Black Child Legacy Campaign Meeting at Sierra Health Foundation

On January 25 2017 De Angelo Mack and I had the privilege of presenting ACEs 101 to an audience of 60+ working to reduce African American childhood deaths. We followed Dr Nadine Burke-Harris's Ted Talk so we had to be creative to keep our audience engaged and introduced the Brain Architecture Game to the group. The goal of the game is to build a brain that is tall, which represents functional brain ability, but is also as strong as possibles so that it won't collapse in later years under the burdens of stress. It appeared the entire group really enjoyed the activity and it put resilience into a whole new light. For background on how life experiences affect brain development and to get an overview of how to play the game, start by watching the video "The Science of Early Childhood & The Brain Architecture Game", available free at http://www.thebrainarchitecturegame.com. Before the workshop I also tried the game out on my RN to BSN Samuel Merritt Nursing Students and the intervention specialist from the Sacramento Violence Intervention Program and they found great value in the exercise. They want to play again!  I have enough material for ten groups that I can loan out. You just need to provide the pipe cleaners.