Tagged With "Covenant House in Newark"
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71 ACEs Initiatives Join ACEs Connection in 2019
We are proud to celebrate the 71 community initiatives that joined the ACEs Connection network in 2019. They are listed below, and can be found along with all existing ACEs Connection communities via the ACEs Connection map. Communities in the United States: Midwest ACEs Indiana Coalition Ardmore (OK) Behavioral Health Collaborative: BOUNCE - Jefferson County (KY Chisago County (MN) ACEs Initiative Franciscan Health ACEs Connection FH–Jasper & Newton Counties (IN ) FH–LaPorte County (IN)...
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A Blueprint to Help Communities Promote Equity [rwjf.org]
Change is not easy and it takes time. It can be especially challenging when we’re working to change policies and systems that have been in place for decades. But we know change is necessary because many people in America still face discrimination, live in poverty, and do not have the basics they need to be healthy. We also know that some places are making progress to replace policies that are driving inequities with new policies that can help close health gaps. Places like Newark, N.J.,...
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Believe in a Healthy Newark Initiative
Disparities in health outcomes continue to be a significant problem in the United States. Many African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and the poor die at younger ages and in greater numbers from the most common causes of death than their middle-class and while counterparts. In order to help eliminate these dipartites in death and illness, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Building a Culture of Health program, which along with its subsidiary, New Jersey Health...
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Introducing the 5 Newest ACEs Connection Communities (February, 2019)
Please welcome and explore the five newest communities to join our network in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, New Jersey, and North Carolina. 4 New Communities Join ACEs Connection! BOUNCE - Jefferson County (KY) Edgecombe County (NC) ACEs Connection First 5 Alabama ACEs Connection Healthy Charlotte County (FL) ACEs Connection Newark (NJ) Trauma-Informed Community Network Please find more details about each one of them below. Follow links for a list of all of our ACEs Connection communities or...
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New Report Calls for Statewide Coordinated Response to Protect New Jersey's Children from Adverse Childhood Experiences [finance.yahoo.com]
By PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance, July 30, 2019 NEWARK, N.J., July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released today details the challenges New Jersey faces in addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and sets forth opportunities and actions for a coordinated statewide response to mitigate their lasting effects on children's health and well-being. ACEs are stressful or traumatic events, including abuse, neglect, domestic violence, household mental illness, household substance misuse,...
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NJTV Trauma Series
GNHCC is excited to announce that our NJTV partner, journalist Michael Hill, has been working on a series of reports focused on Newark and its quest to become more trauma-informed. Follow the link below to watch Part 1 of his series and see his interview with GNHCC's own Executive Director, Keri Logosso-Misurell. https://www.njtvonline.org/programs/njtv-news/hill-ttt-pt-1-1548085443/
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Saquon Barkley Helps With Sleep Out on Newark Streets 'So Homeless Kids Don't Have To' [northjersey.com]
By Shaylah Brown, NorthJersey.com, November 22, 2019 When the hard floor of Newark Penn Station served as her bed, sleep was fitful for Queen — often interrupted by the cold winds whipped up by passing trains and their loud-sounding horns. “Some days the rain was so bad, I was freezing," said Queen who now lives at Covenant House in Newark. "Whenever I go back to Newark Penn Station now, it’s hard because I see people who still haven’t made it out.” On Thursday night into Friday morning,...
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Welcome to the Newark (NJ) Trauma Informed Community Network
The Greater Newark Healthcare Coalition and the Believe in a Healthy Newark Initiative in partnership with ACEs Connection is excited to announce the launch of the Newark Trauma Informed Community Network, an online platform to bring together key partners and stakeholders across sectors to work collaboratively to make Newark a Trauma-Informed city by 2020. Please visit this page to learn more about local trauma-informed initiatives, professional development opportunities, and community...
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PACEs Champion Dwana Young navigates community-driven ACEs healing centers in New Jersey
In 2020, New Jersey, a state with about 9 million people spread over the rural countryside and dense urban areas like Newark, launched a new entity: the NJ Office of Resilience (NJOR). The NJOR is unusual because it is a public-private partnership. It brings together three private foundations as well as the NJ Department of Children and Families to provide community-driven strategies for preventing, treating, and healing from ACEs. Like a ship’s navigator laying out a course on charts, Dwana...
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Trauma-Informed Training Attempts to Bridge Gap Between Newark Residents and Cops (nextcity.org)
“Trauma to Trust has been a game changer in the city in terms of not just looking at ways to train [people], but to shift the culture and be able to have the uncomfortable conversations,” says Keesha Eure, a clinical social worker and community activist who has participated in and facilitated Trauma to Trust trainings. Trauma to Trust is an initiative of Equal Justice USA , a national organization working to break cycles of trauma and violence. Since 2016, Trauma to Trust has facilitated...
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