This is the dedicated global community of individuals who support or lead PACEs initiatives online & on-the-ground who gather here to discuss the process of utilizing the Growing Resilient Communities framework to start & growing resilient communities, exchange evidence-based practices, and practice-based evidence. Questions, ideas, and shared resources are all welcome!

Hawai'i is a place of natural beauty, multicultural heritages and practicing cultural arts that provides wellness and healing. However, cultural, historical & generational trauma has lead to an imbalance in our ahupua'a or ecosystem. Join us as we educate, empower & celebrate wellness and resilience building in our communities using trauma and culture aware strategies. Mahalo

A state-wide, community-driven movement that offers a new way of developing holistic solutions to longstanding problems. ACT-CA unites community members to co-design solutions with their city officials and enact policies that equitably improve child well-being.

We have come together to understand and to raise awareness about the impact that adverse childhood experiences have on our children, our friends and neighbors, and our community.

The California Essentials for Childhood Initiative uses a public health and collective impact approach to align and enhance collaborative efforts to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments for children, youth and families through systems, policy and social norms change.

A group of practitioners, healers, policy advocates and all other people committed to making California a place that is healthy and safe for everyone.

The Clallam Resilience Project’s mission is to build resilience through fostering trauma-sensitive care and expanding the understanding of Neuroscience, Epigenetics, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and Resilience (NEAR) sciences for the benefit of everyone in Clallam County.

The Columbia County Childhood Trauma Informed Network (CTIN) is a cross sector network of providers and organizations that work together to address childhood trauma and build resilience in children, families and communities in Columbia county. Our membership includes over 20 organizations who represent the education, healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice, business and community sectors.

The Consortium to Create Sanctuary in the Columbia River Gorge is a community based effort aimed at spreading knowledge on childhood and lifelong adversity and the power of resiliency to improve lives. The work is currently supported by the Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) Grant awarded by the Health Federation of Philadelphia with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

Serving the Benton and Franklin area, we are strongly committed to serving as a network for community members across various sectors to collaborate in promoting resilience, hope and positive experiences and community environments for the well-being of our youth. We are a community that honors and fosters positive experiences and hope as being fundamental to everyone’s health and well-being.

We are educating people and raising awareness in Del Norte County about ACEs and resiliency. Our hope is for everyone in Del Norte and Adjacent Tribal Lands (DNATL) to live in a resilient community and integrate trauma-informed practices into all areas of their lives!

Elevate Montana is a movement dedicated to elevating the well-being and futures of our children through awareness and actions based on ACEs and trauma-informed approaches to build resilience in children and families."

We are a collection of institutions, school districts, community based organizations and businesses that have a common desire to make our communities trauma informed for the purpose of building resilience in our youth, families, neighborhoods and county.

Glenn County ACEs Connection fosters awareness, recognition, prevention, and recovery from ACEs and associated trauma. A collaborative community, together we as professionals, advocates, and community members work together to share inspiration, ideas & solutions to increase our county’s resiliency for all. We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

We are a community of hope centered, trauma informed organizations striving to promote workforce wellness, especially for those exposed to secondary trauma due to the nature of their work.

A community at work to increase ACEs awareness and provide resources and education to our youth and their families, while working to promote overall community resilience.

We are educating and raising awareness about ACEs and resiliency in Humboldt County. Our hope is to empower our people to prevent ACEs, actively work to heal trauma, and build resilience for all children, families and their communities through a collective understanding of trauma-responsive practices.

Recognizing trauma and adverse experiences as underlying factors which may lead to substance abuse, suicide, child abuse, domestic violence, mental illness and more. Together we support our communities to prevent childhood trauma, and bring prevention methods to scale. Together we build strong communities that support resilient families, leading to happy, healthy, and thriving children.

Indigenous Wisdom, supported by Western Medicine and ACEs science, will heal all living things, (animal life, plant life, Mother Earth, human beings). The prophecy of Crazy Horse is manifesting. We are the Seventh Generation.

Jackson County Together fosters awareness, recognition, prevention, and recovery from ACEs and associated trauma. A collaborative community, together we as professionals, advocates, and community members work together to share inspiration, ideas & solutions to increase our county’s resiliency for all.

We improve the well-being of residents by focusing on empowerment and equity, the prevention of ACEs, and the building of resilience.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

LCVRC’s goal is to eliminate ACEs in our region by working with non-profit organizations, companies, schools, parents, teens, and young children to raise awareness of the effects of ACEs and connect us all to resources so we can build our own resilience to bounce back from trauma.

A community working in collaboration to raise awareness of ACEs prevention and to promote hope and healing.

CTAT promotes the general awareness of adverse childhood experience and the importance of resiliency to develop consistent and collaborative messaging to explain the impact of trauma.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

Creating a shared space for the community of Marion and Polk Counties, and nearby areas, will help those in need to take advantage of the great work being done to support one another to thrive--not just survive.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

Join the movement to prevent ACEs, heal trauma and build resilience in Napa County. Our intent is that everyone in Napa County is educated about ACEs and integrates trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into their work, family, community and individual lives. This is a place to work collaboratively to transform our county to one of hope, compassion, healing and resilience for all.

This is a compassionate, healing-centered space for members of the New Orleans community to learn while sharing knowledge and resources. We are shifting the narrative to create equitable, systems-level change that will increase opportunities for our children and youth to thrive. Youth voice, collaboration, and a calling to care are what drives this work.

The members of this group stretch from Sonoma County, across to Plumas County and all the way up to the Oregon border. Given the size of this geographic region we have meetups in local areas. Sometimes, two or three of us just have lunch to get acquainted, and find new ways to connect each others' work.  Please join us!

Regionally, our goal is to inform and educate the North Coast communities to recognize and respond to the impact of traumatic stress on children and families such that in collaboration, we act with all those who are involved with the child, to facilitate and support the recovery and resiliency of the child, the family, and ultimately, each community.

The Olympia / Thurston County Chapter of the ACEs Connection is here to educating people about ACEs. Our goal is to infuse our work, our families, our communities, and our individual lives with trauma informed care and resilience-building practices.

A platform for community members, professionals and leaders to collaborate across sectors in a movement to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), heal from trauma, and build resilience in Orange County.

The PACEs Action Alliance is a multi-sector collaborative of individuals and public and private organizations that work together to promote trauma-informed, resilient communities in Clark County, Washington. We align efforts to educate and raise awareness about the impact of trauma and toxic stress, we assess needs and progress, and we promote individual, family and community resilience.

PACEs occur in societal, cultural and household contexts. Social science research and theory provide insight into these contexts for PACEs and how they might be altered to prevent adversity and promote resilience. We encourage social scientists of various disciplines to share and review research, identify mechanisms, build theories, identify gaps, and build bridges to practice and policy.

Advanced PACEs initiatives in cities, counties and regions work together to gather and use data to measure progress and outcomes, share resources, learn together, and accelerate the PACEs movement, for as long as it takes to create healthy families and communities.

We are a group of professionals serving families in the perinatal period. Providers of all kinds are welcome, let's strategize together how best to support families in the context of ACEs and resilience building.

A group to share ideas on investigating and mitigating the effects of adverse childhood experiences in post-secondary education environments.

PACEs in Maternal Health is a community of individuals who seek to raise awareness and deepen understanding about the association of adverse childhood experiences and the lifelong impacts on maternal health.

A community of stakeholders in medical school education organized around integrating the science of ACEs, neurobiology, resiliency, and trauma-informed care into core medical school curricula -- because EVERY future physician should know about ACEs and its long-term effects on health and well-being.

Join us as we explore the intersection of ACEs Science and Nursing Science, with a lens on the unique needs of nurses as they integrate ACEs Science into their nursing practices and reflect on their own lived experiences as related to childhood trauma: their own, their patients', their communities.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

As a community we strive to prevent trauma, while offering hope and healing to those among us who have experienced childhood adversity. Recognizing life as a continuous series of events e.g. “lifecourse”, we weave together epigenetics (preconception), neurodevelopment (childhood & adolescence), and ACEs science (adult and aging) as we seek pathways to health and wellbeing.

Working in partnership with Lake County Children’s Council, Lake County Child Welfare, Lake Family Resource Center, First 5 Lake, Lake County Probation, Redwood Community Services, Tribal members, Health Leadership Network and others to unify countywide efforts to raise awareness of ACEs,work collectively to reduce trauma,and build individual and community resilience.

We're educating people in Yolo County, CA, about ACEs. Our intent is that everyone in Yolo County integrate trauma-informed and resilience-building practices into their work, family, community and individual lives.

We are working towards building a strong and thriving community. Our mission is to inspire inter-agency collaboration in order to empower people to create a trauma-informed community where resiliency is both accessible and equitable for all.

A connected community for strong, safe families. Our goal is to strengthen families and reduce Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by increasing protective factors, coordinating service systems and engaging the community.

Bringing together professionals, community members, and advocates who share a passion to reduce trauma and build resiliency in Siskiyou County. Share information, exchange ideas and host dialogue that lead to practical and community centered solutions.

We bring the community together to nurture Positive Childhood Experiences, prevent, heal, and treat ACEs while promoting resiliency.

South Coast Together is a community collaborative focused on fostering resilience in Coos and Curry counties, we engage community members as agents of change in preventing the accumulation of Adverse Childhood Experiences and to build resilience in children, adolescents, and families; guided by a community capacity building approach, the Self-Healing Community model.

We are the Southcentral Alliance for Family Resilience, and we are focused on educating the central Kenai Peninsula communities on PACEs, with an extra emphasis on resilience and protective factors. We are working toward a more trauma-informed, resilient community by leading the effort to integrate trauma-informed + resiliency training(s), support, and resources to all.

This group is dedicated to actualizing a Southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaskan community that cultivates healthy relationships and resilient families free of violence and substance abuse.

The State PACEs Action is the go-to location for ACEs activities in U.S. states.

Together we work to prevent sources of stress experienced by many families with limited resources. Have you considered the cost of purchasing diapers? Families with limited resources often have difficulty accessing diapers which can have a cascading negative effect on the baby, family, and the health system. Together we raise awareness and begin to prevent the root cause of preventable adversity.

Working together in Tacoma and Pierce County to improve the well-being of residents by focusing on empowerment and equity, the prevention of ACEs, and the building of resilience. We hope to inform and connect individuals and communities working to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

Community members, advocates, and professionals who share the goals to reduce trauma and build resilience in Alaska share information and exchange ideas related to adversity, trauma and resilience that lead to practical and community-centered solutions. By trauma, we are referring to childhood and developmental trauma, intergenerational trauma, and historic and ongoing systemic trauma.

We are a multidisciplinary group of health professionals working to advance trauma-informed care across the continuum of practice through ground-breaking, transformative interprofessional education and research. We envision all health care professionals and health care systems being trauma-informed.

We are a collaborative of library professionals and library supporters who seek to share ACEs Science with our institutions, organizations and communities; explore and implement Trauma-Informed approaches; and build community resilience through our programs, practices and publications.

Shining a light on the science of ACEs as we move along the path towards hope, health and healing in our community.

We are committed to building a resilient community. We invite you to join us!

The Walla Walla Valley's ACEs Connection is a learning community hosted by the Community Resilience Initiative whose goal is to share resilience-based tools and ideas in order to improve community health . Please join our group to share your news as we build resiliency in the Walla Walla Valley! Visit us online at http://www.criresilient.org

The Washington County ACEs Initiative is a multi-sector collaborative of partners who are interested in helping educate the community on the impact of ACEs. We raise awareness of ACEs, resiliency and trauma-informed approaches to services.

A forum to inform and connect individuals and communities working to promote safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments and prevent and mitigate ACEs in Washington State.

Join us as we work in coordination to integrate trauma-informed practices and resilience building experiences within our families, communities and beyond.