Please welcome these five two new community initiatives located in Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Mexico to ACEs Connection. More information about each one can be found below.
Arrowhead Minnesota ACEs Connection From across Minnesota, across ages, experiences, cultures, races, and ethnicities, we came together. As we learn about ACEs and how this knowledge can help us as individuals and our communities to heal, we strengthen and support each other to be agents of that healing. Community Manager: Hartley Newell-Acero
Central New Mexico Collaborative on Adversity and Resilience: We envision an equitable community college campus in which individuals and communities have the power to create and take part in robust systems of support that underpin personal education. We hope to help people understand the effects of their adverse experiences on their brain and health, and how to build resilience and prevent future adversity in themselves and others. @Melissa Franklin, PhD, @Jane Bardal, and @Luke Phillips
The H.E.A.R.T. Work Collective of SW Michigan: A group of committed individuals working collectively towards a community that embraces: Healing; Hope; Empathy; Empowerment; Engagement; Awareness; Action; Resilience; Relationships; Trauma-Informed; Transformation. Community Manager: @Kathy Szenda Wilson
Monroe County (IN) ACEs Connection: A hub for collaboration and sharing information, resources, and ideas on educating about and preventing ACEs, healing trauma, and building resilience in Monroe County, Indiana. Community Manager: @Laura Pinhey
Plymouth County (MA) ACEs Connection: The Drug Endangered Children's Initiative is a collaboration of the Plymouth County DA's Office, Plymouth County Outreach (PCO) & United Way of Greater Plymouth County Family Ctr./Community Connections working together with dozens of community partners to create ACEs awareness, provide trauma-informed training, connect families impacted by substance use disorder to support & shape policy. Community Manager: @Jennifer Cantwell
ACEs Connection Community Facilitators Support You & Your Initiatives
For questions about starting or growing an initiative in your area, using our site and tools, please reach out to one of our regional contacts.
Communities in:
- Northeast, Mid-Atlantic states, contact @Christine Cissy White or @Alison Cebulla
- Western states, contact @Gail Kennedy
- Northwest states, contact @Karen Clemmer
- Southern states, contact @Carey Sipp
- Midwest states, contact @Ingrid Cockhren (PACEs Connection Staff)
- Communities in California:
- Southern California, contact @Lara Kain
- Northern California, contact Karen Clemmer
- San Francisco Bay Area, contact @Donielle Prince
- Capitol region contact @Gail Kennedy
- Central Valley contact @Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff)
- International communities: contact @Gail Kennedy
Please visit Map the Movement to find links to all of our ACEs Connection geographic communities, U.S. states that have done ACE surveys, ACEs and trauma-informed legislation, and more.
Please Note: Our next webinar, Making Meaningful Change: Addressing ACEs through Public Policy, is scheduled for February 18, 2020 at 11:30 am PST (1:00 pm ET). It's hosted by the Health Federation of Philadelphia and MARC (Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities), and co-sponsored by ACEs Connection, the Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice (CTIPP), Children’s Trust of South Carolina, and the Center for Community Resilience, George Washington University. Click here to register.
Comments (0)