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June event dates listed for the PACEs Connection Creating Resilient Communities Accelerator Program. JOIN US!!!

Do you ever wonder why do I get so overwhelmed or why do I feel so anxious during certain times of the year or around certain people or in crowds or when I hear certain sounds? There is a reason and it's not because you of mental weakness. It’s your biology and how your experiences have shaped the way you walk through the world. It's not your fault. We have an incredible opportunity to see things differently, to move from viewing ourselves and other as though there is something is wrong with...

31 people attended the June 9, 2022 meeting!!! Stacie Kinlaw shared this video from the CDC about preventing ACEs. Prevent ACES Now Video

Resilient & Thriving Communities Week June 6-12, 2022 Boone, NC: June 8, 2022: A voluntary statewide coalition of people from local community collaboratives, interested staff from North Carolina non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies has organized and are facilitating the first ever “Resilient & Thriving Communities Week” in North Carolina, June 6-12, 2022! This special week is the result of discussions that began two years ago. A volunteer leader of a local North...

Join expert consultants to learn about how to tap into the funding streams to support rural efforts to grow healthy and thriving communities. https://www.pacesconnection. com/blog/register-now-leading- consultants-to-share-best- practices-on-funding-for- rural-resiliency-initiatives- in-june-ctipp-and-paces- connection-funding-forum Register here for the webinar.

Are you interested in learning about new research that integrates the latest brain and social science? Then please join CTIPP’s next Community Action Network (CAN) call on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/ 742183645 Meeting ID: 742 183 645 +19292056099,,742183645# US (New York) Q&A session after presentations REGISTER / ADD TO CALENDAR The conversation will explore the integrated science of positive and adverse...

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.

Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...

Join us for the MAY 2022 round of Creating Resilient Communities! DONIELLE PRINCE (PACES CONNECTION STAFF) 4/27/227:28 PM Thank you to all who joined us for the April launch of our new Creating Resilient Communities (CRC) Accelerator Program. See below for May event times. And please comment below if you attended- all feedback welcome! Click here to review a brief description of each event. SUMMARY The 16 hour CRC accelerator is focused on supporting and developing individual activists and...

The meet begin with a resiliency pause where folks were invited to think about one of these questions. Compassionate Schools Model Video Robeson County Disaster Survival and Resiliency School Meeting

This is an incredible opportunity to learn more about hurricane preparedness, recovery, and resiliency on Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.

Key Facts and Statistics from Childwelfare.gov Include these key points in your messaging to demonstrate the important role relative and kinship caregivers play in supporting family connections that are essential to a child’s health and well-being. There are over 407,000 children and youth in foster care , and 34 percent were placed with relatives or kin. The term kin encompasses both relatives (those related by blood or marriage) and fictive kin (those who are unrelated but have such a...