https://publuu.com/flip-book/325820/751171/page/1 Here is a report on the Children’s Day Celebration sponsored by the Future Leaders Initiative in Sierra Leone. Please read how a focus on celebrating DIGNITY experiences in childhood provided an opportunity for children, parents, teachers all to be discussing the same thing. We were all children first and our childhood experiences stay with us throughout our lives. This realization makes it easier for adults and children to join in common...

Here is an interesting OPED discussing violations of dignity as a core of violence of all types. Dignity and Conflict - Donna Hicks . It might be useful from the perspective of PACES to think of human dignity and its place in childhood experiences and in the lives of the adults children become. See attached paper on human dignity and childhood and how the dimensions of dignity identified by adult students are similar to those identified by Donna Hicks in global conflicts contexts.

The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the New York Foundling are sponsoring a FREE ZOOM CHAT to discuss and answer questions about NO HIT ZONES, a primary prevention strategy to help change norms and behavior related to a very common ACE (the hitting of children). The Chat features Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff (leading global researcher on impacts of corporal punishment) and Stacie LeBlanc, President of APSAC and co- founder of the primary prevention oriented UP...

In Part 4 of his new book UNLEASHING INDIVIDUALITY Organizational development strategist Glenn Llopis discussed "Restoring Dignity". Here he introduces ACES methods and findings to provide a lens to understand how dignity in childhood is violated and can be supported in the various hierarchical organizations within which we work! Worth a read to provide a prod to finding applications! Unleashing Individuality

Does anyone know of any government (local / state or national) programs to prevent child abuse and child abuse fatalities that directly and explicitly deal with corporal punishment of children as part of what they do? Please let me know! (See attached for developing an organizational policy statement opposed to corporal punishment).

  See the article below if you are a college or high school teacher who wants to help young and older adults become more aware of the importance of childhood experiences in their own adult lives and in the lives of children with whom they...