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2025 PACEs Connection Financial Update, Member Survey, Request for Support.

Image: Source Since April, 2024, Dana Brown and I have been working as volunteers to keep your social networking site – PACEs Connection – up and running. Gratefully, your donations supported raising $14,859 to pay CrowdStack, the learning management system platform on which PACEs Connection operates, in November, 2024. We are deeply grateful that a longtime PACEs Connection member was able to direct the Langeloth Foundation to make a $10,000 tax-deductible donation toward the total. That...

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Resilience Champions Take Action

The world feels chaotic. We are seeing policies shift overnight, communities struggling, and feeling the weight of uncertainty at work and with the people we serve. It’s easy to feel powerless. Some of us are going through the motions—just trying to get through the day. Others are shutting down, overwhelmed by the enormity of what’s happening around them. (That’s okay! That means you need time to rest). And then there are those of us who ask: “What can I do?” The answer? You can lead. In...

What Is Work Injury Rehabilitation and Why Is It Important?

Essential Work Injury Rehabilitation Techniques Workplace injuries are a common occurrence across various industries, affecting employees’ health, productivity, and overall well-being. Whether caused by repetitive strain, heavy lifting, or sudden accidents, injuries sustained at work can significantly impact an individual’s ability to perform daily tasks. Work injury rehabilitation is essential in helping injured employees regain strength, mobility, and function, ensuring a smooth return to...

The Intersection of Housing Stability and Community Well-Being: Understanding Tenant Rights and Legal Support

Housing stability is a fundamental factor in personal and community well-being. For tenants facing eviction, harassment, or unsafe living conditions, the stress and uncertainty can have lasting impacts on mental and physical health. PACEs Connection focuses on preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and fostering positive environments, and secure housing is a key component of this mission. Tenant rights lawyers play a crucial role in ensuring individuals and families maintain access...

How Nature Journaling Helps My Students Feel at Home [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

"I notice the leaf looks like a 3 headed lizard. I wonder what tree my leaf is from. The leaf reminds me of bacteria." By Rob Wade, Greater Good Magazine, Image: from article , February 11, 2025 A place-based educator in California invites his students to spend time in, observe, and document the wild nature around them. As temperatures cool and snow begins to grace the northern Sierra Nevada’s ridges and peaks, the “Mountain Kids” of Plumas County carry a simple but transformative tool in...

AI is being used in social services—but we must make sure it doesn't traumatize clients [phys.org]

By Suvradip Maitra, Lyndal Sleep, Paul Henman and Suzanna Fay, Phys.org, Illustration: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain , February 10, 2025 Late last year, ChatGPT was used by a Victorian child protection worker to draft documents. In a glaring error, ChatGPT referred to a "doll" used for sexual purposes as an "age-appropriate toy." Following this, the Victorian information commissioner banned the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in child protection . Unfortunately, many harmful AI...

Low-income youth job and career training program grants [youthtoday.org]

By Nickolas Bagley, Youth Today, Image: Unsplash via Crowdstack , February 12, 2025 OUR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES: Youth Today’s grant listings are carefully curated for our subscribers working in youth-related industries. Subscribers will find local, regional, state and national grant opportunities. THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Youth Employment, Job/Career Training, Low-Income Youth/Communities, Youth Leadership, Entrepreneurship Deadline: Mar. 4, 2025 “The Global Innovation Challenge provides...

Cash as medicine: How Brazil slashed TB by tackling poverty [telegraph.co.uk]

About 21 million families across Brazil receive monthly payments as part of the Bolsa Família scheme Credit : Bruna Prado/Getty Images By Hannah Crowe, The Telegraph, Image: Bruna Prado/Getty Images , February 10, 2025 The scheme was launched to reduce poverty, but experts never anticipated the remarkable effects it would have on the country’s health Crislaine Souza lives with her husband and one-year-old son in a rural community in Ourolândia, a municipality in Brazil’s north-east that...

Some Incarcerated Youths Will Get Health Care After Release Under New Law [kffhealthnews.org]

By Renuka Rayasam, KFF Health News, Illustration: Oona Zenda /KFF Health News , February 7, 2025 Valentino Valdez was given his birth certificate, his Social Security card, a T-shirt, and khaki pants when he was released from a Texas prison in 2019 at age 21. But he didn’t have health insurance, mental health medications, or access to a doctor, he said. Three years later, he landed in an inpatient hospital after expressing suicidal thoughts. After more than a decade cycling through juvenile...

I'm seeking a SUD treatment center in Nashville, TN (or anywhere in the US), serving either adolescents and/or adults who use ACEs-10 but have not yet used PACEs in their assessment process.

Introduction I'm a PMH nurse in grad school for my DNP, and the curriculum requires developing and implementing a quality improvement DNP project. My DNP project involves adding PACEs tools (Hays-Grudo & Morris, 2020) to the ACEs-10 assessment in the substance use disorder (SUD) population, either adolescents or adults. In search of My DNP project is well conceptualized, but I'm seeking a SUD practice site to implement the project . Specifically, I'm seeking a SUD treatment center in...

How hardline anti-immigrant policies are threatening the right to education [theguardian.com]

Erica Watkins of Tulsa, state director of Defense of Democracy, on 28 January 2025 in Oklahoma City. Photograph: Sean Murphy/AP By Robin Buller, The Guardian, Image: Sean Murphy/AP , February 10, 2025 As Donald Trump mounts escalating attacks on immigrants in the US in the first weeks of his second term, schools are increasingly in the crosshairs. He has already revoked protective status for schools and churches , so that immigration authorities can make arrests on school grounds, sending...

Ask the Community

New research shows the vital importance of positive childhood experiences in helping to create empathy in children. See " The influence of Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences on facets of empathy ". We are eager to find, illuminate, and share as models or norms these positive childhood experiences! You could simply post a photograph of a community experience that is culturally appropriate and community led, with information about your resiliency or PACEs group, what it is you all...Read More...

Participate in research on attachment, daily routine regularity, mental health, and childhood adversity!

Hi everyone! I'm a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, and I'm currently researching the associations between attachment, daily routine regularity, mental health, and childhood adversity. Your participation could significantly contribute to our understanding and clinical practices in these areas. The survey takes approximately 15-25 minutes to complete, and all responses are completely anonymous. Plus, you'll have the chance to win one of two £30 Amazon vouchers as a thank you for...Read More...
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Presentation for Older Teens/Young Adults

Has anyone taken clips from any of the TIC documentaries and incorporated them into a presentation for older teens/young adults? And yes, it is great to be able to show a full documentary and then have a follow up discussion, but not always possible when you have just an hour slot. And another ask...does anyone have presentation materials for police depts? thank you.Read More...

Resilience Videos

Zareen Hasan
Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of building a Healthy Grandfamilies course and was looking for assistance with good video resources to describe PACES and resilience. The videos ideally need to be between 3-4 minutes long. I realize there is a lot to say on this topic, but wanted to be as concise as possible. Thank you in advance for your help.Read More...
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Presentation for High School Students in an Alternative Program

I am doing a presentation on trauma to older high school students in an alternative program. Had thought about showing Paper Tigers with follow up conversation. I know there are other documentaries and perhaps even Ted Talks or YouTubes that would speak to their experiences. I am looking for suggestions. These students live in an urban setting that oftentimes reeks of toxic stress. Also, wold appreciate suggestions of icebreakers to use. The groups will be small, lending the conversation to...Read More...
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