Profile Information
Location
Casa Grande, AZ
Country
United States
Postal Code
85122
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
Director, Community-Based Prevention Nonprofit
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Casa Grande Alliance
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I spent 20 years working in Arizona public schools and was the one teacher at the middle school (rural, mining town) that could work with any student at any time. High school kids and I also put together a very successful mentoring project that worked with the most troubled upper elementary students in our community, which had surprising results. Several years ago, while helping the Arizona Juvenile Justice Commission with strategic planning, I heard Marcia speak about ACEs for the first time and was hooked!
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
In the past couple of years, with my previous job, we worked hard at integrating ACEs into Arizona AmeriCorps programs.