It's been almost 24 hours since the Symposium ended and I don't think we have touched ground yet. When we started thinking about what we wanted to do for this Symposium and we joked that it would be great to have Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, we thought it was nothing more than a joke. It still amazes me that we made it happen, and had James Redford and a screening of Resilience, as well as a great afternoon panel with representatives from local police, schools, pediatrics, and managed care on...

As many of my friends linked to the 60 Minutes segment by Oprah, I commented on a few that I was proud to be part of the movement. I have had the privilege of being part of my agency's training team, which has conducted more than 45 trainings for more than 2,700 people in the last two years. These have taken place in schools, county departments of social services, police departments, and hospitals, to name a few. It feels so good to be able to say that we have been working to help diverse...

I have been involved in all four ACEs Symposium's that LaSalle School has organized (including as a speaker last year, yikes!), and there have been moments each year where I have thought "Look at all these people, this is so cool!" That feeling was multiplied tenfold when I looked at the audience of approximately 800 people who were participating in Allison Sampson-Jackson's bilateral movement exercise last Saturday. It is really heartening to feel like you are part of a movement toward...

I just wanted to take a moment to tell the community how excited I, and the rest of our staff at LaSalle School , are about our upcoming Fourth Annual Capital District ACEs Symposium happening tomorrow, May 5. I posted the event in the calendar some weeks back, and I am proud to say that we successfully filled the room and had to close registration two weeks ago. This means that more than 900 people from a wide range of sectors including health care, education, juvenile justice, police,...

As I read through all of the blogs on this site, I have struggled with trying to figure out what I could possibly contribute to the discussion. When stories discuss the work of Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and studies by the NIH, I have been finding it hard to feel like anything I could say might matter, and yet I have been drawn to trying to ad to the conversation. I am not a neuro-biologist, nor do I have extensive experience working with traumatized youth or adults. I am the Program Assessment...