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Attached find a downloadable "Helpful Tips" sheet for information about how to do some common tasks on ACEs Connection. You can download and print this document for reference and share with friends and colleagues! You can also find our complete list of "How Tos" as well HERE. If you think anything else you need assistance with on ACEs Connection, feel free to add a comment below. Thank you, Gail

What are ACEs? ACEs are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains so profoundly that the effects show up decades later; they cause much of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence. ...

Under the direction of Bay Area teens, mental health and wellbeing advocates from Palo Alto, Stanford University and elsewhere are working together to plan the first-ever Teen Wellness Conference . The free conference for teens ages 13 to 19 in September is unique in that it is being organized mainly under the direction of teenagers. We want the majority of the room to be teens, said Nadia Ghaffari, founder of TeenzTalk.org . The idea is to bring together teens in a safe space to delve into...

Read more about the expansion at Palo Alto Online, and the original model at the Magical Bridge Foundation website. Click on links within.

A groundbreaking new play about trauma, TRIGGER, was most recently featured at part of the training and inspiration provided to community members participating in the 4CA Policymaker Education Day on July 11, 2017 in Sacramento at the state Capitol.

No matter where you are, be sure to follow the events of the day on twitter: Follow @acestoohigh and #4CAKidsDay17 to get live updates all day.

The 2016-2017 Sonoma County (CA) Civil Grand Jury issued a remarkable report today. Tucked among the "Sales Tax Report" and "Elementary School Truancy" was — " Maternal Child and Adolescent Health: Caring for the Most Vulnerable ". The 10-page report casts an unblinking eye on the consequences of adverse childhood experiences in Sonoma County, a large rural county of more than 500,000 people north of San Francisco. It examined how the work of public health nurses in the Maternal Child and...

Kidsdata.org recently shared their interactive online platform for data related to felony arrests for children and youth under age 18. Youth who have contact with the juvenile justice system are at increased risk for a number of negative long-term outcomes when compared with the general youth population. For example, an estimated 30 percent of the youth who enter California's juvenile justice system have mental health issues and those who have been held in detention have higher rates of...

Dr. Tasneem Ismailji talks about the creation of the Academy on Violence and Abuse (AVA) and becoming an advocate for Family Violence Prevention.

Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities is pleased to announce a series of webinars featuring our 11 national advisors. In each of these short 45-minute sessions, one of our advisors will share some of their expertise and engage in dialogue with you on key strategies for creating just, healthy and resilient communities. Visit MARC.HealthFederation.org/BrownBag for more information.

In March 2017, Silicon Valley De-Bug received notice that they were one of 11 recipients of a $1.3 million grant from the Positive Youth Justice Initiative, a foundation that works with communities across California to transform juvenile justice practice and policies. According to the recent article in the San Jose Mercury News, "De-Bug hopes to help other hubs and reduce youth incarcerations in zip codes that have the highest rates." To read more about this amazing effort: ...

You’ve worked through the questions in our infographic “ What Lies Beneath Behavior? ” and instead of judging or punishing you’ve figured out the child is just trying to do the best they can to communicate whatever pain or distress lives inside of them… “So now what do I do?” you ask. As promised, we have produced a second infographic to provide you with a step-by-step guide to a trauma-informed response. The bad news is that there is no manualized program, no one-size fits all solution, no...