Allen County's homicide count stands at 15 for the year, but there are many more victims when you count the children touched by each death. In a new field examining trauma-influenced behavior, knowledge of those events – adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs” – is now informing how people who work with youth respond.
Judge Charles Pratt, who oversees Allen Superior Court's Family Relations Division, has organized a six-month leadership academy to train 40 leaders from education, law enforcement, health care and social-service agencies on how childhood trauma affects youth development. Supported by a multi-year $500,000 grant from the Foellinger Foundation, the Great KIDS Leadership Academy will include training, public lectures and a final project intended to put the lessons to work here.
The judge said he believes the academy also will foster collaboration among the participants and a team approach to helping young people.
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