Resilient Bladen (NC)
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2011-2021—A decade of steady growth in ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states
In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.
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PACEs Connection How-Tos Directory
JOIN How-To: Join ACEs Connection How-To: Join ACEs Connection Groups INVITE How-To: Invite Others to Join ACEs Connection How-To: Invite Others to Join an ACEs Connection Group SIGN IN & UPDATE PROFILE How-To: Sign In to ACEs Connection How-To: Update Your Profile and Contact Info How-To: Add or Change a Profile Picture EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS How-To: Customize Your Email Notifications for ACEs Connection Main Site How-To: Customize Your Email Notifications for ACEs...
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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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Path to a Just Society: Our new infographic shares common language and an aspirational path.
Our version of a “Path to a Just Society” is our first attempt at creating a common language and identifying points along the path to a just society. The Race and Equity workgroup of PACEs Connection started the project in early 2021, following a staff meeting where we realized that we, our organization and the movement needed this. We think it can help all of us gauge where we are, where we want to be, and what’s needed to get to the next level of integrating practices and policies based on...
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Smart Start Early Childhood Resilience Cohort Here To Help [transylvaniatimes.com]
By The Transylvania Times, October 20, 2021 What helps you cope and get through hard times? How do you face life’s challenges, adversities and crises? The ability to be resilient in times of stress, adversity, failure, challenges or even trauma is a skill that not everyone has. Studies have found that 45% of North Carolina children have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences and only 57% of adults studied exhibited strong resiliency. Smart Start of Transylvania County (SSTC)...
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Need to fund your resilience initiative? Here’s how.
Chart is sample page from county-by-county funding allocated as part of ARPA. Information is available by clicking here. This is the first of several articles on the importance of any resilience-focused entity, including your PACEs Connection community, seeking out the people in your area allocating ARPA funding and asking for money. Organizations do not necessarily have to be 501 C-3 nonprofits to receive funding. Thanks to federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to states in April...
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Community Engagement and Empowerment Team Newsletter
NCDHHS Announces Updated Launch for Behavioral Health I/DD Tailored Plans "The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Ser vices announced that Behavioral Health and Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Tailored Plans will launch Dec. 1, 2022 , instead of July 1, 2022. Individuals who need certain services to address a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, severe sub stance use disorder, intellectual or developmental disabil ity or traumatic brain injury,...
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January 19th CTIPP CAN Call - Trauma-Informed Initiatives in Baltimore and Maryland
Join us next Wednesday for two excellent CTIPP CAN presentations to begin our 2022 lineup. Baltimore Councilman Zeke Cohen will discuss the work, started by the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, that is making the city of Baltimore trauma-informed. Claudia Remington will describe new trauma informed initiatives by the State of Maryland, including legislation that created a Commission to develop a comprehensive strategy to make the State trauma informed. We will also report on the first...
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National Day of Racial Healing - Tuesday, January 18 at 3:00 EST/Noon PST
Join live on YouTube at 3:00 EST/Noon PST on Tuesday, January 18, 2022 for the 6th Annual National Day of Racial Healing THE WORK STARTS HERE Creating a brighter future for everyone starts with racial healing. We have an opportunity to transform the systems that disrupt so many lives. It’s about bringing communities together to create new ones built on foundations of: Relationship-building, truth-telling and racial equity; Healing and solidarity; Transformative action. That work begins with...
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HIRING: Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant for Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties
Are you passionate about helping create trauma-informed and healing centered communities? You will have the opportunity to work with amazing leaders in Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson County as the Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant. Position Title : Regional Resiliency Workgroup Consultant Supervised by : Regional Resiliency Workgroup with individual points of contact from Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson Counties. Status : Part-Time, Contract (Through September 2023, with continuation of...
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My positive childhood experiences tree
This is the third of three stunning illustrations showing how PACEs (positive and adverse childhood experiences) affected the family of Cendie Stanford, graphic artist and founder of the nonprofit ACEs Matter. This one looks at her positive childhood experiences. The day before her 16th birthday, Cendie Stanford’s older brother was shot and killed by a young man who, just two years earlier, had been her boyfriend. “I was heartbroken that two people I loved were out of my life forever,” says...
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9th Annual First 2000 Days Community Summit
Smart Start of New Hanover County and local Faith Leaders host the 9th Annual First 2000 Days Community Summit! This is an online event. Pre-registration is required-- Click HERE . Keynote speaker, Jessica Taylor-Pickford , an expert in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. Attendees will listen to panel discussions, participate in dialogue about issues surrounding infancy and early childhood mental health, and discuss its meaning in our community. We invite our community...
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February 18, 2022 - Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities
Day 4 - Building the Movement through Transformative Justice and Faith-Based Communities February 18, 2022 - 1pm to 5pm ET/10am to 2pm PT Panel 1: Transformative Justice Grant-funded workshop provided by Mazzoni Center and WOAR. This workshop will give a foundational look at transformative justice with the goal of better understanding how to support people who have experienced violence through community-based approaches. The audience will learn about the core tenets of transformative...
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Resilient Guilford Network (NC) shares resources for talking with children about war in the Ukraine
In light of recent events, Resilient Guilford Network is sharing resources from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) in response to the war on Ukraine. Some are specific to military families, while others are more general resources. Please see the links below and let us know if you have questions and how we can help support your local efforts. Deep breaths as we start a new week together. We look forward to staying connected and are grateful for all you do. General Child...
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Resilient Bladen March Monthly Meeting
Angela Mendell Public School Forum of NC, Resilience and Learning Project She reviewed overview training and how it works: school sets up Resilience team, 2 years of coaching, 2 times a month, assessments, trauma-informed school training and presentations. Post on PACEs Connection about North Carolina Public Schools Forum https://www.ncforum.org/ amendell@ncforum.org Our next meeting will be on April 25 th at 11 am. This meeting will be extended to an hour and a half to accommodate our guest...
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SMART START EVENTS
Motheread Story Exploring Training Saturday-April 23 rd from 9am-12pm (3 CHC) (See Story Exploring Training Description Attachment) Please Register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY8QHX0HkRsn6q2ngvs0D46unNP_VFl9Vz-1VpiT-hN8bi2w/viewform?usp=sf_link The Story Exploring program is designed for use with children from birth through age 11 and incorporates more than 100 multicultural children’s books to build reading and critical thinking skills. The program includes targeted reading,...
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April Monthly Meeting Notes and Recording - Dr. Wanda Boone Presents
Resilient Bladen Coalition April 25, 2022 @ 11 AM 15 people present Meeting Minutes Meeting recorded via zoom, recording below Dr. Wanda Boone, CEO of Durham TRY (Together for Resilient Youth) was our guest speaker for this meeting. Key takeaways from the presentation: “Children thrive when the adults around them are thriving”- Dr. Boone Individual Humility- Understanding that we are all different, have different likes, dislikes, these are based on who we were around as children and our...
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Join us to talk with the nation’s first known 'minister of gun violence prevention,' this Thursday for our podcast 'History. Culture.Trauma.'
Ingrid Cockhren, PACEs Connection CEO, welcomes Rev. Deanna Hollas , the nation’s first known “minister of gun violence prevention,” for this week’s episode of "History. Culture. Trauma." on Thursday, June 2, at 1 p.m. PT; 4 p.m. ET. They will discuss the more than 60 mass shootings in the United States during the month of May 2022 — including the shooting of 10 Black adults and one White adult in Buffalo, New York, and last week’s killing of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
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County Commissioners Sign Local Resilient and Thriving Communities Proclamation
Leader of Resilient Bladen, Tocarra Osborne, presented the county of commissioners of Bladen County with the Resilient and Thriving Communities Week proclamation and they signed it to honor of this week in dedication to creating more trauma-informed and resiliency focused individuals and communities. Leader Tocarra Osborne is doing an incredible job leading this group to combine efforts to help create awareness and training to promote healthy and thriving individuals and communities within...
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July Monthly Meeting
Brene Brown shares the importance of being able to ask for help non-judgmentally in order to be able to offer support/help non-judgmentally. Brene Brown - Asking for Help Video 18 people joined the July Resilient Bladen Meeting where leader, Carra, spoke about Concrete Supports during times of Need from the Protective Factors training to help us shift the lens on how we see and interact with the folks we serve. There were also skills from the biology-based wellness skills model called the...
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Updates! The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative!
The NC Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative leverages Smart Start’s deep roots in local communities across North Carolina and honors the powerful work of local ACEs and resilience collaboratives. In collaboration with state and local partners, the initiative fosters a common understanding and shared approach for local collaboratives to support the health and well-being of children, families, and community members across the lifespan in North Carolina—in a way that broadens the...
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Healthy Blue pilots innovative collaboration to improve health of foster care community in six NC PACEs Connection “Coop” communities
For the last eight months the Medicaid plan provider has engaged community resiliency-building experts and organizers to help children, families, and caseworkers in the state’s foster care program to boost resilience and better manage stress. The innovative project is called the Healthy Blue Initiative . “We all know kids in foster care have higher rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than most children. They are often in foster care due to loss of a parent from death, illness —...
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September Monthly Meeting
Leader of Resilient Bladen, Carra Osborne, collaborated with 15 people who met for the Resilient Bladen Meeting on September 26, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. See the attachment for the notes from the meeting.
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Bladen County’s plan for opioid settlement money has been in the works for years
By Ivey Schofield iveyschofield@borderbelt.org As Bladen County awaits its share of a $26 billion national opioid settlement, officials say they’re ready to put money behind the plan they’ve been working on for the last five years. In 2017, the county formed a substance misuse task force that created a multifaceted strategic plan to combat alcohol and drug addiction. The plan includes improving coordination among services, implementing a prevention program for school-age children and...
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Mental health has a race issue: How misdiagnosis is impacting Black employees
DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY Mental health has a race issue: How misdiagnosis is impacting Black employees By Alyssa Place November 15, 2022, 5:30 a.m. EST 6 Min Read Twitter LinkedIn Email Show more sharing options Photo by Rebrand Cities for Pexels When Dr. Jessica Jackson was called to do an evaluation at the hospital where she was the attending psychologist, what she encountered was not a mentally ill patient, but a persistent and dangerous issue rampant in the healthcare system . "They asked...
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November 28 Resilient Bladen Meeting
Resilient Bladen Minutes November 28, 2022 Attendance: Tocarra Osborne Scottie Seawell Tyshell Jones Dr. Terri Duncan Welcome/Introductions/Icebreaker was given. Icebreaker question: What is your one wish for the children of the world? Some answers were that children can grow up in healthy, loving environments, that children don't have to grow up too quickly, and that children will be safe from harm. A brainstorm/IdeaBoardz asked: what do you want our focus to be for 2023? What do you want...
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Pre-K suspensions and expulsions can have dire effects — but we don’t know how common they are
How common are harmful pre-K suspensions? (ednc.org) Katie Dukes August 10, 2022 Each year, hundreds of North Carolina children experience “exclusionary discipline” — removal from their usual learning and social settings — before they even reach kindergarten. The ill effects on their brain development, mental health, future education outcomes, and family well-being can be so dire that some experts call exclusionary discipline the “preschool-to-prison pipeline.” But in North Carolina, those...
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April Meeting Recap
April 13, 2023: Today we honored April as Child Abuse Prevention month, discussed upcoming events and opportunities, and celebrated many accomplishments. Click here to access the slides from this month's meeting. See the summary below and required coalition member tasks follow. If you have any questions, please contact Stacie Kinlaw at skinlaw@rcpartnership4children.org or 910-738-6767 2023 COMMITMENTS TO ROAR EVERY stakeholder is encouraged and invited to COMPLETE the 2023 Commitments...
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NC Healthy & Resilient Communities (NCH&RCI) Initiative Launches Resilient North Carolina New Website; Will Engage Communities Statewide Around Resilience
RALEIGH- Resilient North Carolina , a website created by the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NCH&RCI), has launched. Resilient North Carolina is intended for all North Carolinians, with the goal of sharing best practices and connecting individuals and organizations building resilience and reducing trauma statewide. NCH&RCI works to build healthy and resilient communities for young children and families, creating resilience across each generation by bringing...
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Review of “First 60 Days” booklet: Leveraging author’s work and movement could spark revolution to prevent and heal trauma, one precious baby, child, and caregiver at a time.
(This is a review of what I believe is an important new resource for the PACEs [for positive and adverse childhood experiences] science movement. Opinions expressed are my own, and are shared as a parent, advocate, author, and longtime student of trauma, healing, and prevention. Thoughts are also shared through my lens as someone who believes, deeply, in the incredible importance of and value in building healthier, more compassionate communities to support and nurture pregnant and new...
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World Mental Health Day: Mobilizing the Human Family Through the CRC & the PACEs Movement
Awareness about health outcomes are as much about the long-term impact caused by adverse childhood experiences as they are by positive childhood experiences. By providing education on trauma-informed awareness and resilience building frameworks, the CRC Accelerator certification is a tool for both.
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Strength Through Unity: Nurturing Trauma-informed Resilience in Families Displaced by Violence Through the CRC & the PACEs Movement
Beyond Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), our members seek to deeply understand strengths-based insights embedded in the remaining ACEs quadrant: Adverse Community Environments, Adverse Climate Experiences, and Atrocious Cultural Experiences.
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Building Resilience is a Team Effort that Starts Early
“YES!” was the response of Gaile Osborne, executive director of Foster Family Alliance of North Carolina (FFANC), when asked for input on a new program to help foster and kinship care families learn how to support the brain development of young children. “I love these Brain Insights materials. How soon can we start?” said Osborne upon receiving the "The First 60 Days ” booklet on myths about newborns and their caregivers and the eight “ Neuro-Nurturing ” ringed books. The materials delivered...
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February Collective Care Through the CRC & PACEs Movement: The Way Forward for Civil & Human Rights is Trauma-Informed
Nationally recognized days of awareness remind us of important civil and human rights movements led by Black and African-American communities and social justice advocates. February puts leadership, education, access, justice, policy, and governance under the spotlight. Through a PACEs science lens, this month is an opportunity to consider trauma-informed transformation through a PACEs science lens as the way forward.
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A BETTER CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM
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EXCITING NEWS – PACEs Connection is BACK!
Former PACEs Connection employees Dana Brown (L) with Vincent Felitti, MD, co-author of the 1998 Adverse Childhood Experiences study, and Carey Sipp (R) in San Diego in January, 2024. The last few months have been quite challenging, but we pushed, persevered, and didn’t give up hope. The “we” is Carey Sipp and Dana Brown. We were long-time staff members of PACEs Connection determined to reinstate the website and the resources and information we provide to communities after the platform went...