Tagged With "Dana Brown"

Tuesday, February 21 Better late than never. Rhode Island lawmakers approved legislation last year requiring the Department of Education to come up with a plan for all public schools to implement what's known as trauma-informed practices -- tools that help teachers and administrators care for the social and emotional needs of students as well as the academic, particularly those students who have had troubled childhoods. The department was supposed to appoint a 12-member trauma-informed...

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...