The first National ACEs Summit, which took place in May in Philadelphia, had a sell-out crowd of 200 people (140 for the two-day conference, and about 60 for an evening event), and, as people learned about it, many, many more wanted to attend.
It was planned as an invitation-only event, something between a large meeting and a small conference, because Martha Davis and Sandy Dempsey at the Institute for Safe Families, which organized the gathering, and Jane Isaacs Lowe at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which co-sponsored the event, weren't sure how much interest existed for such a meeting.
By the time the summit occurred, scads of people wanted to attend, but couldn't because there just wasn't enough room. It's clear: The thirst to learn more about research and practices related to ACEs and trauma-informed concepts is huge.
So, here's the next-best thing: videos of all the fabulous presentations. Robert Anda. Laura Porter. Nadine Burke Harris. Ken Ginsburg. Heather Larkin. Christina Bethell. Lee Pachter. Mary Harkins-Schwarz. Jennifer Hays-Grudo. Roy Wade. Sandra Bloom. Sue Mackey-Andrews. Marcia Stanton. Nancy Hardt. Teri Barila. Roberta Waite. Mark Rains. Linda Chamberlain. Andrew Garner. Joe Pyle. Susan Dreyfus. Arthur Evans. Joel Fein. Here's the link to the page on the ISF site that has them all. And the presenters' PDFs are here.
The individual videos are in the video section of ACEsConnection.
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