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Who should you partner with to create lasting change through resilience in your community? The Building Community Resilience (BCR) initiative aims to address, prevent, and reduce the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse community environments (ACEs) on children’s health and wellbeing ( The “Pair of ACEs” ). An essential element of the successes of BCR’s five test sites around the country has been strategic collaborations. In your work to build resilience, identifying...

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Me: "Ventura County has the highest rate of reported domestic violence in the state when compared with any county with a population of more than 60,000." Neighbor: "You have to be kidding me. Here, in Ventura County?" I've probably had this same conversation about 50 times over the past couple of years. As the executive director of Interface Children & Family Services, one of our county's leading nonprofit groups confronting family violence, I talk a lot about this vital public safety...

Hi Ventura County ACEs Connection Community, My name is Linda Yuncker and I wanted to introduce myself as your new Ventura County ACEs Connection Community manager. I am excited to partner with you in helping Ventura County to become a trauma-informed/resilience-building community. Ventura County is near and dear to my heart because I was born and raised in Oxnard. My sister and I co-owned Tres Jolie Hair Salon at the Oxnard Hilton for 27 years. My husband, Chuck, and I got married in 1984...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 1, 2018 – New York Life Insurance Company and the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities today announced the launch of a new grant program to support children, adults, families, and communities experiencing trauma resulting from natural disaster or community-wide tragedy. The partnership will serve as the first-ever disaster-focused grant for the New York Life Foundation, the charitable arm of the company. The program, Building Resilience in the Face of Disaster,...

Thank you Dana Brown for your beautiful compliments. Louise Godbold was hoping that someone would harness my enthusiasm! Thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity to partner with so many glorious people that share a passion to be early adopters and leaders on the front line of systems change and community transformation. You are an earth angel that has a gift of being a light house connector! ❤️

ACEs initiative participants in communities where there is tension between the community and law enforcement will want to join Becky Haas in a compelling conversation on law enforcement, ACEs science, COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement and protests. Haas is a nationally recognized adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) science initiative builder and trainer. She and colleagues Renee Wilson-Simmons, the head of the ACE Awareness Foundation of Memphis, Tennessee, and Maggi Duncan,...

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To prepare for the year ahead, we have a few very special announcements we’re excited to share. First, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the 700+ community champions, facilitators, managers, and advocates in our COOP and Growing Resilient Communities program for your commitment.

As we head into our full CRC curriculum this January, we invite current and future CRC Accelerator participants to join us with collective care and self care in mind.

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.