In search of insight into the country’s stark cultural divides in preparation for a week of potentially difficult conversations in Kentucky where I’d be attending family reunion and 50-year high school reunion, I dove into “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance . Throughout this mesmerizing, painful, and hilarious memoir, I kept wondering if the author might know about the ACE study. The answer was found on page 226 when “ACEs” jumps out at me and...

In case any of you are not connected with the Correctional Educators Associations in your state you might want to get connected with them. The Ohio Correctional Educators Conference is Sept 12-14 and will focus on moving to trauma informed education in correctional environments. I am focusing the Wednesday keynote presentation on moving from stable maladaptive functioning to post traumatic growth. http://cea-ohio.org/conference.aspx Correctional educators are a fun group and I always have a...

The Midwest ACE Summit will take place in Minnesota on November 10th and 11th. We hope that you will join us for this opportunity to connect and learn with others across the state and region! We are currently inviting presentation proposals from folks across the Midwest who would like to facilitate workshop (breakout) sessions. The deadline for submissions is August 1st . For more information, please see the attached RFP form. Please share this form across your networks! For more information...

An exciting initiative—Building Community Resilience collaborative established by Nemours (part of Moving Health Care Upstream )— is underway in five communities across the country to help child health systems connect with community-based resources to address social determinants (e.g., housing and access to public transportation) in places where children live, learn and play. This post by ACEs Connection member Wendy Ellis includes a short video (less than 3 minutes) about the initiative and...

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Drive west from downtown Cincinnati, over the railroad tracks that snake beneath the 8th Street Viaduct, and you’ll find a little slice of Appalachia, nestled between the Ohio River and the steep slopes of Price Hill. When coal mining jobs in...

This article about an initiative in Akron, Ohio to bridge the community and law enforcement concludes with the observation by Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson of Gary, IN., who chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors Working Group of Mayors and Police Chiefs,...

Hi all,   I was born and raised in Cleveland and recently returned to the area after living Philadelphia for 4 years while working on my doctorate at UPenn. I studied clinical social work and complex trauma in children.  I was involved in...

  Trauma-Informed Care Regional Collaboratives (Ohio Counties)...

I am hoping there is room for another voice in Ohio's effort to create a culture of compassionate action that transcends any of the professional or societal delineation of groups working in the same general direction....even if that voice is from...