds change is to have it be embedded in our infrastructure, but it isn’t easy. The CDC suggests that there are two steps to inform policies that might support safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. Identify and assess which policies may...
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Elementary School Principal Reads Books on Facebook to Ensure Bedtime Stories

Vanessa Lohf ·
Reading aloud to (and with) children is a wonderful way to build not only literacy skills, but relationships. This article from the Washington Post highlights an elementary school principal in Texas who builds relationships with her students - and their families - by snuggling up in her PJs to read a bedtime story to her students once a week via Facebook Live. To quote Dr. Bruce Perry, "“The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive.
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Kansas Communities Building ACEs Awareness (EfC Goal 1)

Vanessa Lohf ·
Before we can make progress on any issue that affects the health and well-being of those who live in our communities, people must be aware that an issue exists. In this installment, of our series dedicated to the CDC’s Essentials for Childhood Framework , we are going to highlight ways that some communities in Kansas are working toward achieving Goal #1: Raise awareness and commitment to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and prevent child abuse and neglect. In...
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New resource for Creating a "Mentally Healthy" Workplace

Vanessa Lohf ·
In our work across the state, we frequently connect with partners who want to share information about ACEs/Resilience with local business leaders but aren't sure how to respond to the inevitable question, "So now what?" A new resource released in January from Policy Research Associates may be able to support these conversations. Best Practices for Creating a Mentally Healthy Workplace includes a framework and tools that businesses can use to improve their organizational culture to promote...
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New Resource: Measuring the Impact of TI Primary Care

Vanessa Lohf ·
As more and more organizations work toward trauma-informed, many struggle with how to measure the impact they are having on those they serve. In a new brief from the Center for Healthcare Strategies, leaders from the Montefiore Medical Group shares a proposed model to help organizations consider the critical question, “Is what we are doing working?” If you are an organization in Kansas, our Trauma-Informed Systems of Care team may be able to assist you in developing an infrastructure to...
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New SAMHSA resource for School Administrators

Vanessa Lohf ·
As our team works with communities across the state, we have had the privilege of meeting a significant number of educators who are working to respond to the growing number of behavioral health needs their students are presenting. To support those efforts , the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has just released Student Assistance: A Guide for School Administrators . The purpose of this guide is to provide school leaders and administrators with key...
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Positive Childhood Experiences offset ACEs: Q & A with Dr. Robert Sege about HOPE

Laurie Udesky ·
Tufts University medical professor Dr. Robert Sege directs the Center for Community-Engaged Medicine and is nationally known for his research on effective health systems approaches that address social determinants of health. He is also the principal investigator for the HOPE framework (Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences).The HOPE framework is based on research that shows how positive childhood experiences can mitigate the effects of adverse childhood experiences. Sege and colleagues...
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Promoting Positive Community Norms (EfC Goal #3)

Vanessa Lohf ·
Safe, stable, nurturing relationships are key to a child’s cognitive, emotional, physical and social development. Their first exposure to these are through parents and caregivers, but these relationships don’t happen in a vacuum. The physical and social environment surrounding families have a significant impact – both positively and negatively – on the context in which relationships develop. One way to think about this context is through community norms. Norms are defined as a those values,...
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Supporting Schools in Becoming Models for Trauma-Informed Practice

Vanessa Lohf ·
School districts across the state (and country) are working to find ways to become more trauma-aware, trauma-sensitive, and trauma-responsive. Many have started the process by implementing a variety of programs and practices school-wide from Restorative Justice to Capturing Kids' Hearts . Others are making small changes, one classroom at a time. All of it is good work – and the best way to make it sustainable is to have a written plan developed by leaders at all levels within the school or...
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AWC: Online Trauma Awareness Training

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NCBH Resource: Trauma-Informed, Recovery-Oriented System of Care Toolkit

Vanessa Lohf ·
In August, the National Council on Behavioral Health released a new toolkit to help organizations create sustainable system-wide change that addresses trauma and fosters recovery for the people they serve. More from the NCBH: The opioid crisis has affected families across the nation. Approximately 10.3 million people live with an opioid use disorder and there were more than 46,000 opioid-related overdose deaths in 2018. We know that trauma is a significant driver of substance use disorders...
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Bridging to Resilience: a virtual conference

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Suicide Intervention Basics

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Suicide Intervention Basics

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Suicide Screening and Assessment

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Suicide Screening and Assessment

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Suicide Screening and Assessment

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Suicide Screening and Assessment

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Suicide Intervention Basics

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Suicide Safety at Home

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Suicide Safety at Home

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QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)

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QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)

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QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)

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QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer)

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Suicide Intervention Basics

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Wondering if kids can understand the "3Rs"? Meet Nathan.

Vanessa Lohf ·
Regulate. Relate. Reason. These “3 Rs” (developed by Dr. Bruce Perry) are an easy way to remind adults of how the brain is structured and develops and how communication is impacted when we are under significant stress. But how do you explain this in a way that kids can understand? Enter Nathan from Walnut Creek Elementary School in Austin, Texas. Walnut Creek has been working to implement the Neurosequential Model in Education as part of a pilot project in the Austin Independent School...
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A Promise for 2022: Be the Change You Want to See in the World

Vanessa Lohf ·
“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.” – Mahatma Gandhi Becoming more trauma-informed and resilience-oriented in our...
 
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