Tagged With "Princeville, NC"
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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: Chisago County (MN) ACEs Initiative Franciscan Health ACEs Connection FH–Jasper & Newton Counties (IN ) FH–LaPorte County (IN) FH–Lake County (IN)...
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9 New Communities Join ACEs Connection
ACEs Connection Hawai'i Hawai'i is a place of natural beauty, multicultural heritages and practicing cultural arts that provides wellness and healing. However, cultural, historical & generational trauma has lead to an imbalance in our ahupua'a or ecosystem. Join us as we educate, empower & celebrate wellness and resilience building in our communities using trauma and culture aware strategies. Mahalo Community Manager: @Daniel Goya Northeast Region Hawaii Carey's
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Benchmarks' PFE 4th Annual Conference: "Envisioning Resilient Communities"
Benchmarks' PFE 4th Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 (9:00am-5:00pm) and Thursday, September 12, 2019 (8:30am-3:00pm) at the Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Benchmarks' Partnering for Excellence (PFE) redesigns the local child welfare/behavioral health system, changing the way DSS, LME/MCOs, local providers and the wider community understand the need for accessible, appropriate health services for children, youth and families who...
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ACEs Science Champions Series: Byron Hall: A mentor rich with experience counsels teen parents in NC
Byron Hall mentors adolescent parents for the Community Enrichment Organization , a nonprofit in Tarboro, NC, which partners with a program that supports to keep adolescent parents in school. One of the parents he mentors is 13 years old. At the age of 17, Hall was an adolescent parent himself, growing up with a single parent in the Bronx, NY, then an African American community where drug-dealing and prostitution were common. For the counselor, helping these young men and women, who are...
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Community Resiliency Model (CRM) Information Session
Rowan County is excited to take the next steps across all sectors to foster a resilient community. We will be offering the Community Resiliency Model Trainer Training on January 27 th – 31 st , 2020. The location will be in downtown Salisbury at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided for trainees for the entirety of the training. The Community Resiliency Model (CRM) of the Trauma Resource Institute trains community members to not only help themselves but to...
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Davidson County NC Community Broken Places Screening
Last week, Benchmarks’ Partnering for Excellence partnered with American Children’s Home to host a free screening of the documentary Broken Places open to everyone in the community. Broken Places revisits three different families that were filmed 15-30 years ago to see how the toxic stress and trauma that they experienced has affected them over the years. It turns out that some people are very damaged by toxic stress and trauma, while others are able to thrive, and the film explores this...
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Forsyth County Trauma Informed Care Network
The Forsyth County Trauma Informed Network is taking great strides into recognizing and addressing community post Covid-19 impacts. PowerPoint attached.
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Foster Care Case Numbers Continue to Climb in NC, as Opioid Crisis Affects Families [northcarolicahealthnews.org]
By Sarah Ovaska-Few, North Carolina Health News, September 24, 2019 North Carolina could use more people like Lisa Link, as the state grapples with record numbers of children entering and staying in the already stretched foster care system. Link, an auto broker and owner of a small used-car lot in Charlotte, opted five years ago to become a foster parent after years of helping with family members’ children. She was single, in her early 40s, and wanted to help children coming out of difficult...
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North Carolina 2018 State Profile
Hi, Everyone: Here’s the state profile for North Carolina. To review the entire profile, open the PDF that is attached to this post. If you have corrections or additions, please leave them in the comments section of this post. We’ll be reviewing the comments regularly and doing fact-checks. The information you give us will also help us determine how to organize and expand the information in the state profiles. We will be turning this post into a living profile that, with your help and input,...
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North Carolina Statewide ACEs Connection Site Launches
Community managers from 12 of 17 North Carolina ACEs Initiatives and the North Carolina statewide site met and exchanged information and ideas. North Carolina launched a statewide ACEs Connection site at the Benchmarks' Partnering for Excellence Annual Conference today. "We are excited to organize the state and connect people with their local resources to each other, and to be able to capture and catalogue all the great work that is being done on the community level," said Catherine Joyner.
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Openings for Reconnect for Resilience October 3 - 4 in Asheville!
There are still openings for the Reconnect for Resilience workshop October 3 - 4 in Asheville, NC, according to Ann DuPre Rogers, executive director of Resources for Resilience , the organization that offers the " trauma-informed and resiliency-focused programs to individuals, organizations, and communities across our state – and beyond." According to Rogers, there are a few "equity" or sponsored slots open for the workshop as well. For more information about the workshops, the equity slots,...
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Overview of the Community Resiliency Model, used worldwide to help trauma survivors re-regulate their central nervous system, offered in two, free 90-minute webinars.
Elaine Miller Karas , key creator of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), will be joined by CRM trainers from Wilmington, NC, Allison Wine , behavioral specialist, and Kelly Purcell , instructional coach and multi-tiered support specialist for this free, two-part training. Register now for two, FREE 90-minute sessions May 7 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST and May 14 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. EST (The complete overview requires attendance at both sessions. Registration link below registers you...
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Register now for North Carolina Community Resilience Conference 2020 June 9-10, 2020 | Raleigh, NC
Registration is open for the North Carolina Community Resilience Conference 2020: Moving From Awareness to Action! June 9-10, 2020 in Raleigh, NC. The conference will build on the framework of community-led initiatives across the state raising ACEs awareness to advance a statewide movement supporting the development of resilient children, families and communities. Agenda information will be released as soon as possible. For more information please visit the website at...
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Rural NC Community that lost Its Maternity Services to get a Freestanding Obstetrics Clinic [northcarolinahealthnews.com]
By Liora Engel-Smith, North Carolina Health News, December 20, 2019 An Eastern North Carolina hospital that stopped offering labor and delivery services earlier this year will no longer offer gynecological services for lack of staff. Martin General Hospital discontinued its maternity services at the end of October and said at the time that it would continue offering gynecological services at the hospital and in its clinic, Roanoke Women’s Healthcare. But the hospital’s two obstetricians...
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State ACE survey reports
The following are links to state reports on Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) ACEs module data. Also included at the end of the list are links to the CDC 5-state study and a 10-state plus the District of Columbia study on ACEs...
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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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The results are out … so what’s next for PFE Conferences?
Benchmarks' Partnering For Excellence (PFE) 4th Annual Conference was held on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 and Thursday, September 12, 2019 at the Hawthorne Inn & Conference Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Over 175 participants from across North Carolina gathered to learn more about the long-term impacts of adversities. The audience was inspired by national and state leaders who shared ways to improve trauma-and-resiliency informed responses. The conference offered a variety of...
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Tools and how to use them is focus of second webinar on Community Resiliency Model, May 14, 2020
The second of two free Community Resiliency (CRM) webinars with Elaine Miller-Karas , key creator of the CRM, will be held Thursday, May 14, from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. ET, (10 a.m. CT; 9 a.m. MT, and 8 a.m. PT) and will include the practical application of tools of the model. CRM is an ACEs science-based biological model for helping individuals become emotionally regulated during natural disasters and other dysregulating times. Miller-Karas will be joined by CRM trainers from Wilmington, NC:...
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Trauma Informed Care and Community Resilience
It’s 2020 and we have exciting work ahead of us, with many projects initiated in Forsyth county and prior hard work coming to fruition. Our first of three or four Trauma Informed Care and Community Resilience meetings for 2020 brought us two wonderful guest speakers to kick off the year at Wake Forest Baptist Health. We were pleased to hear how (Rachel Zimmer, N.P.) and community leader (Eric Mathis) are interconnected. These two very unique speakers have their own work and efforts but how...
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Forsyth County Trauma Informed Care Network
The Forsyth County Trauma Informed Network is taking great strides into recognizing and addressing community post Covid-19 impacts. PowerPoint attached.
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ACEs Champion Danette Glass says COVID-19 increases the need for trauma-informed communities
Glass’s mission has always been to protect and foster the practice of nurturing children. That’s because she herself experienced at least five types of adverse childhood experiences, as measured in the original CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE Study). If the scale could account for childhood adversity such as structural racism and community violence that’s more likely to occur in communities of color, her burden of ACEs is higher.
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Medical Student Webex Training from the Community on Covid
Greetings, Several organizations in Forsyth County came together to provide training to WFBH medical students. They shared real time information on how patients are suffering in the community, the barriers noted during Covid, actions taken and additional steps needed. But most of all students were introduced to a very different lens of the patients life. To watch the training please select the link below, scroll to the very bottom and select the last hyperlink ...
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Trauma-informed policing: Learn how three highly experienced community leaders strengthen ties between police and community
ACEs initiative participants in communities where there is tension between the community and law enforcement will want to join Becky Haas in a compelling conversation on law enforcement, ACEs science, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Haas is a nationally recognized adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science initiative builder and trainer. She and colleagues Renee Wilson-Simmons, the head of the ACE Awareness Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee, and Maggi Duncan,...
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New ACEs initiatives learn about strategic plan development from from New Hanover (NC) Resiliency Task Force executive director Mebane Boyd
The desire to see other ACEs initiatives grow and flourish was evident at a recent meeting of the Resilient Columbus County (North Carolina) ACEs initiative when Mebane Boyd, executive director of the New Hanover Resiliency Task Force (also in North Carolina), shared with the Columbus County and neighboring Pender County groups how New Hanover created and works on its strategic plan. In the spirit of sharing, Boyd agreed to let ACEs Connection post the strategic plan and the video of the...
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RFP launched - deadline to submit workshop proposals is October 2
Use this link to learn more and to submit: Requests for Proposals for 2020 Virtual NC Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health, Home Visiting & Parenting Education Conference This is the second annual combined conference presented by the the Smart Start network and the North Carolina Infant/Young Child Mental Health Association (NCIMHA), and NCIMHA’s 9 th annual conference. It will include two days focused on infant and early childhood mental health, home visiting, and parenting...
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The Best for our Children: Considering ACEs in Voter Engagement.
The presidential race is a big-ticket item, but hundreds of other state and local races will impact critical issues like school funding, childcare and early education, nutrition programs, and health care. Every seat in the NC General Assembly is on the ballot, along with the Governor’s race, a US Senate seat, congressional races, and more. When it comes to elevating the importance of racial equity, voting is vital to make marginalized voices heard. Policies and systems can be changed by our...
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Free Resilient Communities Conference Set for March 15. Register now!
Move awareness to action with us on March 15 th at the 2021 NC Community Resilience Conference ! During this FREE, all- virtual conference, community members will participate in workshops and hear from speakers about address ing and prevent ing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in North Carolina. Opening k eynote s peaker Leslie Crutchfield is a leading authority on social movements, systems change, collective impact, corporate social responsibility and shared value. She serves as the...
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North Carolina Community Resilience Conference 2021 - Register today!
About the Conference WELCOME to the NC Community Resilience Conference 2021: Moving From Awareness to Action! The conference builds upon the framework of community-led initiatives across the state raising ACEs awareness to build a statewide movement supporting the development of resilient children, families and communities. Special Scholarship Opportunity Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, we are pleased to offer scholarships to the North Carolina’s Community Resilience...
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Four New Communities Join ACEs Connection / March 2021
Please welcome these four new communities to the ACEsConnection.com network! ACEs Caribbean Community American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapters RAISE [Resilience Alexandria: Inform. Support. Elevate.] (VA) Resilient Brunswick County (NC) Details about each of them are below as is information about starting and growing your community initiatives and joining the Cooperative of Communities . ACEs Caribbean Community : We are the ACEs Community Initiative for the Caribbean. We educate...
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Rally for House Bill 914: Support our Direct Care Workforce
Thank you to everyone who reached out to legislators for our rally day on House Bill 914 Support Our Direct Care Workforce! A special thanks to Lutheran Family Services , Universal Mental Health Services , Alexander Youth Network , A Small Miracle and ACI-Dungarvin (North Carolina) , for having attendees who came to the legislature! If we missed anyone else who came to Raleigh, we apologize and hope you will let us know you were there! We had a fantastic press conference with Representative...
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StrongBrains Coaching: Using PACEs and Brain Science to Coach Kids for a Lifetime of Good Choices
How can brain science help a Pop Warner football team of 10-year-olds win the big game, and avoid depression when they're adults? Join us for the August edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch and Learn Series and find out. The monthly lunch and learn session, usually exclusively for UP2US member coaches, is now open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Register today using the link at the end of this post The session is Wednesday, August 11 at noon CST, and features the Rev. Dr.
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Register now! North Carolina Resilience Peer Connection August 18th from Noon – 1:00
Dear NC partners, Over the past couple of years, by survey and multiple conversations and meetings, we have asked those of you on the ground doing the important work of bringing communities together to prevent and address ACEs what you need to enhance the good work you’re doing. By far, the desire to connect with peers doing similar work has risen to the top as the #1 priority/desire that you and your colleagues wanted us to address and provide. We are excited to announce the first gathering...
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Welcome!
This online community is a place where people living and working in and near North Carolina can come together to help prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), promote Positive Childhood Experiences (PCEs), and find resources, tools, and more to help create safer, healthier communities. Our work is to promote collaboration among community members seeking to prevent, protect against, and help families heal from the impact of ACEs, while at the same time creating and sharing ways to...
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Surry County Office of Substance Abuse Recovery Monthly Newsletter
August 2021, Volume 1, Edition 3 Welcome to the August 2021 Surry County Office of Substance Abuse Recovery Newsletter! This month’s edition highlights two new videos and updated statistical information related to substance use disorder. Additional content includes information related to our All-Stars Prevention Group and recent community outreach activities. Do you have questions or want to be involved? Contact Community Outreach Coordinator Charlotte Reeves at 336.366.9064 or via email...
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Blue Cross NC Forms New Foster Care Advisory Council for Healthy Blue, Enhancing Commitment to Trauma-Informed Care Delivery Across the State
New council will advise Healthy Blue Medicaid plan for a seamless system of care DURHAM, N.C. – Building on its ongoing commitment to improve the health and well-being of children and families in foster care across the state, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC) has formed a new Foster Care Advisory Council to work with and advise its Healthy Blue Medicaid plan. The Advisory Council will serve as a valuable resource in ensuring those in foster care are receiving the...
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Building Well-Being - Winer Family Foundation Newsletter - Sept. 2021
Opioid Settlement and Community Voice In the News : NC is getting a huge opioid settlement. Here’s what should happen next : a statement in the Charlotte Observer. Overview : Four North Carolina foundation leaders, including the Winer Family Foundation's president Liz Star Winer, urge the state and counties to take a community-driven approach to determine how opioid settlement funds are distributed to prevent, address and treat opioid and substance misuse moving forward. The Urgent Need:...
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Vibrant, thriving families: moving upstream to primary prevention in North Carolina
In the early years of life, children are building the foundation for their brains and bodies—forming more than a million neural connections every second from birth to age three . Lifetimes of lived experiences and decades of research have proven that adversity in childhood can have profound and lasting impacts on lifelong health and well-being. However, we now also know that these potentially harmful outcomes caused by toxic stress are not set in stone and can be prevented. When our goal is...
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NC Resilience Peer Connection Wednesday, September 15th at Noon
Please join us for the second monthly NC Resilience Peer Connection event this Wednesday! We'll be summing up our discussions from last month on where we'd like this group to go, and will also be looking for some feedback and discussions around data. How do we know what we're doing is making a difference? Click here to register for this event. (We're not calling it a meeting because it's a lot more fun than that.) :) Register in advance for this meeting:...
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NC Child Special Legislative Update Today, 11 a.m. : Build Back Better Plan
W eekly Legislative Update Join NC Child every Friday at 11 am while the state legislature is in session to learn the latest from the NC General Assembly and to keep abreast of the latest COVID-19 recovery efforts. This Friday: Focus on the Federal “Build Back Better” Plan Friday, September 17, 11:00 am All Friday updates will be provided live in both English and Spanish! Fridays at 11:00 am. RSVP here . Did you miss our most recent Legislative update? Watch it and/or read all the...
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2021 Resilience Symposium Friday, October 1, 2021 in New Bern, NC
Please join us for the 2021 Resilience Symposium in New Bern, NC on Friday, October 1, 2021 from 8am-5pm. The past year has been stressful, even traumatic for many, shedding light on the importance for us to prioritize building our own resiliency to thrive. For those in the helping professions, stress, burnout, and vicarious trauma are taking their toll on our personal and professional lives. The good news, there is HOPE. Join us to hear from national speakers to learn ways we can work...
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Lee County (NC) Community Resilience Collaborative meets; plans!
After a short summer break, the Lee County Community (NC) Resilience Collaborative is back in action. There was a brief meeting of the group this morning to discuss program and grant updates and the group was introduced to their free PACEs Connection website, which they can use to help educate other members about what the Collaborative is doing. The site can also be used to invite other community members to join the Collaborative, as cross-sector groups that emphasize diversity, equity and...
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North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign updates
1) The North Carolina Medicare For All Coalition (NCM4A) hosts a Webinar on Thursday October 7th at 7PM called "The Disadvantage of Medicare Advantage". You can join the webinar on their Facebook Page or by registering to join on Zoom . If you want to get active in this Coalition (NC Poor People's Campaign is an active member), sign up for their next orientation HERE. 2) The NC Poor People's Campaign and the NAACP of North Carolina will hold another vigil this Friday Oct 8th at 5:00PM at 200...
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A call for applications for community-based organizations from NC State
How are community-based organizations increasing the number of NC residents getting a high-quality credential or degree after high school, especially for groups with historically lower completion rates? The Institute for Emerging Issues (IEI) at NC State University is seeking applications from NC community-based organizations that are improving postsecondary (post-high school) educational attainment rates, especially for students from groups with historically lower levels of completion.
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Free Virtual Event: Policy Institute on Federal Advocacy
Hi everyone! Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina and the NC Collaborative for children, youth and families are excited the fourth and final Policy Institute of a series of Institutes focused on advocacy. Join us on October 19th to hear from a variety of speakers on how to impact policy on the Federal Level. CTIPP's own Jesse Kohler will be featured as a panelist for this event. Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gnxm0YuyS1CCdBOkOBj8Ow Advocacy on the federal level can...
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Red Ribbon Week is Here
Please see the attached pdf as it discusses events we are going to have during Red Ribbon Week from October 23 to October 31. We are working hard to build protective factors up in our community for our youth!
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Weekly Legislative Update Call today at 11 + More from NC Child!
NEW FROM NC CHILD Weekly Legislative Update The next Weekly Legislative Update meeting will take place on Friday, November 19 at 11 a.m. Click here to sign up for reminders. For months you have been asking Congress to make investments in early childhood education, housing, and healthcare. You asked them to extend the Child Tax Credit. The Build Back Better plan will do all that – and more! But it’s not a done deal yet. Will you your representative in Congress and urge them to pass this...
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Register today for NC Trauma-Informed Communities Mini-Conference
Register today for the NC Trauma-Informed Communities Mini-Conference scheduled for Friday, December 3. Meeting Registration - Zoom In this mini-conference, we’ll explore the ripple effects of trauma on individuals and communities. Building on foundational trauma 101 knowledge, we’ll dive deeper into the impact of trauma on individual’s physical, emotional, and behavioral experiences. We’ll further explore traumatic stress symptoms to be able to recognize signs that someone might be...
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Full report from 2021 NC Statewide Virtual Policy Institutes now available!
We are excited to share the External Report from the 2021 NC Statewide Virtual Policy Institutes co-hosted by Prevent Child Abuse NC and the NC Collaborative for Children, Youth, and Families. We are so glad if you could join us for one or more of the four webinars where we heard from some amazing speakers and advocates. If you couldn't join us, links to each webinar are listed below. These events were an enormous success with 100% of attendees across all four institutes marking that they...
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[NC Child Digest] Build Back Better, the NC budget, and sharing your "why"
This is an incredible moment – the Senate is preparing to vote on transformative legislation for early childhood education, housing, and healthcare, the Child Tax Credit, and more. We need to take action now to let Senators Burr & Tillis know how much our families need Build Back Better! Take Action This is a great time to make a gift to NC Child! Now through December 31st, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. One gift, twice the impact! Please don’t miss this opportunity to...
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Kellin Foundation Issues Plan for Building a ‘Resilient NC’
The science in clear. Resiliency is built – and communities play a key role in promoting safe, secure and nurturing environments where all residents can thrive. Like many states, there has been a lot of momentum in North Carolina to develop initiatives addressing trauma and resilience. But how can agencies, service providers, and other organizations leverage that momentum and align this work across systems to holistically address the needs of community members across their lifespans? The...