Thanks Amelia, 

Dr. Perry is a hero of mine.  I would love for him to educate all pediatricians too.   He understands what happens to the brains of traumatized children!!!

Tina,

Great information! Dr. Perry has done some amazing work in the field and I have found his lectures very informative and useful. We work hard at the Traverse Bay Children's Advocacy Center to educate others and view our clients through the trauma lens to understand behaviors. Thank you for your work and information sharing.  Amelia

Tina,

If you have a chance, could you email me? I have some ideas, but would like to have the conversation "off-line" or give me a call. 

canthofer@grandtraverse.org

(231)922-4828

Hi Cathy, 

I have a question. I asked Judge LaCross, our former Probate Judge to join the site many times (Judge LaCross and I are both members of the local Child Abuse and Neglect team so I get a little confused when I cannot seem to reach him).  I cannot get the judicial system to respond much better than the medical system.  Do you have any tips or insight into how I can work to educate this group?  ACEs concepts and Toxic Stress are so vital to all they do as I can see you understand. I am a bit at a loss as I shake my head in disillusion.  But that just means that I need to learn more from others who work in the field.  Do you have any ideas of how I could connect? 

Thanks so much and I so appreciate you in the group. This gives me another with experience and knowledge that I don't have and thus I can learn more to be more effective.  Thank you So very Much. 

Tina

Tina,

It would be great to have you attend if it doesn't conflict with the event in D.C. I have sent the GT Collaborative Coordinator, Sharon Vreeland, an invitation to join Connections. I believe ACEs has implications for everyone in our community infant to seniors and the collaborative members unanimously agreed this morning at our meeting.

I am absolutely passionate about how we can use the ACEs information to transform our communities, heal lives, lengthen lives, and end many of the horrors which haunt the hallways of the court I work. Thank you again for all your work on this initiative. 

~ Cathy

Hi Cathy, 

No problem. I would really like to hear what everyone is doing in Traverse City also.  I know you have more resources than we do on the Eastern side of the state and Denise had sent me a message that she was considering starting work on a ACEs summit for Michigan.  I would be interested in your meeting in October if I could come. I am a huge advocate for preventing ACEs in our state.   I am however going to the AAP Conference in Washington DC in late October. They have several speakers on toxic stress at the meeting that I want to meet so that I can bring that information back to this group from the medical standpoint.  Anyway, yes let us know what you all are doing there on the Western side of the state.  We really would love to work together after all this is a whole state effort for kids.  Feel free to put your group events on the calendar, it is really easy to do and these events can be as simple as the meeting and planning events.  Feel free to place clips or blogs on the group page.  This group is a great way to work together in collaboration and  is a great way to document our history in improving the life course potential for all our kids.  Thanks so much. 

Tina

Tina,

Thank you for setting up this group and inviting me. Today I mentioned the ACEs study at the Grand Traverse Collaborative meeting. Our annual retreat is in October, and it looks like we want ACEs to be the focus.

~ Cathy